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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“put it on his fucking gravestone”
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Does anyone else remember when Elon was like "if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I'll fund it" and UNICEF was like "we're going to spend a month to make a plan to end world hunger for 6 billion USD
and Elon is going to fund it" and Elon was like "actually, nah" and then bought Twitter instead?
I think that was one of the worst things I'll ever see in my life.

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I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone.
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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A great piece of writing about one of my favourite lps. Brings it right up to date, 1967 in 2025. Arthur Lee was a visionary www.hypedonmelancholy.com/amyklein
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Forever Changes | Hyped on Melancholy
Amy Klein on Love's Forever Changes
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sky News asking the big questions over on Instagram... 🙄
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Jimmy Martin @jimmygila.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The OG
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Breaking: Donald Trump signs an executive order banning Hershey bars for using pronouns.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
When the Nazis Declared War on Expressionist Art (1937)
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When the Nazis Declared War on Expressionist Art (1937)
The 1937 Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibition displayed the art of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Georg Grosz, and many more internationally famous modernists with maximum prejudice.
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Bazlyons @bazlyons.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"You're not my surreal Dad!"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The actual White House feed. America hasn't become great again.... it's become absolutely fucking pathetic
Gulf of America The return of plastic straws
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"
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Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 09/02/2025
film still #44 John and Britt rehearsing. #severance
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Archy McBishface
Public invited to suggest names for next archbishop
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Kind of Blue 2 is finally on the way lads.
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They May Be Parted @theymaybeparted.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A postscript with a postcard: Paul found time to make it to the mailbox, sending this to Ringo, with a Jan 31 postmark. With the postal strike going on (see the front pages), who knows how long it took to reach its destination. But it's the thought that counted📬 REALLY.
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Brian Eno and David Byrne's album My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts was released on February 1, 1981
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/02/2025
Mark Kermode on… David Lynch, a one-off visionary who was also incredibly funny
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Mark Kermode on… David Lynch, a one-off visionary who was also incredibly funny
The US film-maker, who died last month, took surrealism mainstream with Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and more. He was also a champion of meditation and excelled at delivering a well-timed gag In January 1997, I went to Paris to interview the great American…
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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
me: what kind of animal is that tour guide: alaskan otter me: ok, let me know what he says
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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
***NEWS******NEWS**** Owing to shocks in global AI investment and a surprisingly soft commodities market we are SLASHING The price of I Don't Like Your Tie FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. FIVE QUID! If you've dithered. Dither no more. One week. PLEASE RT! UK: amzn.eu/d/8eWHyLf US: a.co/d/0UDZgQd
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Calvin Robinson looking for another religious group to join, like some sort of sect pest
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Michelle M. @michellemabelle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#GetBack25
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Weekends. Minimum wage. Passenger airbags. Non toxic food additives. Medicines that have been adequately tested. Zig zags outside schools. Bloody red tape!
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 27/01/2025
BTW: I'm not a total AI hater. Like anything it's a mixed bag. Would I use it to help write code? Yeah, coz I don't *love* code, it's just stuff I use to get something done. No, I don't want to see AI art, I want to see what YOU can do, I am more interested in your biro stickmen, if you made them.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Recipe book cover mockup. Vibrant photo of food ona slate grey counter. Tomatoes, limes, street tacos, a red enamel skillet with beans, chili peppers, salsa, corn tortillas stuffed with picadillo. A graphic effect in the center appears to reveal text by tearing this photo. The text reads "HOW TO COOK LIKE THE PEOPLE YOU JUST DEPORTED Authentic ethnic flavors for bigots who don't deserve them"
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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
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BOFFY @boffymufc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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They May Be Parted @theymaybeparted.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Elsewhere in that issue of Billboard was a full-page ad from Northern Songs congratulating Lennon & McCartney, the Beatles and George Martin for "Hey Jude" being named song of the year for 1968
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Sun 13 @sun13music.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"There are many jewels in the Low crown, but perhaps none as valuable as 'The Great Destroyer'." Ahead of tomorrow's 20th anniversary, we look at Low's first release for @subpop.bsky.social, 'The Great Destroyer'. sun-13.com/2025/01/24/o...
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On the Precipice: Low’s The Great Destroyer 20th anniversary
The slowcore touchstones’ first release for Sub Pop is as relevant as ever.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
this new Tesla speedometer looks awful
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
FRENCH MISSING IN THE USA.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Good boy!"
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Today I want to tell you about the Brown-Stigler incident. 20th December 1943 these two pilots would be the centre of an episode that would last decades.
Black and white pictures  of 
Charlie Brown (left) US pilot and Franz Stigler (right) German pilot
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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Howard @howardbrookes.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
#nowplaying Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
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Howard @howardbrookes.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
#nowplaying Shack - HMS Fable
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Howard @howardbrookes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#5albums70s1 1. Wire - Pink Flag 2. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 3. John Cale - Paris 1919 4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 5. Paul McCartney - McCartney Thanks!
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
 
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
 
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.
 
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
 
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
 
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
 
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
 
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.
 
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."
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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
-Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.
-Elaborate on that.
-No.
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Paul Murray @realpaulmurray.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – noise stalwarts’ journey into hell is unexpectedly heavenly
(Rock Action)While old-school fans may lament their softening, the Glasgow band swap rage for refuge as they face personal strife – and their 30th anniversary
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Channel 4 @channel4.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We are sad to say our Squid Game Come Dine With Me crossover episode where everyone has to get a 10 has been dismissed by commissioning. Apparently it’s ‘an awful idea’ and ‘stop emailing us show ideas you don’t get paid for that’
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 23/05/2023
Welcome to America
A sign in a parking lot reads: 
NOTICE
MUST BE CUSTOMER AT ALL TIMES
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
HELLO. Courtesy of a linkshare from Alexis Petridis elsewhere, recommended to all #MyBloodyValentine fiends -- audio of a 2018 show in Japan. Alexis called it "It's literally the best MBV live recording I've ever heard," and that's a sign. Heads up @hayao.lol and @elienis.bsky.social etc
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My Bloody Valentine - Sonic Mania 2018.zip
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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Private Eye editor and veteran HIGNFY team captain Ian Hislop gives his proverbial "two cents" on that dangerously disruptive Mr. Musk character
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Ian Hislop’s unfiltered take on Elon Musk | LBC
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cookjoh8.bsky.social @cookjoh8.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Great review of Ringo's country album in @timesuk.bsky.social. @stevenc63.bsky.social will be delighted with this album. www.thetimes.com/article/f088...
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Ringo Starr: Look Up review — this country record is his best in 54 years
The Beatles drummer doesn’t try to break out of a familiar formula here, but he hasn’t made such good music since his 1970 album Beaucoups of Blues
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
SELF-PROMOTION POST. Clouds and concrete: why the record business *really* needs to stop using “albums” as units of measurement/metrics of success. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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The UK music industry is reporting record revenues. The reality is much gloomier | Eamonn Forde
We’re apparently spending more on music than any time since the CD era – but the calculation methods are archaic, and don’t reflect the low incomes for many artists
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