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Carole Lombard by Eugene Robert Richee, 1931. #botd (Thread)
06.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 83 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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Dr Goodall speaking for millions of us hundreds of millions!
05.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 64 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
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Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895
04.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 165 🔁 59 💬 5 📌 5
On this day in 1992, R.E.M. released Automatic For The People.
A set of beautiful, quixotic songs that made no concessions to pop sensibilities and yet demanded to be heard by millions, see where it ranked in MOJO’s rundown of R.E.M.’s best albums...
The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.
05.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 219 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 3
#nowplaying Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Folk Underground 1969-1975 @acerecords.bsky.social
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'Best Kebab', Old Street, Hoxton (2003) by Georgia Peskett
georgiapeskett.com
Bradford, 1978, photo by Don McCullin.
04.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 129 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
#nowplaying Chip Shop Pop: The Sound of Denmark Street 1970-1975 @acerecords.bsky.social
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Reading the Billy Bragg doesn't like the Manics toilet story. A joy.
04.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...
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It’s Windy
💨🍃▶️ open.spotify.com/album/3tCXGK...
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#nowplaying Big Thief- Double Infinity
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Jack Kerouac ▪︎ October in the Railroad Earth
02.10.2025 06:41 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
‘Kid A’ was released 25 years ago today. 💿 What’s your favorite track?
02.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 62 🔁 9 💬 13 📌 25
Precinct 1 (Shopping City, Salford), by Mandy Payne, Sheffield-based artist. Spray paint and oil paint on marble. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
01.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 47 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
A new documentary about Lilith Fair, the ’90s women’s music festival, serves as a corrective to the mocking mythology that has trailed it—and a reminder of how rare its collective ethos feels today, Sophie Gilbert writes:
01.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 3
#nowplaying Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override
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#nowplaying Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks
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Remembering Donny Hathaway on his birthday
youtu.be/WkfTLnE5Vtk?...
Julie Christie, photographed by Douglas Kirkland, 1964.
01.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 97 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0
If you’d like to celebrate #SilentMovieDay, all 13 episodes of HOLLYWOOD are on Internet Archive.
Kevin Brownlow and David Gill wrote, directed, and produced this 1980 documentary series for Thames Television/ITV, featuring a score by maestro Carl Davis.
Watch: https//archive.org... #FilmSky
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29.09.2025 23:47 — 👍 50 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
#nowplaying Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
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I’ve just signed the petition against mandatory digital ID. This is going to be open to abuse by any future Trump-like government, will make no difference to immigration, and will push marginalised people further into the darkness. Say no.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
Remembering Trish Keenan on her birthday
youtu.be/hQv1ox13WQc
