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RIP Rick Buckler The Jam were my band as a kid & I loved his drumming and the way it ferociously propelled their songs. This was his best work. I found it thrilling every time I heard it. youtu.be/EndqhHJx-Ko?...

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 20 days ago • 525 comments

WIN! - A Dinked Edition Copy of 'End of the Middle' by Richard Dawson We're going big for our first Bluesky competition! Simply like and share this post, and give us a follow to be entered. @dominorecordco.bsky.social @dinkededition.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2061...

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

Oh please. Since when has out-bastarding Farage ever worked? You just pull political debate to the right, punch down on the vulnerable, whip up prejudice and actually deliver naff all. Look at the last 14yrs of Farage-induced failure. For love of god, be better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 105 comments

A 🧵on this article (£) and its connection to the University of Oxford Modern History: World History 1941-73 module’s finals exam paper in the year 1996. Bear with me 1/ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

One of the best Marianne pics ever. Hell, one of THEE best pics ever

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

She slid through life on charm. Marianne Faithfull R.I.P.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Marianne Faithful. So sad. Here are some songs to remember her by open.spotify.com/playlist/3VC...

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 188 comments

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

submitted 43 days ago • 1574 comments

It really baffles me why some think it's okay to be shitty to a generation of young people who gave up THE MOST to protect their elders, have had THE CRUELLEST possible transition to adulthood, are getting THE LEAST amount of state help, and are facing THE WORST future prospects.

submitted 46 days ago • 90 comments

Not to be dramatic, but there really are days when I feel scared of the future. Like, to pick an example at random, today. What we are witnessing is an assault on the very concept of truth. The armed conflicts we see unfolding all over the world will be accompanied by turmoil &doubt in our heads.

submitted 57 days ago • 71 comments

Fact-checking is not censorship. Requesting evidence is not censorship. Refuting falsehoods is not censorship. Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship. But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.

submitted 57 days ago • 43 comments

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

submitted 71 days ago • 123 comments

Two months into retirement and project one is about to come to fruition....eek!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

The great Scottish cartoonist/illustrator Tom Gauld demonstrates ~ with an awful sense of inevitability ~ what happens when you realise that your house has become overloaded with books www.tomgauld.com

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

How to disappear – the art of listening to silence in a noisy world

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

“4 in 5 UK musicians have lost work because of Brexit” A shocking insight into how British musicians have suffered in the wake of the country's 2016 referendum to leave the European Union www.musicradar.com/music-indust...

submitted 84 days ago • 21 comments

Dec 10th: Played by Tom Robinson on the excellent instrumentals themed 'Now Playing' show on 6 Music, 1st December. Forty-three years later and it STILL sounds like the future. Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities song.link/y/v6g0J7eXtUs #BestSongHeardToday

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

"In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious)."

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Finally watched Perfect Days this week & just wow, what a beautiful, brilliant film. A true expression of life’s ever-present sweetness and sadness, most succinctly captured by the final scene. Kōji Yakusho broke my heart into thousands of reconstitutable pieces. Can’t recommend it enough. #FilmSky

submitted 95 days ago • 8 comments