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It's Only Rock & Roll @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social · 13h

50 years ago today 9th October 1976 Dr Feelgood are No1 in the UK album charts with "Stupidity" #AlbumOfTheDay #albumsyoumusthear Album cover photography by 📸 Chris Horler

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 8h

Hampstead is nice. Great pint at The Garden Gate!

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It's Only Rock & Roll @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Released today 5th October 1973, #EltonJohn

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It's Only Rock & Roll @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." Remembering Janis Lyn Joplin, who died today 4th October 1970 #JanisJoplin #photooftheday #womenwhorock 📸 Art Kane

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Woody would have had strong opinions on the current state of things...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We like to tell ourselves that time flows evenly, but we all have a history of convenient lies. Time has its slow eddies. It runs across some places so tardily a year might become a decade. Places where the walk of a hundred yards might take two hours to complete. – #DAKilroy

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

It is #BandcampFriday - when real musicians get more of your hard-earned money. You're sure to find something you like at bandcamp.com

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Bandcamp

Discover amazing music and directly support the artists who make it.

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Martin Wright @martinwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How long since you last heard this gem. Released 1978 by Julian Marshall and Kit Hain who met at school and split after 1 album. Marshall remained in the UK, whist Hain moved to the states writing songs for several other artists. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4MVhYm...

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Dancing in the City

Marshall Hain · Free Ride · Song · 1978

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com

A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Witchsky (the app) @witchsky.app · 29/09/2026

Announcing a fresh release of Witchsky! here is a carousel showing some of the most prominent new buttons, keys, and screens:

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why yes, of course you can build out your gigantic 72,500 m2 energy and resource-sucking data centre, but be sure to “encourage staff to use public transport, cycling & walking”. Beyond parody from the crack squad at An Coimisiún Pleanala. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Dark and windy this morning. Haven't seen rain yet though.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.

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It's Only Rock & Roll @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29th September 1985 Kate Bush was No 1 in the UK album charts with "Hounds Of Love " #AlbumOfTheDay #katebush

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Off to a wedding in West Cork, today.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interesting short piece on the movement to Kill the Cookie Banner and the tracking lobby's effort to maintain the status quo: noyb.eu/en/open-lett...

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Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, the British TV folk horror list has grown significantly since this afternoon, thanks to generous input from you lovely lot. Here's the updated version: www.folknhell.com/blog/british...

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British Folk Horror on TV — Folk'n'Hell

Britain has been haunting itself on television since the late 1950s. Long before anyone put a label on it, the BBC and ITV were sending city people to villa...

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Following on from Wednesday's Autumn Equinox, today is Autumn Equilux with day and night being equal. A balanceof light and dark at dawn here in Glastonbury this morning as the sun rose behind St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Asserting, without evidence or reasoning, that ‘Englishness is an ethnicity’ and then using that assertion to deny millions of people their chosen identity, is really just an attempt to make naked, unthinking racism acceptable in polite society.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday

Folklore can ignite enchantment within us. Enchantment that fuels our imaginations. Enchantment that shifts our consciousness, allows us to envisage new and better worlds. It begins the process of manifesting the changes we desire. Re-enchanted, the world is full of new, feral possibilities. Re-enchanted our imagination is an accessible superpower.

The stories we intentionally absorb, the stories we select to tell ourselves, they allow us to live in the world differently. They allow us to make and remake the world differently.

Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom. We need this space. We ache for the sublime. For re-enchantment is an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment is an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope. In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

Re-enchantment is personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffinry. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur, immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising. This is why I walk the territory of folklore. Wear my witch-cloak of swan feathers, hold hag stone to my eye. This is why I created Hookland as a home for stories, a community for Fully-grown Changelings.

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It's Only Rock & Roll @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Released today 24th September 1971 T Rex "Electric Warrior". The album peaked at No1 in the UK album charts, Album cover artwork design Hipgnosis, based on a photo by 📸 Kieron Murphy #marcbolan #AlbumOfTheDay

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Fucking bastard wasp on the bastard door handle as I came back into the house. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

A nice relaxed Saturday morning chasing down a mouse that the cat brought into the house and released. I hope that I passed the "hunting" test and am not required to retake it anytime soon. #Caturday

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Dave O'Grady @davegildedalm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

THIS WEEK #SpeirGorm KATHERINE PRIDDY @katherinepriddy.bsky.social in 🇮🇪

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

This immensely talented young lady is on an Irish tour at the moment. @katherinepriddy.bsky.social is going to give you an unforgettable night out if she's playing near you.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are two Irelands; One where people cannot afford rent, food and heat. Over 250,000 children live there. And the one where people can fork out €500 quid for the “premium toilets” at an Oasis gig.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Raindrops on the compass stone. Photo taken before sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

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Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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abominabledrh @abominabledrh.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

It appears that I am over the worst of my #ManFlu. Hope awakens.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 11/09/2026

If you've spent any time dealing with people suffering from paranoid psychosis, and I have, this is exactly the kind of shit they say.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...

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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You

The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The UK isn't racist" update

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