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I was 14 and my lasting memory is of the fallout cloud affecting sheep in Wales.

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Brian Wilson at Glastonbury 2005 - if you can watch it, you should. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...

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BBC Four now showing Brian Wilson's Glastonbury set from 2005, and there is such an air of fragilty and yet absolute genius about him

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There’s a ’65 Pontiac GTO for sale in Axminster, if anyone’s interested. And honestly, you should be interested. FB Marketplace, obviously.

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Closing in... ⛈️⚡ (had to pause R.E.M. to hear the thunder)

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One of the few newsletters worth subscribing to.

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'Man City yet to receive Grealish offers - could a loan be the answer?' The only answer. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books: Jim Harrison Jack Kerouac William S. Burroughs Charles Bukowski Hunter S. Thompson Martin Amis Thomas McGuane George Orwell David Foster Wallace (four, not including Infinite Jest) Virginia Woolf (three; included to counter the above)

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And one further point on this: the reason I think Bluesky and the underlying ATprotocol are actually so important is that they are fundamentally set up to allow people to create their own communities and their own culture, without demanding that a company decide it for them.

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#NowPlaying Mad nostalgia - 1996 was a good year, one of the best of my life. www.last.fm/user/Guerril...

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Took a bet from Chris Sutton at Salisbury racecourse. He's tall.

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"Even as Wilson increasingly navigated mental health challenges and struggles with drugs and alcohol, he kept his beachy early days as a touchstone, a nostalgic place he’d revisit ..." Likewise. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

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I mean, I think this is fine? It's written by the editor of @londonist.com, not a clueless American who's only been to London once.

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Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up exactly how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

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Elected Democrats I'm sorry you wish none of this had happened. So do I. So do all who live to see such times. But you're going to have to do things outside the norms you're used to. Decorum is broken, decency shattered. An emergency befalls us. There are no questions left to ask. You must act.

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Yes. According to Army protocol, congressional staff are VIP Code 5, with a rank equivalent to a two-star general/admiral. Members of Congress are of course significantly higher. I have never seen USCP, FPS, or any other federal LEO treat any Member with anywhere near this disrespect and violence.

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I swear in about six months time the civility centrists are going to be both-sidesing some version of Kristallnacht.

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Pretty sure these would still do if I ever have to take to the streets to fight for democracy in my country.

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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

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Sadly, my abiding understanding that this is what the USA has always been like if you weren’t a white property-owner doesn’t really help much.

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PROUDLY murdered her dog

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Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

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Even I, a lazy-ass hippie, would take to the streets to fight this.

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"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

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#NowPlaying Lawyers, guns and money might not be enough any more.

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Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

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A United States Senator. For trying to ask a question. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. 🇺🇸

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