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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 11h

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist)

I haven't tried to rank these - but is there a better 3 minutes of music from the decade than this...?

Cocteau Twins
Carolyn's Fingers

Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cocteau Twins

www.youtube.com

Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 20h

Also recommend the books if you happen to come across them - the conceit is that they're edited versions of Hacker's diaries, first published in the distant year of 2017...

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 21h

Harvest moon just now

A full moon seen through foliage and thin cloud

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 1d

Also that archaeology, with its materialist, deep-time perspective, has a key role to play in diversifying those “dominant historical narratives”, and communicating around climate change

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 1d

It’s great that the Greens acknowledge the interconnection of heritage & nature, but l hope it amounts to more than just giving nature the same protection as heritage - we need better integration in planning policy, and recognition that ‘landscape’ is the bridge between them, not a subset of nature

Lizzie Glithero-West @heritagelizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Today I’ll be heading North to the fringes of the @conservatives.bsky.social Party Conference. Also on party conference-watch the @thegreenparty.bsky.social adopted a heritage & tourism policy over the weekend: www.linkedin.com/pulse/greene...

A Greener Future for Heritage and Tourism

Putting People, Nature and Place at the Heart of the Conversation The Green Party this weekend adopted a comprehensive new Heritage and Tourism Policy at its Autumn Conference — setting out a bold vis...

www.linkedin.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 1d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist)

Where's Joe Strummer when we need him?

The Clash
Straight to Hell

The Clash - Straight to Hell (Official Audio)

YouTube video by theclashVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 1d

You still buy ‘sundries’ at the flower market, basically anything florists need that isn’t a plant

Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 2d

What an outrageous restriction: "The British Transport Police ... will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours"

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 2d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist)

China Crisis
Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking

YouTube video by China Crisis - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 3d

The OS image was also used for the post-war MoW Stonehenge guide (apologies for the beaten up ex-library copy!)

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 3d

As with Brexit, the Right always sees European institutions as something imposed on us that we can’t control, rather than something we co-created and that can be reformed (if required) collectively

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

With Kemi Badenoch saying the Tories would take the UK out of the ECHR, this YouGov poll in June found the public wanted to remain members by 51% to 27%

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 3d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist)

Kate Bush
Love and Anger

Kate Bush - Love and Anger - Official Music Video

YouTube video by KateBushMusic

youtu.be

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 3d

I still miss Douglas Adams

Archive on 4 - One Last Chance to See - BBC Sounds

Katherine Rundell rediscovers Douglas Adams' epic journeys in search of threatened species

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 4d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist)

Billy Bragg
Levi Stubbs' Tears

Levi Stubbs' Tears

YouTube video by Billy Bragg - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 5d

Using AI imagery is now pretty much the equivalent of continuing to post on X

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 5d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Posted by the President of the United States.

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 5d

If anything the Tory position of accepting that climate change is real but choosing to do nothing about it is even more cynical than outright denial

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 5d

Though John Donne provided the opposite take about 300 years earlier in his epigram ‘Antiquary’:
“If in his Studie he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.”

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 5d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist - and no, they won't all be Scottish!)

The Blue Nile
From Rags to Riches

The Blue Nile - From Rags to Riches (Official Audio)

YouTube video by The Blue Nile Official

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 6d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical, one per artist)

Aztec Camera
All I Need Is Everything

All I Need Is Everything (7" Edit)

YouTube video by Aztec Camera - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 6d

A 30th birthday party for ‘King’ - Belly at the Electric Ballroom tonight

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 7d

And Darth Vader

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 7d

The spectacular multivallate enclosure of Foel (or Moel) Fenlli, the highest in the Clwydian range: it's a tough ascent, especially in squally weather - justified by the swell of the ramparts and the views over hills and vale #HillfortsWednesday

Foel Fenlli from the west - a heathery hill rising above upland pasture

A dog takes in the view of the Vale of Clwyd from Foel Fenlli

Looking north across the hillfort's double rampart, with Moel Famau on the horizon

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 7d

#80sTop30 (unranked, vaguely alphabetical)

The Associates
Party Fears Two

Party Fears Two (2016 Remaster)

YouTube video by The Associates - Topic

youtu.be

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed - I'm quoting from the piece which states that the National Trust and Scottish government "say the sheep are wild animals". The sheep may not care but it seems that how humans (mis?)categorise them has an impact on their welfare...

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