Greta Thunberg MUST get the Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine how much Donald Trump and Netanyahu would rage.

Who Pete Hegseth thinks he is vs. who he ACTUALLY is

In cinemas now… One Bottle After Another

#REMtop30 Criminally forgotten by me. “Take a picture here. Take a souvenir”

Felix Vallotton : The Family of Trees, 1922

#REMtop30 1. Fall On Me “There’s the progress: we have found a way to talk around the problem” An unoriginal choice, but it had to be this one at No.1. Just the perfect REM song. Maybe the perfect song. youtu.be/lf6vCjtaV1k?...

The ocean is the river's goal A need to leave the water knows We're closer now than light years to go

#REMtop30 1. Find The River “Strength and courage overrides The privileged and weary eyes Of river poet search naïveté Pick up here and chase the ride The river empties to the tide All of this is coming your way”

Meanwhile, in the USA...🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Starmer chodes must be the worst 😎

#REMtop30 2. Country Feedback “These clothes don’t fit us right, I’m to blame” Goosebumps every single listen. A masterpiece of heartbreak and self-recrimination. A soundscape that howls in pain and cries in beauty. The best use of Cmaj7 in rock. youtu.be/6EHBh1FuY1Q?...

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

#REMtop30 2. Fall On Me Not much more I can say about this song other than its been a constant companion growing up. The anthem of hope.

Age Yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid

Stop doom scrolling! Watch this cuteness instead... 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #bluesky #nature #wildlife #animals

Sarah Ross-Thompson, fine art printmaker based on the South West Coast of Scotland, looking out over the Irish Sea #WomensArt

@guitarmoog.bsky.social What's going to be our next top 30?

#REMtop30 3. Pretty Persuasion “God damn, pure confusion” My favourite Peter Buck riff and my favourite REM song to play on guitar. Everything that makes them great, individually, collectively, as songwriters and as players, is in this track from 1984. youtu.be/z8eIUjLhdw8?...

#REMtop30 3. So Central Rain “The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine” I love this song so much. I love playing it. I love everything about it.

"Please be suspicious in the nicest way - of everyone."

Maybe we're super superstitious ...

Saul Leiter. From “The Unseen Saul Leiter”

#REMtop30 4. Driver 8 ‘We can reach our destination But we're still a ways away” A train song about trains. I like train songs and I like trains. And holy crap did these lads know how to write a middle eight. youtu.be/wuFId1RYSZE?...

#REMtop30 4. Driver 8 A song about perseverance. Perfection.

‘Time for Scotland to fight like hell’ If Yes parties win a majority at the next Scottish election that should be used as a mandate for independence. If London says No to a referendum then Scotland should vote regardless My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

How do UK ID cards work with the Good Friday Agreement?

Issam Kourbaj, Syrian (1963- ), Dark Water, Burning World, series, 2016, discarded bicycle steel mudguards, matches and resin, one of 12, British Museum, London, England

#REMtop30 5. I Remember California “I guess we took us for a ride” Foreboding & post-apocalyptic. The relentless flat 2nd chord change, Buck’s huge Neil Young guitar, Berry’s stunning suppressing-fire drums, Stipe’s withering vocals, Mills’ anguished-cry bVox. Gets to me. youtu.be/QZzDrbLNnMM?...

At the point you’re putting Tony Blair in charge of Gaza, you might as well send in Gazza wielding a fishing rod and a bucket of KFC. He’d be just as useful and its nominative determinism.

The people putting up Saltires today are the same people who ripped them down in 2014.

#REMtop30 5. Imitation Of Life If you wanted a one-song condensate of REM it’s probably this song.

post a concert photo you took (The Phantom Band)

#REMtop30 #musicchallenge 6. "Crazy" youtu.be/Go9t68mQOl0?...

Coming back to earth Thursday.

Danny Thompson 🥃

#REMtop30 6. Talk About The Passion “Not everyone can carry the weight of the world”

#REMtop30 7. Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) “Gentlemen, don’t get caught” Reminds me of the hobos ‘riding the blinds’ in Robert Johnson’s Walkin’ Blues and old blues lore, but the boxcars imagery is powerfully inseparable from the Holocaust too. Is it advice or a warning? youtu.be/I2ldtKJbNQQ?...

#REMtop30 7. Half A World Away Another song that eschews despair but comes to terms with loneliness, disconnection, and a life less ordinary Once again, a beautiful song in 6/8 time.

#REMtop30 9. Texarkana Perhaps Millsey’s finest moment, in a career of very fine moments. Also a lesson in patience in arrangements, doubling the intro and bringing in John Keane’s pedal steel where you expect the vocals to start. Making you wait, pulling you in. youtu.be/p16q-w2OuI4?...

#REMtop30 8. Strange Currencies I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance …

#REMtop30 8. Wolves, Lower “Suspicion yourself, suspicion yourself, Don’t get caught” This is the song I play first when I pick up an unplugged or clean-sounding electric guitar. It’s a stamina test to play through the intro and verse’s relentless riff. I love Chronic Town youtu.be/zJB628tWEHk?...

#REMtop30 9. I Believe Then I remember it doesn’t matter. What a chorus. And, I love accordion, fight me.

#REMtop30 10. World Leader Pretend I get so frustrated with myself, often.

#REMtop30 11. Talk About the Passion “Not everyone can carry the weight of the world” Even if you have no other use for one whatsoever, you should still own a 12-string guitar so you can have the joy of playing this on it. youtu.be/zCMy6kq5ZA0?...