Dave Ball! 🙏🏻🖤 i was so late to Soft Cell but they were untouchable. 80s pop is often portrayed as shallow and superficial but hiding in plain sight you had groups like Dexys, The Smiths, and Soft Cell who all had real emotional depth and complexity. i could post any song but: youtu.be/6pGPeFdJH_E

Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Sign up here for the upcoming @carantes.bsky.social talk by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social, online on November 18th! "Historical Nostalgia, Medieval Chivalry and Masculine Identity Formation in Far-Right Online Spaces”

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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wrong-spee... Couple of tickets returned.

If you haven't understood why community-led approaches to scholarly communication offer advantages to corporate-controlled markets of economic and prestige, then I wish you good luckk in your future negotiations with your digital vendors in the future. (PS I hope your budgets aren't further cut).

every night now: moi: ‘Right, early to bed today’ my brain: youtu.be/gNdnOTvGbJQ

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Undercover officer played role in Stephen Lawrence inquiry clashes

WRITING TIP: put a chocolate bar behind yr laptop in the morning and then when you leave the library in the evening you’ll find a mysterious treat from the library fairies 🗃️

Names that Reggie Perrin is introduced as when he arrives at his own wake disguised as a curly-haired and bearded ex pat, Martin Wellborne. Mervin Wishbone Melvin Washroom Melvin Windscreen Melville Windpipe

The Guardian chooses once more to frame a story based on what suits Farage rather than what is actually going on... If anyone still wonders why far-right politics are so mainstream, this is a good example

Spirit of ‘69 has been reprinted! (but so far i can only find it on Amazon… 😏) www.bovver.com/spirit-of-69...

“graffiti is the language of the unheard”

speaking as an internationally renowned historian (👀) i can 100% confirm beyond all doubt that graffiti never existed before the invention of aerosol cans 🤡🤡🤡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

America are stopping people from leaving - US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thread 👇 ! #noNSBM

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

on another matter entirely yet very good information for those so inclined

in lighter news i found a cheap vinyl copy of my favourite Killing Joke album, so….. 🤷 youtu.be/TnpwuRlXbhk

anyway, in completely unrelated news (🙃) i found book on the Freikorps today - though it’s dedicated to Junger, so who knows

researching this area obviously brings dangers & all my fascism researching UON colleagues have had degrees of contact with the enemy, but the current mainstreaming of fash thot & tactics is terrifying. fascists have ZERO INTEREST IN FREE SPEECH, it’s just a pretence and soon abandoned

newwwww Yowie yowie.bandcamp.com/album/taking...

Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻 Keeping Up Appearances was ultimately pretty awful but she (and the amazing Clive Swift) carried it. both great actors youtu.be/T-iDlTBZhKg

‘M’lud, I would also like to declare that I’ve inadvertently acquired an 88 tattoo.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning! It is Bandcamp Friday again and this time we are raising funds for @ndlon.bsky.social's Immigrant Defense Fund! We have a couple of very special, limited edition cassettes for it: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch

You can't REALLY strip 'everything' else away from this band as they're bigger than the music. But - if you were just left with the music this would still be a grade A, top tier, original and wild music making collective of people who put out some amazing records

huuuuuuge klingklang.bandcamp.com/album/half-l...

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now do anguish neurosciencenews.com/musician-pai...

Kneecap rapper's terror case thrown out

Danny Thompson 🙏🏻 i’m always drawn to the rhythm section and this was one of the all-timers youtu.be/JcgTa-qmvqA

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UPDATE: the beautiful game has destroyed my leg again 🔥🔥🔥 tish to walking and pish to standing. etc. youtu.be/LctPleLOgqk

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Mission Begin-This-Chapter-With-A-Quote-From-Cop-Shoot-Cop-Lyrics is starting to look undoable. but it’s not abandoned yet. youtu.be/p6U-aMMrgRk

it pains me to live in a world where this doesn’t exist

talking of Stozzi, as we were, it always fascinates me as to what music people write to. so if you write in any form feel free to reply with productive soundtracks. this was working yesterday 🗃️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxdb...

discovered Barbara Stozzi (1619-1677) a while back, and what could be more goth than melancholic early modern songs youtu.be/1F458aC_FUM

going through a proto-goth phase (don’t worry, i got into the Fields of Nephilim once, and i escaped that) youtu.be/o0OnHpuuMMo

good morrow youtu.be/LLQkARXy6bo

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