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Neil Chappell
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seamas.bsky.social
Seven years today since I got a personal favourite letter published in the Metro.
October 17, 2023 at 8:42 AM
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jsinclair.bsky.social
This is worse than North London Forever. #worldcupdraw
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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sterlewine.bsky.social
My latest newsletter: a review of Hüsker Dü's 1985: The Miracle Year, one of my favorite reissues of the year.
Hüsker Dü—1985: The Miracle Year
Numero Group's second archival Hüsker Dü set offers live recordings from the year the trio released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig
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November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz348bs
I REALISED the other day that you don't actually wash your hands'. They wash each other while you stand there staring at them like a serial killer. Gustav Fox, Choddington
August 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
In 2022 I received the wholesome DM in the image on the left on the Other Site, tonight I received the one on the right 🥹🥹🥹🥹
A Twitter DM from June 2022 reads: Hi Mollie, I hope you're well. Just sending a message to say thanks. Early this year you tweeted a Guardian Blind Date, where the guy dragged the girl a little bit. After seeing a couple of people saying some pretty shit things about her on Twitter, I DM'd her to balance it out a bit - just say I thought she came across as really funny and fuck the haters etc (but with no other real intention other than that). Well we hit it off, talked every day for a month (I was working out of the UK at the time) and agreed to meet as soon as I returned. I ended up coming home early and we've been dating ever since. It might sound a bit over the top but l've never felt like this about anyone else before, and I'm pretty sure she feels the same way. I've honestly had some of the best months of my life with her around, and I want to say thanks A Twitter DM from tonight reads: Hey Mollie, I hope you don't mind an update on the above. I asked her if she'd marry me, she said yes! She's my world. I'm so incredibly thankful for you tweeting that thing that led me and meet - I'm eternally in your debt. Thanks!
August 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
neilchapps.bsky.social
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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July 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
neilchapps.bsky.social
We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
neilchapps.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure my excellent MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social will be on the right side of history on this one. Let's hope the Government is too.
stopcambo.bsky.social Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · Jul 16
BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank

It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
July 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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June 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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June 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
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June 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
neilchapps.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
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June 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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jooliaghoulia.bsky.social
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Boo fucking hoo. It's built on THEFT. "I don't know how I'd ask all those people or afford to pay for all their work." Then you DON'T GET TO HAVE IT. These would-be geniuses have convinced themselves that something in their miracle blah-blah machine is so inherently amazing rules don't apply.
brunojnavarro.bsky.social Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · May 26
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said. “And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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sepinwall.bsky.social
A supercut of every time Norm entered Cheers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...
Cheers | Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the Bar
YouTube video by Peacock
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May 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
David Squires on … Arsenal and Spurs acclimatising for season-defining trips
Our cartoonist on intense motivational techniques and banter in north London before European semi-finals
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May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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noscoredraws.com
Presumably Bergvall hasn't recovered from the mind-altering hallucinogens neccessary to get him to sign that contract extension
tottenhamhotspur.com Tottenham Hotspur @tottenhamhotspur.com · May 1
Your semi-final Spurs 🤍
May 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research
"LONDON drops down wealth list as super-rich move out," blared a Times splash on 9 April, reporting that there are supposedly 11,300 fewer "dollar millionaires" in the British capital than there were last year - the fastest fall of any global city except Moscow, as the wealthy move their money abroad. The story was also reported by the Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail and Evening Standard, while the Times returned to the subject next day in a 1,300-word feature. Even culture secretary Lisa Nandy responded to the alleged exodus, blaming it on Brexit, not the Labour government. But how accurate are those remarkably specific figures? They come from South Africa-based outfit New World Wealth, commissioned by "advisory firm" Henley & Partners. As pointed out by the New Statesman's Will Dunn back in January, but not mentioned in the Times, Henley & Partners sells advice to rich people about financial planning, and consults governments on "investment migration" policies - so is opposed to higher taxes on rich people. And while New World Wealth puts out seemingly definitive figures, they come up with them using "models" based on tracking the online footprints of a far smaller number of people, without actually knowing where they pay tax. Moreover, when contacted by the Eye, the company offered another important caveat, saying it was "important to note" that "most of" the decline in wealth in London over the past decade was not actually down to people leaving the UK, but poor performance of local businesses and a decline in the FTSE 100, which it also uses to collate its reports estimating relative global wealth. So the super-rich in question may well still be here, just not so super-rich any more. The unreliability of New World Wealth's "data" and what it actually means hasn't stopped hacks reporting on a mass evacuation by the rich over government policies, which has become an accepted truth. Those figures seemed to have an effect on the chancellor: soon afterwards Rachel Re…
May 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
neilchapps.bsky.social
If you have any respect for the rights of artists and creatives to retain the rights to their work, please write to your MP. This template letter makes it easy.
ednewtonrex.bsky.social Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · Apr 30
🚨 Very important vote on AI & copyright in UK parliament next week - please contact your MP (template letter below) ⬇️

Baroness Kidron added common-sense amendments to a bill, requiring overseas AI cos to respect UK copyright law if they want to operate here. Incredibly, the govt removed these.

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May 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Still some of my favourite comedy writing of all time. Time Foe Tha H-Dog To Give Props — theonion.com/time-foe-tha...
Time Foe Tha H-Dog To Give Props
Yo, peep this: I wanna take this opportunity to give a shout-out to all tha homies who got tha H-Dog’s back in his day-to-day bidness as tha Accountz Reeceevable Supervisa over at Midstate Office Supp...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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‘We said yes to everything!’ John Reis on his blistering punk career, from Hot Snakes to Rocket from the Crypt
March 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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fourfiveandseven.bsky.social
If (like me) you grew up with and loved this cover but didn't know its origin, it's a crop of Gregory Crewdson's "Untilted (Beer Dreams)". His work is beautiful - much of it uses surreal, mysterious, melancholy, frightening and mundane elements (to different degrees) in similar ways as the YLT cover
"Untitled, Summer (Summer Rain)" - an evening scene with a heavy downpour. on the right side of the photo you can see a row of small businesses with living spaces above them. parked in front of the businesses is an 80s sedan. the driver's side door is open and a briefcase sits next to it on the ground. in the middle of the street is a man in a suit, looking down. "Untitled (Brief Encounter)" -- a snowy morning on a main street of a large town/small city. the left and right edges of the picture show the businesses and apartments. in the middle of the photo is a car with its headlights on that has just turned left onto main street (evidenced by tracks in the snow) and appears stopped in the middle of the road. four traffic lights are visible (at different points stretching down the road) -- they are all yellow. "Red Star Express" - a very wide shot. A road runs through the middle of it. on the left side are two old-stock houses. in the middle, at the end of the road, is an industrial building of some sort (a warehouse, maybe). in the far distance are large rolling hills with trees. Three children are on the street in the middle, on bikes, but they are some distance from each other, underscoring the scale of the road. there are two tractor trailers without cabs in the shoulder of the road. on the right side of the frame is a parking lot with a third tractor trailer in it. This also doesn't have a cab attached. it has been spray painted, and, notably, is on fire. the children are watching it burn.
February 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
BREAKING: We’ve WON a historic case against the Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields. 🎉

👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣

This is GAME-CHANGING.

And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
January 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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MYLDN 2047
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MYLDN 2047
Daydreaming
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January 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM