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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks – the (admittedly expensive) reissue sounds even better than the original :)

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Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · 12h

@davidlancecallahan.bsky.social been revisiting Eva Luna, what an album.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23h

Shame their party wants to frack and hates green investment.

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.

www.independent.co.uk

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

Kuy is right. This time will be split into Parliaments, Recesses etc, it will fly by.

And the entire time Starmer is sat “Bidening” his time, expending the ability he temporarily has to regulate press, social media and fix all this.

We are on course to a Trump style Reform Govt.

Kuy Von Braun II @kuyvonbraun.bsky.social · 1d

Labour’s agenda is akin to repeatedly putting your hand into a fire. Starmer-stans insist it’s ok to keep doing that because there’s 3/4 years to go…
…
…they are very smart 🤪

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d

That's trouble with being against pluralism, diversity and difference. You never quite know where it ends.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 2d

First day recording - been laying down some backing tracks with a heavy heavy monster rhythm section (groovy sax player not shown) ...

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 3d

Many flotilla members are back but some are missing. They are the best of us.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMH...

'We stayed calm - they couldn’t break us'

YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show

www.youtube.com

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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 4d

ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have left the building.

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 3d

Trees: a symbol of a healthy ecology, clean air, and a tranquil environment.

And also maybe responsible for a mass extinction.

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A creepy-looking tree standing tall on a farm. It might have murderous intent!

Image credit Eric Johnson via wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 3d

Fifty six years ago today, around eleven-o'clock-at-night-ish, Michael Palin crawled out of the sea.

Michael Palin, dressed in ragged clothes / hair / beard, drags himself up the shore, the sea not far behind him.
And... if you've no idea what I'm going on about - the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus began today 56 years ago on BBC1. The show began with Michael Palin quite far out to sea, making his way to the shore, crawling towards the camera, and just managing to utter the word "it's..." before he's interrupted by the opening titles and a voiceover telling us the name of the show. Every episode of the first series began with a variation on this, the raggedy character never quite getting to make the full announcement

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 3d

theecologist.org/2025/sep/02/...

Ecocide and resistance in Palestine

The Palestinian perspective: Israel is committing not only human violence, but also climate violence: genocide and ecocide.

theecologist.org

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Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 4d

I said a while back, our right to protest will eventually consist of silent solo marching, within our own homes, whilst holding a blank placard.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 4d

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 4d

All there on Youtube. Clunky but genuinely creepy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r15...

The Owl Service Episode 8 Transmitted: 8 February 1970

YouTube video by Fraance Tate

www.youtube.com

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

TV THAT TIME FORGOT: The Owl Service (ITV/Granada, 1969)

Swinging London crashes PVC-bootedly into folk horror-adjacent rural Wales as mismatched trio of teenagers fall under the sub-Antonioni flashframed influence of local scare stories courtesy of some possessed crockery.

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 4d

The answer to this is press regulation. The reason we won't see it is because Morgan McSweeney persuaded Murdoch to keep his corrupt behaviour off the front-page of his rags, and therefore he knows that going after the press would be his political suicide note. Labour are simply corrupt.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 4d

“Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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OnlyFangs @onlycans.bsky.social · 4d

top 5 cock sparrer songs:

1. wrong time, wrong place, wrong wheelie bin
2. hosepipe ban
3. pork pie factory
4. shagging the tracksuit geezer's missus
5. (every day is) giro day

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4d

4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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