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Tommy Mackay

@tommyreckless.bsky.social
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Editor of The Daily Reckless www.dailyreckless.com MD ANT. Author of 40 Odd Years Of The Fall: gregmoodie.com/product/40-odd-years… The first man in the world to buy a book about Half Man Half Biscuit.

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 6h
They Might Be Gannets present Greta Garbo's response to today's news that she is to be appropriated for AI:
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Leave Me Alone | Daily Reckless
Leave me alone Leave me alone I'm happy here in the zone Alone, alone And I don't think you know what I know Don't call me Greta Garbo Greta Garbo from the album Fingertips by They Might Be Gannets se...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 10h
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Leave Me Alone | Daily Reckless
Leave me alone Leave me alone I'm happy here in the zone Alone, alone And I don't think you know what I know Don't call me Greta Garbo Greta Garbo from the album Fingertips by They Might Be Gannets se...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 14h
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/30/l...
Daily Reckless front page September 30th 2026 featuring Leave Me Alone.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 15h
The only robots allowed to make music are called Ralf, Florian, Wolfgang and Karl.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 15h
Aw naw. #tmbg
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Leave Me Alone | Daily Reckless
Leave me alone Leave me alone I'm happy here in the zone Alone, alone And I don't think you know what I know Don't call me Greta Garbo Greta Garbo from the album Fingertips by They Might Be Gannets se...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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The Thistle As A Spider's Web | Daily Reckless
Omsk and the Calton turn again to dust, The suns and stars fizz out with little fuss, The bobby booms away and seems to bust, And leaves the world to darkness and to us. The circles of our hungry thou...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/29/t...
Daily Reckless front page September 29th 2026 featuring The Thistle As A Spider's Web.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Theme tune revealed:
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Overture From The Mary Poppins Exorcism | Daily Reckless
Mary Poppins meets The Exorcist. see also: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2022/09/05/knitting-on-the-set-of-the-exorcist/
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Peep Show Boys | Daily Reckless
Samples from Peep Show stramashed with Pet Shop Boys'  'One More Chance.' Inspired by this post by David Quantick. Pic by Paul TM EU Wafels (Stroop) see also:
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"This is funny. This is a laugh"
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Throbbing Thistle, Madonna & The Fall, Charlotte Church & Dead Kennedys and coughs in songs. mailchi.mp/ff29706987ae... Subscribe if you like, I don't care.
Daily Reckless newsletter number 1025.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/28/p...
Daily Reckless front page 28th September 2026 featuring Peep Show Boys.
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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎶Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty You're listening to the treasurer of the local darts committee🎶
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wacky Wigtown weekend.
Smashed kindle in The Bookshop, Wigtown.Martyrs Cell at County Buildings, Wigtown.Upstairs at County building, Wigtown.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Birthday Mr Foxx. Here he is comparing Mark E Smith with Hylda Baker: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/01/13/b...
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Baker Smith Foxx | Daily Reckless
John Foxx compares Mark E Smith to Hylda Baker. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/25/m...
Daily Reckless front page September 25th 2026 featuring Metaphysical Pictures of the Thistle part 3.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mark and Madonna for #fallfriday
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Birtwistle's Material Girl In Shop | Daily Reckless
Upon hearing that Mark E Smith was planning on covering Madonna's 'Material Girl' for The Fall's last album.   see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Acid reflux jazz:
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Omeprazole | Daily Reckless
When you clear your throat and you just can't stop You need omeprazole to help your cough If you've got Barrett's oesophagus Omeprazole for your acid reflux So when your doctor says to you You need om...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Omeprazole | Daily Reckless
When you clear your throat and you just can't stop You need omeprazole to help your cough If you've got Barrett's oesophagus Omeprazole for your acid reflux So when your doctor says to you You need om...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/23/o...
Daily Reckless front page September 24th 2026 featuring Omeprazole.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Drugs.
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Omeprazole | Daily Reckless
When you clear your throat and you just can't stop You need omeprazole to help your cough If you've got Barrett's oesophagus Omeprazole for your acid reflux So when your doctor says to you You need om...
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SaShovlin @darling9madam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hot time summer in the city 2 acrylic on board.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All your favourites clearing their throats:
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Omeprazole | Daily Reckless
When you clear your throat and you just can't stop You need omeprazole to help your cough If you've got Barrett's oesophagus Omeprazole for your acid reflux So when your doctor says to you You need om...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Charlotte Church Uber Alles | Daily Reckless
Dead Kennedys backing Charlotte Church's Ed Sheeran rant. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Eggers! I'm still available to play Shuggy MacD's Drunk Man in synthetic Scots.
