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Arron Wright

@nonoxcol.bsky.social

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Pop craziness! See alt @mu21cvs.bsky.social for music challenges. Current: #TheTwen2ie5. He/him. Profile pics from my #TheTwen2ie5 list: UNIIQU3, 'Microdosing' (#35)

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · Jun 24

#ProjectGA60

My month of self-indulgence is over.

I started it carried away and became more so. Which fits, as they started brilliantly and became more so.

Anyway, here's 'The Whole Lot(ta History)' Edition.

Signing off... now 🤞for a Deep Cuts Show :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

PROJECT GA60 - THE WHOLE LOT(ta History)

PROJECT GA60 “INTRO” Hi How U? What is ‘Project GA60?’ It is a celebration of a pop band who have been a perpetual source of joy, delight and comfort in the last nine years. It is timed to coincide w...

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1h

At the time of writing this post has 69 likes.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3h

CupcakKe announces new album, ‘The BakKery,’ out Friday, October 24th.

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1h

Hello! I am finishing a drink I bought a while ago! Driving home after.

(Also minimising the time I spend standing, due to slow-healing leg injury. A mere 12 weeks ago I was in Gold Circle at Spurs for Not Like Us, what a contrast…)

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3h

CupcakKe announces new album, ‘The BakKery,’ out Friday, October 24th.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

British.

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 2h

The sole advantage of said injury being zero pressure to find a good spot near the front :)

(This is, like, stage 2 of 6 to previous fitness)

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 2h

First gig since Kendrick/SZA (wearing the T shirt!) and the leg injury that struck a few weeks later.

More points in #TheTwen2ie5 always welcome!

An advert for tonight's gig by Little Simz at Co-op Live in Manchester, and some fans queueing at a bar.

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WIRED @wired.com · 7h

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 7h

The party of government, that won a generational landslide just over a year ago, is polling at just 15%.

Starmer will be remembered as one of the worst prime ministers in British history, and a willing midwife for the fascism to come.

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evil matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 9h

The inevitable result of this will be any candidate with a “foreign” enough sounding name being auto-rejected regardless of their nationality. More so than they currently are.

This is by design.

Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 14h

'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 14h

I wonder if all my 12 contenders will be posted today (two down, two to go)😁

Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 14h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 16

#35
ROSALÍA - SAOKO (2022) (Spain)

This song is a whole load of booming fun (... and it's taken me up to now to find Wison's/ Daddy Yankee's Saoco which is also fabulous).

youtu.be/6o7bCAZSxsg?...

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 14h

Connections
Puzzle #858
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪✖️never heard of one of these

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 15h

#THETWEN2IE5 DAY 16

35.

UNIIQU3
'MICRODOSING'
USA 2021

This falls into the category "incredibly red hot piece of club music that exists purely to bang like the proverbial outhouse door in a hurricane".

Jersey Club, to be precise.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHCM...

35. UNIIQU3 | MICRODOSING Aug 2021
USA 12/19 2021: 5/10 Single Alpha 27, Chrono 16, Stream 37
PPP: B-sides first knockout round, 2021

I’ve had three main poll runners-up; I won the last Golden Beat on Twitter (also in this list) and had another runner-up. But the B-sides often flummoxed me, and 2021 was particularly harsh: all the stuff I liked most seemed to fall in the first knockout round. Including ‘Microdosing’, a thrilling, sexy ‘Jersey Club’ track of relentless force and momentum. Although I’ve not been to this kind of club, I’ve had my fair share of hot dancefloor nights in the 20s, and this really conjures up all the energy and tension. That momentum comes from the backing track, the ‘take a dose of me” hook, Uniique3’s two rap verses, and finally a stuttering outro that fittingly leaves you breathless.

Photograph of female clubbers (or "revellers" in British tabloid speak) dancing, used for man article about the popularity of Jersey Club music on the Soundtrap blog in 2024.

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Helen is like David Watts @helenenen.bsky.social · 20h

#TheTwen2ie5

Day 15

Greatest Hits
by Jockstrap
🇬🇧 2022

Jockstrap - ‘Greatest Hits’ (Official Video)

YouTube video by Jockstrap

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

"We’ve talked a lot about how X will bring about the end of the world, and it might. I just worry we should talk more about the way the internet is systematically stripping us of our capacity to feel empathy, too."

Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)

The Two Minutes Hate

Some thoughts on what pile-ons are doing to our brains, because ouch. Also: everything objectively insane about Kash Patel’s “challenge coin”; and meet “ratzilla”.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

I’m getting a sense here that of course the lads want to crack down on the avalanche of racism in our university hate factories, but maybe not if it involves arresting students who go to Oxford, because they are real people who actually matter.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 1d

The NHS is changing trans people back to birth sex on file, meaning we will not be treated appropriately for our bodies.

This is deadly, completely unacceptable, and the result of hateful far right ideology in our politics and healthcare.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Dark Chanting Goshawk @darkgoshawk.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 15:

Heartworms - Retributions of an Awful Life (2023, 🇬🇧, unranked)

Post-punk that doesn’t just sound like a Joy Division knock-off

youtu.be/thC-C_Bk8H0?...

Heartworms - Retributions Of An Awful Life (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Heartworms

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 1d

Headbutting the wall to break out of my bruised-forehead loop

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Politics latest: Reeves hints at tax rises and spending cuts to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’

Reeves hints at tax rises to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’: Latest

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

Starting easy, with things I never shut up about :)

- The broken plate in S1 E3 of Breaking Bad
- "You're not a real lawyer" in S1 E9 of BCS
- The Dance Class/Jeremy Makes It double in S2 of Peep Show
- Night Owl interrogation in LA Confidential

And of course "We give it up..."🧪😇

Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · Mar 27

Putting more positive on the ole TL: what’s a moment in a piece of media that took you from “ok this is pretty good” to “oh shit this is GREAT”?

Here are some of mine:
-The entire finale of s1 Severance
-“Satisfied” in Hamilton
-The end of Act 1 in Cyberpunk 77

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 1d

The lack of cringing, cowering deference to this nonsense is so immensely refreshing. Just joined the party.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Zack Polanski: "If the straight question is, ‘would I abolish the monarchy' - yeah, absolutely.”
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence

The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 1d

Keira Knightley cares so little about trans people that she couldn't even be bothered to prep an answer about working w/ Rowling & just seemed very angry to be asked. And no, I don't believe that she didn't know. Come on. www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: The video of her response to this was so much worse than the transcript

Explore this post and more from the Fauxmoi community

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