These bans are short-sighted and inhumane and pushed by people who do not understand the complexity of social media

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September

The Claudia Wickerman (1973)

Watching Utd play beautiful football again has made me very happy

I think pretty much the whole of the Go-Betweens' back catalogue is now on Spotify. I'm happy

21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

@aprilciate.bsky.social You probably know these guys but they fondly reminded me of the Go-Betweens open.spotify.com/track/3cNrJG...

Happy Birthday Nels Cline who is 70 years old today! Stay tuned for some Nels news coming tomorrow & in the meantime revisit his most recent Blue Note album “Consentrik Quartet”: nelscline.lnk.to/consentrikqu...

Saw a Rovers Return bird house today

I think in this day and age they shouldn't have separate competitions based on your sexuality.

This

Happy Birthday to Paloma McLardy aka Palmolive, original drummer for influential punk groups The Slits and The Raincoats, born on this day in 1954, Melilla, Spain Photo by Kevin Cummins #punk #punks #punkdrummer #womenofpunk #palmolive #theslits #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Travel Sex- Sexiness [italy, italo] (1983) https://redd.it/gk52bx https://youtu.be/nOpmWVeRDwk

Brân - Y Gwylwyr [Wales, prog folk] (1975) https://redd.it/1p91n87 https://youtu.be/GDnRGyoblHE

Good column. Another thing: “if you don’t have rules, you get prejudices” is literally the same argument as “if you have the Gaza war, you have the murder of innocents in Sydney” - an argument that neither of these politicians would make in public!

Still laughing at this. Cannot imagine a more self-discrediting argument for socialism than “under socialism, you should be able to gesture to your crotch, tell a customer to suck it and keep your job”.

Our US version of the "It's The Cords" t-shirts just arrived and orders are now shipping. They look swell! slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com/merch/the-co...

Happy birthday to Kat' Bjelland, guitarist, singer and songwriter for the Babes in Toyland, born on this day in 1963, Salem, Oregon Babes in Toyland - Bruise Violet - Reading Festival 1993 #punkrock #womenofpunk #katbjelland #babesintoyland #punkrockhistory #otd

Just had a full Patridge moment when the (sub-optimal) coffee machine in my apartment in Funchal stopped working.

I'm really not sure why people are so down on this, it's great to see an interracial couple thriving

There’s nothing like a little Joe Meek–style Christmas horror song to bring joy to the masses at this time of year. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzp...

open.spotify.com/track/6Pm7QW... For a special and underrated person :)

One of the all-time greats On a more serious point, so many social media exchanges like this now only exist because people take screenshots and save them People delete posts, accounts get deleted You are preserving history by screenshotting, so remember to do your bit for the future 🫡

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

Mussels cooked in wine are always lovely, that’s true, but I implore you to try cooking them in beer: its light bitterness is the perfect foil to their rich sweet flesh. And this is why my Dutch Mussels are #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/dutc...

This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle! Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more! This was done despite fierce opposition. 📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

Starmer has done nothing but Morgan McSweeney has been dropped from Beard of Year longlist kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/m...

Airbnb is driving me nuts

@aprilciate.bsky.social the Monochrome Set are playing on my birthday next year 👀

Keith Richards and his last thousand dollars?

Losing the war on woke

@browneyegirlhi.bsky.social youtu.be/3NFywQdeKSo?...

A wedding guest goes wild on the dancefloor … Meryl Meisler’s best photograph

His famous catchphrase

48/ Because of the delay in counting votes in the 1945 election (to allow service votes to be flown home), two dead people were elected MPs (Tories Edward Campbell and Leslie Pym). Labour's Alfred Dobbs also died before parliament met, but after having been elected.

Mortifying experience at Pulp last night but taking comfort that I’m not the worst person Jarvis Cocker has ever impersonated

Here’s the massive, magnificent but very rare Octobasse, invented in 1850. To play it, the musician must stand on a platform. You can hear its rather alarming deep bass tone, and see it being played, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-...

80s...most underrated decade musically. open.spotify.com/track/13de51...

Came on my playlist and thought of you @aprilciate.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4MrwM9...