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Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums70s1 this being the 1st of 5 semi finals to ultimately determine the decades best album. You can vote on Bluesky or X (but just once). Please find to follow the list of 100 albums in the 1st semi final, your task is simple 😉 pick your top 5 in order. Here’s mine…

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Please please let this end up in court. Please.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Maureen Cleave describing the Rolling Stones to Evening Standard readers in 1964. I think this is my favourite passage in all music writing. It's packed with detail and tension, but nothing is unnecessary.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 29/12/2024

The Past Glasgow annual retrospective #5: "Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day [8th June] in 2018. The numbers: TT: N/a FB: 298 X: 5200 T: 5498

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2024

So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️

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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2024

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Listened to this a while back having only a basic idea of the Enron scandal, but had no idea the scale of the crimes they committed. Unfathomable that they could make any kind of comeback from that position.

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Colin Millar @colinmillar.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Apropos of nothing. Oasis disbanded the season before Man City ended a 35-year wait for a major trophy and they reformed earlier this season.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Some of the many moods of Scotland. #Photography

a loch at sunset with the mountains and purple sky reflected in it almost to the point of symmetry

an old arched stone bridge over a river, with mountains in the background. The light is visible in the background in a haze of mist

a snow covered image with the road visible on the right hand side and a car driving away from us

a castle (Eilean Donan) with its bridge leading to it, in the middle of a loch. It's winter and there's a dusting of snow. The colouring is a cold pale purple as the last of the light goes.

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Cher’s author bio is NOT messing about.

Dust jacket bio for Cher’s autobiography: ‘Cher is a global icon.’

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

No luck this morning in the LDR pre sale which is a bugger. Will try again on Friday but who knows how much they will cost by then. Ach - who needs two kidneys anyway?

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is what the US is dealing with for the next 4 years. Just horrible.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

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Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hi folks, quite a few people have asked me, so here’s the upcoming polls. Friday 29th Nov - voting for #5albums80s5 Friday 13th Dec - voting for #5albums80sfinal Friday 27th Dec - voting for the best of this year’s music #5albums24 Then in the new year we’ll have some 60’s, 70’s and debut albums 👍

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This little beauty was my first computer - played it endlessly. Spy Hunter, Atic Atak, School Daze, Daley Thomson Decathlon - loved it.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Which judge resigned because the books were "mere pornography"? Which author, according to another judge, "puts one off sex"? Which book did Saul Bellow dismiss as a "tinkling teacup thing"? Who refused to give the prize to a book about cannibalism? I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:

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The Booker in the 1970s: 10 novels that are well worth rediscovering, five decades later | The Booker Prizes

The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Think my eardrums will just about have receovered from seeing them back in June in time for this one at the Barras.

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Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We're now officially here: @womenslibrary.bsky.social Please support us, welcome us, follow us!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/11/2024

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

Photograph of book page which contains a short poem by Raymond Carver which reads 'And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.'

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I remember my brother buying this and just becoming obsessed with it. Still sounds fresh 40 years later... #5albums80s5

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Elaine @thebarl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is very useful for anyone looking to get up running on the new platform.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

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