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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 10h

Pinned to the wall by this.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 10h

The best music

Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 10h

This album. I am reborn!

sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/west-v...

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 11h

#NowPlaying

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12h

👍

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 13h

I love this. Not sure why but it makes me think of the kind of cartoon Chas Addams or Peter Arno might have created for this parlous age.

Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 13h

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 13h

I wasn’t sure about I Know Where I’m Going the first time I watched it. Now I am. It is perfect. boxd.it/bkJTol

A ★★★★★ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

I remember watching this the first time and being a bit baffled by it. It seemed weirdly theatrical, the Scotland unconvincing and clichéd, and I didn’t pick up on any chemistry between Wendy Hillier ...

boxd.it

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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 13h

Thread of the week here!

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2d

What albums does everyone regret buying? Loads for me, but the one that really sticks in my mind is K by Kula Shaker, which I forced myself to listen to joylessly several times in the desperate attempt to convince myself I hadn’t wasted my money, and still get cringes of regret about 29 years later.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 2d

It's one of the few albums I regret buying.
I'll Manage Somehow and Stardust are fine. The rest is mostly forgettable.

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Billy Reeves @billyreevesok.bsky.social · 13h

WHAAAAT
Brigitteeeee
I am HAVING SOME OF THAT

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 13h

An in-person interview in Paris. I was honoured.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 13h

Haha!

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

I’m in this new @mojomagazine.bsky.social interviewing the great Brigitte Fontaine, telling you How To Buy Electric Miles Davis (in short: buy it all) and reviewing the wonderful new Steve Gunn LP plus multi-disc reissues by William Basinski and The Dream Syndicate.

MOJO 385 - December 2025

INCLUDES
JOHN
LENNON
INSIDE HIS ROCK'N'ROLL REVOLUTION
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REVIEWS
PLUS BRIGITTE
FONTAINE
JANE WEAVER
PATTI SMITH
WRECKLESS ERIC
RICK DAVIES RIP
PRINCE
PSYCHS OUT!
MILES DAVIS
ELECTRIFIES!
FINE
YOUNG
CANNIBALS
EAT TO THE BEAT LUCINDA
WILLIAMS
AMERICANA'S HEART & SOUL
EAGLES
"LEAVING WAS AN ACT OF SURVIVAL"
THE
REPLACEMENTS
LET IT BE!
+ JMIHENDRIX
"DEVASTATINGLY LOUD! COMPLETE INSANITY!"

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

Overheard: “Proper autumn, innit. Leaves is bare gold.”

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17h

Coincidentally, religious delusions are a known side effect of ingesting psychedelics--a practice now apparently de rigeur among the Broligarchs.

Sources--

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

Nature Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 17h

Love this. I look forward to the Mallard Mild, the Whitbread Whitethroat, the Cirl Bunting Cider, the Courage Cormorant... i could go on.

Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

A Bittern painted onto a Jubilee beer mat from the 1960s.

This idea/pun was from @rolandbates.bsky.social

darrenhaymanart.com

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

A Bittern painted onto a Jubilee beer mat from the 1960s.

This idea/pun was from @rolandbates.bsky.social

darrenhaymanart.com

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 20h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 20h

"Say it. A few more words won't matter"

Woman in a Dressing Gown is less kitchen sink and more frying pan drama. Almost a photo negative of Brief Encounter, where working class chaos is the focus, and the bitterness is spoken aloud.

Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 22h

This morning's film

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 20h

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 20h

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 20h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 20h

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 20h

On the remarkable, audacious sanity of Autumn Journal, written at a time of political crisis and in the shadow of war.

Louis MacNeice and Autumn Journal

One of the 20th century's great history poems – and a joyous confession of faith in everyday life

open.substack.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

#BathBomb

The cover of Keith Rosson’s new horror novel, Coffin Moon, which shows a vampire skull swallowing a two-lane blacktop highway.

The cover of the Harmonia Mundi CD Crystal Tears by ANDREAS SCHOLL, Concerto di viole and JULIAN BEHR

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

Oof!

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

Moi aussi.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

Finally watching Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and I don't think there's a supporting actor I dislike more than Simon Pegg. He is the Scrappy Doo of action cinema.

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