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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 1h

Are you fucking kidding me?!

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2h

Hollow laughter

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Danny @mardigroan.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, you mean fall as in autumn, not as in "of civilization."

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Kat Five @katfive.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks @joyzineuk.bsky.social and @recklessyes.bsky.social for the great words and track by track feature on the Among The Wildflowers compilation!
#musicsky

Joyzine @joyzineuk.bsky.social · 1d

TRACK BY TRACK: RECKLESS YES RECORDS - AMONG THE WILDFLOWERS

After a 2-year hiatus co-founders of Reckless Yes records Pete Darrington & Sarah Lay guide us through their compilation 'Among The Wildflowers', packed with tracks by Feral Five, Knitting Circle, & many more.

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Track by Track: Reckless Yes Records co-founders Pete Darrington and Sarah Lay guide us through their comeback compilation album ‘Among The Wildflowers’ - Joyzine

News of the return of Reckless Yes Records following a two-year hiatus was met with much rejoicing at Joyzine HQ. There are few labels whose ethics and musical taste have aligned quite so neatly with ...

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 17h

We have just been watching The Librarians: The Next Chapter, so yes, I understand completely.

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Danté Banks @dantebanks.bsky.social · 17h

I find Streeting deeply unpleasant.

Can we ban him?

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 BREAKING | Wes Streeting confirms Labour is actively working to BAN trans women AND trans men from female spaces, describing their presence as "unpleasant".

Streeting confirmed to MumsNet that Labour aims to exclude ALL trans people from single-sex spaces.

(Via MumsNet)

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 17h

These people are absolutely fucking batshit.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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XeaglepissX @xeaglepissx.bsky.social · 18h

AAA Gripper these three (Derby, Shipley, Manchester) and Newcastle (don't think there's a poster yet.....also with Unit Ama though)

December 4-7th - four dates in a row. That's an official tour for a band full of working folk. Can't wait

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Rocket Recordings @rocketrecordings.bsky.social · 18h

"Turn off their minds and flow downstream."

@echoesanddust.bsky.social reviews DOPERIDER by The Utopia Strong:

echoesanddust.com/2025/10/the-...

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Leave Twitter for Bluesky. Leave Bluesky for Mastodon. Leave Mastodon for Klerb. Leave Klerb for Chunk. Leave Chunk for Goobus. Leave Goobus f

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 18h

Is @aptshadow.bsky.social aware I occasionally like to read books by other authors? Take a break, man! 😛

Civilian Reader @civilianreader.com · 20h

Upcoming: CHILDREN OF STRIFE and GREEN CITY WARS by @aptshadow.bsky.social

civilianreader.com/2025/10/08/u...

Really looking forward to both of these - due to be pub'd by @torbooks.bsky.social @torbooksuk.bsky.social & @orbitbooks.bsky.social.

Upcoming: CHILDREN OF STRIFE and GREEN CITY WARS by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky has to be one of the hardest-working authors in SFF. Not only that, his novels are consistently excellent and varied — he writes across seemingly all speculative genres, of…

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20h

This is the correct energy. Rapid and withering response. British politicians too often cower before a voracious press. You have to go at them as hard as they go at you.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 19h

I reckon you’d get a very different set of answers if you substituted ‘last 5 years’ instead of ‘life’ tho. The golden age of social media has definitely passed.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

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

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 19h

I met my wife & a not insignificant chunk of my friends.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 1d

Huiii... 🤣

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 23h

Yes. Exactly.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 23h

Haha, the next generation of E&D writer right there! 😂

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Chris Sutcliffe @chrissutcliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Are you fucking joking? How fucking incapable of even the barest minimum of reading comprehension do you have to be to say Pratchett is your favourite author then to act as she does? This is sick

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Simon Wessely, fuck Wes Streeting, fuck Labour for consistently making life worse for the people they should be helping

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 1d

This is a complete joke. Neurodivergence is still massively under diagnosed in the UK. Pretty much every expert in the field recognises this.

They’re about to do to ADHD meds what Cass did to trans kids. Be very afraid.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.bsky.social · 1d

Review | @theantlers.bsky.social - Blight by @teamhorse.bsky.social

"Blight is another little gem to add to the treasure box of music from The Antlers. A perfect companion to a warm fire on a cold winter’s evening."

echoesanddust.com/2025/10/the-...

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