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How much more of this do we take? We have to take action. We're enabling a war of extermination. Stop supplying goods to Israel. Of any kind. Netanyahu, the sociopathic reptile, and his cronies need to be hit where it hurts.

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youtube.com/watch?v=JvwZ... Yet again I have to employ the services of Rich Hall to explain why yet another bloody biopic, the Beatles this time, is a creative downed pint of ecoli.

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Loud psychedelic rock is amazing. This will clear the cobwebs in time for Spring. open.spotify.com/track/6DW44W...

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A masterful piece of music, to ease into your day with... open.spotify.com/track/4W4l0k...

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There's a great documentary about Twitter on BBC 2 that reinforces the line that if somebody uses the word 'utopian' to describe what they're doing, run. Run and don't look back.

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🐅 Publication Day 🐅 It's publication day for my poetry collection Menagerie pubbed by #arlenhouse. Launching Sat 3rd May at Strokestown Poetry Festival, 2.15pm. Also in Belfast 29th April & Waterford on 10th May. Buy from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social with free shipping 💚

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Ken Bruen was a Galway icon whom we first got to know when he returned to his native city after over twenty years abroad. He used to meet up with Des Kenny in The Galway Arms where they engaged in lots of book talk. He was little known then but all of that has changed dramatically since, /1

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Folks, if you want to read some cool stories,or poetry, or essays, or you're just a nice curious soul, our lovely editions of Ragaire magazine are available in Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery, a wonderful place to browse. Buy a copy, you know you want to!

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Competition closes on 1st April. Final call from here. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

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Hello once again to all you talented people out there. My latest offering SP 26. Please please please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Liking is great and very much appreciated but in order to make everyone grow we need people to kindly repost. Thank you much. go.bsky.app/ScZtZp3

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Chas N' Dave are the wedding band where Satan is your event planner. Truly vile.

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Yesssss! Killing Joke on TOTP! Terrifying the teenyboppers! Tumbling out of the screen like black lava!

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Foster & Allen on TOTP, good God, with a nice noble waltz, undercut by the fact that they're dressed like a pair of leprechauns. Seriously.

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Bucks Fizz's joyless poundshop Abba act makes you want to fill your ears with cement.

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Dear God, the early eighties was some sort of dystopian wasteland, musically. Well, mainstream music anyway.

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Eighties TOTP highlights the huge amount of spiky, jangly guitar lines, as well as synthesizers.

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Stay by Shakespeare's Sister is still bloody brilliant. More chilly gothic ballads, please.

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Vanessa Williams' Save the Best for Last is cookie cutter, beige, Tesco forecourt soul. But it makes puts me back in time and makes me sad. I'd hear it in my hometown, in shops that were all open, in pubs that hummed with living, listening to people that left their houses to visit and talk.

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TOTP Episode 3. Right Said Fred: The soul shredding, awful wedding band that could.

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I forgot the Verve existed, too. God, Britpop wasn't all that, was it? The Drugs Don't Work is EastEnders transmuted into music.

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One feature of the late 90s nobody ever mentions: the amount of groups that had one hit, and then bip! Gone.

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Finley Quayr wasn't bad at all, at all. Mellow n' jaunty.

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Some band now, oh it's Cast. One of the vanguard of the truly faceless, your mates pub band that's not very good, indie bands that erupted like string warts in the late nineties.

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Second episode. Mark Lamarr has a very punchable face. Hanson with their obligatory driving scene in a romcom song.

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Pleased to present @jmcm.bsky.social's interver with @barbleahy.bsky.social on our page today. Congratulations again on your book launch Barbara.

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Poor old George Michael. I feel sorry as to how it turned out for him. Maybe I'm getting soft in my advancing age.

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God, Will Smith used to rap. I forgot. Liberally samples and lifts the chorus from Patrice Rushen's vastly superior funk slinky, Forget Me Nots. Give it a listen.

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Hanson. I'd forgotten they were once a thing. Sounds like something played where people are driving through cornfields with the top down. Definitely a really bad movie, anyway.

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We have Tv again! BBC4! Old TOTP! The sentient candyfloss of Mariah Carey! Ocean Colour Scene! Who are so shite Shazam can't identify them!

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My latest Starter Pack, dedicated to Poets and Writers. Please be so good as to repost - repost - repost and help people to grow their numbers. A great big thanks to everyone. go.bsky.app/JJ7v5cg

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I'll keep this short. This is a magnificent book. Read it, if you haven't yet.

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Thick people can't govern: Episode # I've lost count already. www.economist.com/united-state...

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ach. few can write music like KT.

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Hello. If you like books and talking about books with readers and writers then you’ll probably like my tv show devoted to books and talking about books with readers and writers. Guests inc @colsonwhitehead.com @naomialderman.bsky.social @rfkuang.bsky.social Watch: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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We're having to move distributors by the end of March. Don't ask, but corporates being corporate. It is going to cost a bit and a half. If you are able to help cushion the blow. You can buy some excellent books here: www.bluemoosebooks.com Thank you.

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A day for the range, I reckon. Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

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Goodnight. 🖼️ A cloud and landscape study by moonlight, Johan Christian Dahl, 1822.

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Howard Beale in the greatest films ever made, with words more timely than ever. Just substitute 'the Internet' for 'the tube'. youtu.be/c5Gf0VKXk5Q?...

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. —Victor Hugo #AuthorInspiration

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Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this. This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.

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This stopped me in my tracks today. It's wonderful to still be amazed and to wonder at how the world can create this. open.spotify.com/track/7hAK6B...

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interesting

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This is incredible.

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Incredible how the stranglehold that the super-rich and their political allies have over us has never been as constantly visible or as flagrant, and yet there are STILL people who feel those systems crushing them but decide to blame it on migrants and asylum seekers. The lack of focus is maddening.

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Ozymandias

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