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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Although 'cordless telephone' usually just referred to a landline handset without a wire, some people like Ron Todd here were using the term to describe mobiles

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1953 - Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High The Moon Including the introduction which shows what an amazingly futuristic thing this was in the 50s, hell it sounds like a lost future even now, why didn't more people do this? (Record is 1951 as anyone will know from the most recent mix, but vid is 53)

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I started secondary school exactly 50 years ago today. To my delight there was ONE other boy in my class who was into the Beatles, compared to zero in my primary school. Most kids my age (born in 65) were barely aware of the Beatles when we were kids

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Dr. J @drjytaa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Mean To Be Mean” has Swansea Sound sharpening twee-pop into something wonderfully barbed: bright guitars, bruised wit, and melodies sweet enough to conceal the venom. It’s romantic disappointment delivered with impeccable timing and a smirk. youtu.be/A2pLs5yd394?...

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Swansea Sound - Mean To Be Mean

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In town but looks unlikely we're going to make it. See you soon hopefully

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Norman Records @normanrecords.com · 01/09/2026

PREORDER: 'Pre-Post-Truth' by Swansea Sound Classicist indie pop from the group featuring Heavenly’s Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey. @skepwax.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2179...

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Former uk govt official. In 90s worked on policy on promoting physical activity AND reducing accidents. Both sides of this debate were in my ear constantly. Striking that the arguments in have not changed AT ALL in 3 decades and neither has uk policy. Still promote cycling. Still no helmet mandate.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amazing 1. The riff was the LAST element to be written. 2. If you asked anyone to hum Daytripper it would be the riff. 3. Guitar riffs do not count as part of the songwriting except in exceptional cases. Because of 2 I always counted this among the exceptions but now because of 1 i'm not so sure.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's quite amazing and revelatory that the riff (THAT riff) was the last element to be written. If you asked someone randomly to hum daytripper it would be the riff!

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Agree from experience within gov. Ministers are never comfortable genuinely relinquishing decision making to local bodies or agencies.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Abolishing the GLC and all the other metropolitan authorities made it clear where she stood on devolution. There wasn't even a pretence.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Agree. I worked on policy areas that were prime candidates for devolution and localism. Despite Governments from 2010 promising a devolution revolution ministers fought like tigers not to relinquish control of anything.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

People seem to be missing the point that under these proposals non-viable pubs *can* be converted to housing, its just that evidence of non-viability is required. I know of pubs that were closed not because they didn't make money but because the owners decided to make *more* money by cashing in.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

But it looks like this will not offer blanket protection for genuinely unviable pubs. It will simply require evidence of unviability. This is similar to how planning law already works regarding change of use for listed buildings.

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Skep Wax Records @skepwax.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fancy seeing some music and poetry at a tiny festival in the Kent countryside? We have the answer!

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I got to know Revolver gradually through the red, then RnR music and Love Songs comps, which between them cover all the Macca tracks plus YS and Taxman. Hence my 'new' Revolver tracks when I got the album were all of John's 5 and 2 George. It took ages before I got a proper handle on it as an album.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In my recent experience in HMG (retired last year) vfm and efficency have been all but completely sacrificed on the altar of very short term affordability constraints.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Satisfying take if only because it (rightly) refuses to count Magical Mystery Tour.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Whereas some London journaliats are sadly yet to realise that people outside London may have liberal views too.

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If, like me, you love geeky shit, you’l love the television clocks on this site www.mcmweb.co.uk/project_pend...

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Project Pendulum

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Nothing Is Real Podcast @beatlespod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It might be a good time to remind you all that these three episodes exist… Www.Nothingisrealpod.Com

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 29/07/2026

Just seen that I, Claudius is getting repeated on BBC4 from tonight. If you've not already watched it, you really need to.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As someone who has always lived and breathed music, i have to say that there are few things i dislike more than being subjected to unsolicited music in a public place (from phones on a train to restaurants and yes to amplified buskers)

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If you described Husker Du to me without me listening to them i'd say they sound like they should probably be in my top 5 favourite bands ever. But no they are not. I don't hate them but they always leave me unmoved.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I think I also uploaded a few others from that performance

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I should also say that I too was always insanely frustrated that this arrangement was never released, so this article is so on point for me. Feel the same about many other BBC session versions e.g. Log Cabin

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Haha. Before I clicked on the article i went scurrying to YouTube hoping that someone had uploaded the 1982 Whistle Test performance. Luckily they had. It was me. Well done that fella 😀

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'd buy the deluxe set with outtakes 😀

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've already listened to two. You don't mean a third do you?!!

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This was a fantastic and funny listen. I wish there was still another episode to look forward to.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/06/2026

This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Worried that this is now an embedded a 'no true scotsman' fallacy - that simply having progressive views disqualify you from being properly WC

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And people in public sector jobs (e.g. civil servants, teachers) who have to be careful about expressing opinions in public.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have never knowingly listened to a Frank Zappa album. This thread, genuinely fascinating as it was, has made it even less likely that I will ever do so.

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 08/06/2026

The Royal Function Rooms has been closed since 2022. Plans have now been submitted to convert the historic Rochester venue into housing. Bob Collins sets out why he believes the venue should be protected, how residents can respond, and why this fight matters for Medway’s music and cultural life.

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The fight to save a designated heritage asset

Bob Collins on the fight to save Rochester's Royal Function Rooms

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Royal Function Rooms, one of Medway's only mid-size venues is under threat. Here's why - and what you can do to help www.localauthority.news/the-fight-to...

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The fight to save a designated heritage asset

Bob Collins on the campaign to save Rochester's Royal Function Rooms

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

He did so he could announce hundreds of other projects across the country that they could do instead with the £36bn saved (despite that money not actually existing yet and mostly being far in the future) share.google/s3j1qv4F0A9W...

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Network North

A £36 billion plan to improve the transport that people use every day.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thanks @mickeyundertone.bsky.social - an honour. Around this time we toyed with covering True Confessions - original EP version. Sadly (or happily) no tapes survive.

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Bob Collins @bobc1965.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Supreme Court haven't ruled on what 'matters'. That's not their job. They have ruled on what the law says and in doing so have found the law to be a mess. The Govt has deliberately chosen not to fix it and instead are acting as if the SC have a policy override on Govt that they must abide by.

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