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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 9h

Ahh, that makes a lot more sense

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 23h

RIP Diane Keaton.

Loved this

Annie Liebovitz group photo for a fold-out Vanity Fair magazine cover of a dozen of Hollywood’s top women actors, all of whom are pouting and styled mostly in evening gowns, except …

… Diane Keaton, who’s wearing her own clothes and a huge smile

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

10/10: Peter Jefferies, Captain Beefheart
9/10: Marisa Anderson, Joni Mitchell
8/10: Spiritualized, Bill Frisell, Pet Shop Boys
7/10: Suede, OMD, Allen Toussaint
6/10: Dua Lipa, Avalanches, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
5/10: Motörhead, Allah-Las
4/10: Rosetta Hightower
1/10: Elton John

David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

I have genuinely just listened to 17 different songs called ‘Electricity’

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

(Not a film, obvs, but) the BBC did a new adaptation recently on R4, icymi: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Radio 4 - Children of the Stones

The Stones are calling you. Do you feel the shiver?

www.bbc.co.uk

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Twiddling my radio dial just now and happily stumbled upon @k8carr.bsky.social on Late Junction

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, At home with Kate Carr

Jennifer Lucy Allan pays a visit to the London studio of field recordist Kate Carr.

www.bbc.co.uk

David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t Look Back (The Temptations) 9/10
Don’t Look Back (Teenage Fanclub) 9/10

Total score 18

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 2d

‘She said, the lift doesn’t work’

'Iconic structure' in Whitby set to be removed due to high repair costs

North Yorkshire Council is set to push ahead with the decommissioning of Whitby’s Cliff Lift as local councillors are set to debate the issue at a…

www.yorkpress.co.uk

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 2d

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Bought a lot of my records from Boots, which seems a bit odd these days

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 2d

#NowPlaying

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Reggae was just: around. Barrington Levy’s 1984 single Here I Come was one of the first records I ever bought – not from an inner-city specialist record shop, but from Woolworths in Whitby (population 12k)

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2d

Over the years, something I almost always get asked in interviews is how I, a white guy, got into reggae 🤷‍♀️

I think they're expecting some kind of origin story, and my discovery of these "exotic" sounds, but the truth is much more mundane. Reggae was pop music in the 70s and 80s

Scott Clifford @ilovemyrecords.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up as a white kid in South Wales in the 70s & 80s… on one hand, it’s a bit odd that I ended up being completely obsessed with reggae/dub/ska… on the other hand, you see old clips like this and it makes perfect sense…

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Help the community of Peacehaven mosque rebuild after the hate crime that targeted them last weekend

Donate to Rebuilding stronger after the recent Arson Attack, organized by Peacehaven Mosque

View our statement here: https://www.peacehavenmosque.co.uk/ S… Peacehaven Mosque needs your support for Rebuilding stronger after the recent Arson Attack

www.gofundme.com

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 3d

I liked the name Fisty Kendal more before I realised it was a pun

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 3d

Yusef Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on this day in 1920

📸 Val Wilmer

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 3d

‘Imagine a world where things are repaired one more time than they are broken’

They broke my bench...!!!

YouTube video by Laura Kampf

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 4d

‘Hind was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, surrounded by her dead relatives, as paramedics attempted to rescue her […] Hind and the paramedics were later found killed […] an Israeli tank had likely fired 335 rounds on the car’

هند رامي اياد رجب
Hind Rami Iyad Rajab
5 years old
Israeli gunfire
29 January 2024
“I’m so scared, please come,” were some of the last words Hind said in a telephone call to rescuers after her family’s car came under fire in Gaza City as they attempted to flee approaching Israeli forces. Hind’s uncle, aunt and three cousins were killed initially. Hind and another cousin, 15-year-old Layan, survived and contacted the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Layan was later also killed, having made a harrowing call for help herself. “They are shooting at us. The tank is right next to me. We’re in the car, the tank is right next to us,” Layan screamed in a clip shared on social media, amid intense gunfire in the background, before she went quiet and the gunfire stopped. Hind was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, surrounded by her dead relatives, as paramedics attempted to rescue her. The rescue team eventually arrived in the area, but contact was lost with them and Hind. Hind and the paramedics were later also found killed. A Forensic Architecture investigation concluded that an Israeli tank had likely fired 335 rounds on the car

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 4d

‘Each circle represents a child’

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Bar chart representing the ages of the children known to have been killed by Israel in Gaza between October 2023 and July 2025. There are hundreds and hundreds of circles in each bar.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 5d

Today's reading begins with Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission (she wrote the paper!) and was in general an INCREDIBLE trailblazing scientist.

Except, as a Jew, she had to flee Nazi Germany to Sweden and lost her professorship in Berlin. The men she worked with got the prize instead 🧪🔭

Lise Meitner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure whether to be encouraged or disheartened by the discovery that ‘T S Eliot’s own magazine, the Criterion, had a circulation of around 400’

The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders

Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.

Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...

Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders - The London Magazine

Drawing on recent literary magazine closures, Tristram Fane Saunders asks what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish.

thelondonmagazine.org

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 5d

Nice to see Klein getting some attention

‘I want to hear harmonica in the strip club!’: the bold ideas and bleak visions of British musician Klein

Drone albums, vampire plays, Charlotte Church duets … the Londoner has an inspiringly odd CV. She explains how the disrupted experience of Black daily life fills her work

www.theguardian.com

David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 6d

bid big: do good; look fly

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 6d

Selling the Kenickie/Frankie & The Heartstrings tees I have doubles of. All money goes to MAP! Vintage, BNWOT, unworn or I can sweat in them for you if you want, your choice! Link here (check my seller items) ebay.us/m/KZTj2w

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Jean François Porchez @jf.porchez.com · 6d

😻 Découvrez mes caractères typographiques Astronef Base & Astronef Super.

Ici, en Français (et Anglais) j’explique ses influences multiples:
typofonderie.com/fr/gazette/t...

Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 6d

🚀Astronef Base 7 widths, 126 fonts + Astronef Super 7 fonts. Let’s be crazy using all Astronef fonts mixed all together.

➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/astron...

— Astronef Super is the futuristic display version.
— Astronef Base, a tribute to 60s french sans serifs.

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Tempted …

David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh, I missed this too. 👏👏👏
He’s playing my local venue this weekend 🙂
…
It’s sold out 🙁

Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 6d

I had not clocked that legit legend Martin Carthy is up for a Mercury Music prize in his mid eighties. Still one of the best gigs you can go and see, like touching the history of the music

www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2545816...

Folk legend who inspired Bob Dylan to write a classic is up for Mercury Prize

Hampstead raised Martin Carthy is among 12 nominees for the Mercury Prize for his album released 60 years after his debut

www.hamhigh.co.uk

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