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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 1d

All the while screaming, "IT'S F***ING GREY! NOT PACHYDERM SEACLOUD! NOT WISTFUL MIST! NOT ANTHRACITE DEMILUSTRE! F***ING GREY, DAMN YOU!"

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 13d

Mmm, must buy tinned ears.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 23d

Stop Grading Hens

David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 29d

What I infer from Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book" is not that most of his eminent friends were conspiring with him to traffic and exploit underage girls, but that almost all of them knew exactly what he was doing and considered it an endearing quirk. Which is not a whole lot better.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 9

www.totallyradio.com/shows/thread...

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 9

As the season starts to turn, why not welcome it in with the latest THREADS, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, which is all up in your autumn? (The question is rhetorical; please do not actually tell me why not.) Mellow fruitfulness guaranteed. As ever.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 5

I mean, c'mon. This wasn't an ultra-wealthy politician knowingly attempting some kind of slippery tax dodge. It was obviously a genuine, unintentional mistake that any ordinary person might have made.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 5

British politics never ceases to surprise me. I would never have guessed before this week that anything could make me sympathise with Angela Rayner.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 5

Farewell to Giorgio Armani.

David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think Helen is, as usual, right in all the important points; but to be clear, I don't think it is L*n*h*n's *opinions* - some of which I agree with, some of which I find loathsome, but that is beside the point - that merit legal consequences. I think it of his alleged *conduct*.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 5

It bears adding: I think the use of the law and the police to target and harass him is vexatious, and outrageous, and points to problems that urgently need fixing.

I also think his own alleged conduct cannot be justified, and certainly should not be lionised.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 5

When people on the other side of the argument behave the way Gr*h*m L*n*h*n has reportedly done (and they do), there are many - me included - who would say it's vicious and unacceptable and deserving of legal consequences.

And if that's true when they do it, then it's true when he does it.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 2

August brought cracking albums from CMAT, Nova Twins, Adrian Sherwood and Earl Sweatshirt. If you want to read what I wrote about them in Metro, here ya go.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bertolt Brecht: "I have a solution to deal with unruly voters."

Jeremy Corbyn: "Brilliant idea, thank you!"

Bertolt Brecht: "Remind me just who it is that doesn't understand irony?"

David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 26

Facebook, tell me I'm 108 years old without telling me I'm 108 years old.

David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 25

Link: www.totallyradio.com/shows/thread...

www.totallyradio.com

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 25

Due to illness, no new THREADS @ 10 tonight on
@slackcityradio.bsky.social (via @totallyradio.bsky.social). But my ongoing effort to improve the audio on earlier episodes continues, so there's a repeat of SILVER SCREEN, looking at how pop music draws inspiration from the movies.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 19

Messaged ya!

David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 17

Not sure you can blame them for that tbf.

Sky News @news.sky.com · Aug 17

Ronnie Rondell Jr: Veteran Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd album cover dies

Veteran stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr, who was set on fire for the front cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album, has died, his family has said.

news.sky.com

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 17

Gonna go out on a limb here and say no matter how cute it is I don't think we should encourage it to eat babies.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 13

*gestures at everything*

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 12

And here it is: www.totallyradio.com/shows/thread...

www.totallyradio.com

David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 12

Huzzah! The new THREADS is here, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and the theme this episode is ORIGINALS: tracing signature songs and definitive versions that you might or might not know are covers back to their original source.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 11

Would you like to know what I wrote in Metro about new albums by gwennosaunders.bsky.social, alicecoopermusic.bsky.social, Tyler, The Creator, & Wet Leg? If that is what you would like to know, then you've come to the right post. If it is not, then thank you for your time and please keep scrolling.

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just going to go right ahead and assume Trump somehow managed to sit through the first hour of 2001: A Space Odyssey recently before being distracted by a squirrel and now this.