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christopher brooke 🇵🇸
@twrhq.bsky.social
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Birth. Music. Death.

ex-radio prod/host, lapsed writer, record collecting vinyl saddo, Crohn's, Diverticulitis, Fibromyalgia, Abba Zaba.

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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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i've got a horrible fucking feeling this is the Miller playbook - incite the populous into shooting back by killing a few in broad daylight, maybe a couple deadly false flags against ICE - to justify declaring Martial Law with extreme prejudice.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
twrhq.bsky.social
How very born again Christian of him.
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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ricardoautobahn.co.uk
I’ve bought an apocalypse-proof boat, with an array of weaponry
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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popnhops.bsky.social
All 6 beers pouring for the rest of the weekend. Come celebrate Wales's finest.

Here until 10pm on Saturday.
Open from 1pm on Sunday.
keithbeard.bsky.social K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 19h
Dark Elements birthday tap takeover @popnhops.bsky.social six collabs on tap. Pictured Dark Elements(Caerphilly)X Beer Riff(Swansea)6% ipa
January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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‘Lush, noise-drenched soundscapes and emotionally charged performances.’ The Obelisk 🗞 Portugal's SUMMER OF HATE join us at FOCUS Wales 2026 over 7th-9th May in #WREXHAM 🎫 at focuswales.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Most of the witnesses recording the incident were immediately rounded up and taken to the federal building.
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Another person has been executed by ICE in Minneapolis, outside a donut shop. Pinned down by 7 or 8 "agents," then another "agent" just pulls out his gun and executes the guy in broad daylight while everybody is recording.

This is what America has become.
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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We thoroughly enjoyed this series of The Traiters. Excellent gameplay.
January 23, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Lads, buy some tickets to see me in London in April. Fun guaranteed

wegottickets.com/event/687701
Simon Love "THE ONE TRUE PRINCE OF WALES" Album Launch Party
Save the date to come and join us in celebration of the release of the fourth Simon Love solo album "THE ONE TRUE PRINCE OF WALES (in exile after abdication)" on the Hurrah Musica label. Support acts ...
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January 23, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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& speaking of adverts, i'll never really understand why Duracell decided a CGI bunny with CGI batteries displays their longevity better than an actual battery operated bunny.
January 23, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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One of those Ibrahimović XTB adverts currently doing the rounds makes no sense. It presents 'progress' as a remote controlled car turning into a drone & then, inexplicably, turning into a remote controlled plane. Surely it's car to plane to drone?
January 23, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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Sign here!!! weareumaw.org/make-streami...
Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers
United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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dadadrummer.bsky.social
This is the reality we’re all dealing with
simonwilliam.bsky.social Simon Vozick-Levinson @simonwilliam.bsky.social · 2d
up now at rolling stone: my report on the perilous state of the touring business for indie acts.

"It was definitely much, much, much more doable just a few years ago. It’s not even about making a profit. It’s about actually being able to do it at all."

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Is the Touring Business Broken for Indie Acts?
Artists, agents, and managers say that touring is more expensive than ever, and it's becoming harder for indie artists to make money on the road
www.rollingstone.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Just finished binging 3 of The Delightful Sausage's live shows (ta to Virgin/Next Up... & Youtube) & am now exhausted from laughter. @chriscantrill.bsky.social & @amygledhill.bsky.social are beautifully funny fuckers, aye. Some magical writing & thrown away lines.
January 22, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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"Don’t think we’d ever pass up an opportunity to rep Mythical Motors, particularly as the project has continuously brought us hit after hit"

Thanks to @austintownhall.bsky.social for this great write-up!

