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BlueAstronaut🖤

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Dubwise On-U head, kosmik punk, noise freak & #MDANT🏅 struggling on the raggedy edge between cradle & grave. For big hearts, open minds & all that instigates, originates, elevates, agitates. I have no control over this - music is the navigator...

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · Nov 12

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 5h

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 2h

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely brilliant that Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. A defender of democracy who put herself in danger deservedly rewarded

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 3h

Random acts of senseless beauty #87

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The Heartwood Institute @heartwood9.bsky.social · 3h

Please support - doomforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/doom-f...

Doom For Palestine (a compilation for gaza), by Various Artists

35 track album

doomforpalestine.bandcamp.com

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CreepingBent @creepingbent.bsky.social · 5h

Tickets go on sale at 7pm tonight/Friday 10th Oct (which is when this link will become live):
wegottickets.com/event/678735
for the final Creeping Bent action in Edinburgh, which will take place at Edinburgh College of Art on Saturday 13th Dec.

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 5h

😂😂😂

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Andrew Watson @sussexsedition.bsky.social · 9h

You've heard about that Blake
Went down the hill in Chepstow in London
He was broke but it was okay

#FallFriday

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W.B

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart

Painted artwork of a stylised female figure, a white woman as a queen with a crown and golden robes holding a red rose and surrounded by heart motifs, organic lines and a dashed border

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 13h

Listen to the man - don't...

Alan Vega/Alex Chilton/Ben Vaughn - Do Not Do Not

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Do Not Do Not

YouTube video by Alan Vega - Topic

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 13h

The whole album's fantastic 👍😎

BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 13h

Advice to the consumer...

Alan Vega/ Marc Hurtado - Let The Blood Drip

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Let the Blood Drip

YouTube video by Alan Vega - Topic

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 14h

Piece in our time...

Plumber Sam Fleming, 62, enjoys his lunchtime piece and a tin of hot sweet tarry tea during his lunch before returning to his shift at the John Brown yard at Clydebank, on 17th November 1939.

Pic: Daily Record

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

Don't look back...

Alan Vega/Ben Vaughn- River Of No Shame

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River of No Shame

YouTube video by Alan Vega - Topic

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

Soft burns...

A Band Called Quinn - The Last Night I Saw

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A Band Called Quinn - 'The Last Night I Saw'

YouTube video by abandcalledquinn

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

Way too close to the bone, way too close 😁

Mark Eitzel - The Last Ten Years

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Mark Eitzel "The Last Ten Years"

YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

Half empty, half full...

Giant Sand - Glum

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Glum

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

And Reef. Christ.

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

This. Very much this.

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 14h

That time again...

Smog - To Be Of Use

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To Be Of Use

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Handstitched @handstitched.bsky.social · 15h

From the same 1978 Debut Album by Steel Pulse.
This one's for this side of the pond, and also 🔥
Check the lyrics. #meltICE

Ku Klux Klan

YouTube video by Steel Pulse - Topic

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 15h

Never, ever, liked them but when I was involved with ADF for a wee while in the '00s they had some deservedly, brutally, raw words for that band. The swastika bollocks & the bullshit cultural appropriation did not go down well. At all.

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 16h

Wouldn't like to trouble you... 😁