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jondennis.bsky.social
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Naissance d'un mème

A 100% essential purchase for all Bowie fans.

It's hard to overstate how corrupt this is www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

I was thinking about the Small Faces' Lazy Sunday and that line "Cor blimey, hello, Mrs Jones! How's your Bert's lumbago?" and I thought, whatever happened to lumbago? Then I Googled it and it means pain in the lower back and OH MY GOD I'VE GOT LUMBAGO #mustntgrumble youtu.be/zXeRB-3nDR8?...

New rule: anyone who replies "Paywall" or "It's not free" to a post should have their reply replaced with the words "I done a poo."

SIX MONTHS AGO.

The Tories (and Labour) should absorb Rafael Behr's advice: they won't beat Farage by telling voters he's right.

Top tip. While waiting for a new set of keys to be cut at Timpson’s, pass the time by asking the person behind the counter what they were in for.

4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence theonion.com/4-copy-...

I think London is the only place where when you travel to another bit of the UK and someone asks where you’re from, it’s apparently fair game for the enquirer to shake their head and say something like ‘I went there once, wouldn’t go back, absolute shithole’ etc.

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

On his 100th day in office in 2017 Trump headed to a PA wheelbarrow factory to launch his trade policy and put the US on the path to today’s tariffs. Eight years on that factory is closed. The wheelbarrows are now made in China. My latest for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon will soon show Trump tariff cost on every product.

nuclear codes about to slide into some rando’s DMs

1. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money. The winners get a private reception with Trump and a VIP a tour of the White House. So far, many of the leaders appear to be foreign nationals.

"JG Ballard referred to the residents of suburbia as ‘dormant people … docile cattle’ in his novel Kingdom Come (2006), though presumably he didn’t do this to their faces e.g., when borrowing a neighbour’s lawnmower." @iammilliam.bsky.social on fine form. www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...

Signs of Woolwich

Belatedly listened to @backlisted.bsky.social (and Locklisted) with @chrischibnall.bsky.social after finishing The Unconsoled. All three highly recommended. Here are Kazuo Ishiguro's rules for dreams (via lithub.com/how-kazuo-is...).

this guy is a world class asshole

“In interviews and depositions, Ms. Giuffre said she was recruited to the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant in President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

"Be aware that David does not like the frequency range of the human voice and has stopped bothering to listen in that range. Best policy is to smile, move slowly and offer him a banana." The Pere Ubu protocols. Via @rhodri.biz www.ubuprojex.com/protocols.ht...

The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties, is WONDERFUL: a memorial to Boshier and a tribute to his friends at the RCA in the 50s and 60s - one work each by Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney and more. The first exhibition to show that cohort in their early prime.

Great piece about Paul Simon at 83.

RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu. It’s hard to describe to young’uns the thrill of first encountering his genuinely confrontational music. youtu.be/-ULLfxtCMFE

Well written headline

Replay That's No Replay To Replay Goodbye #leonardcohenpinball @quantick.bsky.social

You Want It Flipper #leonardcohenpinball @quantick.bsky.social

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

This is a fantastic interview (and currently not behind a paywall).

The Lowlife by Alexander Baron is one of my favourite books we’ve featured on the whole ten years of @backlisted.bsky.social. Good to see it back in print from @faberbooks.bsky.social and looking sharp.

OMG

“Come ‘ed, number seven, yer time’s up!”

The next generation will absolutely not believe how good pre-AI Google was.

Spinning a few singles. #nowplaying

Overheard (by Joe Orton in 1965).

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. My parents banned me from watching James Bond films until I was 11, when my friend invited me to see Live and Let Die at his church. We then watched all the films and read all the books in short order. And I bought this.

Here's my Pinterest board of very literal album covers, for those needing. uk.pinterest.com/jondennis/ve...

Very literal album cover.

Illustrations from a 1965 issue of Northern Architect, imagining a linear monorail city stretching from Newcastle to Teesside. 💥

Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

Takes one to know one. #Birmingham

Banana Republicans