Gothpire Underground
@taxidouglas.bsky.social
Ghost hobbyist and sometime artist/ writer/performer. Full time fool.
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Currently laughing my bollocks off at some Facebook AI slop claiming that Hank Marvin is suing Jasmine Crockett for $70m.
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Currently laughing my bollocks off at some Facebook AI slop claiming that Hank Marvin is suing Jasmine Crockett for $70m.
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The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
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Shades of Mr Lou Morris in Friday Night Dinner. "YOUR HOUSE HAS CRASHED INTO MY CAR"
This was not the last time she would be on the wrong side of the law, or indeed the road
December 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Shades of Mr Lou Morris in Friday Night Dinner. "YOUR HOUSE HAS CRASHED INTO MY CAR"
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Damn. I was really hoping I'd get to send THAT birthday card to Stanley Baxter. I wish I'd seen him in panto - common consent has it that he was the best dame of all, and it's easy to believe. However, I did get to meet him a few times, and I interviewed him at home for one of my books.
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Damn. I was really hoping I'd get to send THAT birthday card to Stanley Baxter. I wish I'd seen him in panto - common consent has it that he was the best dame of all, and it's easy to believe. However, I did get to meet him a few times, and I interviewed him at home for one of my books.
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It would be funny if it turned out all the Father Ted bits we like were written by Arthur Matthews.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It would be funny if it turned out all the Father Ted bits we like were written by Arthur Matthews.
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Children can’t learn on an empty stomach - the EIS supports CPAG’s call for universal free school meals. Check out the CPAG manifesto here.
Fund schools fully and free up learning for all – the EIS supports CPAG’s School Shouldn’t Cost Manifesto.
https://ow.ly/QLWg50XIlL5
Fund schools fully and free up learning for all – the EIS supports CPAG’s School Shouldn’t Cost Manifesto.
https://ow.ly/QLWg50XIlL5
School Shouldn't Cost: The Young People's Poverty and Education Manifesto 2026-31
This manifesto brings together the views of hundreds of young people in Scotland about what they think should happen to make school better for children and young people whose families live on low incomes. All the young people who have contributed to School Shouldn't Cost believe strongly that poverty should not be a barrier to learning, and this manifesto has been written to present to politicians and decision makers ahead of the Scottish elections in 2026.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Children can’t learn on an empty stomach - the EIS supports CPAG’s call for universal free school meals. Check out the CPAG manifesto here.
Fund schools fully and free up learning for all – the EIS supports CPAG’s School Shouldn’t Cost Manifesto.
https://ow.ly/QLWg50XIlL5
Fund schools fully and free up learning for all – the EIS supports CPAG’s School Shouldn’t Cost Manifesto.
https://ow.ly/QLWg50XIlL5
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It was absolute perfection. cinematreasures.org/theaters/26641
Coliseum Cinema in Porthmadog, GB - Cinema Treasures
The Coliseum Cinema opened on 20th July 1931 with Greta Garbo in "Romance". Seating was provided for 630 in stalls and circle levels. It...
cinematreasures.org
August 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It was absolute perfection. cinematreasures.org/theaters/26641
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I was in my 20s before I realised that the musical director on The Good Old Days was a different Bernard Herrmann.
It would have been so easy to devote a Bernard Herrmann episode of #soundsofcinema to the
(splendid) usual suspects eg Psycho. But @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social typically had far more exciting ideas. A tremendous collection of wild, wonderfully orchestrated soundtracks. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(splendid) usual suspects eg Psycho. But @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social typically had far more exciting ideas. A tremendous collection of wild, wonderfully orchestrated soundtracks. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sound of Cinema - Bernard Herrmann - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet celebrates the music of Bernard Herrmann.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I was in my 20s before I realised that the musical director on The Good Old Days was a different Bernard Herrmann.
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I like this graphic.
Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties
@fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social
· Aug 28
2,500 more signatures needed to get us to 10k. Help us get there. Anyone you know who wants fair coverage, pass them this way to sign. Democracy matters and our broadcasters need to report on ALL parties! They’re currently failing us. Here’s the link. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I like this graphic.
#oldfirm Help Save Glasgow’s City Centre Cineworld as a Cinema www.change.org/p/save-glasg...
Sign the Petition
Save Glasgow Renfrew Street Cineworld Building As a Cinema
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August 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#oldfirm Help Save Glasgow’s City Centre Cineworld as a Cinema www.change.org/p/save-glasg...
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Reads achieved August.
