Andrew Avramenko
@andrewavramenko.bsky.social
A former Police ID Parade Model turned inclusive Anglican Priest, husband of a scientist, father of 2 winners of a rubber-duck river-race, son of a refugee, grandson of freedom fighters, justice advocate for a feline escapologist.
Pinned
Ten Bands/Musicians to know me:
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Elbow
3. Jean Michel Jarre
4. Metallica
5. Mogwai
6. MONO (Japan)
7. Peter Gabriel
8. Rage Against The Machine
9. R.E.M.
10. Sigur Rós
There’s definitely more I could mention but that list speaks quite well about me.
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Elbow
3. Jean Michel Jarre
4. Metallica
5. Mogwai
6. MONO (Japan)
7. Peter Gabriel
8. Rage Against The Machine
9. R.E.M.
10. Sigur Rós
There’s definitely more I could mention but that list speaks quite well about me.
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This seems like a good time to mention that this Labour, you know "protect vulnerable people" government has pretty much closed the last remaining "safe routes" for people to seek asylum in the UK, along with preventing refugees already here being reunited with their spouses or children.
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This seems like a good time to mention that this Labour, you know "protect vulnerable people" government has pretty much closed the last remaining "safe routes" for people to seek asylum in the UK, along with preventing refugees already here being reunited with their spouses or children.
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This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.
On Monday, Shabana Mahmood will announce an overhaul of the asylum system, here’s why ⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.
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Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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Current favourite thing on the internet.
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Current favourite thing on the internet.
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
Last night I got to see one of my favourite bands, MONO, open their European Tour in Bristol, UK with one of best concerts I’ve been to which closed with my favourite piece of theirs “Com(?)” & the band signed an Ep for me
Do check if they are coming to a place near you www.monoofjapan.com/tour.php
Do check if they are coming to a place near you www.monoofjapan.com/tour.php
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Last night I got to see one of my favourite bands, MONO, open their European Tour in Bristol, UK with one of best concerts I’ve been to which closed with my favourite piece of theirs “Com(?)” & the band signed an Ep for me
Do check if they are coming to a place near you www.monoofjapan.com/tour.php
Do check if they are coming to a place near you www.monoofjapan.com/tour.php
I could wait to watch the Bruce Springsteen film Deliver Me From Nowhere at home or I could go to Everyman Cinema in Bath and sit on a sofa there to watch it sooner on a screen that fills my field of vision and with a sound system better than I could afford at home… I chose the latter.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere | Official Trailer
YouTube video by 20th Century Studios Canada
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I could wait to watch the Bruce Springsteen film Deliver Me From Nowhere at home or I could go to Everyman Cinema in Bath and sit on a sofa there to watch it sooner on a screen that fills my field of vision and with a sound system better than I could afford at home… I chose the latter.
Well that was a revelation! Gregory Alan Isakov and his band at The Beacon in Bristol were amazing, as was the sound - judging by concerts I’ve been to there before and since its refurbishment and renaming, the venue has certainly improved but it’s still dependent on a good band & sound engineer.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Well that was a revelation! Gregory Alan Isakov and his band at The Beacon in Bristol were amazing, as was the sound - judging by concerts I’ve been to there before and since its refurbishment and renaming, the venue has certainly improved but it’s still dependent on a good band & sound engineer.
It’s relaxing to be at a concert when you don’t know the artist or their music, yet also disconcerting when the numbers attending suggest the artist is very well known… clearly I’m not as in touch with ‘the music scene’ as I used to be.
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It’s relaxing to be at a concert when you don’t know the artist or their music, yet also disconcerting when the numbers attending suggest the artist is very well known… clearly I’m not as in touch with ‘the music scene’ as I used to be.
There’s so much happening in the world that sucks the joy out of life that I keep trying to lift people when I preach. But my attempts to encourage through my last 2 sermons were drowned out by the challenges they contained about showing God’s care for people & planet. I long for unadulterated joy…
October 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There’s so much happening in the world that sucks the joy out of life that I keep trying to lift people when I preach. But my attempts to encourage through my last 2 sermons were drowned out by the challenges they contained about showing God’s care for people & planet. I long for unadulterated joy…
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Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport
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Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
October 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
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It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
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"To my colleagues in mainstream media: your silence is complicity. Your 'boths-sides-ism' is complicty. Your euphemisms for genocide is complicity."
From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH.
Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH.
Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"To my colleagues in mainstream media: your silence is complicity. Your 'boths-sides-ism' is complicty. Your euphemisms for genocide is complicity."
From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH.
Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH.
Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
Jean-Michel Jarre’s live album from his London Docklands concert played in my music shuffle this evening bringing back memories of being there. I looked up the date, it was in 1988.
I feel old…
I feel old…
October 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Jean-Michel Jarre’s live album from his London Docklands concert played in my music shuffle this evening bringing back memories of being there. I looked up the date, it was in 1988.
I feel old…
I feel old…
I was listening to Michael Palin’s (1979) diaries earlier and hear him say he was picked up by a jaguar and Terry Gilliam wrote a synopsis on the toilet.
My first thought was not of cars or a deposal device… cue ChatGPT’s imagination of my imagination.
My first thought was not of cars or a deposal device… cue ChatGPT’s imagination of my imagination.
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I was listening to Michael Palin’s (1979) diaries earlier and hear him say he was picked up by a jaguar and Terry Gilliam wrote a synopsis on the toilet.
My first thought was not of cars or a deposal device… cue ChatGPT’s imagination of my imagination.
My first thought was not of cars or a deposal device… cue ChatGPT’s imagination of my imagination.
Tonight’s listening pleasure: the reformed The Beta Band, live at the O2 Academy in Bristol, and a masked DJ who would I would be surprised to find out is Steve Mason or another member of The Beta Band.
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Tonight’s listening pleasure: the reformed The Beta Band, live at the O2 Academy in Bristol, and a masked DJ who would I would be surprised to find out is Steve Mason or another member of The Beta Band.
Vinyl albums create a closer connection to the music than any other format, but not for their tactile nature - CD’s have a similar quality. But the very need to get up and change sides or discs means that vinyl records stop songs blurring into others and losing their individual identities.
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Vinyl albums create a closer connection to the music than any other format, but not for their tactile nature - CD’s have a similar quality. But the very need to get up and change sides or discs means that vinyl records stop songs blurring into others and losing their individual identities.
Tonight’s album: Mogwai’s As The Love Continues - an excellent addition to their discography that includes their trademark range of sonic intensities and their finest sung song to date (Richie Sacramento).
September 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Tonight’s album: Mogwai’s As The Love Continues - an excellent addition to their discography that includes their trademark range of sonic intensities and their finest sung song to date (Richie Sacramento).
Tonight’s bedtime listening: Underworld’s dubnobasswithmyheadman.
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Tonight’s bedtime listening: Underworld’s dubnobasswithmyheadman.
It’s finally out! An evening with Nine Inch Nails’ Tron Ares soundtrack has started.
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s finally out! An evening with Nine Inch Nails’ Tron Ares soundtrack has started.
Conversation today:
“How did the Israelites survive for 40 years in the desert (during the Exodus)?”
Me: “God sent them quails and manna to eat”
“What’s that?”
Me “Think of it like 40 years of KFC and bread, so no wonder they were grumpy”.
“How did the Israelites survive for 40 years in the desert (during the Exodus)?”
Me: “God sent them quails and manna to eat”
“What’s that?”
Me “Think of it like 40 years of KFC and bread, so no wonder they were grumpy”.
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Conversation today:
“How did the Israelites survive for 40 years in the desert (during the Exodus)?”
Me: “God sent them quails and manna to eat”
“What’s that?”
Me “Think of it like 40 years of KFC and bread, so no wonder they were grumpy”.
“How did the Israelites survive for 40 years in the desert (during the Exodus)?”
Me: “God sent them quails and manna to eat”
“What’s that?”
Me “Think of it like 40 years of KFC and bread, so no wonder they were grumpy”.
Music is my passion and fuel for life, but the sound of silence is equally powerful, the peace bringing both inner peace and energy at the same time. So with an empty house, I’m keeping the records in their sleeves and the stylus docked, and enjoying the silence whilst I can.
September 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Music is my passion and fuel for life, but the sound of silence is equally powerful, the peace bringing both inner peace and energy at the same time. So with an empty house, I’m keeping the records in their sleeves and the stylus docked, and enjoying the silence whilst I can.
Funny how things coincide…read Michael Palin’a diaries covering the ex-leper scene from The Life of Brian. Few days later hear a sermon on the Grateful Leper. Then reminded of my status as a metaphorical unhealed leper best kept outside the community, avoided & forgotten
Time to laugh with the film
Time to laugh with the film
Life of Brian - Alms for an ex Leper
YouTube video by BrianTheMan
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Funny how things coincide…read Michael Palin’a diaries covering the ex-leper scene from The Life of Brian. Few days later hear a sermon on the Grateful Leper. Then reminded of my status as a metaphorical unhealed leper best kept outside the community, avoided & forgotten
Time to laugh with the film
Time to laugh with the film