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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 10h

It’s impossible for anyone that likes more than a few artists.

Especially if you have been listening to music for 60 odd years! (Like a few of us😳)

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 10h

Ask me again tomorrow and probably half or more would be different, except the first three.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11h

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 10h

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Steely Dan
David Bowie
Kate Bush
Paul Simon
Public Service Broadcasting
Elbow
Indigo Girls
Joni Mitchell

PeteMin70 @p70.bsky.social · 12h

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Queen
Hüsker Dü
Stevie Wonder
Clannad
King Crimson
Jimmy Reed
Bob Dylan
Rush

Real Gone @realgonerocks.bsky.social · 14h

Go on, then:

Elton John, Minutemen, The Fierce & The Dead, Carter USM, Marillion, INXS, Black Sabbath, Herbie Hancock

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 17h

How on earth did #SaintsFC not score in that game?!

Much more positive performance though, just could not get the ball in the net.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

Glad that it went well.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC

An Ugmonk Analog card standing up in the card holder on a desk beside a keyboard and laptop sitting on a riser.

Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

Not taken with that cover at all. Will never be considered as having any artistic/design merit.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like an extra in a Hayao Miyazaki animation.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

Ahead of you.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

I was a Bristol Rovers fan in those days (grew up there). Local derbys against the S Wales teams invariably involved being bricked or bottled by the locals whilst being escorted by the police from the nearest train station.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

So what’s the story breaking in the papers tomorrow morning then?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Prince Andrew to give up all his titles and honours, including Duke of York

news.sky.com/story/prince...

Prince Andrew to give up all his titles and honours, including Duke of York

It follows increasing pressure on Prince Andrew after more reports emerged of his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.

news.sky.com

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

He has never been to a football match in his life.

James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 1d

"Largely good-natured fun"

Righto.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not far enough away! Should be Andrew Bristol at least. 🙂

Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

He couldn’t even manage Southampton FC as a going concern, how is he going to help the country?

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’ve discovered a new animal species.

The tiny “Quantum fruit fly”.

It flys around in front of your eyes but as soon as you try to splat it, it disappears into the quantum dimension and reappers somewhere else in front of you.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

Love it.

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

Lucky enough to see them once. They were easily the “angriest” of the bands at the time, and they had some competition!

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 1d

#NewMusicFriday

New Tame Impala album.

The Tame Impala album Deadbeat. Streaming on Tidal.

Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 2d

Underwhelmed by the Mercury Music Prize winner.

But then I guess I an no longer in anyone’s “target audience segment” for any kind of music! 😁

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 3d

Raging. 😡

The house selling/buying process in this country is ******* ridiculous.

And people are *********.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 3d

Right. Choir/classical music nerds, this is for you. Everyone else, you’re dismissed.

A very deep cut: Do any of you know of a recording of Haydn’s Creation that uses as the text the Michael Pilkington Novello edition (i.e New Novello, not old Novello). For the life of me I cannot find one.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 4d

Was fine for me. My wife felt like she had a bit of a cold for the day after.

Andy B @andyb505.bsky.social · 4d

Meatballs in tomato sauce with gnocchi.