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@edhind.bsky.social
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just technically incompetent
I’d very much recommend this book from
@robburl.bsky.social
- a history of the (dying?) art of the TV Political Interview and a memoir of a life in political broadcasting. Witty, heartfelt and balanced.
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This is a fascinating book - on how the classical world was always interconnected and the whole east/west division is a lot muddier than we’ve been led to believe. How The World Made The West by
@josephinequinn.bsky.social
20 days ago
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Particularly great curation from
@thenewcue.bsky.social
this week. Can’t get enough of the tracks from Really Good Time, Lauren Auder, Max Cooper and, blimey, The Black Crowes
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The New Cue #576 March 13: Iceage, Kacey Musgraves, Art School Girlfriend The Black Crowes, The Count Ferrara, The Lemon Twigs, Really Good Time, Kevin Morby, Kojaque, The Orielles, Ora Cogan
"A studio of one’s own."
https://open.substack.com/pub/thenewcue/p/the-new-cue-576-march-13-iceage-kacey?r=dwk5n&utm_medium=ios
29 days ago
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I have a horrible feeling this is me
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about 1 month ago
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I have the cursed hardback of this, but will be buying copies for all my friends when the paperback comes out. It’s fantastic.
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about 1 month ago
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Dorian Lynskey
about 2 months ago
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
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USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usaid-cuts-may-cause-over-14-million-additional-deaths-by-2030-study-says-2025-07-01/
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1976 was the worst ever for music, no contest.
#totp
about 2 months ago
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Love this book. Page-turner essays on 20 American
#1s
that changed the musical landscape, from The Twist to Trap. Amazing work
@tombreihan.bsky.social
2 months ago
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This is a fantastic bit of shoegazey pop by
@dearyband.bsky.social
- very happy to hear they’re supporting The Twilight Sad at a gig I’m already going to in April
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deary - Seabird (Official Video)
YouTube video by deary
https://youtu.be/CjvMfS4aFxQ?si=F08H0HwDD2ezvQNG
3 months ago
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Yep, sold. Plenty of shows here that I’d want to see in the world. Take my money.
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3 months ago
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The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station by CMAT is my absolute favourite track of the year, but otherwise my most played of 2025 pretty much are my best of 2025. Not a bad year at all.
3 months ago
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“Too many numbers, and not enough poetry”. I feel like this went under everyone’s radar this year, which is a real shame because it’s gorgeous.
@emmapollock.bsky.social
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Future Tree by Emma Pollock on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:41
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/future-tree/1824657437?i=1824657730
4 months ago
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The
#comcompod
with
@stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social
and Adam Riches is superb, a real insight into his creative process and refreshingly honest about the industry. I was also lucky enough to see Dungeons and Bastards in 2022 so great to hear it was cathartic for him!
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5 months ago
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Zucker told
@filmstories.bsky.social
this weeks ago, but they’re too classy to make a thing of it
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5 months ago
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Well,
@nationoflanguage.bsky.social
were incredible at The Roundhouse last night. Four great albums, and the live versions, with extra energy and power, might be even better.
5 months ago
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Just finished ConspiracyLand by
@mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social
- examining how and why conspiracies spread, showing compassion for those caught up in them, and exposing the algorithms that allow them to take hold. An important book.
6 months ago
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Well, I’ve just spent nearly 400 pounds to see four elderly Germans stare at their laptops for a couple of hours. How’s your day going?
#kraftwerk
6 months ago
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Emma Monk
7 months ago
There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14
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Just discovered the wonderful
@fujiyaandmiyagi.bsky.social
thanks to
@petepaphides.bsky.social
‘s excellent Patreon newsletter. If you like the sound of a wry British LCD Soundsystem, dive in.
youtu.be/G0E8MWb3hgo?...
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Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker (Offical Video)
YouTube video by groenlandrecords
https://youtu.be/G0E8MWb3hgo?si=A2UAnk5xdeNSZcAu
7 months ago
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Every word of this. I was outside Waterloo in the evening and in among the middle-aged people in Union Jack jumpers making their way home after a lovely racist day out were groups of emboldened young white men draped in flags, roaming the streets. Not my London.
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7 months ago
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Jonn Elledge
7 months ago
Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.
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No concerns about
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social
post-Dorian - great episode today with
@alisonjourno.bsky.social
@zoegrunewald.bsky.social
@hannahfearn.bsky.social
and ace new addition
@jasonhazeley.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/138669...
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Britain’s Got Tyrants – Can any party out perform Reform? | Oh God, What Now?
Get more from Oh God, What Now? on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/138669631?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
7 months ago
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As a GenXer I found Escape by
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
absolutely fascinating. I wonder where those online spaces where like-minded weirdos can safely connect are now? Are things even worse now than when the book came out?
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Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet a book by Marie Le Conte.
'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journa...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/escape-how-a-generation-shaped-destroyed-and-survived-the-internet-marie-le-conte/7013573?ean=9781788705158
7 months ago
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Congratulations to
@comedyclub4kids.bsky.social
- a great initiative, really well deserved.
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8 months ago
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Time to go.
#edfringe
is such a joy to attend and this year felt bigger than ever. It’s great to see and so important that
@edfringe.bsky.social
continues to thrive and support new artists. Hope everyone didn’t lose too much money.
8 months ago
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Final
#edfringe
recommendation: Hold On To Your Butts from Recent Cutbacks
@pleasance.co.uk
- Jurassic Park done by two guys, some sound effects, random props, loads of physicality and loads of fun.
8 months ago
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Always a pleasure to see
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social
at
@pleasance.co.uk
#edfringe
- saw his debut 20 years ago and he’s still great.
8 months ago
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More
#edfringe
recommendations:
@pierrenovellie.bsky.social
- You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here
@monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social
- superb eloquent observation and self-deprecation, fast becoming one of my favourite comics. He has an extra show on Saturday.
8 months ago
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If you have 8+ kids at
#edfringe
in the next couple of days, you could do a lot worse than take them to
@foxdogstudios.bsky.social
Robo Bingo Kids at Underbelly. Really original interactive fun.
8 months ago
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Today’s
#edfringe
must-see: Dan Rath, Tropical Depression
@monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social
- a deadpan avalanche of crafted gags
8 months ago
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It’s billed as WIP, but Ahir Shah has written an incredible
#edfringe
show, veering between hilarious comedy and affecting personal stuff with skill. Do see if you can at
@monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Loved the WIP from
@jlukeroberts.bsky.social
at
@monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social
just now - properly unfinished and closer to the true spirit of
@edfringe.bsky.social
than many other shows. And very, very funny.
8 months ago
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Today’s wholehearted
@edfringe.bsky.social
recommendation:
@samnicoresti.bsky.social
at
@pleasance.co.uk
- such an engaging and interesting comic voice with loads of proper gags
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
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Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/sam-nicoresti-baby-doomer
8 months ago
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Am at
@edfringe.bsky.social
and today’s strong recommend is Jessica Barton in Dirty Work at Underbelly: naturally funny, someone who can have you in fits without a word. Definitely a star in the making.
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Mary Floppins has thrown a shit fit. Wipe the wee from the toilet seat and pick up your dirty undies, because The Perfect Nanny is back to teach all you little boys – and girls – a thing or two about running a prim and proper household. Hailed 'a rising star and quadruple threat' (ArtsReview.com.au), Jessica Barton combines a spoonful of song, dance, clowning and deep cleaning to present a skanky and empowering Edinburgh Fringe debut. Best Newcomer Award Winner (Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025). Take A Chance On Adelaide Award Winner (Adelaide Fringe 2025). **** (Chortle.co.uk).
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/dirty-work
8 months ago
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Thanks to
@thenewcue.bsky.social
for alerting me to the fact that there’s a new Emma Pollock song out there, and it’s typically gorgeous.
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Prize Hunter
YouTube video by Emma Pollock - Topic
https://youtu.be/BGha5USPW5o?si=QqgcUqXVnTwi-wiH
8 months ago
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I’ve read loads of Bowie books but picked up Bowie Odyssey 71 by Simon Goddard as it covers the making of my favourite album of his. It’s wonderful, full of colour and context, almost a novelisation of a chapter of his life. I’ll be buying the rest.
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Bowie Odyssey 71 a book by Simon Goddard.
Britain, 1971. Strange land of hot pants, moral outrage, anarchist bombs and sexual revolution. As Marc Bolan is hailed as the nation's teenage saviour, the forgotten hope called David Bowie searches ...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bowie-odyssey-71-simon-goddard/5971023
8 months ago
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“Forty years ago, I was the fifth most successful cheeseburger van owner in the wider Dundee area. After four decades of hard work, innovation, positive mental attitude, spatula practice and two deaths, I am up to third.” If you can get hold of this by
@neilforsyth.bsky.social
you’re in for a treat
8 months ago
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John Harris
9 months ago
Latest from me: on why learning disability is the frontier of human liberation, & how so much of its history is still ignored and overlooked. This is all about
@stephenunwin.bsky.social
's landmark new book Beautiful Lives
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris
A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/20/learning-disabled-people-book-winterbourne-view
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1985 really was peak mullet, wasn’t it?
#liveaid
9 months ago
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“Charli is dressed for a rave PA; Neil for clearing some boxes out of his garage. Charli is brat summer; Neil is geezer winter.” Loads of hilarious, quotable insights from Dorian at Glastonbury for
@thenewcue.bsky.social
. The bit on Rod Stewart made coffee come up through my nose. In a good way.
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9 months ago
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Has Jayne Middlemiss ever delivered a link without one suggestively arched eyebrow?
#totp
10 months ago
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Watching these
#totp
repeats reappraised Never Ever for me - i rather enjoyed the lovely harmonies and the diamond-formation terrible-posture dance routine. Obviously after the ninety eighth appearance I hate it all over again
10 months ago
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I was there too! Cardiacs were brilliantly baffling, Dodgy went down really well, Boo Radleys strangely flat, and Blur amazing. And I’d completely forgotten Sparks were there, to my shame!
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10 months ago
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My first introduction to the genius of Brian Wilson was on the Good Morning Vietnam Soundtrack, and I suspect I’m not alone. RIP.
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I Get Around by The Beach Boys on Apple Music
Song · 1988 · Duration 2:08
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-get-around/1434735518?i=1434736185
10 months ago
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Track of the Week: Inept Apollo by
@nationoflanguage.bsky.social
- I love these guys. Vintage synth sounds and melancholy pop hooks peppered with sunshine. Must be a new album coming soon?
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Nation of Language - Inept Apollo (Official Video)
YouTube video by Nation of Language
https://youtu.be/xjCgSSepzrA?si=l9Ey50DV9bZjfF9X
10 months ago
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Joel Morris
11 months ago
Oh, to hell with it. Who wants my Unbound incompetence story! Yay!
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Any self-respecting comedy nerd should read this. Although I got it through Unbound, so it may well be that
@jemroberts.bsky.social
hasn’t seen my money yet…
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11 months ago
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Track of the Week: Kae Tempest, Know Yourself. His last track, Statue In The Square, was superb, tackling bigots with steel and wit. This is lighter, more reflective, with a great pop hook, and equally good.
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Self Titled by Kae Tempest on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 12 Songs
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/self-titled/1808472078
11 months ago
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