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Stevie Chick

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Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · Jun 10

I bade farewell to the peerless, fearless, thoughtful and thankful Sly Stone. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain | Stevie Chick

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watch

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel looks like if Doug Neidermeyer from Animal House and that kid in the meme who's sweating and has bulging forehead veins had a child together

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Fairly sure the antichrist is more likely to resemble this murderous, throbbing-veined weirdo than a woman who's telling the world maybe we shouldn't burn the children's future.

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

I was no fees, and also qualified for full grant. Cannot believe what they've stolen from the generations that followed.

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Still, though. Lighter fuel and matches is a bit basic by comparison.

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

TBF Cathal displayed immeasurably more invention and imagination there than some thick racist burning a book

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh, that is right up my strasse - thanks Helen

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

TBF "biscuits" is the same word in any language

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

It is certainly an arguable point for the law. Though the legal principles ought to be identical, I am certain the Shadow Justice Secretary would surely not attend court to show solidarity for somebody who burned a Bible, the Talmud, a novel, a Remembrance poppy, Union Jack - but will for the Quran

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Breakfast soundtrack

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo Joanna Lumley.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

You’d better have read it, there will be a test

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a red shirt is saying time flies man laugh out loud

ALT: a man in a red shirt is saying time flies man laugh out loud

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

I get deep under the skin of Prince's Around The World In A Day for the new issue of MOJO! Just absolutely tonnes of other great stuff in there too!!

John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this is quite an issue. A CD of unheard John & Yoko. An exclusive, substantial new Springsteen interview. Prince, Miles, Lucinda Williams, Hendrix, Replacements, Brigitte Fontaine, Congos, Mavis Staples. Such good, diverse writing. Such rich design. It's a classic @mojomagazine.bsky.social 1/2

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

TBF Maude would more likely be the founder of antifa herself!

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

Breakfast soundtrack

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

Like, when I read this I finally realised why my Sebadoh interview for Melody Maker 20 years earlier had been such an awks experience (Lou and Jake were LOVELY when I did them for #1 of Loose Lips some years afterwards, tho) www.vice.com/en/article/s...

How ‘The Sebadoh’ Killed Sebadoh

Twenty years later, 90s indie rock icons Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein reflect on the tumultuous times surrounding their ill-fated and short-lived major label record deal.

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, that one is magnificent. Also love Love Is Stronger and Sorry, of the Lou songs. Boy, he was one messed-up lil puppy when they made this record!

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

The Hunches are pop music, Phil

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

TBH my favourite songs on The Sebadoh are all Jake songs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtPm...

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

It would be tomorrow's breakfast soundtrack but I believe it's one of the few LPs Sarah has a veto on

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

I still believe it's one of the greatest albums of all time

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