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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 12h

Its purpose is for getting squiffy.

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 12h

2 assists for Uncle Marc. He'll be the next captain.

Higher interest rates will strengthen household spending, Bank policymaker says

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 18h

The only thing that will strengthen consumer spending is for consumers to have enough money to spend.

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19h

Interest rates need to stay higher for longer to bring UK inflation down to its 2% target and therefore strengthen consumer spending, a Bank of England policymaker has said

Interest rates need to stay higher for longer to bring UK inflation down to its 2% target and therefore strengthen consumer spending, a Bank of England policymaker has said. Catherine Mann said it may...

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 5d

A Darkness This Way Comes.

#NewMusic

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A Darkness This Way Comes., by Hilliat Fields

8 track album

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not angry, just disappointed.

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 1d

What a load of bollocks. The Government has near-endless supply of money if it wants to use it to help its citizens, it just chooses not to.

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been given an extra £2 billion wriggle room in her upcoming Budget after it was revealed that official Government borrowing figures have been overstated due to inaccurate data on VAT receipts

Chancellor given £2bn Budget boost after VAT error sees borrowing revised down

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been given an extra £2 billion wriggle room in her upcoming Budget after it was revealed that official Government borrowing figures have been overstated due to inaccurate ...

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 1d

You can whistle the tune, not like this modern rubbish.

We're not deep (band playing ball) - The Housemartins

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 1d

22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE. Award-winning multiverse adventure when you parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to sender, in your green bin, all at the same time- but never actually with you.

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 1d

Philosophy, Politics & Economics is the only degree that needs scrapping.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

It reminds me of The Housemartins www.youtube.com/watch?v=972I...

YouTube video by NewWaveAlternative

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Tom Scott & The L. A. Express - Sneakin' In The Back (1974)

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

Where he got that drum sample from: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCJZ...

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Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (Tweekin Acid Funk) - 1995

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

In 1995, Josh Wink released a track that would change dance music forever. Acid & the use of the 303 had been done before, for years, but this was the tune that took it onto the dancefloors of the entire the world. The Rapper's Delight of Acid youtu.be/uh8POlIHkSI?...

YouTube video by ohral I hardy heller

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

A level of comedy that most Oxbridge graduates could only dream of.

Brown Paper Bag (feat. Dynamite MC) (Roni Size Full Vocal Remix)

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

1996/97 there was a thing which some people called "Intelligent" Drum & Bass & Roni Size was a leader on the essential Moving Shadow label youtu.be/EnAtyAJZRIE?...

YouTube video by Roni Size / Reprazent - Topic

Roots Manuva - 'Witness (1 Hope)' Official Video

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

Britain's greatest rapper & I won't be taking questions on this youtu.be/ltP7L16A8Hs?...

YouTube video by Big Dada

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

I reckon most of them were true because a good friend of mine is from the Isle of White & he confirmed that Mark King does indeed own a house there, although he couldn't confirm the dog biting his chin, but it's it's the kind of thing that would be hard to make up.

Forerunner (Original Mix)

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

One of the greatest house/techno/disco records ever made & one of the few of my records I will never sell. This just does it on the dancefloor *every* time without fail youtu.be/HPML1HuKubY?...

YouTube video by Natural Born Grooves - Topic

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

Another was: a friend of mine's mate once borrowed a barbecue off of J.R.R Tolkein's grandson.

The Prodigy - Out Of Space (Official Video)

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

1997, I was crawling through the rafters in the ceiling of The Four Aces to send a power cable down to the main stage, with the owner in front of me as he was telling me the story of how he first met Liam & Keith & gave them their first gig as The Prodigy youtu.be/a4eav7dFvc8?...

YouTube video by The Prodigy

Aphrodite & Micky Finn - Bad Ass !

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

Aphrodite, the king of the wobbly bass, with Mickey Finn - Bad Ass - supreme Jungle/D&B from 1997, this absolutely tears up a dancefloor youtu.be/U9FkLmMEXKQ?...

YouTube video by Urban Takeover

wildchild renegade master (original mix)

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

After them was Dave Clarke, so it was getting pretty intense (in tents) until he dropped Wildchild - Renegade Master & the place went mental youtu.be/eJR_dX8i0ww?...

YouTube video by thompsonjpk

Daft Punk - Rollin' & Scratchin' (Official Audio)

🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 3d

Daft Punk weren't always about the Funk. I saw them in 1996 at Tribal Gathering & they played a heavy techno set. Da Funk was their lightest tune youtu.be/q27KtfR1ESA?...

YouTube video by Daft Punk