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@leaderofthesect.bsky.social
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All for art and art for all. Music, films, resistance, culture, books, travel and happy to be part of the industry of human happiness. Y’know, the good stuff in life that doesn’t attract bad people.

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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cities I can cope with - rural UK just seems to have lost so many that the remaining ones no longer need to compete.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Doesn’t work so well in the UK when a lot are owner/drivers.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m not sure driverless taxis could cope with Devon roads ! Tourists never can.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ouch!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He once stayed with my wife’s grandparents for a period whilst researching the then new East/West border. Being my favourite author I asked her grandmother about him, she replied ‘Oh, he was a dreadful bore - going through his catholic phase at the time‘, then refused to discuss him any further !
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks - eventually and grudgingly (and was told I had to be on time - like a naughty schoolkid). Got home to water pouring through the ceiling after a 24 hour no sleep trip back from Bangkok, not quite how I envisaged the afternoon going!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I live in an area with no Uber - currently have a bit of an emergency going on and need a taxi. Every single firm I’ve called doesn’t seem to want to do the job because it’s a bit too difficult to drive five miles. Sincerely hope they all go out of business.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I got this. Which is reassuring and also didn’t require 200+ questions.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s been a bugbear of mine ever since I had to look for one for my dad. If I end up in one like that I hope I still have enough gumption to burn the fucker down.
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Gary @shamrocknroll84.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Outstanding show of solidarity from Turkish side Konyaspor in their friendly against the Palestinian national team. They showered the pitch in teddies to be donated to children and suspended the match at 89:59 with a message stating 'Until Palestine is free, the match has been postponed'.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was my first ever record I think - on ‘Helen’s Hit Parade’. Still have it.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thai Ronettes tribute band anyone?
Two ladies on the street in Bangkok rocking not only some fabulously high hair but also a snazzy printed two piece.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I second that…
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now thats what I call a custom paint job.
Crunched Vespa hand painted with what looks like orange matt emulsion. I’d still have it.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Invigorating to hear this belted out full blast by a group of Italian, British, French, Dutch, German, Swedish, Belgian and Spanish comrades tonight. We might have our differences but we all agreed on who we despise. youtu.be/s6jw3u9cbEQ?...
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Bella Ciao (Canzone Antifascista Italiana)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Take the week off.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did he cut ‘HOPE’ into his forearm with a bottle? I’m in.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
None of which are likely to be valid, purely based on his choice of friend and jacket (in that order).
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s stopped raining in Bangkok!
Democracy monument, Bangkok, at nightEmpty Bangkok streets!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yet.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can’t disagree with any of that !
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m not sure that you can steal something that someone has left in the street and has no intention of returning to. Even if you can this man is simply an angry fascist of the highest order and perhaps should note what the Italians used their lampposts for.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I could take Mrs Robinson for a spin in that.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love an anarchist event - fave moment was sitting in pub next to Conway Hall after an anarchist meeting when some of the attendees came in - “That was a bloody shambles” said one angry bloke, “absolutely no-one in charge…”
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As long as you want to get rid of plastic pollution I’m your man! Everything else is above my pay grade.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No! I’ve seen one and never again. Here for work tho - I am your rep at the UN this week (god help us).
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From London to Bangkok - where it is absolutely pissing down. Still better than the day job.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What are Skrewdriver doing these days ?
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kenney Jones is still going - sadly none of the others are. But it’s the house that inspired ‘Lazy Sunday’ by all accounts, if that doesn’t deserve a plaque for contribution to human happiness then I don’t know what does!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Went for a walk to where the Small Faces used to live all together in Pimlico last night - disappointingly no huge blue plaque. But Battersea Power Station looked impressive on the way back.
Battersea power station from the north bank of the Thames - front facing cooling towers lit up blue/white and a waxing gibbous moon overhead. No pigs in sight.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
5 days - that’s terrible! I’d probably go with the ‘take the day off and go to a spa’ option at that point.
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#TwoTierPolicing

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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All this Danny Thommo stuff makes me think of a family tradition we do every Boxing Day, and no its not all going stabbing lifeboats and intimidating lifeguards! Sorry longish thread as its a great story of actual heroes that should make us all feel patriotic.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Battersea Bardot come down to the station…
Battersea power station at night - two of the towers lit up - not a pig to be seen.
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Vic Spanner @vic-spanner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jail this motherfucker
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Courage (in a French accent…) ! I spent a week in Amsterdam and only came home with three, the restraint was almost painful.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Espadrilles, please!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I absolutely did - looking like a landlocked Beach Boy who’d dropped in after a weekend shopping in Italy. At least that’s how I remember it….
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just dropped by Tate Britain for an hour or so - they’ve got a Scopitone showing Agnes Varda films of 50’s Cuba! Thats 3 unexpected delights in one. So much better than the Whistler exhibition.
French Scopitone video jukebox showing Agnes Varda musical films of late 50s Cuba - it’s sublime!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He didn’t, factually or objectively. Now fuck off.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The suede jacket was a mistake. It’s bloody well summer again.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glorious blue skies, suede jacket getting an outing, mist hanging in in the fields, so it must be autumn. Appropriately enough on the train to London listening to Railcard playing this - feeling very happy with the world just for a few moments. youtu.be/lnDH3L5CoHo?...
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Slow Train
YouTube video by Railcard - Topic
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did much the same on the basis of If You Want Me - it’s a great album and has been stuck on the turntable for three weeks now.
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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only a matter of time before going full double white denim!
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always on the juke box in The Angel - don’t remember shouting it in there, not that anyone would have noticed.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sometimes I forget just how damn funky the Commodores could be when they cut loose youtu.be/-5EmnQp3V48?...
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The Commodores - Brick House
YouTube video by steelydan1979
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I mean, if he’s not digging your set it goes a long way to explaining why their music sounds like it has all the soul sucked out of it.
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Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fair few people I know well above retirement age who may or may not live Kneecap but stand for all the things they do. That’s why they keep getting arrested as terrorists.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
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