Belated birthday wishes to Grace Jones - here she is on Wogan, miming in an extraordinary fashion to 1985's best single: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXn4...

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To be gay in 2026 is to still worry that we'd gone too far: an insouciant remark that boomerangs into my face, a gesture of solidarity misinterpreted into a muddle, an assertion of identity too much for an audience used to keeping unsaid the obvious. A reflective post. wp.me/pzXeC-ll7

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THIS (and if you have any examples of said reversals, please let me know!)

Yep, that's right

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If you live in the UK, take part in The National Conversation to share my views on what it's really like living in our area right now. It's a major UK-wide project by researchers at Oxford University, and it only takes a few minutes. You should have your say too! www.national-conversation.ox.ac.uk

Man it was loud in Montgomery yesterday, but the messages resonated. We’re now less than 36 hours before the polls open for the May 19th primary. Make your voice heard - VOTE and together lets start a history making change in Alabama

On 17 May 1975, Earth, Wind & Fire Hit No.1: The iconic R&B/pop group hit #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with "That's The Way Of The World". The album served as the soundtrack to a film of the same name and held the top spot for 3 consecutive weeks. #EarthWindandFire

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The Byrds with Hugh Masekela at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, June 1967. Overshadowed by Monterey, which took place a week later, but staggering talent on offer.

My main complaint, though I do have others

Pet Sounds came out 60 years ago (allegedly released on this very date, May 16, but am wary of such claims for '60s LPs; the source is often unverified wikipedia dates). a nice breakdown of "That's Not Me," a lesser-known but beautiful track on it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFEA...

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Fuck it, nobody will read it but here's a Hot Chocolate top ten I did for @toppermost.bsky.social Errol's trousers feature heavily and the effect they had on my mum's knitting www.toppermost.co.uk/hot-chocolate/

Enjoyed reading this in The @Battlegroundeu.bsky.social - John Foster (@johnfoster.bsky.social, possibly?) on Kneecap, the memorialisation of conflict, and the wider cultural politics of what Tystion called 'hip-hop poetry in motion in the mother tongue' thebattleground.substack.com/p/anticoloni...

Getting to know you on CaturDogDay…

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Despite a reputation for being a mastermind, those early Eno vocal albums have a winning naivete: he's trying everything with instruments and lyrics. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/r...

YEAH MAN

Happy 91st birthday to the Griffith Observatory today! It opened #OTD in 1935, becoming the premiere public vista point and eyepiece to the universe for Angelenos and tourists alike. #LosFeliz #GriffithPark

New Avalanches just in. LP4 is on the way. #NowListening youtu.be/KSa1zsPcj8w?...

I hate when I wake up too early in the US and Bluesky is all: Lord Minister Flafferbunt and Glennsders at 12 Pembertwine reject Klorus Singular Berthwaits Pinkerbushwells push for Pobbelwaggins Clip Clopp

Teatime repost.

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The autumn gives us grief and courage; a willingness to look at things clearly even as the winds blow and the rain falls and the curtains come down on a woman (Suzie) and a young man (Nick). "Nos bras meurtris vous tendent le flambeau, à vous toujours de le porter bien haut" #outoftheblue #angels

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Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

Books that were banned from school libraries by the Alberta government after being deemed inappropriate for children were flying off the shelves at a recent Calgary book sale. calgary.citynews.ca/2026/05/11/a... #Calgary #Alberta #abpoli

Hold on let me get my Emergency Gosling Stairs out of my car 😂 ♥️ TT: potterhuahua - Vancouver, BC🇨🇦

Great music writing. Good to have you back, S.

nailed on the next strip cites derrida

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Remembering Sly Dunbar on his birthday with this playlist of some of the finest tracks that he played on. Features Grace Jones, Black Uhuru, Gwen Guthrie, Half Pint, Culture, Ian Dury, Ini Kamoze. Mighty Diamonds and many more open.spotify.com/playlist/4Ib...

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Back to my Penguin Classic ways yet again, gonna fall down the rabbit hole of 'ones they once published but don't anymore' for one I had c. 2007, sigh

Another Present Era (1990) by Elaine Perry, who passed recently. A remarkable Pynchon-esque futuristic dystopian novel that weaves a fascinating tapestry of history, race, climate change, and economic injustice. (Thanks to Michael A. Gonzales for this discovery.) neglectedbooks.com/?...

My work is done. Buzzed: Made in Lambeth, Failed in Lambeth: The catastrophic Starmer project was born in the borough – and is now crashing down in humiliating fashion, thanks to Claire Holland’s latest bout of petty Labour factionalism www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/05/made...

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for, uh, world-historical reasons I am putting this back out there

#NowPlaying the new Lemon Twigs album. Of its type, this is absolutely top-notch music. Not a bad song on here. If you're going to do this sort of thing, do it this way, not like Velvet Sunscreem or whatever those bots call themselves. open.spotify.com/album/2wKJGz...

fcukers have such an ear for danceable music, their new stuff has been awesome

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