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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️

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Brummie/Irish searcher of solace in Andalucia. Singer/songwriter of country/Americana songs of love and defiance. Writer of one book...so far too. Owns an old camper van and a conscience. Anti-fascist #AVFC Rotterdam original!

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is out now. I couldn't be more thrilled; part retrospective, part new songs, but they all fit the title.
I really need this to fly, and I think it deserves to. Please share and support if you can.
emmageeflowers.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Songs of Love & Defiance, by Emma Gee Flowers

20 track album

emmageeflowers.bandcamp.com

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 10h

Fair play.

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 13h

Blimey, that wins today's "sweeping statement" award.
I heard the Birmingham bombings, but I managed not to blame my Irish family who were at bingo at the time.

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 13h

Is love Scotland to qualify, especially for Super John McGinn, but you have to think it's via the play offs, and hope it's Cape Verde or similar!

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 13h

Not from me. I'm old school about this- put the ball in straight and make it a contest, otherwise it's rugby league.

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 13h

I've just had a conversation, lasting several minutes, with @guapaish.bsky.social about the rugby scrum laws. 💪🏻♀️🏉

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John Goddard @johngoddard1962.bsky.social · 14h

Right up there with giving it to Kissinger in 1973 this one. A mate of Netanyahu to boot.

Couldn’t make it up.

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely Rhod. The Latin American playbook, according to the US, hasn't changed much-but you just know the outcome would be even worse under this administration.

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 18h

As a child, one of the first things you learn is how repeatedly stupid the grown ups are.

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 18h

She may have been better than Trump winning, but really, not by much.
The decision -making process looks increasingly compromised.

We're grateful for what Trump is doing for peace, Nobel winner Machado tells BBC share.google/a4wJ6FxEgGwb...

We're grateful for what Trump is doing for peace, Nobel winner Machado tells BBC

María Corina Machado tells Trump of her appreciation for "what he's doing... around the world for peace".

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 18h

Brilliant photo Dave. Great pub too!

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting high level piece looking at Spain in the 50 years since Franco's death.

www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/work-docu...

Fifty years after Franco: Spain’s profound transformation, 1975-2025

General Franco died 50 years ago, but Spain bore no resemblance to the country he took over after winning the 1936-39 Civil War.

www.realinstitutoelcano.org

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 20h

This also juxtaposes your previous point about cretins like McSweeney, Rentoul and Akehurst (I added him as he's possibly more odious than the other 2), whose only strategy is that people like me will have to hold their noses and vote for them "or get Reform".
Thanks to Zack, not necessarily.

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 20h

Much as I love watching rugby, it doesn't provide me with the hope/anticipation/misery cycle that the Villa do.

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 21h

Out of all the issues I have with the Labour government, this is right up there.
It's shoulder-shrugging is deafening, but it's "business" and it's their pals!

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 21h

Dobbing me in hey Algie?? 🤣

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 21h

Frustration moves in different ways ..
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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 21h

Stewart Lee is back.
He also managed to weave in a vignette about casual racism in Shirley, Solihull in the 70s.
My Mom lived in Shirley for over 20 years, so I can confirm the veracity (not from my Mom though!). 😁

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 21h

Really, no genuine football fan should be buying tickets for that circus.

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 1d

Erm, Annie Hall??
Thank you Diane for giving us Annie.
Go well, and thanks for the wonderful memories.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton, famed for roles in “Father of the Bride,” “First Wives Club” and more, has died at 79

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 1d

It's desperate Matt, not sustainable. We played some nice stuff 2nd half, but cocked it up almost every time.
This year is about not finishing last!

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone celebrating Trump not winning should take stock and realise how far down the hell hole we really are.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

For a long time, the US extreme right was held back from ruthlessly pursuing its goals by the notion that "someone" would stop them & punish them.

Trump 1 taught them nobody would stop them, & Biden taught them nobody would punish them.

And here we are.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 1d

Young lad came into the local bar earlier. He'd got his Almería shirt on and a scarf, so he'd obviously been to the match.
Instant connection, just reminded me of my boys and my younger self.
Universal language of football, and a lovely moment.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

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Quelle surprise!

As ever, just follow the money.
Getting to hate on trans people is a pleasing corollary for the reactionary right-wingers who run the fossil fuel empires. The aim is to divert attention from their ongoing role in climate change.

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, there's a memory- I loved him!