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Lots to do. Grumpy AF. This calls for The Fall
youtu.be/EJBlN8b-r60?...
You have to pay for everything
But some things are for free
We live on blood
We are Sparta FC
youtu.be/EJBlN8b-r60?...
You have to pay for everything
But some things are for free
We live on blood
We are Sparta FC
The Fall - "Theme from Sparta F.C."
YouTube video by kogler
youtu.be
May 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lots to do. Grumpy AF. This calls for The Fall
youtu.be/EJBlN8b-r60?...
You have to pay for everything
But some things are for free
We live on blood
We are Sparta FC
youtu.be/EJBlN8b-r60?...
You have to pay for everything
But some things are for free
We live on blood
We are Sparta FC
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46 years ago today
Gangsters is the first single by the Special A.K.A. (The Specials), released on this day in 1979 as a double A-side along with 'The Selecter' by label mates The Selecter
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #2tone #thespecials #theselecter #history #skahistory
Gangsters is the first single by the Special A.K.A. (The Specials), released on this day in 1979 as a double A-side along with 'The Selecter' by label mates The Selecter
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #2tone #thespecials #theselecter #history #skahistory
May 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
46 years ago today
Gangsters is the first single by the Special A.K.A. (The Specials), released on this day in 1979 as a double A-side along with 'The Selecter' by label mates The Selecter
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #2tone #thespecials #theselecter #history #skahistory
Gangsters is the first single by the Special A.K.A. (The Specials), released on this day in 1979 as a double A-side along with 'The Selecter' by label mates The Selecter
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #2tone #thespecials #theselecter #history #skahistory
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“To the marketing manager at RCA: Let’s call it ‘the Sgt. Pepper of the 70s’, and put an attractive young couple in a pre-coital embrace on the advert. Then people will be blinded to just how exquisitely distressing the album is.”
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
April 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“To the marketing manager at RCA: Let’s call it ‘the Sgt. Pepper of the 70s’, and put an attractive young couple in a pre-coital embrace on the advert. Then people will be blinded to just how exquisitely distressing the album is.”
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
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They don't make adverts like they used to.
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
They don't make adverts like they used to.
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Trans women are routinely denied healthcare, safe housing and dignity.
This isn’t an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power.
Trans rights are human rights — and I will always stand with the trans community.
This isn’t an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power.
Trans rights are human rights — and I will always stand with the trans community.
April 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trans women are routinely denied healthcare, safe housing and dignity.
This isn’t an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power.
Trans rights are human rights — and I will always stand with the trans community.
This isn’t an accident. It is hate, fuelled by those in power.
Trans rights are human rights — and I will always stand with the trans community.
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The food is lousy and the apartment is deranged.
April 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The food is lousy and the apartment is deranged.
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Fascinating sides from the #cdcollection - a twofer of Bill Dixon’s 7-tette, and Archie Shepp’s New York Contemporary 5. Ken McIntyre, John Tchicai, Sonny Murray, Ronnie Boykins, Sonny Murray, Don Cherry…
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fascinating sides from the #cdcollection - a twofer of Bill Dixon’s 7-tette, and Archie Shepp’s New York Contemporary 5. Ken McIntyre, John Tchicai, Sonny Murray, Ronnie Boykins, Sonny Murray, Don Cherry…
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky
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The Israeli foreign minister arrived on an announced visit to the UK.
Almost the entire media failed to report it.
Why?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/media-cove...
Almost the entire media failed to report it.
Why?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/media-cove...
Media covers up visit from Israeli foreign minister
You have to ask - why was this not reported, and what was discussed?
www.owenjones.news
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The Israeli foreign minister arrived on an announced visit to the UK.
Almost the entire media failed to report it.
Why?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/media-cove...
Almost the entire media failed to report it.
Why?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/media-cove...
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Hang on, I thought it was everyone eating lunch out which meant we were too poor to buy a house and we should just bring sandwiches... 🙄
April 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hang on, I thought it was everyone eating lunch out which meant we were too poor to buy a house and we should just bring sandwiches... 🙄
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Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’
Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’
Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime
* The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline
The doctor who carried out the autopsies of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives.
