Instant love for the new Juana Molina juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/doga

French #NewWave duo #TaxiGirl opened for #TheStranglers 1981 tour until they were sacked for shoplifting sex toys they planned to use as props during their set- member #Mirwais would later helm 3 albums for #Madonna- their 1984 single “Paris” was an early #StarckClub fave youtu.be/GxBlDcXcdNA?...

Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day

However you feel about the BBC's overall output, I don't think the idea that its existence prevents the rightward shift of the Overton window bears any serious scrutiny

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It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services

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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.

As if there weren't enough reasons to hate glinner, I also hate him for what he's done to the reputation of carbonara

I've realised that my two favourite Simple Minds songs - Theme For Great Cities & A Brass Band In African Chimes - are both instrumentals. Trying to think if there's another band with a vocalist that one could conceivably say that about.

This could be the BBC or Labour

Hadn't realised there was a new one, great stuff

The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow

Family members call me David, friends call me either Dave or David and I'm fine with both. But a former boss used to call me Dave as if we were friends (we weren't, he's a knob) and I hated it

I've watched two eps of Edge of Darkness and so far it's as good/strange as everyone said

If the Labour Party was led by anybody else it would be 20 points ahead in the polls

Getting Sun City Girls vibes from this absolutely wonderful album from Le Grand Couturier (Clément Vercelletto, Rachel Langlais and Jean-François Riffaud) unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com/album/le-gra...

#nowplaying Raucous, jagged collaborative EP featuring Cairo-born producer Assyouti and Welsh artist Elvin Brandhi dawnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/u-s-e-...

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I assume this has worked brilliantly in France

Now I want to see Nouvelle Vague Frankenstein

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

The real 'vibes' politics. Mamdani and Polanski may be good communicators but their social media strategy also works because they actually have something to communicate; their content has content

“i wish andrew cuomo the best in private life but let tonight be the last time i utter his name” is fire

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"[...] The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself". @brianphillips.bsky.social enters AI's coordinates in his torpedo launcher. Superb. www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

You’re laughing? He could smell the onions and mustard and you’re laughing?

Liberals parties across the developed world absolutely do not want to improve things and are deeply opposed to anything that might cause the public to expect them to do so.

#nowplaying a new release from the brilliant Amédée de Murcia aka Somaticae on @wabi-sabi-tapes.bsky.social wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-wh...

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

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RIP, Joe Byrd, mastermind behind two mind-bending classics: The United States Of America (1968) + Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies' The American Metaphysical Circus (1969). Get 'em both in all formats. He was true one-off, loved by Broadcast, Portishead, & many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAk...

RIP Lô Borges. I don't think I'll ever tire of this tune, it's saudade distilled to its essence www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lexd...

"vibes era" becoming the new "populism" as the tool people will use to claim two very different things are in fact the same

A bit of the beautiful Emmanuelle Parrenin show at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social last night (videos courtesy of @lauradymphna.bsky.social)

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Working my way through old DW and Enlightenment is definitely one of the best of Davidson's run so far, up there with the Mara stories (I did watch these as a child but remember very little)

I'm Springsteen curious rather than being a full-blown fan and there are plenty of platitudes (Tony Parsons, fuck off) in When Bruce Springsteen Came To Britain but this is an incredible story

People still defending Starmer at this stage look far more cult-y to me than Corbyn supporters. There are many legitimate criticisms that one can level at Corbyn, especially in light of the YP shitshow, but support for him was, for many people (including myself) pragmatic & about the policies

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You can already listen to most of the great new album by Èlg & la Chimie, out officially on 3rd November. It's a lot rockier than Èlg's previous work, recorded with a band, hauntingly melodic but punctuated by moments of explosive energy and angularity lachimie.bandcamp.com/album/immens...

How 4pm feels

New 🔥 from Egyptian boss Abyusif www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMRS...

this is a great reminder that ‘anyone can register with a GP surgery, and that proof of address or immigration status are not needed. It also highlights that people have a right to a free interpreter’

So many of us British Jews feel the same, thank you for your voice Zack

It's funny to me that this has basically led to a search for "is there a culture group that does not do this?" and so far the answer seems genuinely to be "no".

FWIW I think this is the correct position. Had a long conversation with an Italian cousin (I'm not sure to what degree he's representative of the Italian left), and we agreed on Israel/Gaza but I kept having to say that being opposed to Western imperialism didn't have to entail being pro-Putin

Somewhat amused by the export strategy for a major French rapper: "We've identified our target audience - French people living abroad!"