Roy Kelly
@stanyanfan49.bsky.social
Beats.Beatles.Bob.Brautigan.Bloxwich. Sixties.Writer.Poet. Drugstore Fiction, Bob Dylan Dream. Clouds.The cats. The tortoise. Frayn.Stoppard.
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Apparently engaging with the EU is all about economics, while also avoiding freedom of movement. Sigh.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
December 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Apparently engaging with the EU is all about economics, while also avoiding freedom of movement. Sigh.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
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Inside and on top of the Wellington Arch in London - the first time I’ve been inside!
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Inside and on top of the Wellington Arch in London - the first time I’ve been inside!
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Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
If you’re not a very good present wrapper the sheer perfidy and recalcitrance of paper, sellotape and scissors always comes as a shock. They just won’t readily do what’s required. And the end of sellotape thinks it’s the Scarlet Pimpernel.
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you’re not a very good present wrapper the sheer perfidy and recalcitrance of paper, sellotape and scissors always comes as a shock. They just won’t readily do what’s required. And the end of sellotape thinks it’s the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Happy Winter Solstice. Days will be getting longer - yay!
December 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Happy Winter Solstice. Days will be getting longer - yay!
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Bought OTD in 1968: their best and most psychedelic (the two may be connected). Sunshine is the ur-rock riff but Strange Brew and the menacing We’re Going Weong are its equal. Heavy psych on Brave Ulysses
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
December 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Bought OTD in 1968: their best and most psychedelic (the two may be connected). Sunshine is the ur-rock riff but Strange Brew and the menacing We’re Going Weong are its equal. Heavy psych on Brave Ulysses
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
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WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!?
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
December 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!?
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
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Craig Brown spends a whole page parodying the Telegraph in the current Private Eye but even he can't invent headlines as mad as the real ones.
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Craig Brown spends a whole page parodying the Telegraph in the current Private Eye but even he can't invent headlines as mad as the real ones.
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How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives
Digitizing the Bob Dylan Archives and Taping Toad's Place
An interview with veteran taper and archivist Jeff Friedman
www.flaggingdown.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives
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Anyone know anything about this 2003 Dylan documentary with a familiar name?
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Anyone know anything about this 2003 Dylan documentary with a familiar name?
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She's right! And it all comes out in the 34 minute long version Neil played on November, 20 1973:
reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
She's right! And it all comes out in the 34 minute long version Neil played on November, 20 1973:
reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
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Hmm, wonder what the explanation could be?
December 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hmm, wonder what the explanation could be?
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Check my substack page! I gave in this year and posted a photo. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-few-more...
A Few More Holiday related things
And my analysis of Bob Dylan's newest Christmas light display
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Check my substack page! I gave in this year and posted a photo. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-few-more...
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From the days of proper album covers RIP MA
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From the days of proper album covers RIP MA
@merrillmarkoe.bsky.social
Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@merrillmarkoe.bsky.social
Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
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There’s a lot to know about ‘slavery after slavery’ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
December 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
There’s a lot to know about ‘slavery after slavery’ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
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In the words of Oscar Hammerstein, something wonderful.
December 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In the words of Oscar Hammerstein, something wonderful.
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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It’s A Corporate Takeover, Charlie Brown (2025)
December 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It’s A Corporate Takeover, Charlie Brown (2025)
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ISSUE 87, WINTER 2014
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Texas Calling
A tale of two kindred spirits who found common ground in poetry, rockabilly, and a shared love of the open road.
BY JOE ELY
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DECEMBER 15, 2014
Texas Calling
A tale of two kindred spirits who found common ground in poetry, rockabilly, and a shared love of the open road.
BY JOE ELY
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss....
Texas Calling
oxfordamerican.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ISSUE 87, WINTER 2014
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Texas Calling
A tale of two kindred spirits who found common ground in poetry, rockabilly, and a shared love of the open road.
BY JOE ELY
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss....
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Texas Calling
A tale of two kindred spirits who found common ground in poetry, rockabilly, and a shared love of the open road.
BY JOE ELY
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss....
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December 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM