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Chin, chin all! #bhafc #uta

LOVE THIS TEAM! 💛💙

open.spotify.com/playlist/3FM... 94 songs from February - some brilliant stuff, incl from Charlotte NC's Petrov (loud but tuneful and catchy), a beautiful cover of Neil Young's "Out On The Weekend" by Alex Nicol and Ada Lea, ruminative chamber-pop by NYC's Pictoria Vark and Edinburgh's Drop Kick.

Love this, highly abstract. open.spotify.com/track/3XRMQT...

Hard to disagree with Chairman Parish here.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Beaut of a Slayer Espresso machine at Cloudpicker in Dublin T1.

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#bhafc #bhabou

Team rock bottom of the Premier League comfortably and professionally dealt with in the sort of game Brighton usually cock up. Who are you and what have you done with the real Albion? #BHAFC

This is very good and happy making.

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com are truly great companions for interpreting the madness that is US politics and governance right now. Thanks for being there, guys!

@themurdercapital.bsky.social were *very* good at Chalk in Brighton.

This is fascinating and moving from Tuppence Middleton. Helpful if you want to know more about OCD or if there's anyone in your life affected by it. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Beautifully written.

Nice.

Fabian Hurzeler is expecting a different type of test in the second clash in succession with Chelsea, as Brighton try to rise back up to 8th in the table. #BHAFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...

Top work by Black Mocha Coffee in Brighton. 😋 #brighton #specialitycoffee

Thanks to @lexytopping.bsky.social for an absolutely gorgeous article about the final days of Goodison. I'm not an Evertonian, but she really gets to the heart of why we all bother with the game. Beautiful stuff.

Phew.

Why??

Up next: Why The Dutch Are Different by Ben Coates This Is A Love Story by Jessica Soffer #booksky

Obviously hoping for the "do" part of this, but pretty nervous.

As good as ever from Sweet Pill. open.spotify.com/track/5VCt1U...

OLED panels and refreshing: always at a crucial moment a new show.

"Fabian, you should probably go and acknowledge the away support having just overseen the heaviest Brighton defeat since 1958" #BHAFC Fabian Hurzeler:

Our family football WhatsApp group went *very* quiet.

Yay!

Only caught the end of this on the radio this morning. One for later...! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lenderman Tiny Desk! MJ Lenderman: Tiny Desk Concert www.npr.org/2025/01/29/g...

Caffeine stop in Borough.

On this 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I think of Rudolf Vrba, one of only a handful of Jews ever to escape the camp - who did it to warn the world. I told his story when I was a guest on the brilliant Rest is History podcast. You can hear that here open.spotify.com/episode/1Ezd...

Fair.

Obviously hope he doesn't win this one, but that's quite some achievement.

Like! open.spotify.com/track/0o2JLy...

Millennium Bridge to The Tate.

More of this, please. This Bishop has far more backbone than any Republican member of Congress.

Goals from Yankuba Minteh, Kaoru Mitoma and Georginio Rutter give Brighton their third consecutive Premier League win at Old Trafford. The result moves Fabian Hurzeler's side to within four points of the top four, while Manchester United remain in 13th. 🔗 nyti.ms/40lW9kX

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YANKUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 🇬🇲

Hoping for 1-2, but Amorim is clearly starting to have an impact. Can we keep Amad quiet? How long before a big Bruno whine about something?? Excited for some Gomez time.

This is very good from Kyle McLachlan. "It's just that explaining his art after the fact was antithetical to the point of making it". Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented Me www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

Old but genius. Dizzee * Cyndi. Girls Just Wanna (Fix Up) youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwe...