DavidMcKenna
@davidmckenna.bsky.social
Rockfort, Concrete Gazebo, Personal Reasons. He/Him
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/ROCKFORT/
https://thequietus.com/writer/david-mckenna/
https://concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/
Listen back here www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Listen back here www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...
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This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
Instant love for the new Juana Molina juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/doga
DOGA, by Juana Molina
11 track album
juanamolina.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Instant love for the new Juana Molina juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/doga
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French #NewWave duo #TaxiGirl opened for #TheStranglers 1981 tour until they were sacked for shoplifting sex toys they planned to use as props during their set- member #Mirwais would later helm 3 albums for #Madonna- their 1984 single “Paris” was an early #StarckClub fave
youtu.be/GxBlDcXcdNA?...
youtu.be/GxBlDcXcdNA?...
Taxi Girl - Paris (Clip officiel)
YouTube video by 100% Chanson Française
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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
French #NewWave duo #TaxiGirl opened for #TheStranglers 1981 tour until they were sacked for shoplifting sex toys they planned to use as props during their set- member #Mirwais would later helm 3 albums for #Madonna- their 1984 single “Paris” was an early #StarckClub fave
youtu.be/GxBlDcXcdNA?...
youtu.be/GxBlDcXcdNA?...
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Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.”
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day
Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (GMT) features Hermetic Delight (pictured), Le Grand Couturier, Pizza Noise Mafia, Tribalism3 and Christine Ott & Mathieu Gabry www.resonancefm.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (GMT) features Hermetic Delight (pictured), Le Grand Couturier, Pizza Noise Mafia, Tribalism3 and Christine Ott & Mathieu Gabry www.resonancefm.com
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It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services
Important message
Music writers submitting end of year polls; just checking you've heard Destino Scifosi by FRANCE.
standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/destin...
standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/destin...
Destino Scifosi, by France
2 track album
standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
As if there weren't enough reasons to hate glinner, I also hate him for what he's done to the reputation of carbonara
I was thinking about making a carbonara for the first time in ages and immediately started laughing b/c glinner lmao
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
As if there weren't enough reasons to hate glinner, I also hate him for what he's done to the reputation of carbonara
I've realised that my two favourite Simple Minds songs - Theme For Great Cities & A Brass Band In African Chimes - are both instrumentals. Trying to think if there's another band with a vocalist that one could conceivably say that about.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've realised that my two favourite Simple Minds songs - Theme For Great Cities & A Brass Band In African Chimes - are both instrumentals. Trying to think if there's another band with a vocalist that one could conceivably say that about.
This could be the BBC or Labour
It turns out that if you scream and stomp everyone out of your organisation except those slavishly dedicated to pushing a right wing agenda, not only will it not stop the right wing coming for you, you also don't have anyone left who knows how to do anything except "give them what they want."
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This could be the BBC or Labour
Hadn't realised there was a new one, great stuff
the new Anne Gillis is excellent! bits of warped tape concrete and fried almost-pop synth-songs art-into-life.bandcamp.com/album/eyry
Eyry], by Anne Gillis
15 track album
art-into-life.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hadn't realised there was a new one, great stuff
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The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
Family members call me David, friends call me either Dave or David and I'm fine with both. But a former boss used to call me Dave as if we were friends (we weren't, he's a knob) and I hated it
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Family members call me David, friends call me either Dave or David and I'm fine with both. But a former boss used to call me Dave as if we were friends (we weren't, he's a knob) and I hated it
I've watched two eps of Edge of Darkness and so far it's as good/strange as everyone said
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I've watched two eps of Edge of Darkness and so far it's as good/strange as everyone said
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If the Labour Party was led by anybody else it would be 20 points ahead in the polls
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If the Labour Party was led by anybody else it would be 20 points ahead in the polls
Getting Sun City Girls vibes from this absolutely wonderful album from Le Grand Couturier (Clément Vercelletto, Rachel Langlais and Jean-François Riffaud) unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com/album/le-gra...
Le Grand Couturier, by Le Grand Couturier
8 track album
unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Getting Sun City Girls vibes from this absolutely wonderful album from Le Grand Couturier (Clément Vercelletto, Rachel Langlais and Jean-François Riffaud) unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com/album/le-gra...
#nowplaying Raucous, jagged collaborative EP featuring Cairo-born producer Assyouti and Welsh artist Elvin Brandhi dawnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/u-s-e-...
U.S.E (DAWN026), by Assyouti & Elvin Brandhi
3 track album
dawnrecords.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#nowplaying Raucous, jagged collaborative EP featuring Cairo-born producer Assyouti and Welsh artist Elvin Brandhi dawnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/u-s-e-...
Facts
Fried egg on rice with a dash of soy sauce will always hit the spot. Top with whatever else you like (green onions, kimchi, furikake, fried onions, sesame seeds, etc.).
Pro tip from James Park: fry the egg in sesame oil and chili crisp
Pro tip from James Park: fry the egg in sesame oil and chili crisp
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Facts
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I assume this has worked brilliantly in France
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I assume this has worked brilliantly in France
Now I want to see Nouvelle Vague Frankenstein
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Now I want to see Nouvelle Vague Frankenstein
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The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
The real 'vibes' politics. Mamdani and Polanski may be good communicators but their social media strategy also works because they actually have something to communicate; their content has content
A former adviser to Keir Starmer and Tony Blair has urged the Prime Minister to reinvent himself as a 'social media star', warning that his cautious communication style is leaving voters cold
Keir Starmer told to ‘be a social media star’ in bid to win back voters
www.thenational.scot
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The real 'vibes' politics. Mamdani and Polanski may be good communicators but their social media strategy also works because they actually have something to communicate; their content has content