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Björn Heile
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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.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 15h
And it's not just the Tories; Reform is part of this, and there is no doubt in my mind that they are planning a complete takeover should they gain power. None of the protagonists appears to be directly linked to Reform but many are to GB News and/or the Telegraph or Mail who are.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 15h
Maybe I'm becoming paranoid, but I think this is about more: an attempt to abolish free media and introduce Hungary-style control. They are no longer content with pushing the Overton window to the right; it's not as if the BBC hasn't followed that already.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18h
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d
This is crazily over the top.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d
Wee walk in #ArdgartanForest.
Tree branch so overgrown with moss and lichen it seems to be glowing in green. Croe water with trees with autumn leaves. A group of trees overgrown with lichen, so they look like ghosts in a field of brown, dead bracken. Loch Long, seen from Ardgarten Forest, with some trees in the foreground and a hill in the background.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d
You know what you have to do! www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d
I'm assuming they opposed said reforms for watering down genuine socialism?

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d
I took this yesterday morning on the train journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh. I was too slow to catch the best moment, so this will have to do.
The morning sun shining on the mist in the glen.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d
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Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d
And the reason they woke up to it was that there was a connection, however spurious, with immigration. As if it mattered that a *foreign* criminal is on the run.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 5d
The integration of former Syrian refugees has actually been an overwhelming success: the vast majority are well-integrated and make important contributions. It's enriched the country, which is heavily dependent on immigration demographically, economically and culturally. But the bastards rule.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 5d
That extends to the 1970s in LA (judging from a half-remembered Columbo episode).

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 6d
I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 7d
Precisely, choose your pet peeves wisely.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 7d
Superb photo!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
And, I'm guessing that Hannan regards regular mass killings - actual killings, not injuries, as in this case - in the USA as 'the price to pay for freedom'. Nor would he care if the perpetrator were white.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
Erik Palmberg, Merchants House, Glasgow. #LiveJazz
Palmberg playing Flügelhorn Quartet playing.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 8d
Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
And his last so far, according to his work list on Wikipedia. He's acted in another one, though.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
By Detlev Buck!!! I used to love his work. I suppose I still do, but it's ages since I've seen anything by him (knowingly at least).

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
Absolutely. This is why I would not integrate AI into assessment, even as a way of countering improper AI use, as is sometimes proposed. I did a Mentimeter poll in one of my classes, and about 1/3 of students rejected AI for ethical reasons. It would be wrong to force them to use it!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
No?! Which one is that? I don't actually watch it regularly, I have to admit.
Lindenberg started his career as a drummer and played with Doldinger during the early 1970s.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
That is interesting, and I didn't think that was the case, but I honestly don't know. (I checked what the Terrorism Acts of 2006 and 2000 say, but they don't define that, so that seems to be an operational decision.)

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
I would agree, but the question is whether those who take the decision to class a crime as terrorist or not would do so, too.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
I only just learned that Udo Lindenberg (yes, that Udo Lindenberg) plays the drums on Klaus Doldinger's famous theme tune for _Tatort_.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
Maybe I haven't formulated that clearly: the question is not what I or you count as an ideology, but what is counted as 'ideologically motivated' in crime and terrorism statistics. I don't think misogyny is considered an ideology for these purposes, for instance. Are homophobia and islamophobia?

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
I haven't heard that for ages! But, yes, people used to say that (and maybe some still do).

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
What counts as an ideology is another question.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
Karlheinz was here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3b...
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Sirius (1975/1977) 1/2
YouTube video by Wellesz Theatre.
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