austintownhall.com/2026/01/20/m...
Mythical Motors Announce Tremolo On The Punchline - posted by Austin Town Hall
January 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
twrhq.bsky.social
Engagement on Bluesky is pretty blwdy terrible, eh?
January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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@daveweigel 20 days ago We learned to read and write. @FreshyT33 21 days ago How did people even finish essays or assignments without chatGPT
January 21, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Here's a screenshot of this attorney currently working in Minneapolis MN trying to get people out of ICE detention with his name and phone number. I've provided alt text for those who need it.
Screenshot of video of attorney currently working in Minneapolis MN trying to get people out of ICE detention. His name is James Cook and his phone number is (415) 350-3393.
January 18, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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I’ve written about the assumption that everyone wants their relationship to public services to be “digitalised” (whilst F2F options stealthily reduced) & that any reticence just requires “overcoming” with greater tech “literacy”, at length, in relation to health www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/wi...
towards policies of "digital by default" are presented merely "administrative" and indeed "inevitable" decisions, rather than political choices. But political choices (as he makes clear) they are. The question is: whose? Subhead _ 'If you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail' Poorer and older people (those most reliant on public services) are far more sceptical than the general population about the benefits of digitalised public services. And whilst most people are happy to conduct simple transactional relationships with the state online (making a payment or booking an appointment, for example), there's a lack of evidence that most people actually want their deeper connections with the state to be extensively digitalised. There's clearly a tension between the tendency to suggest, on the one hand, There's clearly a tension between the tendency to suggest, on the one hand, that digitalised services are more 'responsive' and 'personalised' and, on the other, that resistance to them is not a preference to be met, but merely 'barrier' to be overcome. Other concerns need to be heard. That poorer people's concerns are greater is perhaps not surprising - they already have more experience of how, in Alston's words, "systems of social protection and assistance are increasingly driven by digital data and technologies that are used to automate, predict, identify, surveil, detect, target and punish". Alston warns too that "Big Tech operates in an almost human rights free-zone, and that this is especially problematic when the private sector is taking a leading role in designing, constructing, and even operating significant parts of the digital welfare State. Poorer people are also more likely to have complex requirements that don't fit neatly into a digitalised workflow. And they are more likely to feel lonely (in itself, a serious risk factor for poor health) and in need of more human interaction (poorer children in the UK are twice as likely as their richer peers to report feeling lonely and isolated). The same study suggested that the internet itself was contributing to a sense of isolation and loneliness amongst children - and other influential studies have correlated internet use and loneliness. Already, children as young as five may be prescribed 'apps' for depression, with particularly widespread use of mental health apps to manage patients on waiting lists (who then may no longer show up so obviously on waiting lists). Even our most supposedly 'transactional' interactions with healthcare, such as booking an appointment via an app, or checking in via an electronic kiosk to a surgery or hospital appointment, might not be the 'no-brainers' that tech advocates suggest. On a recent visit to my local district hospital, as I approached the receptionist, a girl of about 10 came in behind me with her dad, clutching her arm in pain, looking miserable. I stood aside of course, and observed as the receptionist asked the girl, in kind tones, her name, address, and the other details required on a form. In the receptionist's experienced hands, the predictably bureaucratic questions were turned into a soothing ritual. "Are you married?" she asked with a twinkle, eliciting a giggle. The girl sat down to wait for treatment looking considerably happier than she had done on arrival. She was in safe, human care. No doubt, sometimes, dealing with a computer is all we need. But not always. The shifts underway would matter less, were investment in digitalisation not squeezing out investment in other areas - if digital options were genuinely just one option, rather than being offered as a balm for cuts in face-to-face services; if the NHS and social care sector were not
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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What's your sign?
Photograph of graffiti, which reads: Punch a Nazi! Its 1 of your 5-a-day!
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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#NowSpinning

Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast (UK 2015, 15th Anniversary Ri)

This sprawling beauty.

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Photo of the sleeve for Badly Drawn Boy's LP The Hour of Bewilderbeast displayed next to the record spinning on a turntable
January 19, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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#NowSpinning

The Bill Wells Octet meets Lol Coxhill Ltd Ed 12" EP (UK 2001)

"Jazz IS a black music"

she said

"but not the sort of jazz that you like"

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Photograph of the sleeve for the EP The Bill Wells Octet meets Lol Coxhill displayed next to the record turning on a table
January 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM