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Jo
@jonanamary.bsky.social
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Cats, nail polish, black metal, anti-fascism, indie beer. Geriatric millennial. She/her 🐈💅🤘✊🍺🇵🇸
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Warpstormer on stage - four dudes on stage in a railway arch wearing cool metal outfits.
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Fuck me Damnation was great. Highlights for me included: Dimscûa, Deafheaven, Perturbator, Hidden Mothers, Conjurer, Din of Celestial Birds, Psychonaut, Anaal Nathrakh, Spectral Wound, Amenra, and Wiegedood. And seeing a ton of pals. What a fantastic weekend 🖤 #MetalSky
Wormrot playing in front of a large crowd with some really cool horror film style art on their backdrop. Conjurer playing on stage at Damnation festival. Psychonaut looking contemplative and intense on stage at Damnation. Dave Hunt from Anaal Nathrakh on stage at Damnation, in silhouette in front of the AN logo.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Fuck me they were incredible
The guitarist and bassist of Psychonaut playing next to each other on stage. They look very focused and intense. The background is speakers, stage lights, and the band logo on a screen.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Great article. One tiny thing - should "Science" here be "Nature", i.e. the name of the journal?
Short extract from the article where the word Science should instead be the word Nature
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The choices of gender-based salutation (translated from German) on the bahn dot de booking site are absolutely wonderful. Mister, Woman, Neutral salutation. And are you a mere Dr., a Prof. Dr., or an exalted Prof. Dr. Dr ?
Screenshot of a German train booking site. Under "salutation" are listed Mister, Woman, or Neutral salutation. German train booking site's title choice list, listing Dr, Prof Dr, Prof, Dr Dr, and Prof Dr Dr.
October 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A squeezy bottle of M&S Food caramel sauce with Marmite.
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Post a concert pic you took!

I keep on meaning to take my favourite ones I've taken and put them in an album. God knows I have enough of them.
A very close-up photo of the lead singer of Underdark singing while wearing a white dress with bandages on her arm. You can see the other band members behind her. They're in a small venue called Hot Box with neon blue lighting.
September 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Now with alt text - credit to @davewalker.bsky.social
Black and white line cartoon by @davewalker.bsky.social, titled "Possible causes of your problems". Under the "yes" side are funding removed from local communities; growing gap between rich and poor; multinational companies not paying their taxes; lack of affordable housing; government not sufficiently investing in schools and healthcare. Under the "no" side is "people fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine".
August 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Indeed - I was impressed recently at Liverpool's Walker Gallery by the plaques and signs underlining that much of the collection had been acquired through the proceeds of brutal colonial extraction. The gallery engaged with local communities & gave space to them to share their thoughts.
The Colonial Legacies of the Liverpool Sandbach Family Where does Liverpool's wealth really come from? We are a steering group of seven local young people from marginalised communities who have come together to share our lived experiences and confront the colonial histories that have shaped Liverpool. This project was developed through a series of workshops, talks from local artists and historians, and from archival and independent research. We have reinterpreted these Sandbach family portraits. The family were part of the Sandbach, Tinne & Co. dynasty. They were shipowners, merchants, bankers, politicians and plantation owners. They exported sugar, coffee, cotton, timber, molasses and rum from the Caribbean. The company were prominent in Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo in British Guiana, now known as Guyana. The Sandbachs became extremely wealthy through the enslavement, trafficking and forced labour of many tens of thousands of people. The family were also awarded large claims in compensation after the Abolition of Slavery (1833). The Sandbach family greatly influenced the political, social and cultural development of Liverpool and used their wealth to collect art. Other examples in the Walker's collection include Nymph Preparing for the Bath by Richard James Wyatt (1795-1850), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), and Day and Night by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). We call for other institutions to recontextualise artworks with colonial links. We hope this is a catalyst to inspire change. We want this project to encourage discussions between the Walker Art Gallery and the wider community. How have you contributed to learning about your history? Steering Group Amna Akram Gavin Odhiambo Okello-Davies Hatou Tangikora Iman Hasan Rabia Begum Rebecca lhiekwe Safiya Burnett-Charles Tavia Panton (facilitator)
August 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Happy International Cat Day! This is Kiki and she is beautiful, perfect, silly, super soft, and the biggest baby in the world. We adore her so much! Look at that spotty belly, I cannot cope.
A beautiful tabby cat lying on her side on an orange carpet. She has a fluffy spotty belly like a cheetah and her eyes are semi-closed.
August 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The Hiroshige exhibition at the British Museum was so good
Suido Bridge and Suragadai by Utagawa Hiroshige, a framed woodblock print showing a banner of a large carp in the foreground, with mountains, more fish flags, and a city in the distant background.
July 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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I'm so excited I may be sick @whmpodcast.bsky.social
Blackboard sign for a We Hate Movies live show, showing approx times and a warning for strong language and adult themes
July 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My Fall of Efrafa patches from @artofalexcf.bsky.social turned up and they're so great! Middle right is my favourite
Five printed Fall of Efrafa patches. Four are the logo with a motif of some kind (rabbit/hare skeletons, a bunny howling at the sky, flowers and runes) and one is a longer one of just the band name in a surprisingly readable font.
July 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Saw this poem on my tube carriage and it made me cry. looked up the poet (Mosab Abu Toha) and he's Palestinian. Just heartbreaking and says so much in so few lines.
Photo of a tube poems poster, taken on a Jubilee Line train, with the following poem on it: Daughter Mosab Abu Toha Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins from Forest of Noise (4th Estate 2024) I ask her to remember, not because I want to hear the story again, but because I want to watch her face relive the moment. That moment, her eyes sparkle with longing, I can see how she flies from the tent to a time when she leapt through our farm in every direction with eyes closed, only stopping at the fence, where our orange trees embrace our neighbours' olive trees. Some fallen oranges would tell her to open her eyes, to pick them up and put them in a plate at our doorstep, where children returning from school would stop to gulp some. I love the smell of oranges best when she remembers.
July 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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As if to prove your point, these are the top two articles on the Guardian right now. I read the review of Doctors Under Attack and know that it is a programme I could never bring myself to watch. Just the review made me cry. So much horror and relentless cruelty, torture, and death. Unconscionable.
Most viewed Across the Guardian 1. BBC boss offers to meet Jewish staff over Bob Vylan performance 2. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
July 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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About to see Weezer for the first time since... 2006?
Selfie of Stu and me, both wearing sunglasses, in a sunny field in the early evening. In the background there's a huge festival stage with a Deftones logo on it.
June 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Green Lung are kind of doom Ghost and once you embrace that it should really click. As with actual Ghost it took me a little while but now I am all in. Also they make this patch 🤛💚

