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Dave
@davelikesska.bsky.social
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ska / anti-fascist / green party member / NUFC / he/him / UK.
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gremlin.world
Hardcore Difficulty on games implies the existence of Ska Difficulty.
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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skatunenetwork.bsky.social
HI INTERNET
hate that I need to do this, but calling in my community to help me out!

Square freezing my account and holding my funds was the straw that broke the camels back, tbh. Here’s An incredibly long block of text, but all provides transparency and context behind this
Screenshot of gofund me featuring a picture of the JER band and text reading “help JER cover tour debt & expenses to keep touring in 2026” Hi, my name is JER and I’m calling in my community for help right now. For some background, I am an artist who releases music under my name, JER. In addition to that, I have a YouTube channel called skatune network, where I cover songs in the style of ska. For 9 years, I’ve been doing the YouTube thing, but for the past 5 years, my passion truly lies with the art that i create through the JER project and JER band. It’s been a privilege and honor to see the support of 2 full length records and 104 live shows over this time, and I’m deeply grateful for everybody who has been showing love and support to my craft! Anybody who follows me knows that touring is volatile and expensive. So many factors can make or break a tour financially, and it’s easy for expenses and debt to snowball to a point where it’s near impossible to catch up / continue. That was 2025 for me. With the expecting of a handful of shows, I didn’t really play any shows from spring 2024 to fall of 2025. I got off the road and dedicated the back half of 2024 to working to pay down tour debt. I began 2025 with minimal debt and recorded a record, the record being Death of the Heart. I made a financial plan for the year, which included keeping costs on our first March weekend. The additional cost was going to cover half of the bands flights to Japan, while I was already going to be out there AND all of our expenses in Japan were already covered. At the end of that March weekend, however, I was hit with the news that my merch fulfillment store had accumulated several thousand dollars of debt. All the money we made that weekend immediately went toward paying a portion of that debt off. This left me back home with more debt, and having to work my real life jobs to re-save to fly a portion of my band to Japan for our shows The spring is my slowest time of year, since most of my work is in the summer and fall. It took until the summer for me to save the money to book the flights. Our June tour was a breakeven, but the money we made from merch at shows was immediately taken to cover the online fulfillment debt I didn’t even know existed until March. This put me in a position where every dollar I made from my 5 jobs all summer went toward covering the costs of the last tour, and the next tour booked would start before I could pay off the last. This cycle is why we had to drop off our shows leading into fest. The money that was supposed to rent the van and book the flights instead went toward a previous tour debt. This cycle has culminated to where I’m at now. As of now, Square has frozen my account and is withholding all the merch money I made from my last few December shows. There is *still* a remaining debt on the merch fulfillment that isn’t fully paid down, and every tour has been in the red because of this lingering debt. I’m at a position where I have a lot of cool tours booked for 2026, but I am at a point where I can’t even afford to start the tour. Vans need to be rented. Flights need to be booked. Merch needs to be made. These are all costs that I don’t have, and I can’t afford to go on the road with this much debt again. It would be a huge bummer to drop off some very cool tours, but it’s just not feasible for me to make happen THATS WHERE I’M ASKING FOR Y’ALLS HELP! Between every skatune network page, I have over 1.2 million followers. If less than 1/10th of a % of my following sent me a dollar, I’d be able to cover every expense lost from square locking my merch money, AND the debt lingering over the skatune store. I hate feeling that I’m in a position where I need to ask for this. I’ve been trying my best and working non-stop for over a year. I’ve been applying to jobs all year beyond my current work, and while I’m making enough to do everything I appreciate the love and support deeply. The JER band is the most special project I’ve been a part of and had. The message of this band is so deeply important to me and I hope I can lean into my community to help make this possible. If you ever wanted to say thank you for the thousands of videos, hundreds of covers, all the entertainment, this is the way to do it! I’ve set the gofundme up for 10k. Believe it or not, my debt is higher than that right now, but that will pay off every debt lingering, cover the loss in merch money, pay down remaining tour expenses from this year, and set me up to get on the road next year! And lastly, if you purchased merch from us this past weekend and used a card, expect a refund. I’m also going to honor system this and try to build some sort of forum to contact everybody. Square refuses to release all of our card transactions and is suggesting we refund it all. I know everybody we sold merch to doesn’t follow me. Some saw us for the first time at these shows. Some don’t use social media. I just have to accept that I may be out of some merch money this weekend. Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all 🫶🏾
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
davelikesska.bsky.social
I left my Sertraline on the kitchen table to refill my pill box last night, and someone who came over asked who was taking it and I said "oh me! I've been signed off work for depression for a month and not due back til the 8th!"

That's how they found out and that's how you've found out too!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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commonsensekid.co.uk
It’s that time of year when I remind Americans to look outside their own country when considering their top albums of the years.

Here are my top 3 UK recs below…

Lickshot - Inside the Ride

Technicolour Steam Train - Off the Rails

Mad Apple Circus - WRITTEN IN CAPITALS
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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filthymilitia.bsky.social
We tried to warn you...

'Never', the new single from the upcoming album 'High Ground', is out Friday 19th December
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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nasboat.org
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
bubs, i’ve only got two, maybe three Motown puns left in me. Four tops.
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).

Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.

I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)

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danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16d
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Do you notice how the catch all excuse for an entire generation of awful public figures who have behaved horrendously, whether left or right, is: “the kids have all gone crazy on social media”. Do you see how it is in fact the old farts who have roasted each other’s brains on Twitter and Facebook.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jasonhickel.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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filthymilitia.bsky.social
Our new single, 'I Don't Know You But I Love You', is out today!

Produced, mixed and mastered by Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios
Filmed and edited by Ell Bobin Videography

youtu.be/gWdDnMfGZWQ?...
Filthy Militia - I Don't Know You But I Love You (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Filthy Militia
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Would it really be me taking time off work if I didn't accidentally cut a finger in a really awkward place? So predictable. And then cutting the back of my hand on something for good measure
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Another pill for the collection box
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ', and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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gimpleg.bsky.social
Did you catch the newest single by @underneathtl.bsky.social ? I sweat this is the most melodic duo in the scene right now. Slip away with Daydream for just a little bit.

Find my review at start-track.com/single-under... and stream it from there

As always, support artists
The single cover for Daydream is a heavy purple filter over cumulus clouds and some stars in the sky. The silhouette of a lookout tower is above the level of the cloud on the left. Underneath the Lookout is written in the top write. The bottom left has the song title- daydream- in script
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
davelikesska.bsky.social
It's fucking snowing and it's probably the happiest I've woken up in weeks
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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greenelects.world
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
First place is The Greens with twenty-eight percent of the vote, a six-point increase. Second are Labour with twenty-five percent of the vote, a four-point increase. Third are Reform with eighteen percent of the vote, a five-point decrease. Fourth are The Liberal Democrats with fourteen percent of the vote, a seven-point increase. Fifth are The Conservatives on five percent of the vote with a five-point decrease. These figures compare results from November seventeenth to those from November tenth and represent the combined eighteen to twenty-four and twenty-five to fifty age groups.
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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astralocale.bsky.social
Glimpse the mind of a ska hobbyist n you'll discover a reslience you didn't think possible. Imagine loving a genre & when you tell people, half of them laugh before you even show them your take on it, and the other half laugh once they've heard it bc it's not ska enough #skapunk
(Knuckles the Echidna meme: When I die I may not go to heaven / I don't know if they let cowboys in) Unpopular opinion: Your music taste isn't just one genre. Why should a band have to be? (Tweet from Veggitales Facts on twitter: disrespect me again and I'll determine your bodies resonant frequency and play a jaunty horn solo that boils your miserable organs inside out) "An experimental ska band? Lmao who's ever heard of that?" (Two-panel comic. In the first, someone sits on the side of a cliff, looking across an empty crevasse called "being cool" at the "results" on the other side. In the second, the "being cool" crevasse is filled with "being cringe", and the person walks across to the results.) Who's ever heard of living by someone else's rules and ending up happy? (A frog in mud. Unbothered. Wet. Happy. In my goop. Slopped up. Squelching.) We're Atlas & Oracle. Who's ever heard of us? Now, you.
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
We've not watched Home Alone 2 in a while, does it have a disclaimer at the start saying "it's got a current fascist in it, sooorry!" like those Disney films that say "we put racist animals in it, please ignore 🫤"
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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jonfeatonby.bsky.social
This won’t stop people seeking protection in the UK. It will make it harder for refugees to rebuild their lives, feel secure and contribute to their communities. It will create a load more work for the Home Office, reviewing claims every three years.

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 7:55 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
What is the actual fucking point of contacting your MP about anything that matters if they're a Tory dickhead? I'm not really expecting to change his mind considering all this person has done for the country already (derogatory)
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Bringing it back
Last.fm 5x5, back from the dead
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
davelikesska.bsky.social
Ew the King Blues are still touring? Gross
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM