Steve Vibronics' "Life in Dub" podcast returns for a new series after a 4 year hiatus. vibronics.co.uk/podcasts/ Joseph Lalibela tells a great tale of growing up in Handsworth in the 1980s and MCing with youthman tin pan sounds and then the mighty Luv Injection.

If you are canny you can still access sleevenotes of the first 30 or so Blood & Fire compilations on a version of their website on the Wayback Machine. Years or more accurately decades of reggae music scholarship

otwradio.blogspot.com/2026/01/play... <<< epic

Went stupidly well. This morning, less so. 😊😵‍💫🤕

Been invited to bring “vinyl” to a house party tonight. Let’s see how that goes. 🤔

RIP to the last truly great European painter. 🫡

The Association of Autonomous Astronauts celebrated 30 years since its foundation with an event at MayDay Rooms, London in April 2025. Report by Neil Transpontine from the upcoming new issue of datacide online now: datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a...

Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a.... Great write up by Neil @transpontine.bsky.social

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The Situationist International and its historicisation - Art movement or part of the Communist Left? - text of a talk by Christoph Fringeli from 2018 on the exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Previously unpublished: datacide-magazine.com/the-situatio...

"WHEN JAZZ IS FREE EVERYBODY PAYS" Bathroom graffiti, Cafe Oto London

Just a heads up that, ahead of the new Xylitol album that is due in Spring, I've contributed a remix of Glok / Timothy Clerkin alongside Legowelt, Yu Su, Richard Sen, Froid Dub and others which will be out in the new year on.soundcloud.com/M2Mn16XvEJ8S...

It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.

A genuinely great Christmas story out of Montreal this morning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

HCDA archive is here - inspiring stuff. hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/hcda/

Undercover officers secretly spied on the Hackney Community Defence Association in east London, because it sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps

150 years ago! #OnThisDay in London's parklife: 1000s destroy enclosure fences, Hackney Downs, 1875, helping preserve the Downs as an open space wp.me/p74yfw-q2 Read more about the campaign in our pamphlet “Green Beneath the Skies” Buy online here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/gree...

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?

Au contraire mon ami. 😜

This comes from quite a mad project of personal oral history interviews with all the people who were chosen by lottery to be part of Antony Gormley's spend-an-hour-on-the-fourth-plinth thing.

TIL that cartoon baddie Roger Wratten went on from demolishing Tony's Cafe in Broadway Market to throwing coins at homeless people in the name of art. wellcomecollection.org/works/wq8uqnvj

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

A long shot, but does anyone out there have a copy of this Doris Troy album, and if so would you be willing to rip me some audio of 'My Father's House'? I would be eternally grateful 🙏

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

New article on the datacide website: In June 2024 the Interior Minister of Germany took the unusual step to ban the far right media organisation 'Compact' Magazine & TV. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban. Context and background: datacide-magazine.com/compact-maga...

I have an event 2nite in Islington, then two in Hackney, 1 this weekend and 1 next weekend. Further details of my events both in London & around the world on the news page of my website: www.stewarthome.co.uk/news.html

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

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I took this pic a few years ago but walked past this sign at the weekend again and instantly had "walk my little doggie..." echoing around my head RIP Dave Ball

Squatters being evicted in Amsterdam in 1980

In stock now at the Praxis store are several titles from Velocity Press, both brand new and a bit older: - Holly Dicker: Dance or Die - A History of Hardcore (NEW) - Keith Robinson: Take no Prisoners (NEW) - Mark Angelo Harrison: A Darker Electricity - The Origins of the Spiral Tribe Sound....

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Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge

Wish we could be in London this weekend for this; Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action. www.kairos.london/event/colin-...

Officially out today. Thanks for your support!

Just noticed @stewarthome.bsky.social’s Fascist Yoga is 40% off in the @plutopress.bsky.social sale! www.plutobooks.com/product/fasc...

After an afternoon traipsing through Nunhead cemetery I have found the location of The Cramps 1990 photoshoot with photographer Joe Dilworth, full details here (updated post) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... note @frazerlee.bsky.social @johnedenuk.bsky.social

Entering autumnal dub techno zone (part one) we have a new single by man like @grievousangel.net grievousangel.bandcamp.com/album/midnig...

Old rave tunes defying the “never read the comments” wisdom.

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below. Please follow for updates and collection highlights! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

So: 1. Bray gets fascist death threats 2. He leaves the country. 3. The administration uses this to claim that the leaders of the “antifa terrorist network” or whatever are fleeing the country so they’re not arrested