Astoundingly good live - real sense of occasion. Trippy hippy doomy 70s. So good!!

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A woven patch showing a green fist smashing a black sun. The text reads "Nazi occultists fuck off • Green Lung".
June 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Alt text in picture.
Tweet by JK Rowling in reply to Mark Adam Harold, who asks "how are you planning to police public toilets?". JKR says: "Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake."
June 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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It's facts my porpoise pal:
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Part of a table of carbon emissions per capita from Wikipedia, showing Australia just above the US, with average per capita emissions 293% of the global average (285% for the US).
June 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This is the reply I got when I emailed.
We’re aware of the sentiment and upset about our beers being sold in Israel, and value the views and enquiries we’re receiving from customers and the public about this. We are respectfully reviewing the emails and social media posts on this matter, and understand the concerns raised. This forms part of our ongoing consideration of trading with many different markets internationally, which will always involve a diversity of views. It’s important that we take the time to think about a lot of varying factors and views, and will continue to listen to and welcome feedback as we do this. We will provide further updates in due course.
June 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It's only in retrospect that I realise how lucky I was to grow up in a household full of sci-fi and fantasy books. The photos here show bits of Dad's collection; Mum is (like me) more on the fantasy side of SFF, but I certainly dipped my toe into a good few of these.
Three shelves of paperback sci-fi novels from the 60s-70s, with assorted photos and knick-knacks on the shelves. Close up of a shelf of sci-fi books, with works by EE Doc Smith, Spinrad, and Stapleford visible. A shelf of Conan the Barbarian paperback books. In front are four other paperbacks: I Robot by Asimov; Berserker by Saberhagen; the Einstein Intersection by Delaney; and the Farthest Shore by Le Guin. Another shot of three shelves of slightly battered sci-fi paperbacks and knick-knacks and assorted bits of tat.
June 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Going from Moonlight Sorcery to Aristarchos is giving me musical whiplash of the best possible kind #BlackMetalSky #FortressFestival
Moonlight Sorcery on stage, lit in blue with their logo behind them, lots of stage lights. Aristarchos on stage, singer wearing a hooded robe.
June 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Nah this was Damnation 2023 :)
A member of Japanese black metal band Sigh on stage in a dark and crowded room, holding aloft a flaming sword.
May 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Or this close!
Lead singer of Underdark in front of the stage and singing into a mic right in front of me, she looks focused and powerful.
May 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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WhatsApp chat with my brother: I post a screenshot of Nate's skeet about Revolution X, my brother replies and quotes "hey man, what you doing? Get off!" and I also quote that line simultaneously, then post hahahaha jinx
May 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM