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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · Nov 7

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 3h

Increasingly impressed by ZP. Keeps his cool and argues his case logically and emotionally, and most importantly with good humour. He's handling the media as it ought to be handled. Been waiting a long time for a politician of this calibre.

Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 5h

“Together with care and courage we can create a country where everyone belongs”

👌 @⁨Zack Polanski⁩

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6h

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 3h

You are absolutely right about "Diamonds" and I never want to listen to it (or to either of those rappers, or indeed to much 2000s pop) ever again. Says a lot about the immortality of pop music, eh?

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

I have a long list of reasons but who cares about those?

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 4h

Listened to this a few times today after strong recommendations by @djpunctum.bsky.social & @petepaphides.bsky.social and it's very good indeed.

open.spotify.com/album/2xFpHk...

3, 10, Why, When

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

Is that the one that goes "stop your dreaming" then immediately afterwards says "keep on dreaming"? #NobodyListensToTheWords

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

Instant nominee for Most Misleading Singles Cover Ever.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

I should have written better about that album.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

She hated that song, didn't put it on any of her albums and demanded to rewrite the lyric before she'd record it.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

I understand Anthea Turner was in agreement with that perspective...

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

Streatham's very own Peter Davison.

Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 8h

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 6h

littler v price in the grand prix tonight comfortably the best thing i've seen on television all year. it's better than anything i've read or listened to. comfortably outstrips entire fields. eg: country music, ballet, sculpture. it deserves a book that would immediately be rendered unworthy of it

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Lena Friesen @agincourtgirl.bsky.social · 5h

We continue to row, row and row through machines, blue rooms, exhausting dance halls and YET music continues to descend upon us (we pray) (it arrives) #yesyesyes #wakeup #repeatasnecessary

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

Young Punctum blog update - February 1977, and yes, blue blue electric blue is in there and I was quite wordy about it even (or especially) at the time:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/10/febr...

FEBRUARY 1977

My most interesting discovery this month was Science Fiction Argosy , an anthology of short stories - and two novels - edited by Damon K...

funthirty.blogspot.com

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 13h

First Taylor, now LeCreuset…snobby cultural elites are declaring war on wine moms this week and I will not stand for it.

LET US HAVE OUR THINGS

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 16h

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 5h

I never understand folks who complain abt how OTHER ppl protest. If you don’t like protesters to cuss or where frog suits, why don’t YOU go protest wearing a tuxedo and reciting the Magna Carta? No one’s stopping you, least of all the frogman, who will likely leap for joy for your involvement

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure that's being shown for a very specific reason, possibly to do with contemporary political relevance...

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

Also adapted by the Young Conservatives at the time ("True Blue" you see). "Frankie" was Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. What were they ON at the time (nb: I've read Nile's autobiography and know exactly what he was on...)?

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

Young Punctum blog update - February 1977, and yes, blue blue electric blue is in there and I was quite wordy about it even (or especially) at the time:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/10/febr...

FEBRUARY 1977

My most interesting discovery this month was Science Fiction Argosy , an anthology of short stories - and two novels - edited by Damon K...

funthirty.blogspot.com

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile, Licensed To Ill had just popped up in the import racks...

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

If this is 1986, then that entire generation of Radio 1-friendly "new pop" (pointedly not capitalised by me) people was about to be made extinct. It was rather embarrassing to witness.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

urgh, sorry; thanks for the reminder S! About to post the next Young Punctum blog entry hence hands are un peu full at the moment but will definitely do it tomorrow (memo to self: DO IT)!

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

I looked up my TPL piece on NOW 8 to see if I could discover any redeeming element in the song. Reader, my quest failed (scroll down to "Wicksy Endgame" at the bottom):
nobilliards.blogspot.com/2014/10/vari...

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Now That's What I Call Music 8

(#339: 6 December 1986, 6 weeks) Track listing: Notorious (Duran Duran)/Suburbia (Pet Shop Boys)/Walk This Way (Run-DMC)/Don’...

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

One thing's for sure; there's not one "Coyote" on that whole unmagical wand of an album.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

😂😂😂😂

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

That's a sound life philosophy.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h

The nineties as I lived and remember them #MassiveRecords