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@clogmuso.bsky.social
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Retired db admin and software developer. Musician for clog dancing, calls and plays (not necessarily simultaneously) for barn dances, ceilidhs. Anarcho-syndicalist tendencies but will settle for anything to keep Reform out

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been to several gigs of different hues in the last week. Verdict: music is good. Being in rooms where music is being made by humans is even better.
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Celebrity Traitors beginning is NOT Breaking News @theguardian.com
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those who don’t remember - and, more importantly, for those of us who do remember but were not aware of the details
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's clear many of these cases wouldn't be happening without the seemingly unlimited funds of the anonymous donor who is determined to push transphobia into every corner of Scottish life. This looks less and less like a grassroots women's rights campaign and more and more like a personal vendetta.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today, Alison Ann-Dowling, a Scottish Labour councillor who is a member of the party's ruling body the SEC, together with fellow Scottish Labour Women's Declaration activist Norma Austin Hart, will take their trade union, Community, to court to try to overturn its trans-inclusive policy.
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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Slow marching being an obvious threat to public safety meriting prosecution, unlike blocking ports and knifing boats with someone still on board /s
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dear god, I’ve got “legitimate concerns” but the Culture Secretary and Home Secretary seem to care fuck all about mine. Livid.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
who's up for robbing banks while shouting "stop the boats" so no-one arrests us?
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🦇🕷️🕸️Jack Anderson🕸️🕷️🦇 @omegajak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Could shout that while holding cardboard signs showing support for non violent direct action protest organisations and make the cops heads explode.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm not saying tying people to a stake at low tide and letting nature take its course was an effective deterrent against piracy, but I don't see why we don't rerun the experiment
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'Asgard are by far the coolest thing to happen to microbiology in the last 30 to 40 years.' Difficulties and rewards of cultivating lab cultures of contemporary relatives of the ancestor of all complex life on Earth.
nature.com
These bizarre, much-coveted microbes are revealing the origins of complex life
Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Middle-class racists are horrified to discover they've attracted working-class racists to their village 🤔
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Unease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend
As villagers take stock following symbolic vote, some fear far-right weaponisation of asylum dispute and influx of ‘masked people like in Dover’
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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not even the most famous Dundonian named Michael Marra.
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No Sheds @nosheds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When vox-popping the nut-jobs in PidlingNimbyVille just ask them *why* they won't be able to walk their dog, do their litter-picking or leave their door unlocked. Make them say the racist bit out loud. Make them own it.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 17/09/2026
it isn't so surprising that they don't go to bat for minorities but when they won't go to bat for the *RNLI* my god
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What’s up, Jack Seale - why no mention of the actual creator, Mick Herron www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Slow Horses season six review – it gets harder to enjoy Gary Oldman’s spy thriller every year
The show’s creator has gone, it’s been retooled as a conventional thriller and it feels like it’s starting to run out of ideas – even if it’s as slick and confident as ever
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I completely understand people saying “why is the media giving Piddington so much attention?”, but I do think this clip is worth watching.
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Everybody who banged on about this the other day was quite right to. What a splendidly weird thing it is. I wish I’d seen it as a teenager
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Play for Today - Penda's Fen
Young Stephen, in the last summer of his boyhood, has a very clear and intense view of the world, but an awakened force in the landscape is trying to communicate some warning, a peril he is in.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These people should be sent to prison. Or how about proscription of all groups with the initials PA.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This broke my heart because it gets to the part of this moment that is hardest to confront. The danger was never just the con man. It was the hunger for what he was selling, and the willingness to sacrifice compassion, decency and other people’s humanity to get it. Read this.
You know what truly breaks my heart?
It's not that America fell for a brilliant con-man. He isn't. And they weren't fooled.
What I find devastating is how many people were absolutely desperate to believe the lies.
How many ached for permission to dress their cruelty in patriotism. How many clung to racist. Homophobic. Transphobic.
Ethnocentric stereotypes. Because they thought the lies were promising them a shortcut to power. A way to profit.
Personally and politically. From the suffering of millions of absolutely innocent people.
The tragedy isn't the con. It's the hunger for it.
The willingness to trade compassion for the cheap thrill of feeling superior. The way hate sells because too many people show up already desperate to buy. —KALEN DION
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is apparently more rational about free meals for children than members of the Lords in the UK
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a corrective to famous gobshites like Trump lying about helping on 9/11, there’s Steve Buscemi, who put on his old firefighter gear & reported to his old Engine Company 55. He helped look for survivors & victims in the rubble for days afterwards. He did it anonymously & avoided cameras.
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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heard a BBC vox pop (truly the bottom feeding of broadcast journalism) complain that the RNLI might not be able to get to ‘genuine people’ because they were busy rescuing from small boats. ‘GENUINE PEOPLE’. Imagine being that level of soulless d**k.
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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So non-white people now have to show proof that they're 'acceptable' or they'll get violently mobbed?
screenshot from the article which says a councillor collected proof that the people were there to play cricket
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Rob @robsnottweeting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bypassing the fact that he’s assigned himself as arbiter of who can and can’t stay at his local Marriott, small boats crossings falling to a seven year low indicates that the government has got a grip on it.
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Rob @robsnottweeting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Like in what world is it a county councillor’s remit to march into a private business and authenticate whether its brown customers should be there.
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very excellent work the Guardian picture editor www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Met police launch inquiry into alleged overseas donations to Reform UK
Scotland Yard confirms it is investigating allegations broadcast by Channel 4 after undercover sting
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Probably going to get me on some list or other - but excellent 🧵
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
I live for the ferocity of human connection, not content for the content god. You should try it sometime.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
All those expensive Palantir contracts and the police are still surprised by the covert organisation and mobilisation of far right thugs in Dover and Portsmouth
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clogmuso.bsky.social @clogmuso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In the middle of this. Wonderful. Very much not the book I was expecting it to be. Loving it.
Photograph of the book cover John of John by Douglas Stuart
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s a cult.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Join me for a skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot. If you've seen the play before, then follow live. If it's new to you, give it proper attention and then join the # on catch up. Link in bio to the book.
Title screen for Play for Today: Penda's Fen (1974)Close up on Dictionary of Place Names reading "Penda's fen" with Penda in italics.Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene (Ten Acre Books 2025)
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Steve Mayo 🔶️ @stevemayo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As the BBC are bafflingly persisting in describing intimidatory thuggery as "protests", this timely post by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social explains why they are wrong to do so. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/man-on-the...
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🦇🕷️🕸️Jack Anderson🕸️🕷️🦇 @omegajak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
But sick and tired of this country being a fascist playground for insipid YouTube scum. Extremely sick of politicians who see fascists rampaging around and immediately try to court their votes instead of condemning them. Sick of cowardice and complacency and racism.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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