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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Oct 3

Better do something a bit more useful than just getting ‘pissed’. And I don’t mean take up arms either.

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Oct 3

Criminally underrated and largely ignored by those db superfans who struggle to notice that his musical output extended beyond 1980. 🙄 #bowieforever

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Oct 2

30 seconds to make a small donation to an entirely volunteer operated and donations funded organisation.

Today of all days it’s a small but important thing to consider doing.

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community

cst.org.uk

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Oct 2

A rather dangerous one too.

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Sep 29

An hour of greatness, in the company of the truly legendary #RobertPlant, at Kingston’s Circuit earlier tonight.

Huge thanks to #BanquetRecords for arranging yet another outstanding promo gig.

#SavingGrace 🎵 ❤️ 😎

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Sep 26

It’s as if the #Samaritans has been acquired by Private Equity…

Utterly tone deaf leadership at the charity whose very purpose is to listen…😔

Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures www.bbc.com/news/article...

Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures

Opponents fear plans to close more than100 branches could put the charity’s ability to answer calls in doubt.

www.bbc.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Of course the idea has been explored by others….

youtu.be/iPHIhQphVS4?...

#SaucyJack #SpinalTap

David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...

David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London

Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.

www.bbc.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yep. What gullible sucker would expect anything different….😏🤷🏼‍♂️
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How Putin, ex-KGB officer, will seek to sway Trump at Alaska summit

t.co/boPcGrtODC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/15/putin-trump-kgb-charm-summit/

t.co

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Jul 30

Another superb piece from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social- we’re navigating a Lynchian world of pain right now…

open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

Laura Palmer’s House

Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.

open.substack.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Jul 29

Is this the city that people are terrified to visit (the one with the overwhelming majority of friendly, helpful citizens, proud, law-abiding and respectful of others)? #London

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Jun 30

Rappers and musicians upsetting mum and dad again this weekend. Some disagreeable stuff for sure, but pop acts have always found ways to nake mischief for publicity…

#Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Jun 24

“Obliterated”?

Hmmm…🤔

Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says

www.nytimes.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · May 22

Utterly sickening.

#RogueState

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students via @FT

on.ft.com/4jdR8SY

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students

Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university

on.ft.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · May 12

@financialtimes.com’s Edwin Heathcote peels the backing off El Presidente’s stultifyingly tacky White House makeover.

on.ft.com/4iYj0u4 Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation

Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation

The President’s addition of gold flourishes is a cliché of a rich person’s home — and raises questions about decoration in the age of $1 Chinese swag

on.ft.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · May 6

“He wants to do to America what Musk did to Twitter: turn it into something different, that serves his political allies and is subject to the arbitrary power of an autocrat.”

‘America’s least American president’ - from the @washingtonpost.com

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | America’s least American president

Donald Trump isn’t making America great again. He’s making it into something else entirely.

www.washingtonpost.com

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Apr 15

CityAm reporting 40% of UK SME’s planning to cut & run, per recent Handelsbanken survey?

Sounds like horseshit to me…

news.uk.cityam.com/story/232356...

Small firm owners are leaving the UK en masse, survey finds

Small business owners up and down the country are packing their bags to escape a flurry of higher taxes, soaring costs and red tape, fresh data has found. Nearly two in five owners of small and medium...

news.uk.cityam.com

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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · Apr 15

Set up a Labour MP group to attack Reform

That was Alastair Campbell's advice to Labour government advisers at a recent away day, PolHome understands

The former Tony Blair communications director, now podcast host, told the advisers that Labour must take Farage's electoral threat more seriously

Alastair Campbell Tells Labour To Set Up MP Group To Attack Reform

Alastair Campbell, who was director of communications to former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, has urged current party strategists to set up a g...

www.politicshome.com

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Apr 13

Sanders has acted with greater vigor since 6 Jan than any of his Dem colleagues.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · Apr 10

This is one of the many reasons why 19th Century free traders like Winston Churchill hated tariffs.

It all decays into deeply corrupt, hidden, capricious deal making between the executive & powerful interests.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Apr 10

or maybe, instead of solving a decades-old medical mystery in just a few months, they’ll fabricate something that makes the Q’ers swoon and endangers vaccine access. so if there’s anything you or your family needs, do it now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 10

Fools and cowards, every one.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Trump Close to Winning Concessions From More Law Firms

Four or five firms could soon agree to deals that would be unveiled as a package, in an escalation of the president’s crackdown on an industry that has drawn his ire.

www.nytimes.com

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · Apr 10

Exactly, fraudulent asshole.

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★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Apr 9

The idiotic fawning over DJT’s feeble climb down tonight is almost peak #TrumpDerangementSyndrome.

Still further to go no doubt, as his sharkskin suited & expensively coiffed acolytes continue demeaning themselves intellectually & morally.

God bless America, it certainly needs a helping hand. 🤦🏼‍♂️

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Apr 4

He’s no Brandreth

★ Dylan Butler-Jones @dylanbj.bsky.social · Mar 25

Utterly deranged.

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