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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 28/09/2026

Out today on New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings, with poet Nisha Ramayya and bassist @basspope.bsky.social! A phantasmagorical ride through free jazz, experimental spoken word, Tantra, Zen, magick, and more. Available on CD or digital. johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/new-wa...

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G @grassi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey! I did the artwork for fab brand new @basspope.bsky.social album ' THE CHANGING SKY '. Congrats to John on his fab new album! HUGE thanks to John for the kind invite & trust with me creating a picture to his musical ideas. This work genuinely opened up & reminded me of new styles & approaches!

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aJazzNoise @ajazznoise.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Daily Tune #3056 - "Happy Face, No Crown" johnpope.bandcamp.com/track/happy-... @basspope.bsky.social - double bass @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com - violin, shakuhachi Dee Byrne - alto saxophone Simon Roth - drums, accordion Turquoise Coconut

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Happy Face, No Crown, by Pope / Garner / Byrne / Roth

from the album Harvester

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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 11/06/2026

This swinging slice of weirdness is out today on Bandcamp (we’ve even got CDs)! Such a joy to work with @basspope.bsky.social, Dee Byrne, and Simon Roth. Give it a whirl: johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/harves...

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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 28/05/2026

Weirdo jazz / improv from me, @basspope.bsky.social, Dee Byrne and Simon Roth coming on June 11th. Available to preorder now! johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/harves...

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New music coming really soon!!

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Excited to read this! I’ve run several adventures from this collection using @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social’s brilliant Cthulhu Dark ruleset and they’ve universally been brilliant spooky fun.

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Without stating your age, post a movie that was just released when you turned 18. (Literally on my birthday that year…)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

On the road this week with the brilliant @hollyclarkemusic.bsky.social!! We’re hitting @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on April 9th and Bristol Folk House on April 10th. Come on out and hear Holly’s incredible music in the very flesh!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/03/2026

"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/03/2026

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling.

We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Gavin Newsom: “Review the tape — Trump spent more time talking about the curtains & his ballroom than of the 4 service members that died bc of his operation & his declaration of war without congressional consent — He still has not articulated clear vision of what the end game is. Period. Full stop”

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks with members of the news media. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

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NPR @npr.org · 21/02/2026

The South Bronx bandleader took the Latin genre to new heights while recording for Fania Records. n.pr/4kLTCKV

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Willie Colón, salsa pioneer, has died at 75

The South Bronx bandleader took the Latin genre to new heights while recording for Fania Records.

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New music from @hollyclarkemusic.bsky.social with yours truly on bass. Check out the video for Wild Feral & Fierce then go follow her! youtu.be/4rm5HvLS-V8?...

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Holly Clarke - Wild, Feral & Fierce - Official music video (4K)

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

That man @adamneely.bsky.social presenting the most thorough work I’ve yet encountered in examining the reality of generative techno-capitalist AI in the arts. Incredibly prescient and pressing. And, spoiler alert, THEY’RE FASCISTS. youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?...

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Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future

YouTube video by Adam Neely

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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Holly Clarke @hollyclarkemusic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I am delighted to announce that I will be releasing my debut solo album ‘ Wild Feral Fierce’ on March 6th 2026, heading out on an album launch tour across the UK in March, April & June First single drops 6th February! #folkmusic #albumrelease #tour #folk #music #musiciansofinstagram #livemusic

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

5th Anniversay listening party for this! The debut record by John Pope Quintet, my first ever release as a bandleader. January 29th at 8pm at this link: johnpope.bandcamp.com/merch/mixed-... Come join the chat & listen to me reminisce about recording during Covid, composing, improvising and life!

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m forever reading articles about D&D-based actual plays being so incredibly popular and yet all I the AP stuff listen to/watch never touches the Dragon game. @itsquinns.bsky.social, the Mystery Quest crew, @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social…all my faves are on Other Stuff…and there’s A LOT of it!

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dina 🌙 @chuuliptulip.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"too stupid to take a shit" gotta be my favorite dutch insult

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you don't have authentic Grenadier AD&D Miniatures, you aren't an authentic Dungeon Master. I don't make the rules. That sketchy wizard cast a spell ages ago and this curse is now the reason for that Dungeon Master shortage people talk about. To end the shortage we must first defeat this guy

Image of an early 1980s magazine ad with a white-robed wizard with a stringy beard sitting behind a table. Before him are some boxes of official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons miniatures from Grenadier.

Captions reads: Authentic Dungeon Masters prefer Grenadier's authentic fantasy figures.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite. (Note also the line about pronouncing his name.) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 16/11/2025

This is utter madness. We have a *Labour* government that thinks it's a good idea to brief that they are inspired by Trump's immigration policies.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I’m on a @solobasssteve.bsky.social release! Recorded live in Newcastle earlier this month. What a joy to play with Steve!

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Trash Bandicoot 💙💜🩷 (They/Them) @rensky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I need more people to get into @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social Partially because it's an amazing AP podcast with audio design on par with that of Audio Daddy Casey Toney, but also, selfishly, I know a lot of cool artists who's fanart would absolutely rock and I want to see it.

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The absolute opposite of art. This is honestly chilling, not in a dumb ‘The robots are taking our jobs’ way but in the stark staring-into-the-eye-of-madness glimpse it gives us of how utterly allergic to the idea of honest artistry the cheerleaders of this bullshit are.

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I’m glad somebody does…

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I hope the Riyadh festival kills the self-serving pretence that comedians are typically fearless truth-tellers, taboo-busters and champions of free speech. A few are. Most are just entertainers who like attention and money

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Probably, if you pushed me to choose, my favourite album of all time.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The Onion doesn’t miss. We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act NOW!

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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2025

New footage from my last escapade at The Lescar in Sheffield with @basspope.bsky.social and Anton Hunter. Cheers to @jazzteabeer.bsky.social for putting us on. youtu.be/OFm0hyFYfGg?...

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Garner Hunter Pope - Live at The Lescar

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Late to this, but really can’t recommend enough this episode of Origin Story w/ @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social on the Rivers of Blood speech. Scary as hell, brilliantly analysed, with lessons for all of us on the mainstreaming of the far-right podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 20/08/2025 · 1h 21m

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I’m still a decade away from this number, but I feel a lot of these things nonetheless. Essential wisdom.

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We did a thing! Tune into YouTube at 8pm GMT and see what we got up to in the studio a while ago…

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John Pope @basspope.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The Great Joe McPhee. One of the realest ones.

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Dani Elwell @danielwell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

On this day in 1958! A Great Day in Harlem taken by Art Kane.

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