There was international outcry last month after it emerged that Israeli troops had launched a deadly attack on a group of paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent, civil defence and United Nations workers, as they carried out a rescue operation in southern Gaza. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’
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Absolute Travesty.
April 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Absolute Travesty.
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The saddest looking person you know just made a goofy point.
People are mad but you have to admit this is a genuinely hilarious headline/image combo
April 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The saddest looking person you know just made a goofy point.
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Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric
Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric
Exclusive: 136 organisations call on PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summit
More than 130 refugee and human rights organisations have called on Keir Starmer to stop using language that demonises migrants, after he made controversial remarks before an international people-smuggling summit.
The criticisms are contained in a letter to the UK prime minister, coordinated by the campaign coalition Together With Refugees. It has been sent to the prime minister in response to comments he made before the Organised Immigration Crime Summit on 31 March, where more than 40 countries came together in London to focus on tackling organised immigration crime including people-smuggling gangs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric
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April 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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RIP Dave Allen. Thanks for the music.
April 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
RIP Dave Allen. Thanks for the music.
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Like clockwork , as soon as you criticise the fossil fuel companies and executives – out come the lobbyists and shady thinktanks based at and near the infamous SW1 55 Tufton Street .
April 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Like clockwork , as soon as you criticise the fossil fuel companies and executives – out come the lobbyists and shady thinktanks based at and near the infamous SW1 55 Tufton Street .
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This, from actor-writer Katy Wix, filling the restaurant column spot back at my old manor, is a lovely bit of writing.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
Giovanni’s on The Hayes, Cardiff: ‘The smell of wine and hot tomatoes’ – restaurant review
The actress and writer returns to a childhood favourite for a large slice of family nostalgia
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This, from actor-writer Katy Wix, filling the restaurant column spot back at my old manor, is a lovely bit of writing.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
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1st session now up with NYC rockers X-Ray Love band playing ‘Darling’
'Darling' X-RAY LOVE (Engine Rooms, London) BOPFLIX sessions
YouTube video by Bopflix
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
1st session now up with NYC rockers X-Ray Love band playing ‘Darling’
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Gang Of Four - I Found That Essence Rare
YouTube video by shagidra
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April 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Dave Allen, the former Gang Of Four bassist who played on 'Entertainment!,' has died
Former Gang Of Four Bassist Dave Allen Dead At 69
Dave Allen, the founding bassist of English post-punk greats Gang Of Four, died last Saturday at 69. His former bandmate Hugo Burnham confirmed the news in a post today on Gang Of Four’s Instagram acc...
www.stereogum.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Dave Allen, the former Gang Of Four bassist who played on 'Entertainment!,' has died
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Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics
Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances using flashing emergency lights
Mobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The five-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from the phone of one of the men killed, appears to have been filmed from inside a moving vehicle, and shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics
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‘I love the Carrier Bag Man
Carrier bags strewn all around the room
The Carrier Bag Man - I am him
Coz I am the Carrier Bag Man
I've no time to sit comfortable down
But I still need armchairs round my home
To put carrier bags on.
I am the Carrier Bag Man’
#FallFriday
youtu.be/Qfu-jB7Kxoc?...
Carrier bags strewn all around the room
The Carrier Bag Man - I am him
Coz I am the Carrier Bag Man
I've no time to sit comfortable down
But I still need armchairs round my home
To put carrier bags on.
I am the Carrier Bag Man’
#FallFriday
youtu.be/Qfu-jB7Kxoc?...
Carry Bag Man
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
youtu.be
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
‘I love the Carrier Bag Man
Carrier bags strewn all around the room
The Carrier Bag Man - I am him
Coz I am the Carrier Bag Man
I've no time to sit comfortable down
But I still need armchairs round my home
To put carrier bags on.
I am the Carrier Bag Man’
#FallFriday
youtu.be/Qfu-jB7Kxoc?...
Carrier bags strewn all around the room
The Carrier Bag Man - I am him
Coz I am the Carrier Bag Man
I've no time to sit comfortable down
But I still need armchairs round my home
To put carrier bags on.
I am the Carrier Bag Man’
#FallFriday
youtu.be/Qfu-jB7Kxoc?...