Björn Heile

@bjornheile.bsky.social

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Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · Nov 14

This is kind of my introductory post. It's great to meet so many people over here again. I'm not a direct refugee from Twitter/X: I have left that years ago but went to Mastodon. That's still great but rather quiet.
As you may know, I'm primarily interested in #music, particularly #modernist.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe not, but treating the devolved parliaments as weather vanes that only matter as a test of public opinion, doesn't either.

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Andrew Stronach @aistronach.bsky.social · 1d

OK. Brace yourself for the most delicious ancient Egyptian hippo. Just lovely. Quite old. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art-and-obje...

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d

I was gonna say there is never a lack of these people! People fell over one another to become Tory leader, after all.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure if the UK had illegally hung on to the island for longer, that otherwise inevitable conflict would never have arisen in the first place.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d

Which reminds me of this delightful film, which I'm pretty sure Ligeti would have appreciated too.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1883...

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) ⭐ 6.9 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

1h 41m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d

I'm kind of reminded of the Panama Papers. 1. Lift the stone, 2. stare in disgust at all the creepy crawlies doing unmentionable things, 3. drop the stone back in place quickly.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d

These drugs actually existed.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 5d

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future

In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

www.levernews.com

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, I think he is more deeply 'intellectually' (if that's the word) committed to the ideology of 'local people vs. global elites' than Farage or Tice. That candidates are parachuted in by a centralised party financed by non-dom super-rich doesn't quite fit the picture.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Regularisation policies have been shown, repeatedly, to tackle exploitation and boost domestic economies. While Labour makes it harder for migrants to be recognised, policies like Spain's are better for everyone. Tougher immigration policies are counterproductive
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Spanish PM defends plans to regularise half a million undocumented migrants

Responding to critics of policy, Pedro Sánchez says Spain is choosing path of ‘dignity, community and justice’

www.theguardian.com

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Leo von Gripsholm @leovongripsholm.bsky.social · 7d

um eure häuser warm zu halten nutzt ihr … HAIzungen???

Kopf eines Hais, man sieht Nase/Schnauze, Augen und das leicht geöffnete Maul. Es wirkt als würde der Hai schockiertes Side Eye machen.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 7d

And no-one can be surprised, can they?

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, everything is my fault. Sorry!

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing quiet about that, unfortunately.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 12d

Wonder if Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin remembers this.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 13d

Recruiting them or, failing that, inventing them.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13d

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.