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I always just assumed that gig time guesswork was a normal cultural thing, until I started going to gigs with my partner who - as a theatre fan - was bewildered by my vague assertion that "maybe the headliner is on at 9".
Interested to read this and the MVT blog that's come out since.
Interested to read this and the MVT blog that's come out since.
Should venues share stage times?
We went deep into this bugbear of many fans in this week’s newsletter
www.drownedinsound.org/the-guesswor...
We went deep into this bugbear of many fans in this week’s newsletter
www.drownedinsound.org/the-guesswor...
The guesswork of gig-going: why don't venues share their stage times?
Estimating what time a gig starts is a dilemma for any music fan. Why is it such a problem? And what are artists doing to help?
www.drownedinsound.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I always just assumed that gig time guesswork was a normal cultural thing, until I started going to gigs with my partner who - as a theatre fan - was bewildered by my vague assertion that "maybe the headliner is on at 9".
Interested to read this and the MVT blog that's come out since.
Interested to read this and the MVT blog that's come out since.
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Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...
This is great news. Back in 2012 this felt like an unnecesarry role, my couple of years in local politics didn't convince me it was a good idea either, along with abysmal turnout for voting them in. "Failed experiment" is right.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police and crime commissioners to be abolished
Home secretary says PCCs, in England and Wales, were ‘failed experiment’ – and scrapping them will save £100m over this parliament
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is great news. Back in 2012 this felt like an unnecesarry role, my couple of years in local politics didn't convince me it was a good idea either, along with abysmal turnout for voting them in. "Failed experiment" is right.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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And he’s equally right the only route to defeating populism runs through properly tackling the climate crisis. Climate breakdown, food insecurity, and rolling disasters will be weaponised by nationalists and authoritarians everywhere.
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
And he’s equally right the only route to defeating populism runs through properly tackling the climate crisis. Climate breakdown, food insecurity, and rolling disasters will be weaponised by nationalists and authoritarians everywhere.
"However, because of aid cuts, FCDO officials chose the 'least ambitious' plan to protect Sudanese civilians"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"However, because of aid cuts, FCDO officials chose the 'least ambitious' plan to protect Sudanese civilians"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Another horrific genocide facilitated by UK arms exports.
Government should revoke weapons export licenses for UAE immediately, and put in place stronger (or just actually use existing?) controls.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/suda...
Government should revoke weapons export licenses for UAE immediately, and put in place stronger (or just actually use existing?) controls.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/suda...
UK could be in breach of its own arms export rules over Sudan war, MPs hear | LBC
Reports have emerged of British military equipment being found on the battlefield in Sudan
www.lbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Another horrific genocide facilitated by UK arms exports.
Government should revoke weapons export licenses for UAE immediately, and put in place stronger (or just actually use existing?) controls.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/suda...
Government should revoke weapons export licenses for UAE immediately, and put in place stronger (or just actually use existing?) controls.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/suda...
Back on Bluesky for Halloween to share the latest fungi finds with less-than-accurate alt text identifications #FungiFriends
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Back on Bluesky for Halloween to share the latest fungi finds with less-than-accurate alt text identifications #FungiFriends
Reality is still a thing.
It is "established fact" that humans have warmed the Earth by burning fossils fuels and that our emissions have made climate extremes more frequent and intense (IPCC AR6)
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
www.carbonbrief.org/...
September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reality is still a thing.
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Paid a visit to the London arms fair today...
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Paid a visit to the London arms fair today...
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
This is absolutely the quote and ethos to live by.
Also, I don't have kids so mentally I'm substituting in "the neighbourhood cat, who sleeps on my bins" - If anything, he's more judgemental.
Also, I don't have kids so mentally I'm substituting in "the neighbourhood cat, who sleeps on my bins" - If anything, he's more judgemental.
This is the energy
September 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is absolutely the quote and ethos to live by.
Also, I don't have kids so mentally I'm substituting in "the neighbourhood cat, who sleeps on my bins" - If anything, he's more judgemental.
Also, I don't have kids so mentally I'm substituting in "the neighbourhood cat, who sleeps on my bins" - If anything, he's more judgemental.
"If you were in Gaza, watching your babies wither away from engineered starvation, would you want someone to speak up for you?"
The posts feel hopeless, the emails and donations insufficient. Not nearly enough, but not nothing.
The posts feel hopeless, the emails and donations insufficient. Not nearly enough, but not nothing.
Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"If you were in Gaza, watching your babies wither away from engineered starvation, would you want someone to speak up for you?"
The posts feel hopeless, the emails and donations insufficient. Not nearly enough, but not nothing.
The posts feel hopeless, the emails and donations insufficient. Not nearly enough, but not nothing.
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Dire. The Labour Party is being led by a moral vacuum
August 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Dire. The Labour Party is being led by a moral vacuum
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‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam
‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam
As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held its silence. For the first time, using intelligence reports and witness testimony, we piece together what occurred during the April atrocity – and why it was not stopped
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam
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Israel's siege is starving the people of Gaza.
The IPC has said “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
88 children have reportedly died due to malnutrition and starvation since October 2023.
The IPC has said “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
88 children have reportedly died due to malnutrition and starvation since October 2023.
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Israel's siege is starving the people of Gaza.
The IPC has said “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
88 children have reportedly died due to malnutrition and starvation since October 2023.