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Metaphysical Pictures of the Thistle (I) | Daily Reckless
I tae ha’e heard Eternity drip water (Aye water, water!), drap by drap On the a’e nerve, like lichtnin’, I’ve become, And heard God passin’ wi’ a bobby’s feet Ootby in the lang coffin o’ the street —S...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/22/c...
Daily Reckless front page 23rd September 2026 featuring Charlotte Church Uber Alles.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Latest scissors and sellotape recording:
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Charlotte Church Uber Alles | Daily Reckless
Dead Kennedys backing Charlotte Church's Ed Sheeran rant. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wasp Spider!
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Wasp Spider (Stabilimentum) | Daily Reckless
Stramash-up of Autumnwatch, The Ramones and They Might Be Giants. All hail the wasp spider.   see also: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2021/08/06/man-spider/
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Birtwistle's Material Girl In Shop | Daily Reckless
Upon hearing that Mark E Smith was planning on covering Madonna's 'Material Girl' for The Fall's last album.   see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/21/b...
Daily Reckless front page September 22nd 2026 featuring Birtwistle's Material Girl In Shop.
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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 21/09/2026
Mark and Madonna bsky.app/profile/tomm...
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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"... he was working on a cover of Madonna's Material Girl" !
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‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Metaphysical Pictures Of The Thistle (II) | Daily Reckless
O rootless thistle through the warld that’s pairt o’ you, Gin you’d withstand the agonies still to come, You maun send roots doon to the deeps unkent, Fer deeper than it’s possible for ocht to gang, S...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I never became a life-long gamer.
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I Played Pong In The Chip Shop In The 70s | Daily Reckless
Someone asked the other day What was the first video game you played Well, if I remember right It was both exciting and shite A coin operated thrill ride And on the bleeding edge of game technology Ap...
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David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lest we forget: bsky.app/profile/tomm...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/21/m...
Daily Reckless front page September 21st 2026 featuring Metaphysical Pictures of the Thistle part 2.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The outside flavourness of it"
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Penda! Penda! Penda! | Daily Reckless
Mark E Smith and The Fall meet Elgar and Fenda's Pen. Tracks: Sermon Who Was Jesus? The Earth Beneath Your Feet Enigramatic Dream Variation Gerontius Manichaeanism V Rector Mud And Flame Penda's Fall ...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Something for the weekend.
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Penda! Penda! Penda! | Daily Reckless
Mark E Smith and The Fall meet Elgar and Fenda's Pen. Tracks: Sermon Who Was Jesus? The Earth Beneath Your Feet Enigramatic Dream Variation Gerontius Manichaeanism V Rector Mud And Flame Penda's Fall ...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Niche, niche, niche...
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Penda! Penda! Penda! | Daily Reckless
Mark E Smith and The Fall meet Elgar and Fenda's Pen. Tracks: Sermon Who Was Jesus? The Earth Beneath Your Feet Enigramatic Dream Variation Gerontius Manichaeanism V Rector Mud And Flame Penda's Fall ...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Album of the day in the Daily Reckless #albumoftheday
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Penda! Penda! Penda! | Daily Reckless
Mark E Smith and The Fall meet Elgar and Fenda's Pen. Tracks: Sermon Who Was Jesus? The Earth Beneath Your Feet Enigramatic Dream Variation Gerontius Manichaeanism V Rector Mud And Flame Penda's Fall ...
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Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ice-cream man panic attack flip flop caught in accelerator pedal in icecream van swerving in reverse down an entry at 60mph music!!
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Penda! Penda! Penda!, Throbbing Thistle, Kink Floyd and Ed Sheeran: mailchi.mp/4e578f891f49... Subscribe if you like, I don't care.
Daily Reckless newsletter number 1024.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This morning's front page album at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/18/p... #fallfriday
Daily Reckless front page September 18th 2026 featuring Penda! Penda! Penda!
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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
From the excellent 1989 version starring Channel 4’s very own Desmond and the voice of Gerry Adams… www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Endgame (1989)
YouTube video by nemdab
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just saw a couple of elephants on the beach there.
Two elephants spotted on South Queensferry beach.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Metaphysical Pictures of the Thistle (I) | Daily Reckless
I tae ha’e heard Eternity drip water (Aye water, water!), drap by drap On the a’e nerve, like lichtnin’, I’ve become, And heard God passin’ wi’ a bobby’s feet Ootby in the lang coffin o’ the street —S...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/09/17/m...
Daily Reckless front page September 17th 2026 featuring Metaphysical Pictures of the Thistle (I).
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quite. I also hate the phrase 'too much time on your hands' as an accusation. We've all got the same amount of time - til we're deid.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Ed Sheeran's Pollock Homage | Daily Reckless
He thinks somehow that splashing paint on canvas is a laugh He thinks someone will really buy it for his autograph I think I don't know much about art But I wouldn't hang it in a garage Ed Sheeran's P...
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