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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Aya! Go listen to "hexed". It's absolutely incredible.

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A lot of people are only sharing the headline, but the subheading is, to me, worse. It's one thing to say 'we're bootlickers who don't necessarily agree with him but could conceivably use the ties we have to negotiate' and quite another to say 'we agree with him, fuck marginalised people lol'

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Album of the year thus far, by the way...

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I hope future Popstock releases were discussed...😇

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Dark Magus. One of the best. Not just one of the best by a group headed by Davis but one of the best by anyone ever.

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ghost drO)))ne @ghostdrone.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This Reddit thread of people explaining the most unhinged reason they ever abandoned a book is a delight

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I actually recall the Joyce/Rourke interview more clearly than the cover story. 😬

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It absolutely was and yes, I do remember this edition. Select was an excellent magazine in its David Cavanagh / Miranda Sawyer led heyday but it did also feel like a repository for ex-NME writers.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 08/03/2025

the labour party are fighting class war and they’re on the side of extreme wealth.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I've said it before but Labour are completely ignoring Scotland because they think they've "got it back". Scotland leant Labour their votes because we knew the Tories had to go and the present system gave us little other option. That's all.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Had my dispatch notice today, can't wait. 😊

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Picnic By The Motorway. Just off-kilter enough to be strange but not so far that it doesn't fit on the record.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It's just because a 7" had been reissued. Once streaming is added in, it has no chance whatsoever.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

R.E.M. have to be a shout here too but I would say the Manics too.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 20/02/2025

Your occasional reminder that the Daily Record was the house rag of the Keep The Clause campaign, demonising gay and lesbian people.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We know now that Labour only oppose the Tories when they're in opposition but support them entirely when they're in government.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Imagine you're facing a political party that's shat the bed as bad as the SNP and you hand them back a massive lead because you simply refuse to do anything good.

Poll average for the next Scottish Parliament election showing Labour and the SNP close around the time of the general election and then Labour collapsing into dust after they entered government.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is why Labour will fail. They have no identity beyond what the mainstream media wants. They have no concept of the extent to which Scotland leant them their vote because we had to get the Tories out. Their ineptitude is leading us straight to a Reform/ Tory pact.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 18/02/2025

Robbing a bank but misgendering somebody on my way out so the entire British political establishment has my back.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Wealth just allows people to show us who they really are. Why they're always the absolute worst is another subject.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Treated myself to this. Staggering, incomparable.

The front cover of "An Unintended Legacy" by AMM. This release is in the form of a small book.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I haven't forgotten by the way, I've just been snowed under at work.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My copy arrived this very morning. Another Timbre must be my favourite label right now.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Stunning performance, such a wonderful evening.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Fair enough. I think Babe Rainbow has a gorgeous melancholic glow that I find absorbing. As it happens, I was bang into Levitation. Only saw them once and it was the night before Terry Bickers quit onstage! He did seem a bit lost during the encore but no real signs of trouble otherwise...

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Haha! Also, bloody autocorrect, Babe Rainbow, not Baby.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Nope. Baby Rainbow is a beautiful album.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I saw Chris so many times around 2001/2. He was always fantastic.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Maybe that's the angle. What on earth went so badly wrong....

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Absolutely this. CDs are perfect for compendiums, long programmes and anything that needs a low noise floor.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's just a dull record. It makes Around The Sun sound like In Rainbows.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm genuinely not fussed by his acoustic guitar stuff but I love his electro-acoustic stuff. Played a huge part in Tony Conrad getting his flowers in his lifetime too.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The fundamental problem is that Starmer's government just won't confront powerful economic interests. So it tries to fudge the issue: we'll let housing continue to be used for investment, second homes, AirBnBs etc, we'll let rents keep rising, but if we build loads, something's bound to change!

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Jim O'Rourke was 23 when he released this absolute masterpiece. 23. Wild.

"Disengage", an album by Jim O'Rourke. This is compact disc and the visible part of the CD tray reads "2CD" indicating that this is a double album.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In On The Kill Taker is still my favourite.

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I just want to know how this happened. Or why.

The head piece of a fancy dress costume of a panda, placed on top of a metal structure previously used to support a tree but now disused

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Caroline (aka beth gripps) @cjmckenzie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is going to be popular"

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