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Luca @lucazanzi.bsky.social · 21h

As a Venezuelan, this is beautiful.

It has felt for years as though the world had forgotten my country and given up.

Maduro has outright stolen elections, and the world pretty much shrugged.

Maria Corina Machado has been the one constant fighter who has never given up in over 20 years.

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 21h

Some cracking tunes on this
#5DebutAlbums8084
#NowPlaying🎧
Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's (1982)

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 1d

Jangly pop music
#5DebutAlbums8084
#NowPlaying🎧
Pylon - Gyrate (1980)

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 2d

Rock AND Roll
#5DebutAlbums8084
#NowPlaying🎧
X - Los Angeles (1980)

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 5d

Fianna Fáil should have to carry this campaign to term #spéirgorm

A photo of Fianna Fáil TDs campaigning for a No vote on Ireland's Repeal The 8th Referendum

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 3d

We got the beat this morning
#5DebutAlbums8084
#NowPlaying🎧
Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat (1981)

Go-Go's: Beauty And The Beat album cover

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 4d

A class act.
#5DebutAlbums8084
#NowPlaying🎧
Sade - Diamond Life (1984)

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 4d

La laitue? 🥬

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

France’s PM resigns after less than a month amid widespread criticism of new cabinet

Sébastien Lecornu quits, blaming political “egos”, after Emmanuel Macron unveiled largely unchanged cabinet lineup

www.theguardian.com

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 5d

#NowReading

#Booksky

app.thestorygraph.com/books/c15e9b...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.'Bronte's...

app.thestorygraph.com

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 5d

Kicking off #5DebutAlbums8084 with this
#NowPlaying
Pretenders - Pretenders (1980)

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 5d

Your head of state:

a man in a purple robe and a woman in a white dress are wearing crowns and waving

ALT: a man in a purple robe and a woman in a white dress are wearing crowns and waving

media.tenor.com

Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 6d

Top drawer Pop Music for a Saturday afternoon
#NowPlaying🎧
Girls - Album (2009)

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Mick Sweeney @micksweeney.bsky.social · 6d

My picks for #5DebutAlbums0004

1 Arcade Fire: Funeral
2 Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender
3 Madvillain: Madvillainy
4 The Strokes: Is This It
5 Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights

(6 The Killers, 7 Gorillaz, 8 The Datsuns, 9 The Postal Service, 10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs)