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Bruce Gorrie @bsgorrie.bsky.social · 1d

Shots from the Moby Grape album cover session, 1967

📷 Jim Marshall

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 1d

And Dedicated to the memory of Norman Mailer.
Magnificent stuff

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 1d

The best acting performance in this series. Guinness was magnificent but Bannen took it all to another level.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Five (8th October 1979).

"You don't break exactly, you just run out of stories to tell. I'd reached the point where the things I'd locked away deep down were the only things coming into my brain."

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 2d

Hey kids!

Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?

Remember that?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 2d

There is I think a sort of liberal comfort belief that the system is self-correcting; if the right does something bad then there will be an equal and opposite reaction restoring order. You see this a lot as a reaction to lots of things Trump does or proposes and… the belief just isn’t true!

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

[quoting the post below]

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 3d

‘They say a madman has the strength of ten…’

I think of him every time I see anyone drinking a half of Guinness. A lovely actor.

🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 3d

John Woodvine (21 July 1929 – 6 October 2025) R.I.P

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 2d

I think this guy will have murdered his tour manager by the time he gets to Crawley.

Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 3d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d

Very strongly recommend this articulate explanation of things that front bench politicians of a party of government shouldn't need to be told.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 2d

Awful, awful awful

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

As Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of having a "chequered past", here's a quick reminder of Jenrick's

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn’t agree more.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being the Kyiv correspondent for CBS News, calling into the morning news meeting, and hearing this fellow telling you what to cover.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

He's strikingly incapable of setting out *why* something is bad. Everything he writes is a search for labels that avoid having to make an argument - Reform's policies are 'racist', these protests are 'un-British'. You are the prime minister! Explain why they are wrong!

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Sir Keir Starmer will warn students not to take part in “un-British” protests marking the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas massacre and accuses those who call for violence against Jews of a “total loss of empathy and humanity”

Keir Starmer tells students: Don’t take part in ‘un-British’ October 7 protests

www.thetimes.com

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 3d

I realised recently that I'm never on here in the evenings (#totp excepted) and this is the reason.

Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 3d

It’s odd here on UK BlueSky. We get a few precious hours doing a bit of fun whimsy in the morning despite knowing how shit everything is.

And then the US logs on and ruins everything with their obviously approaching guerrilla civil war, weirdly based on the movie Civil War directed by Alex Garland

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 3d

[If You see This, Post a Random Picture from Your Device without explaining It]

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

A work of art

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 4d

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 4d

I found myself staring at his shirt hoping to see a 3D yacht appear.

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 4d

What is this?!!!

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 4d

Johnny does not lie. It is magnificent. Do not watch if you have any fear of water whatsoever.

HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 4d

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

youtu.be

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Mick @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 4d

Monday

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 4d

Utterly lovely!

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

joelmorris.substack.com

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