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John D. Lewis

@johndlewis.bsky.social

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Musician, songwriter. Wrote the theme for BBC Bobby Robson programme. (http://bit.ly/1LYgIbH). Co-wrote 2 US top 10 hits. Fleet Street (The Times) journalist (ret.) Thirty-One years sober. NUFC since 1960. Sneaking behind paywalls for football fans.

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 12m

Notable for the amazing acoustic guitar instrumental by Jim Cregan, once the powerhouse guitarist in Family.

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 13m

You evidently don't understand the mechanisms of songwriting!

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 4h

What fettle, bonnie lass?

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 4h

YESSSSS! I thought that. Sort of more "breathy" and softer and (I think she thinks) "seductive".

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 4h

Wait for it! There will be a Trumplosion any minute as he learns a woman who fights for democracy and against dictatorships has won the #Nobel Peace Prize. #r4today

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 6h

Starmer's Government looks like an episode of the old BBC comedy, "The Men from the Ministry," where Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch blundered around Whitehall with stupid ideas.
Pubs being allowed much longer hours has a fatal flaw—the cost of staffing pubs for those extra hours. #r4today

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 6h

@leeryder.bsky.social and his Wrongicle colleagues must be quaking in their hobnails. The Pope has condemned clickbait. #NUFC

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine being a company that is so desperate for advice that it employs Rish Sunak. #Microsoft #Anthropic #r4today

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 23h

What IS this thing with Americans answering a question with "I wanna say"?

Q: How old are you?
A: I wanna say 650.
Q: You can't be 650 years old.
A: I know, I just wanted to say that.

#r4today

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 23h

Fox News is showing how it views the world. It has this YouTube page with "LIVE WEBCAMS around the world | October 9".

Every single camera shows the USA.

#introverts #flatearthers

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 23h

Aubergines: but you Americans have to make everything as simple as possible for Magas, so you call them egg plants. Which is strange cos I've never seen a hen lay an egg that shape.

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 23h

Howay, Ed. 108 hours, Israel shells Gaza killing dozens after Hamas member calls Bibi a shit!

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 23h

The word is "Whoa". Woah is a slang spelling of the word. And you're a journalist????

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 23h

#r4today presenters are so self-obsessed that the questions get longer and longer (love of the sound of their own voices) and the answers get shorter and more interrupted by the presenter (see above).

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

And so it begins: the slow but almost certain collapse of the #Gaza peace deal as the Israeli Jews in the Israeli Government start the rollback to ensure there is no deal.

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Duncan Wraight @duncan.wraight-consulting.co.uk · 1d

Oooof some skill here mind

ATS NUFC @atsnufc.bsky.social · 1d

That Park assist / Neave hattrick goal for #nufc u21s

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Harbourmaster Productions @harbourmasterrr.bsky.social · 1d

Person from different universe makes blanket statement on people they know *nothing* about and have zero experience of.

BBC News - Kate warns too much screen time damages family life
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an "epidemic of disconnection".

www.bbc.com

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, I said WTF out loud when I heard this. It strikes me that once you are (or have always been) ultra-rich, you think you get superpowers in perception, knowledge, experience.
In fact, you're just a lump who knows bugger all.

(Sorry, I'm ranting).

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

This guy bemoans the awful state of Britain when returning from a high-powered job in Singapore.
His Telegraph article states he kept applying for jobs and not getting them.

I think he's not getting jobs because he can't do simple multiplication. #DAVIDMAYO #Telegraph #r4today

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

I know I am a pessimist, and I can't help feeling that all the dancing in the streets over this peace deal may be premature.
I fear Gazans will die soon after the ceasefire starts when Israel creates an excuse to bomb again.
Or Hamas fires a celebratory rocket at Israel.
I pray I am wrong. #r4today

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

What strange language speaketh you? What wondrous code is this? Who are these Dirty Vile Obnoxious Animals?

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Harbourmaster Productions @harbourmasterrr.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget that when musicians started sampling, The Music Industry* kicked off and made sure it still got itself paid.
Now, The Music Industry is essentially sampling (through AI) and doing its best to make sure artists don't get paid.

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

Ed, did she really say it. I thought I made that up!!!

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 2d

While, at the, Tory party conference, Badenoch exclaims: "I didn't see another blacks face for four days."

John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 2d

Bye Bye.