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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · May 18

I (sadly) caught Farage on Radio Four this morning. The bloke deserves nothing but absolute ridicule. He is scared shitless of stuff in his imagination. He’s a life-coward who lives in a horrible universe of his own doom laden mind. His perception of the world, like the MAGA, is just weird.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · May 14

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️
Distracted (singing) ✔️
No helmets ✔️
No lights ✔️
No reflective vests ✔️
Riding in a pack ✔️

Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

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Leia BlueSkywalker @blueskye2025.bsky.social · May 13

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · May 14

Just wanted to say the new film by Ben Rivers, Bogancloch, is one wonderful piece of art. Absolutely gorgeous. Give yourself a couple of escapist hours watching it and you’ll be happy. Gosh, it’s good!

art.new

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 12

“If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50 percent of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990.”

from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

Top-earning 10 percent responsible for the majority of global warming, study finds

If you work full-time in the US or UK, there's a good chance you're among them.

dlvr.it

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Apr 14

Reading about Carlo Rosselli and his Justice and Freedom org, founded in the 1940s…strong set of liberal socialist ideals the Labour Party would do well to subscribe to - local autonomy, nationalisation of monopolies, land reform, TU rights, religious political civil freedoms, Euro fed, republic.

Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hey friends, join me for some London tales here!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=KShf...

'Put a lion on my grave': the strange world of George Wombwell

YouTube video by Untold London

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 13

C O Y S and agreed, it is a mighty fine advert in a lovely area.
Head back to south London you lot 😊

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 12

Our newspaper the Camden New Journal was named best regional paper in the UK this afternoon, and my colleague Frankie Lister-Fell scooped reporter of the year.
Trebles all round!

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 7

Here in north London we say COYS - I’m doing that Sunday, while tomorrow I am grabbing some precious escapism by gently jamming with a lovely, no stress, no pressure musicians who like to get in the zone. I’ll still be saying fuck off Nazi scum but not letting it freak me out for a few hours.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 5

Give yourself a few dates to look forward to!
Fri May 2 - the Dig It May Day celebration at Bold N19
Sun June 22 - Alma Street Fair
Fri 4 July - Parlie Hill Bandstand
and
Fri July 19 - www.menageriefestival.co.uk

HOME | Menagerie

www.menageriefestival.co.uk

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 4

London skyline from the top of the Euston Tower

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Mar 2

Out and about and Montaigne’s personal stamp….

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 24

Re-reading The Log From The Sea of Cortez for the billionth time for the cosiness, a biog of Jacques Costeau by Richard Munson, The Practicing Stoic by Ward Farnsworth (a go to when I’m feeling blue) and a new book, The Strand by Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 23

@soundsystem2030.bsky.social hello from North London’s mighty Dig It Sound System

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 20

GB 'News' spreads poisonous disinformation. They break both press codes and ethical codes, disregard moral values a civil society is based on.
Please send the CEO of Sky, who spend a fortune on adverts at this vile TV channel, a message to rethink.
action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-fun...

Sky must stop funding hate speech

CW: Homophobia, hate speech Sky launched its programme for Pride 2024 with a ringing declaration the company was “proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories”. But while it was posting shiny videos claiming to ...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 16

The Spurs fans I chatted to today protesting about the owners were all in cloud cuckoo land about the realities of running a club, and the variables in regards to success. Also some laced their anger with pretty unpleasant views. I’m not defending ENIC but wow, what I heard was total nonsense.

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Tottenham Hotspur @tottenhamhotspur.com · Feb 16

Team news is in! 🫡

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 15

There’s that lovely book, a biographical novel, about Michelangelo called The Agony and The Ecstasy by Norman Stone, all about the hard work behind an artists out put and creativity etc. always good to be reminded!
Thanks and have a lovely weekend.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 15

Wait…what?!? How the…!?! Such a gorgeous mix of talent, craft, application, graft, technique and all those other cool words about people getting down to doing something they’re bloody good at. Thanks for sharing a real reminder of what’s cool about our species (as opposed to the usual what’s not!)

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 14

Old Father T and St Paul’s at dusk

Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 14

St Valentines partner was grumpy
As they whispered in Val’s ear
‘You may be the symbol of all romance,
‘But you only come once a year.’

Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · Feb 13

In the UK, we have a long and illustrious tradition of visiting the town of Grantham to pay our respects to Evil Edna, the milk snatcher, Maggie the Friedman Thatch, the source of many woes. May she rest uncomfortably.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Feb 13

Ask yourself, “who, irrespective of friendship, or even respect, would hide you?” Ask yourself, “are you willing to hide the other, regardless of who they are?” Then you’ll have a good guess at an answer. I think we’ll be surprised.

Screen shot of Dorothy Thompson’s 1941 Harper’s article “who goes Nazi?”

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Feb 13

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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