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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 7h

Periodical reminder to support independent journalism. Grab a copy of the fab new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social here www.thewire.co.uk/issues/501 or, better yet, take out a subscription.

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Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social · 6h

My new book - Rock and Role: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator - is off to the printers, and will be published 21 November!
Officially launching today, here's the book's site, which I'll be updating regularly. But check out the A/V section now! www.rockandrole.net

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 6h

I really love this Burgess book - found lots of authors in here - so it’s quite exciting that there’s a podcast about it

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 8h

📚NINETY-NINE NOVELS IS BACK! 📚

Series five is starting with an exploration of TITUS GROAN by Mervyn Peake, one of the key fantasy novels of the twentieth century. Editor of Peake's poems, Rob Maslen, joins us to talk all things Gormanghast.

Find us here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Ninety-Nine Novels, new podcast episode on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.

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Ormston House @ormstonhouse.com · 5d

Gleo returns for its second edition on 31 October and 1 November.

Marking Samhain, the concert series invites the public to Ormston House to gather and listen together. This edition features three acts with distinct approaches to sonic experimentation.

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent podcast, was worried they'd finished doing it

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 23h

www.mixcloud.com/eistcork/for... incl. @thelastsound.com @sunkenhum.bsky.social @nyahhrecords.bsky.social @avtvmna.bsky.social

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 2d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 2d

Only a Republican can defend the values represented by our Nation's flag. If the political elite have their way we'll end up with a President who can't even speak the frickin language!

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 2d

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Decal / Of_One @aoboyle.bsky.social · 3d

OF ONE - IN EXCESS ON A FULL MOON
From the album "Textures" - out 31 Oct 2025 on Cruel Nature Records

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/textures

@cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 3d

Not remotely fluent myself, & zero chance I'd vote for her, but at this point Humphreys should be telling us (as Gaeilge, mind) that she's cramming every spare minute, it's deepening her love for the culture etc. Her attitude is very obviously "what's the point, sure I might not even win"

Mike Finnerty @mikecjf.bsky.social · 3d

Humphreys promising to learn Irish if she becomes President. Just like how she promised to learn Irish when she became Minister for the Gaeltacht, let's see if we can make it a hat-trick #Áras25

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66snafu @66snafu.bsky.social · Aug 20

Think I'll read this once a week forever.

Patricia Routledge, I love you.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 4d

Encountering the strange mixture of sadness and riotous absurdity at the heart of this show at the age of 15 changed my life.

This is a wonderful and nuanced assessment, almost fifty years later.

Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 6d

"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."

I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.

madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 4d

My earlier tweet about Catherine Connolly hiring a former prisoner, in the form of a letter to the Indo.

m.independent.ie/opinion/lett...

Title: "Ní Shionnáin served her sentence - surely she is allowed to rebuild her life?"

I want to clarify something – is it the view of the Taoiseach, and of commentators, that former prisoners should be denied opportunities to rebuild their lives away from violence or criminality, even after they have served their sentence?

Given her qualifications, Ursula Ní Shionnáin was perfectly suited for the role of administrative support for a TD working on the Oireachtas Committee for the Irish language, and Catherine Connolly was in the right to give her a chance.

I think it is much more concerning if our Government thinks that prisoners such as Ní Shionnáin should not be given the opportunity to rehabilitate when they demonstrate a willingness to do so.

As a former employee of the Irish Prison Service, that seems to go against everything that I was told during my training.

Tomás M Creamer, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim

Published 4th October, 2025, on the letter section of the Irish Indepedent.

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The Last Sound @thelastsound.com · 7d

Since it is now October, that means there is a new album by The Last Sound out next month. In the meantime, for #BandcampFriday look no further than these:

fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/whok-l...

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/scrawled

#WHOK #UOUS

WHOK Lab Emissions Vol. III, by Whirling Hall of Knives

2 track album

fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com

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Cruel Nature Records @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social · 5d

PRE-ORDER

Of One ‘Textures’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/textures

A veteran of the Dublin electronic underground, Alan O’Boyle serves up a masterclass in minimalist transformative techno built from drones, feedback and noise loops

@aoboyle.bsky.social

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 5d

Expecting to be sending out the tapes next week👇🏻

Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · Sep 5

🪑 Clara Lai / Barbara Togander - ·i·
🟦 Fergus Kelly - Echolocation
🟥 Whirling Hall of Knives - WHOK Lab Emissions Vol. III

Onsale & streaming now, tapes shipping near the end of the month
fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/yum

Whirling Hall of Knives - WHOK Lab Emissions Vol. III

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry, but this is some old baloney. But also, I have GDPR questions about the emergance of this story.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 7d

Counter-terrorism gardaí intervened to stop Catherine Connolly from hiring a woman convicted of a gun crime to work in Leinster House, The Journal has learned.
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t

Gardaí blocked Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime

The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

jrnl.ie

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 9d

John Gilmore Sun Ra Arkestra Legend - Arrival day Sept 28 1931 – Aug 20 1995) He Travels the Space Ways.

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Transmitter Down @thetransmitterdown.bsky.social · 10d

Latest show, with music by:

dEUS
Cool Whip
Flesh Narc
Kansai Ché-Shizu
Dodge Meteor
Flender
William Carlos Whitten
Kaliyuga Express
John Swanke
The Spectral Light
Pôt-Pot
Bitterviper
Tereshkova
Fantôme Josepha
Ozbolt

www.mixcloud.com/TheTransmitt...

SHOW #424 - Dodge Meteor & Fort Evil Fruit

The usual mix of noise and beauty

www.mixcloud.com

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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 10d

I make music. I want to continue this thing i've been doing for 2 decades profesionally.

Here's my bandcamp siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Here's my patreon
www.patreon.com/cw/u49359212

Much love🖤

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Fort Evil Fruit @fortevilfruit.bsky.social · 10d

It was a joy to watch this bleak / hilarious thing unfold. Rest well, Kaleb.

Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Dilbert Project. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

The D*lbert Project

I wish I could remember why I made this. All I know is it was 2013 and I was busted ass broke, sleeping on a mattress on the floor of my dad’s office. I had no prospects left. Everything I had fit com...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label) @burningambulance.bsky.social · 11d

Sad to hear of Kaleb Horton's death. He was in my part of the world once and though we didn't meet up, he went to the burger place I recommended and loved it. A tremendous writer with anachronistic values — a great thing for the world, but a hard thing to be.

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