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"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." Co-author of the now completed Then Play Long blog (https://nobilliards.blogspot.com).
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · Nov 7
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2h
I'm not surprised when you burble on about something without telling us what you are burbling on about. Unlike you, we have lives to live and they don't involve sitting in front of a computer screen 24/7 looking at doomscrolls.
DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2h
The curtain-opening descending string line on "Pulling On A Thread," the ominously purposeful four-chord piano riff of "A Velvet Rope," the Martin L Gore influence evident on "Ghost" - it's all there, and I'll be listening to this repeatedly. Jamie Woon. Don't wait until 2035 for the next one.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2h
Jamie Woon doesn't give a toss about your hardwired hipster prejudices. He works at his own pace and listens and thinks before he writes or records. He doesn't bark at you two million times a day demanding you pay attention to him. Just because this is a quiet album doesn't not make it radical.
DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2h
Thought about things to write about the new Jamie Woon album but what's to say? Doesn't make a fuss, is simultaneously confused and certain, understands Hamlet better than U know who and at least four of its songs are world-class. He had to put it out himself. Make his effort worth it.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2h
Kids in the old days liked all pop. Atomic Rooster to Judge Dread, Diana Ross to the Pioneers, Geordie to Lynsey de Paul. No boundaries until a small but loudmouthed and well-connected bunch of white middle-class men started to lay down the law as to whom you were allowed to like.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2h
I remember when Simon Bates played "Police Officer" on his Radio 1 show and read out a listener's complaint about his playing "m*nk*y music." In 1985.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h
More rootless, plotless gibberish sprinkled with nursery school-level word association exercises masquerading as literature, I see. Gertrude Stein's heyday was over a century ago. Move on.
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h
As a lifelong hate-watcher of #BBCQT it's been incredible to see the tone shift in last night's prog with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on. It should have never been that hard to call for common sense - and actually popular - policies. Someone is actually doing it.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 7h
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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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h
One of the key distinguishing factors in how you approached music criticism in 1977 was not what you wrote about Marquee Moon but what you wrote about Out Of The Blue.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h
Written about splendidly by @agincourtgirl.bsky.social in the midst of her much-needed takedown of the album that kept it at number two:
nobilliards.blogspot.com/2015/06/u2-r...
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h
That was the essential difference between Laura and me. That week, Laura bought Rattle & Hum. I bought Introspective. Not sure that difference was ever bridged. When things come down to PSB-album-related things I'm an Actually man but Introspective would be a very close second.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h
One thing I've learned from listening to 6 Music this morning: try as you might, you're never going to persuade me to like the music of Laura Marling. I just Don't Get Her.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h
Listening at the moment. Odd mixture of the pretty astute and the bleeding obvious. Then again, much rather Sufjan Stevens than The Love Cats from where I'm sitting in 2025...
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h
They don't want us. Double if you're disabled. I have recent evidence of that, as you know. They literally would prefer us not to exist, by whatever means.
DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 8h
My favourite is probably Geogaddi; came out at a very painful time for me and helped me get through things. Suggests but does not impose memories.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 15h
The only one I liked on there was, predictably, the one written with Richard Hawley - an actual proper song.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 15h
Read it in 1988, mate. I was 34 when the BoC album came out. Circumstances influence memory.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h
This fellow has it.
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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 18h
Some blokes say “I call a spade a spade” our leader isn’t afraid to call a fascist a fascist. Bravo @zackpolanski.bsky.social chapeau to you Zack. Huge respect facing down 5 right wingers in debate with humour and elan. #questiontime
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Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 18h
I thought @zackpolanski.bsky.social was brilliant on #BBCQT tonight despite a hostile panel and personal attacks. Calling out fascism and racism rather than blaming immigrants, calling for a wealth tax rather than blaming poor and disabled people for needing a properly funded welfare system.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18h
Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt
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Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 17h
Just watched @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak without fear on
BBC Question Time.

Stuck to his principles and never shrank from saying what needed to be said.

Zack was himself under extreme pressure and I've never been more proud to be a Green.

Where's my rosette at?

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h
Just played on @fip.fr's Electro channel: "Telephasic Workshop" by Boards of Canada. That's what going to be remembered from the nineties musically, not "anthems" from when you and your mates were eighteen.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 18h
"Nitwits *will* get blocked":
a) projection;
b) beaten you to it #blocked
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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 21h
‘It feels good – and quite strange – to think I could vote for what I believe in…’

@natashawalter.bsky.social reports on why young women are flocking to @greenparty.org.uk, won over by @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s stance on topics such as Palestine, refugee rights and economic injustice 🌱
Photo of Zack Polanski. Text: Natasha Walter: why young women are flocking to the Greens
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