Colin B.
@colinpb.bsky.social
Summoned the Gods and they all approved.
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This year's Yuletide number from Black Tempest is now available, the 4th year we have done this - it's becoming a tradition!
All proceeds from this track go to Psych Against Cancer - please give generously.
Yuletide Greetings all!
weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com/track/solsti...
All proceeds from this track go to Psych Against Cancer - please give generously.
Yuletide Greetings all!
weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com/track/solsti...
Solstice Fire Black Tempest, by The Weird Beard
track by The Weird Beard
weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This year's Yuletide number from Black Tempest is now available, the 4th year we have done this - it's becoming a tradition!
All proceeds from this track go to Psych Against Cancer - please give generously.
Yuletide Greetings all!
weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com/track/solsti...
All proceeds from this track go to Psych Against Cancer - please give generously.
Yuletide Greetings all!
weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com/track/solsti...
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Lovely thread from Louis.
Damn. I was really hoping I'd get to send THAT birthday card to Stanley Baxter. I wish I'd seen him in panto - common consent has it that he was the best dame of all, and it's easy to believe. However, I did get to meet him a few times, and I interviewed him at home for one of my books.
December 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lovely thread from Louis.
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Incroyable!
Wow, “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
The 120 metre wall was either a fish-trap or a dyke for protection against rising sea-levels, archeologists believe.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Incroyable!
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This article is always worth reading in the context of any vaccine safety discussion. Nothing is 100% safe, and if several hundred million people do almost anything then there will be deaths - but vaccines are much *safer* than the infections they work against.
theconversation.com/andrew-bridg...
theconversation.com/andrew-bridg...
Andrew Bridgen: how anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
Suspended MP Andrew Bridgen’s comments are a prime example.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This article is always worth reading in the context of any vaccine safety discussion. Nothing is 100% safe, and if several hundred million people do almost anything then there will be deaths - but vaccines are much *safer* than the infections they work against.
theconversation.com/andrew-bridg...
theconversation.com/andrew-bridg...
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Morning modsteppers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVk...
Help Me
YouTube video by Sonny Boy Williamson II - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Morning modsteppers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVk...
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First Record of The Weekend is Mother Give Your Children Sanity from Codex Serafini on @riotseasonrecords.bsky.social. This is a total blast - in places like some mutant child of Siouxsie & the Banshees and Hawkwind. Definitely a case to play VERY LOUD.
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
First Record of The Weekend is Mother Give Your Children Sanity from Codex Serafini on @riotseasonrecords.bsky.social. This is a total blast - in places like some mutant child of Siouxsie & the Banshees and Hawkwind. Definitely a case to play VERY LOUD.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
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Soul flag flies at half mast today.
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Soul flag flies at half mast today.
@garycrowleyonair.bsky.social
Mate, has to be Steve Cropper songs for this Saturday. What an extraordinary and beautiful human being, both on and offstage.
Mate, has to be Steve Cropper songs for this Saturday. What an extraordinary and beautiful human being, both on and offstage.
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
@garycrowleyonair.bsky.social
Mate, has to be Steve Cropper songs for this Saturday. What an extraordinary and beautiful human being, both on and offstage.
Mate, has to be Steve Cropper songs for this Saturday. What an extraordinary and beautiful human being, both on and offstage.
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Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Prolific musician was known for work on songs like Green Onions and Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay
Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist whose work as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music, has died at the age of 84.
Hs son Cameron confirmed his death to Variety. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
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RIP Steve Cropper - one of the greatest guitarists ever
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
RIP Steve Cropper - one of the greatest guitarists ever
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The Asda Grinch looks like David Van Day.
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Asda Grinch looks like David Van Day.
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So @sonjalovestodraw.bsky.social is fabulous as she sent me her email, I forwarded my quiz to her and then she DONATED to my JustGiving. What a STAR!
(You should do the same too!)
(You should do the same too!)
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So @sonjalovestodraw.bsky.social is fabulous as she sent me her email, I forwarded my quiz to her and then she DONATED to my JustGiving. What a STAR!
(You should do the same too!)
(You should do the same too!)
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Gentle reader, I was not advent ready #bitstormy
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Gentle reader, I was not advent ready #bitstormy
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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One for @ddebralouise.bsky.social here
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One for @ddebralouise.bsky.social here
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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Prison warden Mark Brady (Walter Huston) gives convict Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) a break and makes him his valet, a better assignment than Graham's job in the prison jute mill. But an inmate escape plan endangers Graham's plum position. "The Criminal Code" (1931) #pre_noir
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Prison warden Mark Brady (Walter Huston) gives convict Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) a break and makes him his valet, a better assignment than Graham's job in the prison jute mill. But an inmate escape plan endangers Graham's plum position. "The Criminal Code" (1931) #pre_noir