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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@www.johnbleasdale.com Can’t find our previous interaction but anyway here’s the finished review with a few mentions of your very enjoyable commentary track. As ever, much more could be said if space allowed. bsky.app/profile/thea...

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

★★★★★ SEXY BEAST - A genuinely great modern British gangster film - #JonathanGlazer’s 2001 film has plentiful grit, but it’s also truly beautiful... Everything clicks exquisitely into place', says @realjohncarvill.bsky.social Blu-ray @secondsightfilms.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray...

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Always felt there was something dodgy about this guy. Now we know. Loves trees, green spaces, and genocide.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Mondays! Insta-blocked by a Zionist. Great start to the day.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gave East of Eden a go. It's shite.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@samkiley.bsky.social "might have been cooked up by members, or followers of, the so-called Islamic State or al-Qaeda. Anti-Western Islamic violence against Western targets, considered complicit in the horrors of Gaza" You are transparent. You are complicit. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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The RAF Fairford bomb plot was designed to fail. So who was behind it?

If this was a ploy to use old school techniques in the age of drones, it was doomed from the start, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If these right-wing ghouls really believed that musicians can't change the world, would they be half as scared of the ones who do speak out?

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Classic @theguardian.com . A not very subtly disguised apologia for Ed Sheeran and, thus, for Israel's genocide. Quoting Dorian Lynskey is such a massive tell. "Culture war" my ass. Despicable, but transparent, Zionist propaganda. #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war

Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from billionaire

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

★★★★ 'A breezy read, bursting with local colour, and with more outlandish stories than you could shake a maraca at': Clint Boon lovingly recalls baggy, funky, sinsemilla-scented Madchester days in The Manchester Chronicles @hachetteuk.bsky.social John Carvill reviews theartsdesk.com/books/clint-...

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Honestly, this is 2026 Ali g Private school, dad goes to live in Brittany

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@eek.bsky.social Hi Ben. This you? Great point, brilliantly expressed. Kudos emoji. www.theguardian.com/music/2004/j...

ben thompson on massive attach's album Blue Lines:

FROM THE metropolitan angst of 'Safe from Harm' - 'If you hurt what's mine, I'll sure as hell retaliate' - to the insistent shaken bottle-top rhythm of 'Unfinished Sympathy', the most striking thing about this album, 13 years on, is how urgent and dramatic it still sounds. The journey-time between 'bold artistic breakthrough' and 'widely accessible lifestyle accoutrement' has shortened considerably in the interim, but Massive Attack's universally admired debut has made that trip without forgetting where it came from.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great Bogart Blu-ray release. Thanks to the ArtsDesk for running my review.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

amazing stuff

"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great vinyl find. Thelonious Monk live two-fer, thanks to KingBee Records, Chorlton - probably the best second hand record shop in Manchester. #vinyl #Manchester #TheloniousMonk

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If Tim Shitman and Sarah Vile are opposing you, you know you must be doing something right. As for Cofnasty, well, write your own headline about the irony of white supremacists looking like bit part baddies in a Beano strip.

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can we saw Clacton off and let it float away out to sea?

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Nice added detail in the subheading. Probably Pets at Home and Sainsburys were on his way.

A man imitating the Grim Reaper stands on the roof of a hospital. Nes story says:

A 26-year-old man has been arrested after dressing as the "Grim Reaper" and climbing onto the roof of a Welsh hospital to stare at staff and visitors

The subheading adds that he also admitted to shoplifting from Pets at Home and Sainsburys

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've seen some crass commercial dog shit before, but this... @milestones-archive.bsky.social WFT?

An advert for cans of 'Miles Davis Bitches Brew' beer! Yes, indeed. Ad copy as follows:

Miles Davis Bitches Brew by Dad Grass.

A limited-edition TH🌊-infused Leisure Drink created in collaboration with the @milesdavis Estate to celebrate Miles’ centennial birthday.

Inspired by the landmark 1970 album Bitches Brew, with layered guava and hibiscus giving way to tropical passion fruit, a subtle undertone of cacao, and a lightly sweet, dry finish.

We are enormously proud, and truly humbled, to have worked with the Miles Davis Estate to bring this limited-edition release to life.

Available in:
• 3mg
• 10mg

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

★★★ David Thomson explores the dark side of cinema, but still offers a flicker of hope writes John Carvill on A Sudden Flicker of Light published by Allen Lane theartsdesk.com/books/david-...

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social "There was also a lot of beauty to that time, ... and the novels of Annie Ernaux and Michel Houellebecq." Say what? Houellebecq? That fascist turd?

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@staggerlee42.bsky.social Manchester and Northern Ireland? That’s a follow!

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hard to beat Ian Penman. You could base a writing class on this piece: harpers.org/archive/2024... Did I imagine it or did he used to be on bluesky?

harpers.org

Lady Day of the Alhambra, by Ian Penman

Billie Holiday’s changeable shade

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ever wondered what life was like behind the Iron Curtain? Just try travelling by train in the UK.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

what in the shit was that

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@jahduran.bsky.social Hi John. Any reason I never even receive a reply to my pitches, even though I wrote for The Quietus before?

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just finished ‘London Falling’. It’s… ok.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“ it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most perplex the political analysts of the future” This is the sort of bilge we have to put up with. It demonstrates the answer to the question it asks. Why did people not like a Zionist moral vacuum, I wonder? www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

theguardian.com

The rise and fall of Keir Starmer: where did it all go wrong?

PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate

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johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Inject this resignation into Ian Dunt’s veins.

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

★★★★★ Marilyn takes us to movie heaven once again as Billy Wilder classic Some Like It Hot is revived for the star's centenary, John Carvill reviews theartsdesk.com/film/some-it...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Starmer will go down in history as the guy who went on TV and repeatedly told his own party’s supporters that he hated them and he wanted them to fuck off, because his handlers had a bold scheme to form a crushing coalition with other parties’ voters. It turns out: that was astonishingly stupid.

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