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Rob Palk
1 day ago
Imagine if you met someone irl who kept talking like people do on here, throwing under the bus, kept the receipts, lives rent-free etc, you'd quite rightly punch them in the face
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Jason Hazeley
1 day ago
FUCKING NORA
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Most unexpectedly moving ending to a series since Blackadder Goes Forth
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This is a really fun one! Was great to chat to Lavinia and Marco. The Making is one of my favourite albums of the year.
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Iāve started saying āmidā even though Iām in my āmidā forties
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4 days ago
sorry I've added a "Controversy" section to your wikipedia article while you were asleep
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Peter
5 days ago
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing iāve always said is that you shouldnāt kill a million people
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
5 days ago
Iām sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not.
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Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
https://news.sky.com/story/train-company-lner-extremely-proud-of-rail-worker-in-critical-condition-after-mass-stabbing-as-family-call-him-hero-13463705
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Five stars from Lucy Mangan, you say? Well thatās great, I canāt wait to watch one of the worst television programmes thatās ever been made.
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Your tone is antagonistic and youāre making me very arngry
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5 days ago
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I called someone out for doing the ānever heard of them!ā thing under an Instagram post but apparently people are now saying ānever heard of them!ā as a joke? But itās a joke that looks exactly the same as saying ānever heard of them!ā sincerely so where does that leave us as a society
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For some reason I keep getting loads of barbecue videos on Instagram and once again Iām amazed that Americans think British food is bad when theyāre literally out there cooking beef with Dr Pepper
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Anyone else watch Girlbands Forever? Why is there a gaping Girls Aloud-shaped hole??
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Alex von Tunzelmann
7 days ago
How depressing that they feel they must make this the headline.
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Iām Looking Through You and yet You Wonāt See Me, make thy mind up Paul McCartney
8 days ago
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I asked someone with a trumpet tattoo if it was a Thomas Pynchon thing and they said no itās just a trumpet. Sometimes a trumpetās just a trumpet folks!
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For Halloween I wrote about the new Joanne Robertson album and the Clientele. Not spooky, but certainly eerie! š
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The world is porcelain
Some thoughts on Joanne Robertsonās album Blurr, and the Clientele
https://open.substack.com/pub/robinallender/p/the-world-is-porcelain?r=wlecb&utm_medium=ios
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In all the chat about West End Girl I havenāt seen anyone mention Vulnicura⦠Surely one of the best and most brutal break-up albums of recent times.
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For Halloween I wrote about the new Joanne Robertson album and the Clientele. Not spooky, but certainly eerie! š
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The world is porcelain
Some thoughts on Joanne Robertsonās album Blurr, and the Clientele
https://open.substack.com/pub/robinallender/p/the-world-is-porcelain?r=wlecb&utm_medium=ios
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When people are talking about baby names I bet Kate Garraway is the type of person who'd say 'The old names are coming back aren't they! Ethel, Muriel... I heard a Mildred the other day!'
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Menotti Minutillo
9 days ago
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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I was working as a traveller in an antique land, that much is true
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Rose Ruane
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Stefan Mohamed
9 days ago
[Ozymandias, king of kings, announcing the Metaverse in 2022] two vast and trunkless legs of stone are coming soon! are you excited? š
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Love the fact Steve Albini owned this
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ERIC IDLE & NEIL INNES "The Rutland Weekend Songbook" ā Steve Albini's Closet
(Passport LP ā76) EX/V- cover has light wear. the bridge between the bongos, python & the rutles
https://www.stevealbiniscloset.com/stuff/p/eric-idle-neil-innes-the-rutland-weekend-songbook
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It was a delight to do another
@personalbealtes.bsky.social
covers challenge with
@johnnywreallyx2.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/34756e
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Your Own Personal Beatles: Covers Challenge Vol. 3 with Johnny White Really-Really
Friend of the show, the inimitable Johnny White Really-Really returns for a third edition of the Beatles cover challenge. As has become customary, Jack, Robin and Johnny pick three songs to cover, ...
https://pod.fo/e/34756e
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I love looking at arts jobs: we will pay you literally £300 a month to email a person by the way 7000 people have applied for this job
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Has anyone figured out a way of signalling to the person sitting next to you on the bus that youāre not getting up youāre just putting your book back in your bag
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Dorian Lynskey
13 days ago
Love this Edward Gorey quote: "Anything that is art is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and itās no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else itās irritating.ā
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I suppose you could interpret this as an olive branch to Only Connect
13 days ago
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Absolute minefield falling asleep listening to Selected Ambient Works II, some of the most blissed out music youāll ever hear following by the soundtrack to a haunted abattoir
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Does anyone else think Love Actually came out 20 years ago but Four Weddings and a Funeral came out 10 years ago
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Thoroughly enjoying this Fantasia on a Theme by Bagpuss, thanks
@iammilliam.bsky.social
for the rec
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The Land and The Garden, by Vic Mars
14 track album
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-and-the-garden
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Joel
17 days ago
@stevenc63.bsky.social
Did you know this has appeared?
youtu.be/PZxfh4NGt34?...
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The Beatles - The Music of Lennon and McCartney - (Full TV Special 12/16/1965) HD TCR Version
YouTube video by Cristhofer_YT95CQ Stems
https://youtu.be/PZxfh4NGt34?si=1XH5xG8RDIbfKAUy
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Stefan Mohamed
19 days ago
Paul Hollywood: what we're looking for from the contestants this week is a beautifully precise assassination - a bloodless kill, and a flawless cleanup Prue Leith: they're going to have to be really careful about DNA evidence. we don't want any traces left at the scene PH: a completely clean room
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Looking forward to seeing gibberish rock band YHWH Nailgun later
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I actually think those blokes selling stereo equipment in that Not the Nine OāClock News sketch were doing their jobs to the best of their ability in a very challenging marketplace
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This is brilliant, particularly this line about early social media: āIf you got exposed to insane opinions, that was only because your real-world friends were insaneā
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When Jonathan Harker arrives at Draculaās castle heās presented with a delicious roast chicken. Thereās no staff at Draculaās castle so who cooked the chicken and did the washing up? a) All done by magic b) The count himself. Both hilarious images when you think about it.
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āWhat a falling off was thereā ā Hamlet watching the new series of Slow Horses
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Little Greenis
23 days ago
Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL
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My album Above the Dreamerās Head came out ten years ago today! Itās currently pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp if you fancy giving it a spin!
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Above the Dreamerās Head, by Robin Allender
9 track album
https://robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/above-the-dreamer-s-head
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Rose Ruane
25 days ago
Had a great time chatting to
@robinallender.bsky.social
Do please have a listen lovesšāØš
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Kieran Wyatt
25 days ago
Great interview. I loved Birding when I read it last year. Interesting discussion about the Manics. (For years my dad's alarm when he was on the early shift was 'Motorcycle Emptiness', so the Manics to me mean the dread of getting up for school. Fab song though.)
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This month on The Allender Calendar Iām delighted to be joined by the fabulous author
@regretteruane.bsky.social
to discuss her brilliant novels Birding and This is Yesterday. Lots of Manics chat too!
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The Allender Calendar: Episode 14: Rose Ruane
This month on The Allender Calendar I talk to the fabulous writer Rose Ruane. Rose has published two novels, Birding (2024), which was longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, and This is...
https://pod.fo/e/33d825
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Pre-20th century novels are boring, often very very good, but boring
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ceej
26 days ago
any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darudeās sandstorm. the fact that they didnāt is just further proof that old times were busted generally
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Enna
26 days ago
Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Select All Images With A Fire Hydrant
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Dane Law
27 days ago
this is fantastic
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