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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Don’t know if anyone will buy tickets but I am at Edinburgh Fringe next month www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2442/...
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At the Morecambe Poetry Festival 2023, Robin was officially handed his Poetic Licence (it is real, he’ll show it to you if you ask, and often if you don’t).T...
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Becoming a bit of a joke aren't we?
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Quite low ticket sales for NEWBURY on Thursday - if you have pals in the area who you think might like my burble , please pass this message on www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
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In Conversation with Robin Ince | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about In Conversation with Robin Ince today.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@robinince.bsky.social I always chuckle when I read your books because I hear the words in your voice and cadence. It's like when you read a book after saying the film sang the characters have the voices of the actors when they used to just be mine.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
For those saying they can’t order £5 tickets online , I am sure you could get in if you just turn up on Thursday night
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@robinince.bsky.social Picked up my signed copy of your new book yesterday from @toppingsely. Ahead of your visit coming up. There was a genuine buzz in the bookshop about it when chatting to the staff. Can't wait!
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@garyseconomics.bsky.social Gary, mate, what the fuck are they doing? Why are they cutting taxes for massive companies when they should increase them? And at the same time cutting from the poorest. I don't get it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs
Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Umm... This is the wrong fucking way round. Tax them more to compensate for the tariffs and to mitigate the fact they don't fucking pay enough tax anyway. Tax the rich corporations not give them tax cuts while cutting from vulnerable people.
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Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs
Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... Good. Someone who's guilty of embezzlement shouldn't be allowed to govern a country. If she was left wing we'd never hear the end of it so let's enjoy justice for once. Shame it doesn't happen anywhere else.
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Marine Le Pen attacks ban on French presidency run as a ‘political decision’
Far-right leader, who was found guilty of embezzlement of European funds, says conviction is a ‘denial of democracy’
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So where did the money come from? Oh we're cutting our global influence which is only half the money required. Wasn't there a £20bn black hole 5 mins ago? Oh and we can't give money to poor kids or pensioners.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is not serious stuff. You have Trump in the WH doing what ever the fuck he wants and the other end doing this. I think a bit of moderation is required here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andrew Bayly: NZ minister resigns for placing hand on staff's arm - BBC News
The incident last week comes months after he allegedly called a winery worker a "loser".
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is labour's moment to win or lose. They cannot give away copyright for those who create to those who parasite. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Why do they really about people like they're bees?
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Of course, trying to outdo the racists always works. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations
Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage
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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Moon dressed as Saturn.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
MELONS ! A show that I loved performing and which celebrates the comedians I love and the possibilities of stand up is available TOMORROW - trailer here m.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Cc...
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Robin Ince - MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand Up Comedy [TRAILER] HD
YouTube video by The Cosmic Shambles Network
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Tickets for new show and book launch with special guests www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
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Robin Ince Book Launch • Words • Kings Place
'Normally Weird… Weirdly Normal' is Robin Ince’s fifth and most personal book. This special launch night event at Kings Place includes a sneak look at Robin’s latest show - The Universe and The Neurod...
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If I was Starmers team, I'd be worried. 6 months in and pantomime fairy godmothers are already joking about giving him all the help he can get. Not a good sign.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I will be on House of Games in second week of January
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My Nana was laid to her final rest yesterday, she will be missed and we love her but she will never be forgotten. It strikes me that this is the end of a generation of my family, their thoughts and attitudes to life lost in time.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The first London outing of my next show - The Universe and the Neurodiverse which will also be book launch for Normally Weird…Weirdly Normal - has just gone on sale - tickets here shop.kingsplace.co.uk/31238/31239
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Robin Ince Book Launch, May 8, 2025 7:30pm | Kings Place
Kings Place curates a year-round programme of music and performance, hosts events for local school children and families, and champions new and diverse performers and musicians. We need your support to keep doing this.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
5 authors I've read 5+ books by: Terry Pratchett Robert Jordan Iain M Banks Ian Fleming R.L. Stine
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Just started sorting through poems - didn’t realise how many I had written since May - it is over 200 - some will vanish, some will sprout - aiming to do many more poetry nights next year - please do recommend clubs that might want me - here is my licence/license
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I lost my Nana yesterday. We were so close and it's devastating. The hardest part was having to explain to a 4 year old that he won't see his Nana-Nana anymore. A whole generation of my family, their hopes and ideals lost forever. She was a constant in my life and my world will never be the same.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Podcasts. It appears that I have listened to a lot about history this year, both linear and musical. My top podcast being You're Dead to Me @gregjenner.bsky.social. Nice.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Obligatory Spotify wrapped etc. Pretty similar with a solid newcomer from Jacob Collier this year.
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Karma & Chaos @karma-chaos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -- Tolkien
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There seems to be a lot of material for small children to encourage reading, which we use, but can anyone recommend ways of getting them exposed to maths and numbers in the same way? #mathematics #numbers @fryrsquared.bsky.social
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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If representative democracy was so good and we as the people assumed the reps are superior in intelligence as to make the "big decisions" on our behalf, then why are Jury's selected from the general population? Shouldn't MP's decide every trial case based on this logic? It's inconsistent.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My week has been soundtracked by classic jazz and it's been swell. Coltrane, Davis, Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Burrell,and Art Blakely. These guys could play right to the core of emotion.
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Seriously? This is why the right wing do so well, because they have no principals and don't resign over minor offences which were resolved 11 years ago. She is obviously a capable transport sec who cares about workers and their rights.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A heads-up for fans of the Life Scientific: a special New Year’s Eve episode when my guest will be astronaut, Major Tim Peake, to be recorded at the Royal Society in front of a live audience. 🧪
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My son (4) was in trouble for hitting another child at nursery. We told him he shouldn't hit, but it transpired the other child called him names 20 times before and had been asked to stop. I've decided this is analogous with conflicts large and small. One remembers the cuckoo, not the ticking.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The bullying poem part one and two
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As I've got older (currently 37) and with a small child in the house there is less and less time for video gaming so find myself returning to old favourites, C&C, Civilisation, Sonic 2, Ocarina of Time, Final fantasy and the classic beat em ups like mortal Kombat. #videogames
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maxcounter.bsky.social @maxcounter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I'm not sure if this is a physics or chemistry question so forgive me. (For context - This came about because a vegetarian fell to the back of the oven and caught). Why does something burnt end up black? Why that colour? #physics #chemistry @jimalkhalili.bsky.social @markmiodownik.bsky.social
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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Public Service Broadcasting HQ @psbhq.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now sold out, and Munich too. Hooray
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