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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1h

Spent the last couple of weekends going to suburban model engineering events - who knows how long it’ll be before Max decides he’s not into them any more? I love these places, the quiet efficiency, the sense of disparate people united by a shared obsession, the canny inventiveness and skill

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2h

Lovely article on Dial House, an absolutely beautiful place. When I went to interview Penny Rimbaud there for Out Of The Woods he told me amazing tall story, claiming to have knocked out the UK’s comms with the nuclear submarine fleet by flying a kite into the nearby Marconi military radio masts

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4h

Nice Panzer she's driving

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 5h

'What makes Love’s Secret Domain magickal is that it inhabits perfectly Crowley’s dictum that magick is the “Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will”' Love’s Secret Ascension: #Coil, #Coltrane & The 70th Birthday Of LSD #ThePortal buff.ly/3DNu5sS

Coil - Love's Secret Domain album cover. A distressed, surreal painted panel with a central red 'heart-like organ' sprouting colourful vines, a single eye in shadow, a ghostly yellow skeleton at left, and a blue ribbon below reading "OUT OF LIGHT COMETH DARKNESS."

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 5h

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 9h

Been waiting for this: superb investigative journalist and author of Legacy Michael Gillard on the arrest of David “Long Fella” Hunt this past week. Intriguing detail in here (the Upsetter Substack, his work on police corruption etc) is well worth subscribing to substack.com/@theupsetter...

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Scotland Yard Takes Al Capone Approach to ‘Untouchable’ Crime Boss

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 14h

Had this on this morning, the voices are just utter genius

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Slaven Bilić, livid at being sacked from the Bad Seeds, watches the tour bus disappear down the motorway

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 03/10/2026

'Reich’s music has an effervescent spiritual quality that crosses all kinds of boundaries, both secular and sacred, as well as the divisions between different kinds of music that sometimes define listeners as apart from one another.' The Strange World Of… #SteveReich buff.ly/VJIJRE1

Steve Reich - Four Organs/ Phase Patterns album cover. An image of the sea with a greenish tint and lettering above in the same shade.

Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians cover. Bridget Reilly style image of patterned lines with a pale green border.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As it's October @timburrows.bsky.social reminded me of this, one of the greatest videos ever, in which Ian Nairn goes to Oktoberfest (essentially also 'me, being dragged to cheesy student club nights on the Prince Of Wales Road, Norwich circa 1997-2000) www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5AO...

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Ian Nairn's Munich Oktoberfest

YouTube video by Andy Chisholm

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The hedonism of Elastica feels especially relevant in a pop world whose biggest star is Charli xcx. Like brat, Elastica exudes a sleazy smokers’ area glamour" lovely writing by @msclairebiddles.bsky.social on one of the best albums of the mid-90s thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

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Reissue of the Week: Elastica's Debut Album is "Untouchable Louche Perfection" | The Quietus

Claire Biddles returns to Elastica's debut album and finds it short and perfectly formed; even with some extra tracks thrown in.

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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My new album is just one month old and you'll love it 🌫️ siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

In advance of Sunday evening’s broadcasts of “A man from the future”, BBC 4 TV in the UK tonight will be showing three PSB shows: “Pet Shop Boys at the BBC”, “Reel Stories” and “Radio 2 in the Park” (2024 PSB concert). www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0... #PetText

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was perplexed by Jeres’ theory here BUT i put on Keep The Faith and he’s right! Also, Sleep When I’m Dead is an improved version of the awful Rocks by Primal Scream, dropping the cod-messianic rock & roll attitude of Bobby G with something that sounds more genuine. And a laugh.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've banged on about it before but Michael Gillard's book Legacy, on corruption around land around London Olympics involving David Hunt, is a brilliant book. Hopefully this leads to prosecutions... and on the day that his top pal David Sullivan reveals he's suing the BBC too.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh wow, Kenneth Williams reading James & The Giant Peach on Jackanory, I remember this so well. Probably one of the first encounters I had with Williams, who became and remains one of my literary heroes for his delight in expressing words, sentences, voices 🖤 youtu.be/UDmnq-LjDvo?...