The IPC has said “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
88 children have reportedly died due to malnutrition and starvation since October 2023.
This is the blog. A plea for nuance and context, which is solely lacking in short-form posting and is weaponised by fascists - but is essential to creating a more empathetic world.
p.s. We're having a lot of "Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly 'people should bike more' really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who..." on this thread.
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’…
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July 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is the blog. A plea for nuance and context, which is solely lacking in short-form posting and is weaponised by fascists - but is essential to creating a more empathetic world.
Biggest harvest of the season, and after terrible growing in 2024 the best for a couple of years.
This #allotment is a wonderful place for reflection, so I can't add this to my timeline without thinking of #Gaza; how even this simple harvest would be withheld in the Israeli government's genocide.
This #allotment is a wonderful place for reflection, so I can't add this to my timeline without thinking of #Gaza; how even this simple harvest would be withheld in the Israeli government's genocide.
July 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Biggest harvest of the season, and after terrible growing in 2024 the best for a couple of years.
This #allotment is a wonderful place for reflection, so I can't add this to my timeline without thinking of #Gaza; how even this simple harvest would be withheld in the Israeli government's genocide.
This #allotment is a wonderful place for reflection, so I can't add this to my timeline without thinking of #Gaza; how even this simple harvest would be withheld in the Israeli government's genocide.
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🚨EMERGENCY ACTIONS THIS FRIDAY 🇵🇸
We will be laying a pot outside Downing Street for every Palestinian killed while queuing for aid in Gaza. Across the country similar actions will be taking place.
Tell Starmer: Stop Starving Gaza!
Find your local action: palestinecampaign.org/events/emerg...
We will be laying a pot outside Downing Street for every Palestinian killed while queuing for aid in Gaza. Across the country similar actions will be taking place.
Tell Starmer: Stop Starving Gaza!
Find your local action: palestinecampaign.org/events/emerg...
July 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🚨EMERGENCY ACTIONS THIS FRIDAY 🇵🇸
We will be laying a pot outside Downing Street for every Palestinian killed while queuing for aid in Gaza. Across the country similar actions will be taking place.
Tell Starmer: Stop Starving Gaza!
Find your local action: palestinecampaign.org/events/emerg...
We will be laying a pot outside Downing Street for every Palestinian killed while queuing for aid in Gaza. Across the country similar actions will be taking place.
Tell Starmer: Stop Starving Gaza!
Find your local action: palestinecampaign.org/events/emerg...
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So so close. It's right there. Nothing more metal than a European rail link that makes Birmingham a low-carbon holiday hub. Some kind of crazy train...?
If Petitioners Get Their Way, You’ll Be Flying High Again from Ozzy Osbourne International Airport www.metalsucks.net/2025/07/24/i...
If Petitioners Get Their Way, You'll Be Flying High Again from Ozzy Osbourne International Airport
The move is to rename Birmingham International Airport.
www.metalsucks.net
July 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So so close. It's right there. Nothing more metal than a European rail link that makes Birmingham a low-carbon holiday hub. Some kind of crazy train...?
I crave a moment where someone in a powerful position will explain, like a normal person, why we should chill the fuck out and extend some empathy and basic decency to everyone else.
That's it, that's the low bar that UK politics has apparently set. What a miserable fucking world to live in.
That's it, that's the low bar that UK politics has apparently set. What a miserable fucking world to live in.
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I crave a moment where someone in a powerful position will explain, like a normal person, why we should chill the fuck out and extend some empathy and basic decency to everyone else.
That's it, that's the low bar that UK politics has apparently set. What a miserable fucking world to live in.
That's it, that's the low bar that UK politics has apparently set. What a miserable fucking world to live in.
See also: Labour might support a Palestinian state by continuing a policy of powerful weapons exports (and writing some letters).
There is so much wrong with Labour's comms. But I think this ad, in many ways sums them up. It's not just a really shit ad - 13 words that make your eyes bleed, dissociated from the image they're clunkily slapped across. That's just shit execution.
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
See also: Labour might support a Palestinian state by continuing a policy of powerful weapons exports (and writing some letters).
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You don’t have to know a single thing about Gaza or Palestine to know that Israel is starving children to death. It shouldn’t require much for that to be the reddest of red lines. Please speak up
“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today.
Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous.
Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images
Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous.
Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images
July 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
You don’t have to know a single thing about Gaza or Palestine to know that Israel is starving children to death. It shouldn’t require much for that to be the reddest of red lines. Please speak up
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🚨 A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
July 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨 A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
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The Home Secretary calls the Israeli govt’s actions in Gaza ‘intolerable.’ But he is tolerating it. I asked when he will take real action: a full arms embargo, widespread sanctions, a ban on the import of settlement goods, and funding for evidence collection for prosecutions.
July 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The Home Secretary calls the Israeli govt’s actions in Gaza ‘intolerable.’ But he is tolerating it. I asked when he will take real action: a full arms embargo, widespread sanctions, a ban on the import of settlement goods, and funding for evidence collection for prosecutions.
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The Met Office State of the UK Climate Report for 2024 shows that record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades
Published today by @wiley.com in @rmets.org
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Published today by @wiley.com in @rmets.org
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Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climate
Record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
July 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Met Office State of the UK Climate Report for 2024 shows that record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades
Published today by @wiley.com in @rmets.org
Learn more 👇
Published today by @wiley.com in @rmets.org
Learn more 👇