New & Notable: A new take on a familiar classic: The lost Albini mixes of this Fugazi milestone are now available, with proceeds going to Letters Charity.

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

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Today’s listening is this beauty on @room40.bsky.social room40.bandcamp.com/album/and-al...

They are very weird people, and it will be their downfall. Performative religious nationalism might work in America, but most British people - including most Christians - think it's weird.

Stunning record. So, so good. kmru.bandcamp.com/album/kin

"In her own quiet, determined way, she played a seminal part in three of the most important movements of Christian action through her lifetime" Canon John Nightingale writes an #obituary of Ruth Tetlow ⬇️

Ah, just stupidly good. See rest of their stuff too. allpossibleworlds.bandcamp.com/album/8

Keir Starmer calls on Ineos and Man U co-owner Jim Ratcliffe to apologise “UK is being colonised” by immigrants” remarks. The prime minister said the tax exile’s comments were “offensive and wrong”.

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

Theology PSA: The New Testament never envisions a Christian nation-state or nationalism. But it does envision a servant "kingdom" of peace, justice, and love where the poor are blessed, the powerful are brought low, and there is no longer "Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male and female."

If Kevin Shields could please, pretty please, release the My Bloody Valentine archives before Trump destroys the world, that would be awesome.

But they all seem so honest & competent!

Sorry to soil my timeline but this did make me laugh…you? Took me a moment… Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied. Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

It's all good (Labor Days was my introduction and remains a fav) - latest is pretty good too: aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/i-hear...

Two of my least favourite teams in the AFC championship game

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Just wanted something totally immersive and calming today. echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/the-ot...

That’s not even close to an apology. And besides, Denmark lost more people per head of the population than *any* other country in Afghanistan. The obviousness of his contempt for crucial alliances matches the obviousness of his contempt for the truth.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Are you filled with righteous anger about Donald Trump's fascism in the States? Good, but not enough. Now, make it your personal responsibility to ensure Nigel Farage never gets to introduce it here.

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries – the realists of a larger reality.

When Public Enemy tells you to bring the noise, you bring the noise.

Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is what following Jesus looks like, in the face of the abomination which is Christian Nationalism

Once again, these people aren't "patriots". They hate their own countries and have built an entire career out of attacking them, while cheering on any foreign leader who does the same

We look forward to explaining this one at the US border #trumpton #not #trump

Does she know that the panopticon is now viewed primarily as dystopian?

The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.

Today’s listening. Enjoying revisting loads of Echospace and related sounds. echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/dreami...

That’s because the Trump administration is lying.

Garden looking magical B14 #uksnow

There is a howling void where this man’s soul should be

Large parts of the second largest city in the UK have had no domestic recycling service for the whole of 2025. There is apparently no time table, plan, or commitment from the local council to fix this environmental disaster.

Anderson Jeremiah, Bishop of Edmonton, calls on Christians to embrace hospitality, generosity, and compassion, and to reject ethno-nationalism. www.london.anglican.org/articles/jes...

This needs serious attention. The role of some Christian Churches and the spread of US right-wing mash-up of faith and politics looks to be coming to the UK. See also articles about Paul Marshall. Thankful that Senior leaders are telling a different story. @quietriotpod.bsky.social

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Yes

Corum and Williams are such a good 1-2 combo #Rams

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Celebrating God come down in a war torn occupied land, as a brown-skinned refugee - to announce God is With Us and all are welcome!

Good (also as the article says but the headline obscures, this is part of a wider and co-ordinated response which also involves the Baptists, the Methodists, and the URC)

Today is Bandcamp Friday, so if you were thinking of pulling the digital trigger finger on The Bug vs @ghostdubs.bsky.social 'IMPLOSION', it is a great day to do so...! 😉 thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos... ('Dub album of the year 2025' @thewiremagazine)

This is a superb record by @robertdallasgray.com . A perfect 30 minutes.

Puka Nacua you are unreal

Seeing it in slow motion with the db's hand in there too 🤯