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Reads achieved August.
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For balance, the BBC spoke to audiobooks, who called Amol Rajan a smug, jumped-up little prick.
Amol Rajan doesn’t like audiobooks. They’re “lazy”.
It’s hard not to be cross, sometimes.
I don’t like Rajan’s opinion.
#R4Today
It’s hard not to be cross, sometimes.
I don’t like Rajan’s opinion.
#R4Today
June 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
For balance, the BBC spoke to audiobooks, who called Amol Rajan a smug, jumped-up little prick.
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Cathays Library in Cardiff. Built 1906-1907. Looks more like a church, but instead a place where words are worshipped. I pass it a couple of times a week when I'm working in the area and am always awestruck by the scale of the vision.
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300013681-ca...
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June 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Cathays Library in Cardiff. Built 1906-1907. Looks more like a church, but instead a place where words are worshipped. I pass it a couple of times a week when I'm working in the area and am always awestruck by the scale of the vision.
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300013681-ca...
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300013681-ca...
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AGM is now officially closed. Thanks to all of our delegates, supporters, activists and friends who made this year so special to us.
We leave you with one final message, the workload ballot is open vote YES YES !!! #EISAGM25
We leave you with one final message, the workload ballot is open vote YES YES !!! #EISAGM25
June 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
AGM is now officially closed. Thanks to all of our delegates, supporters, activists and friends who made this year so special to us.
We leave you with one final message, the workload ballot is open vote YES YES !!! #EISAGM25
We leave you with one final message, the workload ballot is open vote YES YES !!! #EISAGM25
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Oops...Susan speaks out AGAINST the motion.
June 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Oops...Susan speaks out AGAINST the motion.
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Rod, Jane and Freddy should have focused exclusively on pagan fertility songs.
June 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Rod, Jane and Freddy should have focused exclusively on pagan fertility songs.
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Give the Elgin marbles back to Greece and before you know it, we'll be giving the royal family back to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
June 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Give the Elgin marbles back to Greece and before you know it, we'll be giving the royal family back to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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To mark the passing of Alan Yentob, @mjowen174.bsky.social and I will be heading to Spud-U-Like tomorrow and seeing how many toppings we can get on a potato without paying extra, then claiming it on expenses.
May 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
To mark the passing of Alan Yentob, @mjowen174.bsky.social and I will be heading to Spud-U-Like tomorrow and seeing how many toppings we can get on a potato without paying extra, then claiming it on expenses.
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So many headlines now are worded to create a scare where there is nothing remotely scary.
This is such a bizarre headline for something as simple as “Costco locations close for Memorial Day”
May 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So many headlines now are worded to create a scare where there is nothing remotely scary.
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The Bill Crow account of the 1962 Benny Goodman Russian tour I just mentioned on @noiseboxradio.com's award-avoiding #BarfeNight can be found here.
www.billcrowbass.com/to-russia-wi...
www.billcrowbass.com/to-russia-wi...
Benny Goodman was probably the world's best-known jazz musician. The average person thought of him as "The King of Swing," master of both hot jazz and classical music, a statesmanlike bandleader who traveled the world as Musical Ambassador of Good Will for the United States. Among jazz fans he was also known as the first white bandleader to break the color bar when, in the 1930s, he hired Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian and Lionel Hampton. His bands and his recordings were always first class, and countless musicians found their careers established, or placed on a firmer footing, because Benny hired them.
www.billcrowbass.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Bill Crow account of the 1962 Benny Goodman Russian tour I just mentioned on @noiseboxradio.com's award-avoiding #BarfeNight can be found here.
www.billcrowbass.com/to-russia-wi...
www.billcrowbass.com/to-russia-wi...
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So when the shit hit the fan at Kids Company, I was like the old bloke on the balcony in Rita, Sue and Bob Too.
a man is standing on a balcony with a red door
Alt: SEND 'EM OFF UP MANNINGHAM LANE
media.tenor.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
So when the shit hit the fan at Kids Company, I was like the old bloke on the balcony in Rita, Sue and Bob Too.
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Fast forward a year or so. I am once again thrown into the orbit of Yentob. I introduce myself and say we've met before. He says "Yes, you're the jazz bore" and turns to speak to someone more powerful.
And now he's dead.
And now he's dead.
May 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Fast forward a year or so. I am once again thrown into the orbit of Yentob. I introduce myself and say we've met before. He says "Yes, you're the jazz bore" and turns to speak to someone more powerful.
And now he's dead.
And now he's dead.