Emer Patten
@emerpatten.bsky.social
London Irish human mash-up. I love my dog, I love flowers, I make music films for some of the artists in your record collection.
Wrapping up my meetings in NYC today with a huge focus on my next big adventure - Global Citizen Amazonia, which will be in Belém on November 1st.
A poster for the event showing a guitar-shaped Amazonian island , featuring the names of the performers: Anita, Seu Jorge, Gaby Amarontos, Chris Martin.
A poster for the event showing a guitar-shaped Amazonian island , featuring the names of the performers: Anita, Seu Jorge, Gaby Amarontos, Chris Martin.
May 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wrapping up my meetings in NYC today with a huge focus on my next big adventure - Global Citizen Amazonia, which will be in Belém on November 1st.
A poster for the event showing a guitar-shaped Amazonian island , featuring the names of the performers: Anita, Seu Jorge, Gaby Amarontos, Chris Martin.
A poster for the event showing a guitar-shaped Amazonian island , featuring the names of the performers: Anita, Seu Jorge, Gaby Amarontos, Chris Martin.
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April 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My amazing friend Heather and her adventures in music x
Saturdays In Saxapahaw, a free concert series at Haw River Ballroom, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Co-founder Heather LaGarde talked with us about growing up in Chapel Hill in the 80s, the building of Haw River Ballroom and her life in Saxapahaw.
www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...
Co-founder Heather LaGarde talked with us about growing up in Chapel Hill in the 80s, the building of Haw River Ballroom and her life in Saxapahaw.
www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...
Haw River Ballroom’s Heather LaGarde is putting Saxapahaw on the map
After spending 17 years away from North Carolina, Heather LaGarde and her husband Tom returned and helped make Saxapahaw one of North Carolina's greatest towns to visit.
www.wunc.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My amazing friend Heather and her adventures in music x
That Italian player is smirking out of the other side of his face now.
March 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
That Italian player is smirking out of the other side of his face now.
Love to see @president.ie greeting the players. He’s tiny and they’re huge but he’s a giant in a million other ways.
March 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Love to see @president.ie greeting the players. He’s tiny and they’re huge but he’s a giant in a million other ways.
Can’t wait for the day when nobody talks about Comrade Musk.
March 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Can’t wait for the day when nobody talks about Comrade Musk.
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No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in the clothes he fought the war in.
March 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in the clothes he fought the war in.
On a totally unrelated note to anything important - moved house very recently and inherited a gas stove top as opposed to induction which I’ve cooked on for most of the last 20 years and am horrified & frustrated how slow it is and how much energy I’m wasting trying to cook.
March 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
On a totally unrelated note to anything important - moved house very recently and inherited a gas stove top as opposed to induction which I’ve cooked on for most of the last 20 years and am horrified & frustrated how slow it is and how much energy I’m wasting trying to cook.
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I have to say that feels like skewed reporting from @bbcsarahsmith.bsky.social there. Not sure it’s an analysis one could come to having also watched the same event play out as it happened.
February 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I have to say that feels like skewed reporting from @bbcsarahsmith.bsky.social there. Not sure it’s an analysis one could come to having also watched the same event play out as it happened.
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A message from Zelensky through his actions. Honor and dignity. Some things can only be surrendered. They can't be taken away.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A message from Zelensky through his actions. Honor and dignity. Some things can only be surrendered. They can't be taken away.
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Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break.
But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly:
What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?
But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly:
What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?
February 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break.
But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly:
What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?
But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly:
What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?
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Even by his god-awful standards, this is one of Trump’s most disgusting press conferences.
He’s attacked Zelenskyy, using Kremlin talking points that he only has a 4% approval (LIE).
Then, again, Trump blames him & Ukraine for starting the war.
THEY. WERE. FUCKING. INVADED.
He’s attacked Zelenskyy, using Kremlin talking points that he only has a 4% approval (LIE).
Then, again, Trump blames him & Ukraine for starting the war.
THEY. WERE. FUCKING. INVADED.
February 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Even by his god-awful standards, this is one of Trump’s most disgusting press conferences.
He’s attacked Zelenskyy, using Kremlin talking points that he only has a 4% approval (LIE).
Then, again, Trump blames him & Ukraine for starting the war.
THEY. WERE. FUCKING. INVADED.
He’s attacked Zelenskyy, using Kremlin talking points that he only has a 4% approval (LIE).
Then, again, Trump blames him & Ukraine for starting the war.
THEY. WERE. FUCKING. INVADED.
I guess @theguardian.com doesn’t need my monthly subscription, after all.
February 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I guess @theguardian.com doesn’t need my monthly subscription, after all.
I’ve signed this petition which the good people at The Good Law Project have made very easy to do. Please let GB News know that their homophobia won’t be tolerated and consider adding your voice to this campaign too. Thanks x
We are now at 50,000 and we understand GB News is now going to publicly defend its hate speech.
More than 43,000 have now used our tool to complain to Ofcom about this loathsome GB News clip. We are approaching the 58,000 that would make it the most complained about ever segment of TV news. action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I’ve signed this petition which the good people at The Good Law Project have made very easy to do. Please let GB News know that their homophobia won’t be tolerated and consider adding your voice to this campaign too. Thanks x
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So fucking tired of all this shit.
February 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So fucking tired of all this shit.
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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
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CNN's Jim Acosta signing off:
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
CNN's Jim Acosta signing off:
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
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That Biden should have to issue preemptive pardons for men and women who defended the Constitution is a sad comment on Trump's vengeful nature.
January 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
That Biden should have to issue preemptive pardons for men and women who defended the Constitution is a sad comment on Trump's vengeful nature.
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So, this is happening rn
January 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
So, this is happening rn
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justice democrats should just be reading parts of the jack smith report into the record
January 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
justice democrats should just be reading parts of the jack smith report into the record
15th January and I feel like I can finally embrace the new year and work, thanks to a double dose of that RSV.
January 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
15th January and I feel like I can finally embrace the new year and work, thanks to a double dose of that RSV.
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Started //// going
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
January 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Started //// going
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
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Daily red panda
January 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Daily red panda
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Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?