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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 51m

🚨If like me you were unaware of these devastating cuts to a vital fund that supports some of the most vulnerable children and young adults in England please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social by signing their open letter 🙏
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Add Your Signature: An Open Letter to Josh MacAlister MP, Minister for Children and Families - Action Against ASGSF Changes

12 October 2025 Re: The urgent need to restore the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) Adoptive, kinship and special guardianship families across England continue to feel the signif...

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 1h

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The Mellotron: A Keyboard with the Power of an Orchestra (1965) | British Pathé

YouTube video by British Pathé

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 10h

If you’ve never been to this venue I reckon it would be right up your Straße

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/

Had a few memorable nights there: Fred Frith, God is my Copilot, Peter Hammill, The Necks etc.

Event listings ← Cafe OTO

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 10h

Lost contact with Greg a long, long time ago …

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 10h

Yes I do! Somebody Maddison I think. He was the bloke who shot the video. I’m still owed him a fiver for it 😬

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 11h

My favourite surface to play on too …

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 11h

Your very welcome. Mad eh? Hopefully our paths will join again sometime - a gig maybe?

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I appear at 4:20 taking photos on Greg’s camera. He later sent me them with inscriptions on the back like “amoeba” and “amoeba 2”. I had my thumb over the lens for all of them!

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GREG TRUCKELL live Network 23 concert Cardiff 1989 part 1

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Risotto @risottodrake.bsky.social · 11h

#NowPlaying Romance 76 by Peter Baumann. I haf the LP, but got this CD reissue about 10 years ago. Seeing the notes were writ by Andy Garibaldi made me contact the Freeman brothers in Leicester. Result = our back catalogue got CD releases. Thanks, Pete!

A man stares out at ya - watcha gunna do?

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 15h

Yes

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

Haringey should know better than to ignore concerns reported to its social workers. The north London borough was severely criticised for safeguarding failings in the deaths of “Baby P” in 2007 and Victoria Climbié in 2000.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

Shocking failure in Haringey’s social work department, where negligent staff left more than 1,100 emails unread - including 500 police welfare reports.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

The Labour Party have spent no time at all criticising Nigel Farage and Reform.

When I took Reform on - Labour sat their silently.

They're now spending their time attacking me and the Green Party.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. (And rebuild European alliances.)

Join.greenparty.org.uk

UK labour. I definitely do not support NATO - quote from Zack.

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The John Elrick @thejohnelrick.bsky.social · 2d

It's beyond obvious that our tax system needs reform. It needs to be simpler, with fewer loopholes. It needs to be progressive and distribute the revenue burden more fairly. Finally, it MUST be enforced.

Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Cameron's DAD helped shape the entire Cayman Islands tax landscape.

He was an expert in Tax Avoidance.

Now we have Reform UK.

Same shit, different name.

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 2d

This is how they thought the year 2000 would look in the 60’s

Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 2d

… but I knew that 3 years ago!

Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 3d

Instant respect for this.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 4d

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

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‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

Neil Young says he plans to pull his music off Amazon’s streaming service as he urges fans to stop supporting the corporate giant.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press...

In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it:

● this only applies to some people on skilled visas
● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT
● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

He would have turned in the family hiding Anne Frank.

A tweet by Bill Melugin reads: “Regardless of how one feels about immigration policy, according to U.S. law, this is a felony. Harboring of aliens. 8 USC 1324.”

A tweet from Laura N. Rodríguez Presa reads: “During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 6d

Is that JD?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Michael Ross @greyhoundn17.bsky.social · 7d

Ouch!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

President Trump, "Now drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases"

An illiterate President who can't do high school maths surrounded by yes men who haven't the courage or integrity to help him understand how stupid he sounds

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