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"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." Co-author of the now completed Then Play Long blog (https://nobilliards.blogspot.com).

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · Nov 7

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 6m

You'd actually think the authorities don't want people travelling to or from "London"; they seem intent on making it as difficult and unpleasant as possible to do so. Do they just want rich sporting heroes on their bikes who think central London's their glorified playground (POOR PEOPLE KEEP OUT)?

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 6m

L just back from shopping in Chelsea; impossible to cross the river by bus because of pavement works by Battersea Park, to add to general impossibility of Battersea Bridge/Cheyne Walk yesterday. And then the mayor moans about people not going into central London. Newsflash: they can't get there.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 22m

L's firmly making sure that I am!

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 22m

Also you don't get to win by emulating the villains #blocked

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 23m

But the elite have armies so that's that then, back to feudal lords and serfs, democracy blip in human history cont p 2994

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 42m

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 27m

Thanks, M; at home today, staying indoors and "getting over it." I may extend that to tomorrow (haven't made my mind up yet).

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 59m

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 59m

This about Krasznahorkai?

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 2h

Nobel committee: "the self-titled LP is a killer, of course, but 'Coexist' is underrated--go check it out"

"XX wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature" place-filler NPR headline

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1h

I have a rather crueller yet almost certainly more accurate descriptive noun for him (not Anglo-Saxon slang) but am not going to publicise it because it really isn't worth the hassle I'd get.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1h

The real winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature? Florida governor Ron de Santis.

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra • Holy Mountains

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Holy Mountains

Álbum da Exploding Star Orchestra, fruto de encontro encontro musical inédito do grupo no Sesc Pompeia durante o Sesc Jazz de 2022.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

Have requested and been granted the day off today. Did not feel like going out. Need at least a day to recuperate from yesterday evening's bad experience.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 4h

From left to right: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Ralf Little.

Colloween @colken.bsky.social · 5h

The type of photo that in a newspaper would be accompanied by the words, '...on the 18th November 2024, police conducted coordinated raids on the homes of the gang, during which significant evidence was retrieved'

A Times article:

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

Photos of three men, allegedly Gen Z, appear below the headline.
First guy is wearing a hat and carrying an umberella; he looks like he is genuinely trying to be as uncool as possible.
Second guy has a small beard and small moustache. He is wearing a jumper with question marks on it underneath a dress jacket, a massive fucking red flag if ever there was one.
The third guys face is hidden below a Make Britain Great Again cap. The cap has various UK themed badges on it, including a fucking poppy

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 14h

"I was working in the lab late one night"

Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 5h

The real question would need the words "over the last ten years" appended.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 5h

The second best single ever, and it was only the second best single in that week's chart; see my TL this coming Sunday afternoon...

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 13h

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 7h

The only thing I understand from that is that it probably wasn't composed by "people."

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 16h

The parallels between DSMD and the new JW album are salient. You know it doesn't stand a chance but if you can at least say in future years that you didn't let it pass you by and you tried to make *some* noise about it, well that's worth something.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 16h

Recovering psychologically, still. I might ask for tomorrow off work because I really can't bear going out there again just noe.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h

This excellent and in-depth review pretty well sums the sad situation up:
defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h

I remember what most people thought about DSMD in '85, which was generally as little as possible.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h

One big reason why I find her new record so suffocatingly oppressive. It just swallows up and kills everything that dares to proliferate around it. We knew the new JW was a classic on first listen but who listens to us? These days, nobody.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h

Try raving about the brilliant Jamie Woon album, which nobody is mentioning at the moment, rather than continuing to obsess about another album that came out last Friday and we might get somewhere.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 18h

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I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.