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LondonLee

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Englishman living in that America Buy a t-shirt! https://www.teepublic.com/user/londonlee

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 9m

Leicester

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1h

And FDR was the commander in chief of a segregated army. Going to shit on him too?

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1h

He still did more to fight Nazis than you've ever done

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

Tbf the UK did have a big impact on their whole look

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

Their other live performance on the Tube with a live band is better
youtu.be/QHX20e9VJik?...

Shalamar - Live In concert 1982 (The Tube UK) - A Night To Remember - There It Is - Friends

YouTube video by Dj Duke

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

Turn the brightness on your telly up. Apparently only low-wattage bulbs survived whatever apocalypse happened

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

British soul acts couldn't make records that sounded like them back then. Solar Records!

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

Seriously?

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 2h

We had a cat also called Twinkle at the time and she went up to the tv and stared at the screen when they were calling her name

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 3h

Hate it. What am I supposed to do this weekend?

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like he's basing it on the exchange rate in the 19th century with was £1=$5. It's nothing like that now

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

I went to a No Kings protest in a town near me in MA and it was just people standing by the side of the road holding signs and cars driving by would honk their horns in support. When it ended I was like "Is that it? Aren't we marching up the High Street or anything?" Nope

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

No you don't. His math is completely wrong

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

15 shillings is nowhere close to $530. Where is he getting that from?

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

Today I am loving this Japanese movie poster for The Red Shoes

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 6h

Men will go through anything rather than admit they like The National

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 6h

Taylor call Rick Rubin!

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 7h

My pipe dream is that she makes a Sex Funk album

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, an album a year used to be standard practice (Elton John put out two a year in the 70s!) and I do admire Taylor's work ethic on that front

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 8h

Good description of where she's at and a good reason why she probably should've taken a breather (not that there aren't things to enjoy on the last few albums)

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 9h

You’re never going to get a perfect social media space. This one is pretty good compared to the others

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 10h

Stop trying to make Mastodon happen

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 11h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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