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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love this song so much! Those harmonies! 👌🏻 youtu.be/0YRQug7kUoo?...

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Where Are Your Kids Tonight?

YouTube video by CMAT - Topic

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Taken on this day, Douglas Way, Deptford London.

A box of Action Man/Gi Joe type dolls in a flea market. All are dressed in army fatigues except one in a frilly top and miniskirt. He knows how to stand out in a crowd.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And now Tim Curry! Obviously there is one roll he’ll forever be remembered for, but I also remember him as Shakespeare in a BBC series long ago and for his roles in Clue and Muppet Treasure Island. There’s also this, which I listen to from time to time: youtu.be/jWzqcele1tY?...

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Tim Curry as The Pirate King - 'The Pirates of Penzance -1982 - Royal Variety Performance

YouTube video by Tim Curry

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thank you, Dolly! Rest in peace. ❤️

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I get that live in the woke bubble, but I don’t see this as a vote winner with anyone under 60. And the over 60s are going to be dropping like flies if heatwaves like this keep coming.

Quote from Richard Tice of Reform UK speaking today, 17 August:

I am old enough to remember 1976 this feels a bit to same. That was 50 years ago. I think when it is a bit warm, let’s enjoy it.

And if it means that English wine and sparkling wine gets better and better – fantastic! That means we can take on the French, fantastic! Let’s celebrate some of things rather than just be sort of doom and gloom about it.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I guess it is too much to hope that he will lose. #NigelFarage

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

When I was a kid, probably nearly 50 years ago now, I was watching the Sooty Show on TV and they had an acrobatic troupe on where one of the performers had only one leg. Hopping around, doing backflips and vaulting through hoops and all that stuff. I still think about that from time to time.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Really looking forward to this!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I am having knee replacement surgery today. Simultaneously, the country is undergoing a prime minister replacement. Coincidence?

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

David Hockney anecdote My mum and dad were friendly with an older lady in the little seaside town in NZ where I grew up. Every year she got a Christmas card drawn by the son of the couple she’d lived next door to in Bradford before she moved to NZ the late 50s. Yep, it was him.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am pleased to see people I admire get honours but also slightly disappointed that they didn’t turn it down. (Yes, I am thinking about Sir Idris - good for him, a great actor and by all accounts a thoroughly good egg, but…)

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... I got 26, not counting ones I didn’t finish (Moby Dick, Vanity Fair, Ulysses) and ones that I supposedly studied but now can’t remember if I actually read or just relied on the notes.

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The 100 best novels of all time

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We *say* we want moderation and stability but in reality we crave the dopamine hit of anonymous briefings, backroom tittle tattle and hidden plots unfolding behind closed doors.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As regards The Boys,as much as I have enjoyed it I do sometimes think to myself that we could have had an Astro City TV series, but instead we live in this reality.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So that Trump Jesus picture, what do you think this thing in the background is?

A humanoid figure floating in the background of the Trump as Jesus photo. It looks like it has four arms and a star-shaped head, like something from an HP Lovecraft story.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Jesus Fucking Christ, Americans, can you stop him before he completely destroys the world? I lived through Reagan and both Bushes, but I don’t know if I - or any of us - will make it through this one.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I realise it’s naive to laugh at this, but I still chuckled when he said “But legally!”

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I have decided I need to read more books. It’s not a New Year’s resolution - just a coincidence. I will document this here because then I have record of it. #miwsntokreads2026

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I don’t know that I can handle four more years of this so maybe we should just hand over the keys to Farage and let him drive us over the cliff to get it over and done with.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I saw Sly Dunbar with Robbie Shakespeare in 2003 at the Royal Festival with my (now ex) wife who was 8 months and 3 weeks pregnant with our first child. That kid got a lot of bass that night.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Is it just impossibly naive to expect Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer to work together for the benefit of the people of the UK? They will end up fighting over a poisoned chalice without ever understanding that it is they who poisoned it.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We ought to be able to manage micro transactions for individual articles these days. I’d pay £1 to read a single article but I am not going to sign myself up for £60 a year on the basis of a single link.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

@neillcameron.bsky.social Thanks for that really fun session. Here is Hugo’s rendition:

A version of the Donut Squad comic from the draw along online workshop from 17 Jan 2026, featuring Spronky selling cabbages on the Moon and getting into a dance-off with a Totally Normal Human.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I really wish Peter Mandelson would just fuck off. His heart may well be in the right place, but the rest of him has been demonstrably and repeatedly wrong over many decades.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I think “Meat Thermometer” would be a good band name. Coincidentally, I have just bought a meat thermometer.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Godspeed, @tinstargames.bsky.social ! So sad to hear the news. I knew Steve off and on for 30 years, starting in the olden days on rpg.net and had the privilege to be part of “SteveCon” when he was living in the UK. He brought so much joy and fun to the world, we’re poorer for his passing.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It’s not just that This Is Spinal Tap is achingly funny, but that the story of the friendship between David St Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel rings true. They are more than funny caricatures, that’s what really sets it apart, IMO.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This is really worth reading as a reminder that very statistic is made up of individuals whose stories can get lost against the backdrop of a systemic problem.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I have been watching the Watchmen TV show for the first time. It feels very of-the-moment. Did it hit this hard when it came out?

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I like the way this one gets cut off

A screen shot from the Guardian, the headline says “Three neo-Nazis jailed for plotting terror attacks on UK mosques and synagogues”. The subhead is cut off and reads: “Group of ‘like-minded extremists’ styled after the SS and amassed arse.”

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

If you see this post a concert pic you took.

Brian Seltzer playing with the Stray Cats.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

www.ft.com/content/59f1... It’s a branding exercise. Call IHT, land tax and CGT reforms “wealth tax measures” (which they kind of are) and people would lap it up.

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Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead

Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

They will never concede their complicity in this. We’re all fucked, including the right wing culture war foot soldiers - they just don’t know it yet.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

As part of my ongoing pursuit of rock and roll oblivion I tidied my shed today.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I love the version of ‘Across the Universe’, but a lot of this record sounds like ‘Mulligan and O’Hare Sing The Beatles’.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This week, I am mostly in Marrakesh.

The poster looking dashing at the Bahia Palace, Marrakesh.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Last night I went to see Wolfmother in Islington. They were great. I got a pic with the support band, Asomvel.

The poster posing with the members of the UK rock band Asomvel.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hedgehog out and about again this evening!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Last night, I saw a hedgehog. I haven’t seen a hedgehog in years - hooray for hedgehogs!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Maybe I am just suffering from kids’ TV Stockholm Syndrome, but this is a pretty good power pop song. youtu.be/yGEApekqRRo?...

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Becoming Me (Theme from Pokémon Horizons)

YouTube video by Pokémon, Ed Goldfarb & Haven Paschall - Topic

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This weekend I’ve been at the UK Games Expo at the NEC in Birmingham.

A handsome man in modern dress gives a cheery thumbs up while being throttled by orcs.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

@originstorypodcast.bsky.social Hello! I know it is too late for this series, but this morning it occurred to me that “psychedelic” might be a good topic. It is def a word that escaped its initial boundaries. Keep it up, really enjoying the show. (I am a patreon, fwiw.)

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