Jon Miles
@milesjon.bsky.social
Things get more interesting at the edges and boundaries. We can do better than this. Brum-based; charity/social justice sector; music; environment & nature; church and politics.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Celebrating God come down in a war torn occupied land, as a brown-skinned refugee - to announce God is With Us and all are welcome!
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Celebrating God come down in a war torn occupied land, as a brown-skinned refugee - to announce God is With Us and all are welcome!
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Good (also as the article says but the headline obscures, this is part of a wider and co-ordinated response which also involves the Baptists, the Methodists, and the URC)
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Good (also as the article says but the headline obscures, this is part of a wider and co-ordinated response which also involves the Baptists, the Methodists, and the URC)
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Today is Bandcamp Friday, so if you were thinking of pulling the digital trigger finger on The Bug vs @ghostdubs.bsky.social 'IMPLOSION', it is a great day to do so...!
😉
thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos...
('Dub album of the year 2025' @thewiremagazine)
😉
thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos...
('Dub album of the year 2025' @thewiremagazine)
Implosion, by The Bug vs Ghost Dubs
16 track album
thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Today is Bandcamp Friday, so if you were thinking of pulling the digital trigger finger on The Bug vs @ghostdubs.bsky.social 'IMPLOSION', it is a great day to do so...!
😉
thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos...
('Dub album of the year 2025' @thewiremagazine)
😉
thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos...
('Dub album of the year 2025' @thewiremagazine)
This is a superb record by @robertdallasgray.com . A perfect 30 minutes.
you can get my new record for 4 pounds! riyl john martyn, michael rother, durutti column, the cure, weird crypto-religious song cycles robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
Missals, by Robert Dallas Gray
6 track album
robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is a superb record by @robertdallasgray.com . A perfect 30 minutes.
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Puka Nacua you are unreal
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Puka Nacua you are unreal
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Seeing it in slow motion with the db's hand in there too 🤯
November 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Seeing it in slow motion with the db's hand in there too 🤯
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this is a lazy metaphor, the writers need to do better
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
this is a lazy metaphor, the writers need to do better
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A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
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Why does she think the British voter wants this?!?!
From the Times, about our Home Secretary:
"Mahmood is said to have been inspired by Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, who has overseen the president’s mass deportation policy."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
"Mahmood is said to have been inspired by Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, who has overseen the president’s mass deportation policy."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Why does she think the British voter wants this?!?!
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I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
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Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
Thanks for the tip @capgrasman.bsky.social. This is a really special album by @ipekgorgun.bsky.social . Lots to explore.
the only thing you need to do today is get yourself a copy of new @ipekgorgun.bsky.social on @touch33.net which is excellent! 🔥
ipekgorgunreleases.bandcamp.com/album/earthb...
ipekgorgunreleases.bandcamp.com/album/earthb...
Earthbound, by Ipek Gorgun
11 track album
ipekgorgunreleases.bandcamp.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thanks for the tip @capgrasman.bsky.social. This is a really special album by @ipekgorgun.bsky.social . Lots to explore.
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There is nothing that demonstrates more strongly that America is firmly in a post-Christian era … than the fact that believers (even clergy) are arguing over whether hungry and marginalized people are worth feeding.
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There is nothing that demonstrates more strongly that America is firmly in a post-Christian era … than the fact that believers (even clergy) are arguing over whether hungry and marginalized people are worth feeding.
Totally unexpected treat from a master of his craft. aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/i-hear...
I Heard It's A Mess There Too, by Aesop Rock
12 track album
aesoprock.bandcamp.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Totally unexpected treat from a master of his craft. aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/i-hear...
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
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My new album "1979" is out today on 2LP and Digital.
Listen now:
balmat.lnk.to/1979
Buy on Bandcamp:
mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1979
Listen now:
balmat.lnk.to/1979
Buy on Bandcamp:
mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1979
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My new album "1979" is out today on 2LP and Digital.
Listen now:
balmat.lnk.to/1979
Buy on Bandcamp:
mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1979
Listen now:
balmat.lnk.to/1979
Buy on Bandcamp:
mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1979
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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
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Oh dear.
There is no difference.
Both Tory and Reform are peddling racism for votes. Pochin *and* Jenrick were racist and twisting yourself into an ugly knot to try to claim otherwise is just a collapse of your own dignity as well as your morality.
There is no difference.
Both Tory and Reform are peddling racism for votes. Pochin *and* Jenrick were racist and twisting yourself into an ugly knot to try to claim otherwise is just a collapse of your own dignity as well as your morality.
Lewis Goodall pressing Chris Philp on the difference between what Sarah Pochin said and what Robert Jenrick said about 'white faces'.
October 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Oh dear.
There is no difference.
Both Tory and Reform are peddling racism for votes. Pochin *and* Jenrick were racist and twisting yourself into an ugly knot to try to claim otherwise is just a collapse of your own dignity as well as your morality.
There is no difference.
Both Tory and Reform are peddling racism for votes. Pochin *and* Jenrick were racist and twisting yourself into an ugly knot to try to claim otherwise is just a collapse of your own dignity as well as your morality.
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Erm, no. No this policy does not need "clarification". It needs condemnation. They have been pretty clear what they want, the mass deportation of people living and working here, families ripped apart, and xenophobia and racism embedded further as government policy
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour demands clarity on Tory plan to strip thousands of right to stay in UK
Anna Turley says legally settled people threatened by Katie Lam’s proposals deserve urgent clarification
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Erm, no. No this policy does not need "clarification". It needs condemnation. They have been pretty clear what they want, the mass deportation of people living and working here, families ripped apart, and xenophobia and racism embedded further as government policy
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Don’t give these people benefit of the doubt. This racist rant isn’t an accident. Or ‘speaking out of turn’.
It’s designed to fill our airwaves with people debating ‘if’ non white skin is a problem. Not Reform.
Diversity isn’t the issue, hatred is. Don’t indulge it, vote for it or tolerate it.
It’s designed to fill our airwaves with people debating ‘if’ non white skin is a problem. Not Reform.
Diversity isn’t the issue, hatred is. Don’t indulge it, vote for it or tolerate it.
Sarah Pochin blamed "the woke liberati that goes on inside the arty-farty world".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
Reform UK MP Condemned For Claiming There Are Not Enough White People In TV Adverts
Sarah Pochin blamed "the woke liberati that goes on inside the arty-farty world".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Don’t give these people benefit of the doubt. This racist rant isn’t an accident. Or ‘speaking out of turn’.
It’s designed to fill our airwaves with people debating ‘if’ non white skin is a problem. Not Reform.
Diversity isn’t the issue, hatred is. Don’t indulge it, vote for it or tolerate it.
It’s designed to fill our airwaves with people debating ‘if’ non white skin is a problem. Not Reform.
Diversity isn’t the issue, hatred is. Don’t indulge it, vote for it or tolerate it.
Today was one of those days with ridiculous music release schedule. Superb new and archive albums from Rafael Toral, Tortoise, Mike Parker, Traumprinz, Jon Porras, and Squarepusher. Plus remixes from Rafael Anton Irisarri. Where to start?! @blackknoll.bsky.social @rtoral.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Today was one of those days with ridiculous music release schedule. Superb new and archive albums from Rafael Toral, Tortoise, Mike Parker, Traumprinz, Jon Porras, and Squarepusher. Plus remixes from Rafael Anton Irisarri. Where to start?! @blackknoll.bsky.social @rtoral.bsky.social