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Ruminations from darkest East Anglia.
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In The Meadow - All About Eve
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January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Who are your top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Real quick off the top of my head…

Maxy Khoisan
Bruce Dickinson
George Welch
Julie Christmas
Mark Lanegan
Nanci Griffith
Michael Stipe
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Édith Piaf
Julien Baker
kimberjohnson.bsky.social Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 17d
Who are your top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Real quick off the top of my head…

Robert Plant
David Bowie
Jim Morrison
John Lennon
Ian Gillan
Rob Halford
Bruce Dickinson
Ronnie James Dio
Chuck Schuldiner
Travis Ryan

Honorable Mention: Roger Daltey, Mikael Åkerfeldt
ytsl.bsky.social YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 17d
Who are your top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Real quick off the top of my head…

KD Lang
Anita Mui
Leslie Cheung
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Tracy Chapman
Freddie Mercury
Teresa Teng
Julie Andrews
Karen Carpenter
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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"Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter". The Financial Times reports on career role models on and around the blurred boundaries of media, technology, sex and the enterprising transnational criminal networks of Musk & co
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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January 6, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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#Caturday
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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I always forget how dark the "Mull Of Kintyre" video gets.
Paul McCartney, strumming acoustic guitar on location in Scotland, singing Mull Of Kintyre. Paul McCartney, Linda, and Denny, strolling through Scottish countryside, singing Mull Of Kintyre. Paul, Linda, and Denny, walking along the beach, bagpipe band in tow. Screenshot from The Wicker Man, as a giant wicker man burns.
February 25, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Anyone Else Here

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Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Christmas celebrations have officially begun at our house.
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#Whisky
A bottle of whisky next to a glencairn glass & some Christmas decorations. The whisky is Fenspirits Single Malt Whisky, made & aged near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (England). Triple distilled & aged 3 years in a 40 litre medium char virgin oak cask.
December 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Merry F'n Christmas - Chip Taylor
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December 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm - Benjamin Francis Leftwich
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December 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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She Loves You, She Wants You, It's Amazing How Much Head Wounds Bleed - Alice Donut
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December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)

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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Think you answered your own question there...
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Plug In Baby - Muse
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December 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Freedom for Tibet!

Defiance - Yungchen Lhamo
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December 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Body Count
No Lives Matter

They fuck whoever can't fight back
But now we gotta change all that
The people have had enough
Right now it's them against us
This shit is ugly to the core
When it comes to the poor
No lives matter
December 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Every Day Is Exactly The Same - Nine Inch Nails
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December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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In the 1250s, records from Ely note an old eel-rent, since commuted to a monetary rent, that local fisheries owed to the bishop. The original rent was for 3,300 sticks of eels.

A stick was a unit of 25. So that works out to 82,500 eels!

Or...you know...enough for a party.
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Meme. Painting of a medieval feast. There are two main figures seated at a table, with the rest of the party focused on them. They're wearing crowns, so, if nothing else, they're king & queen of the feast. On either side of the table are party-goers, and there's a band playing in front of the table. It seems likely that they're playing "Rock Me Amadeus." The king is wearing something like a turban. His hands are on the table, and his face is pointed straight ahead. But his eyes are cutting over towards his queen, and down. He's absolutely looking at her breasts, and it possible that he's not paying attention to much else. Boys will be boys, yeah? For her part, the queen looks calm. She knows what she's doing. She takes a deep, expansive breath and -- while his attention is distracted -- slips some hemlock into his wine. He fucked around once too often. Now he's about to find out. Boys will be boys will be dead. Meme text reads: "You gotta fight for your right to an eel party"
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"8. A band that is a-mazing"

Mbira DzeNharira - Kumatendera
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Kumatendera--Mbira DzeNharira
YouTube video by Nechaz
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December 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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"7. Heavy metal jammin'"

You'll Never Get To The Moon In That - Orange Goblin
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You'll Never Get To The Moon In That
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December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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AC/DC - Big Balls
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December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Got The Time - Joe Jackson
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December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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"6. Left-handed guitarist playin'"

Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
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Mdou Moctar - "Afrique Victime (Live)"
YouTube video by Mdou Moctar
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December 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This cartoon and two others are available now as prints here: www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM