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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 11h

Working through boxes of stuff that’s been sent over since I was last in the UK and sorry publishers of what I’ll presume to all be very cool games, but so far this is the one that got loudest hell yeah upon opening

A pile of parcels and various games, models and books next to them along with the A-Z of Record Shop Bags

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 14h

Talking of magazines, having both been asked if we want to do it and run the numbers many times over the last couple of years, it never ceases to amaze me quite how much WH Smith’s charges to have your mag unceremoniously shoved at worm’s eye level under a load of other stuff and behind a display

Several disordered racks of magazines in a smiths

A random pile of magazines just shoved randomly into racks

An unconscionable display of printed matter that might as well have been thrown in a bin and in a month or so will be

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 14h

Tfw you find your dream sweater and it’s £830 🧐 Any chance that hot viral trend for young people embracing analogue/physical experiences could reach the tabletop game magazine market sooner rather than later please

A Yellow Fair Isle Wool-Alpaca Sweater by Paul Smith

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This cost of living crisis is out of control

A €75 euro infinity gauntlet popcorn bucket

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Big day, I can now ask for tea with milk and I think speak more Irish than roughly the last four generations of my family that never left Wexford

A Duolingo graphic to announce I can now say about 3 words in Gaeilge

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Absolute vibes at the Nicholas Jullien x Steve Dehoux show

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Courtney Barnett, good but not great i guess. Sound was a bit off i think, drained some of the energy. Anyway, a week off and onto the next gig

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pre-teen JP is about to have a moment

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Question just posed by friend, when they say “conversations with Grok”, do they actually mean Stephen Miller or Elon Musk wearing a couple of cardboard boxes covered in tinfoil, telling this sponge brained fool what to do?

Awesome-o 4000 from South Park (cartman wearing some cardboard boxes and pretending to be a robot)

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This place has incredible underground-temple-dedicated-to-Pan-that-the-recently-returned-from-the-levant-protagonist-of-a-1920s-novel-has-built-in-the-grounds-of-their-newly-acquired-manor energy

A few of the grotto looking up at the light chimney carved through the rock

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Accommodation for the weekend. Hobbit mode engaged

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sad to report my Julie is less of a looker

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder how long it will be before this horrible filter, that most TV clips on Instagram have slathered over them, will be purposely used to induce nostalgia & meaning in the way that, say, grainy VHS textures are used now

A still from Games of Thrones that’s has had a kind of oil slick of hyper reality smeared over it

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Holy Fuck were good tonight, shout out the other 150-300 middle aged blokes in any larger city who keep this kind of thing a vaguely going concern

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean I half suspected they’d already done something like this and I’d switched off in the first five minutes

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Genuinely fascinating just how atomised pop culture has become (derogatory) that this is 100% the first time I’ve heard about a song/artist who apparently has been camped at the top of the US pop charts for just under half a year now

A post by popcrave about a song choosing Texas by Ella Langley that has been number 1 in the us got 23 weeks

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Super lovely gig tonight, Chinese American Bear in the basement at Botanique, love to see a band at the point when there’s just like 100 or so intensely into it fans at their shows

A fat teddy bear slumped in a stage surrounded by cables

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh my www.instagram.com/trashclublon...

a screenshot of an instagram post:

January 2027 will mark 20 years since we closed our doors forever.

But there is a light that never goes out...

Got somethings to share with you, let’s stay in touch.

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Once again it feels objectively mental that every week I pay someone to bark orders at me for an hour until I’m dry heaving in their stairwell and they’re like “ah hon hon hon send this pic to your wife” and it’s not even a sexual thing

A middle aged man regretting doing exercise

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Adding to my collection of terrifying food golems (see also Hot Dog man and Fritenstein) I now have this Ice Cream nightmare, literally getting high on his own supply

A large sculpture of an ice cream cone man who looks like he’s smoked a smaller ice cream cone and is high as fuck

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A fascist mob has descended on the seaside, the country be interested in the views of the Prime Minister, can you spot Andy Burnham?

A where’s wally illustration of a crowded beach

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“We’re just normal men, we’re just innocent men”

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just saw Mike Scott sing Fisherman’s Blues and this the only awesome gig photo I allowed myself to take pretty much sums up my feelings right now

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Very drunk, very happy, il n'y a qu'un seul club à Bruxelles !

Two drunk sorts at the football bathed in golden light

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lush late summer evening, 3-0 in the Bruxelles derby, C’est bon

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Walking in to our first home match of the season to an electroclash banger. Vibes

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

*MIchael has entered the chat* I mean poor old Jason but, FFS, you can't really blame Kylie can you also I need that t-shirt

a photo of Michael Hutchence looking remarkably tousled and about to absolutely fucking destroy Australia's pop power couple

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oh thank god, I was worried the True Crime podcasts just weren’t ghoulish enough in today’s climate, good to see they are in fact keeping pace and now doing True Crime immersive experiences

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lovecraftian gets thrown around a lot but every day house hunting in Bruxelles throws up new, previously unimagined horrors.

A photo from a property website of a bedroom, on the wall facing the bed is a sink, the wall itself seems to contain the trapped soul of the last person to have read the human skin bound grimoire that for some reason the previous owners kept in the basement

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I need the most French sounding finance minister you have. No, that’s too French

A screenshot of a bbc news report about Canada matching US tariffs $ for $, announced by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

holy shit, I just found an incredible archive of UFO zines and magazines from around the world, some dating back to the 1950s. this is like Christmas come early. though also I have got so much to do right now so this absolutely could not have come at a worse time 🥴 files.afu.se/Downloads/?d...

the cover for the 1963 Autumn issue of the BUFORA Journal

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have lived here for well over a decade now and I still feel obliged to stop, take a photo and snigger like a child everytime I see a Mols van or lorry

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

if you want to avoid it going too slapstick I'd recommend giving the scenario Eureka a fairly wide berth...

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sickeningly gorgeous new Golfing magazine, of all things, just arrived… Depeche Golf It’s actually somewhat ruined my day just how beautifully, excessively nice this is (& how much it probably cost to do)

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Once again found myself wondering if I’d been kicked in the head by a horse but relieved to see I’d just accidentally set my timeline to Discover

A screenshot of some absolute “live, love, laugh” style pablum accompanied by around a dozen booktok related hashtags and at the time of posting well over a 1000 likes

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sublime night just sat on the stoop

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We did it Joe, we (92%) killed the tyrant star

A hot blond woman looking at the eclipse

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

new Jonny Trunk book of vintage holiday brochures out in Sept looks amazing, such gorgeous design on these fuel-design.com/publishing/h...

a spread from Holiday Exotica showing off a selection of vintage 50s-70s (I guess) holiday brochures

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m sorry but Barry Manilow’s merch on his current tour has absolutely no right to go this hard Not even getting on to the ones with photos of Big B on them as well www.instagram.com/p/DbwaqPjmpp...

The merch stand at a Barry nanilow gog with sequinned bomber jackets and other must have items

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Post you from a different era in your life Nice one, top one, get sorted!

A photo of two young ravers filled to the gills with MDMA

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