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Kenneth Williams reads Roald Dahl's "James & the giant peach" Part 1 of 4

YouTube video by peter churcher

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A morning walk in Epping Forest. Usually I do three or four a week but realised today that I'd not been since late June. It was too bleak in the heat over the summer, and allotment drudge got in the way. It's still so dry up there, the V-2 crater empty of water, a bright green circle of grass

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Quality bit of picture selection by someone at the BBC website here (interestingly the auto image select now pulls a different one, so perhaps words were had) www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Truth about all 6 Music contemporary band names. 1. All bands to have banal uninflected 2 word names - Wedding Guest; Nit Nurse. 2. If a band is called something like Ladywoman it’s all male; if it’s called Penis, all female; if it has no vowels or phonetic spelling, queer.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So depressing, and worse than this used to be given the right wing bias of the media is now eclipsed by the derangement of social media.

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having just lost my mum I was already in tears by this point, but it does feel like a shift when there’s a generation that not only shows grief in public but will actively talk about how end of life needs to change

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While I agree, I’m not entirely sure that our new local butcher (was a fish & chip shop, same people now apparently skilled in butchery) haven’t used AI to do their front signage (that chicken on the right seems to have skin over skin, those chops look v odd) so perhaps some passion might be welcome

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fascinating read: "She traces a line from the flirtatious interactions of women stripping online, to the docile and sycophantic tones given by developers to chatbots, “who indulge our fantasies and make us feel better than any person in our real lives can”. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the inter...

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get tired of the endless talk of ‘passion’ with regards to food. It’s become very irritating. I miss the butcher being the butcher because he is the butcher.

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Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Same energy

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bunch of “straight” white van tradesmen meeting up for a bit of downlow hedge cricket

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It does seem mad that a few hundred metres from where these vans and potential wronguns were found there's a nondescript metal gate that'd give access to much of RAF Fairford & its parked aircraft, allowing anyone so inclined to hare around like the SAS in the 1942 raid on Sidi Haneish

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always slightly disappointing when an uncrewed SpaceX rocket works rather than blowing up in an enjoyable spectacular explosion.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Surely even for the most determinedly sun-worshipping British person 26 degrees in the last week of September is awful and well… chilling? Just relentless months of this now, it’s driving me round the bend, the supercharger on all the other apocalyptic grimness going down in the news.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely one of Nash’s greatest works.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Purple train, purple train,” as Mr Prince sang etc

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Went to see La Tëne again last night after a tough week at home and they were a big help, psychedelic, potent, uplifting. I would love to watch them in some ancient square, stones still warm from the day’s sun & now lit by the moon, head full of mushrooms and wine. An incredible group.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a heartening story – do this to more golf courses!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had a PHONICS BRIEFING (what time are they on? etc) at Max's school earlier, took me a while to get my head round it but fascinating compared to how it was 40 years ago. I like the structure and rhythm of it & how the teacher explained capital "I" as "a tall lonely man, he wears a hat and shoes"

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I live in Chingford / Woodford. People move to Essex bc mugs like me have bought their mortgage-free homes, giving them a fat pile of £ to spend on a greige-painted new gaff and a West Ham themed shed pub in which to sit and moan about the death of the pie & mash shop that they never went to.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obviously it's commendable that he's raising money for charities via this tour but I remain quite *Larry David Stare* at the artists – him, Kneecap, Boab Vinyl – for whom their advocacy of the cause has provided the sort of marketing boost that money cannot buy

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24/09/2026

oh fuck offfffffffffffffffff

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is such a great thread from Big Dan. Just the right balance between learned elucidation and entirely justified scorn.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Either that Tommo melt is thick *or* he deliberately filmed himself stabbing the boat so he would get nicked and then get to bring up the issue in court / perform the martyr / then make loads of coin out of mysterious hard right financiers / his balaclava sheep/blokes

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...also features a review of one of my albums of the year, Trá Pháidín's Cloch‘s Claí on the excellent @worldofechomusic.bsky.social label, Paddy fascinating on how it deals with Irish identity in here:

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