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Jack Hurley
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Purveyor of coastal slander. No gift for jobbery. Not the best but always in demand. RUBBISH SEASIDE BOOK NOW AVAILABLE 👇👇👇👇 Loudribs.com.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · May 29
It is DONE!

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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 15h
That’s it. That’s all you need to know. You’re a fully-qualified dubbist now. Please accept these ceremonial hotknives and Jah bless.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 15h
They have much to answer for
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 15h
THEY HAD IT COMING
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 15h
If the production is A++++ but some mad bastard keeps dropping a spring reverb unit on the floor to simulate thunder or some bollocks:

➡️ It’s King Tubby
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 16h
If it’s got all the best daft dub noises but the snare sounds like a shotgun:

➡️ It’s Scientist
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 16h
MY 20 SECOND GUIDE TO DUB

If the production is ace but some bloke’s wibbling utter cobblers over the top of it :

➡️ It’s Lee Scratch Perry
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 16h
Corr! That’s lovely that…
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 16h
Leeds looking positively Grimshawian ce soir
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 17h
Hegseth spent A LOT of time talking about exactly that!
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 17h
The Texas National Guard rocking up in Chicago. Think they got antifa and fajitas confused.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 23h
This article is a) vast and b) very much for you if you ever get the feeling that something hinky’s going on with GenAI.

To quote:

“Generative AI exists for two reasons: to cost money, and to make executives look busy.”

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 1d
Bah. Now I’m back amongst the ranks of you Single Yolk Rubes - BUT KNOW THIS: I have tasted the double yolk life and it fundamentally changed me. We are not the same.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
Oh god STOP IT
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
I AM THE LORD OF ALL THE EDGELORDS!

Robby Jenners - probably
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
Holy fuckballs - she just did the B-O-R-D-E-R thing. Now I have to phone 111 to see if I’ve received a fatal dose of cringe.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
Just listening to her on Today right now and she’s only got two settings: Overconfidently forthright which is *always* followed by intense annoyance when the world inevitably fails to greet her proclamations with unconditional praise.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
Kemi’s just a haunted, peevish paperweight at this point isn’t she?
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
(Last bit - promise! If you’re a fan of Alistair Horne - the English historian who was clearly a high tory cad with a colourful past and an excellent way with words - this will be right up your street. Catton is gentler, but he’s still got that fire in his writing.)
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
All of which is a very long way of explaining why - when I find myself between books or stepping on my kindle - this is the one I fish out, flip to a random chapter and start ploughing through.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
All of which plays out behind this backdrop of slavery and the madness it causes across every facet of the war.

We don’t really learn much about it as a matter of course in the UK, but it’s a properly fascinating thing that is chock full of drama - some of it operatic, a lot of it cartoonishly daft
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
And then you’ve got Grant - a man who’s pretty much failed at everything (and not even spectacular - just miserably) - ascend to become this insanely effective yet absolutely unassuming god of war, simply because he’s figured out that if you just keep on killing, eventually you win.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
Crazy narratives everywhere as the insanely powerful Army of the Potomac - getting its intel from some private sector gumshoe fearmongers -throws a series of collective whitey’s while a well-heeled chancer opposite basically blags them into one defeat after another.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
And what a subject it is! If you’re not familiar with the American Civil War, it is like this mad crucible of the most deeply, deeply flawed characters - 99% of them rank amateurs who were yesterday managing a bank in Shitsville, Ohio/today leading a division to certain death.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
HOWEVER, none of this can take away from the fact that it is pure joy to read as it tumbles along, taking in the vast sweep of one of history’s more bonkers conflicts. Honestly, it is so well put together that you just flat out forget you’re actually reading.
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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 2d
I think I’ve read this book about five times and it is not without its flaws - the main one being that it’s knocking on a bit and some of it’s interpretation of the USCW are probably a little stale and iffy.
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