@impq.bsky.social @danmersh.bsky.social what a hopeless attempt by me at tricking you. One sentence in... "he's taking the piss". Love you. Bye.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

And soon it will be the season of Missile Toe and Mould Wine

New Seven Doors album incoming tidal.com/browse/album...

I have no idea why Iron Maiden Pub Quiz isn’t bigger. If I was a Maiden fan (WHICH I AM), I’d listen every week (WHICH I DO) and I’d bloody love it (WHICH I DO). Maiden fans are really missing out.

Hang on - so....if *I* take Tylenol will that cure my Mum's autism?

Charlie Clit! Also, that's Morrissey

@impq.bsky.social I always worry that the next time I see Maiden they won't be great and it will taint my memory of them and they were SO good in Paris this year and outdoor shows are never as good for sound quality but.....MaidenFest - at Knebworth. Got to be done. See you there!

Farage may be repugnant but he's not stupid. This isn't a side effect he hasn't thought about - it's a key part of the plan to label the NHS as "in crisis" and "unfit for purpose" then usher in private health companies to "rescue" it - many of whom have strong personal and financial ties to Reform.

You see this, post a concert pic you took

Did you know that if a woman takes Tylenol more than once a week when she's pregnant that Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files.

I'm sorry but America you need to know we cannot take you seriously in any way. Your leader regularly tweets in all caps and gets upset if someone makes fun of him on telly.

Stop showing me articles titled "Fact checking Trump's autism claims" and "BBC Verify looks at RFK jr's vaccine claims". It will be "IT'S ALL BULLSHIT. Really embarrassing bullshit that only a medieval peasant would believe" stretched out to a thousand words.

Halfway through the lead dancer bites the head off a battement.

Sometimes I just want to hear music that scares the shit out of me to let me know I’m alive. A case in point… Portal - ION If Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth formed a progressive non-Euclidean death metal band they’d sound like this.

@impq.bsky.social Well, that @danmersh.bsky.social is spot on about Where Eagles Dare! Not that keen on the vocals at all.

@danmersh.bsky.social Laughed out loud at your (quite correct) rebuke of my tacking on Wrathchild in the album openers. When you listed the entire contents of Powerslave I did laugh even more. Touché sir. I did it because I wasn't sure if you guys would do it but I see my law breaking was foolish.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Well, have you ever seen the Greek version of Stars In Their Eyes? It's called Your Face Sounds Familiar and it's...well...let's just say they have no boundaries youtu.be/MlO81RCCRA8?...

Maidenisphere?

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

@impq.bsky.social So where do we think Maiden's special July UK show will be? They've already done a special London show on the 1st leg. They refer to it as a "headline show" - possibly a festival? Can't be Donington as that's June. Is the latest image a clue? Is that Blenheim Palace? Knebworth?

Happy birthday, Stephen King!

@impq.bsky.social @danmersh.bsky.social Hello gents. Are you aware of the wonderful band Slough Feg? Modern American band who have a deep love for NWOBHM and their riffs, basslines and arrangements are very early Maiden but the choruses and some of the riffs are very Diamond Head/Praying Mantis!

On Sept. 15, Israeli forces fired on a clearly marked MSF water truck delivering 10,000 litres in #Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan. Destroying infrastructure while making humanitarian aid nearly impossible is not just cruel, it’s illegal.

What is the reason that it's always self-declared "alpha male" authoritarians who have the thinnest skin and can't withstand even the tiniest criticism? This reveals weakness. If your ideas are actually so vastly superior, won't they eventually silence dissenters on a sustained basis at any rate?

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

It was the Boltest of times, it was the Throwerest of times

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

Fisted Sister

FYI: immigration is a distraction. Climate and economies are crumbling. The very rich are getting richer, like multimillionaire Nigel Farage. Horrible things are happening to ordinary people. It's not the fault of other ordinary people with darker skin, or a different gender or sexuality. Think.

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI has the names of at least 20 people tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including prominent figures in the music industry, finance, politics and banking.

Swalwell: There's going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you're going to be in this room answering questions

That's his real face

Republicans have no issues using they/them when talking about what one single person did to Charlie Kirk.

What do we imagine non-bespoke cleaning is? Cleaning someone else's house and saying they've done yours? Coming to your house and just wiping stuff in a generic pattern no matter where your furniture and rooms are?

I am past caring about Charlie Kirk and hope he is soon forgotten - but every photo I've seen of him looks like that photoshop trick where you shrink someone's face to make it look comically too small for their head. Always the freaky looking fuckers who think they're genetically superior 🥴

Curiouser and curiouser…

Yes to all this, especially Alien 3.

“That’s right, Donny. Very good. And what did the caterpillar eat next?”

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

FREE SPEECH - a thread 🧵 A lot of people - from presidents to pundits to random gobshites on social media (me included) bang on about “free speech” - but very few actually know what the term means or what it is derived from.

A reminder regarding the police (unlawfully in my opinion) arresting activists for Malicious Communications for driving a van with a giant photo of Trump/Epstein and projecting that image onto a wall: the offence requires the offensive material to be TRANSMITTED VIA ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel