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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 3h

The next Latitude panel going up is a #BookShambles with @robinince.bsky.social and @bechillcomedian.bsky.social chatting to @luciaoc.bsky.social about her hugely important book The Lasting Harm. Podcast version out next week, video for Patreon's tomorrow. Subscribe here - patreon.com/cosmicshambles

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 5h

Off to do an Oxfam coffee morning in COOKHAM then to BRISTOL

www.henandchicken.com/event/comedy...

Comedy: Robin Ince - THE UNIVERSE AND THE NEURODIVERSE - Hen & Chicken

The Universe and the Neurodiverse is a journey from the outermost planets to our innermost thoughts.

www.henandchicken.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 15h

Yup and so many interesting voices are getting drowned out by hugely expensive arena shows leaving people with no spare cash

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16h

Four tickets left for Taunton on Thursday

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/tau...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16h

Sad to see Rhoda Dakar has had to cancel her Scottish tour - non mainstream artists have more and more of a battle to sell tickets - our world is becoming banal and tediously fascistic (because that has the simplicity of lazy thinking)

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16h

Also if they did it would probably be a mixture of a tax dodge and damage limitation

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16h

And hotel rooms and errrr any rooms

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18h

If you have little to do it 830pm - join @gavcross.bsky.social and me online

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 20h

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 21h

LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is out on Friday. Not long to go until you can listen to my new album! Pre-save it now to get it in your library on release day ☀️
ttikaram.lnk.to/LIAR

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21h

I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 22h

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21h

I love these

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22h

New Puffin Post acquisition. What can I say, I am powerless before the incredible art of Jill McDonald.
I have a personal Puffin pusher and everything now, one who knows my proclivities, my weaknesses, my unappeasable appetite for 20th century illustration

Cover of a 1968 puffin post magazines with two carton puffins in wizard robes and hats patterned with stars, on the left red, on the right bright blue, standing over a cauldron filled with bubbling yellow and orange liquid over a fierce burning fire emitting grey curls of smoke from which are emerging sparkly clouds filled with cartoonish characters - the three little pigs, a witch, a lion, a dog, a puffin and some musical instruments with faces.
To the top right, puffin post is written in curly black letters inside a zig zag shape in pink

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, there is justice sensitivity - I researched it more for my recent book

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

The life of every child, whatever their race, religion or creed must be of equal worth - to place children into one side or another is grotesque

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly heartbreaking - the bullies thrive as the children die

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tENn...

‘Don’t Mention the Children’ | A poem for the children of Gaza, by Michael Rosen

YouTube video by SaveTheChildren

m.youtube.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly heartbreaking - the bullies thrive as the children die

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tENn...

‘Don’t Mention the Children’ | A poem for the children of Gaza, by Michael Rosen

YouTube video by SaveTheChildren

m.youtube.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

So many still sell well though

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

And no

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

It was a poetry festival

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

This is the world we live in - where good people are mocked and thugs are celebrated - I presume the Business Secretary will say this is a great example of freedom of speech

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/10...

Rosie Jones assaulted by 'homophobic, ableist' thugs : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

Rosie Jones assaulted by 'homophobic, ableist' thugs - She and fellow comic Lee Peart targeted on train home from a gig

www.chortle.co.uk

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Hey chums , don’t forget that tomorrow is a special day for a free speech warrior & surprise masturbator to join hands at Riyadh comedy festival (& Jack Whitehall will be there for some splashback) - & they’ll still be on your TV all the time because these values are more acceptable than socialism

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

The Labour Party is the genocide party.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

This is a little poem about working in Harrods toy dept in the late 80s

Whatever the Customer Wants
"Hello Kirsty
Could you join me?
The boss would like to see All the most fun new toys
For girls and boys
And maybe have a little play"
"Oh Kirsty
I better leave you
Get back to the teddies :
But I know the boss is ready to see a little more
And it's better not to disappoint him
During this appointment There might be promotion For those who show devotion
To the store.
Show him the moves of that new Barbie doll
On the floor"
"Kirsty's had to leave now
She's been feeling a little ill of late
We always though she might not have the ambition For the requirements of the position.
So Sue
Will you
Help me show
What the boss might want to have a go on.
Bring the clockwork puppies that can walk But leave behind the dolls that can talk"

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