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Magic! See you Friday 🍻🍻🍻

2 questions: Are you opening at 12 on Friday, and will you have pork pies?

Dad Calling    Just To Say He Loves King Crimson

Dad Calling    Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/

Vendor with inflated pig intestines, Mexico, late 19th century

Protest flyer calling "NICK TENCONI IS A NAZI," featuring a split image of him in a suit cheering. The text announces a Saturday, 8th Nov, 12PM rally at Sheffield Cathedral to prevent him from marching. Logo for Stand Up To Racism is visible.

Protest flyer showing a large anti-fascist crowd gathered on a city street. Text reads: "WE'VE DRIVEN THE FASCISTS OUT OF TOWN BEFORE AND WE WILL DO IT AGAIN." It urges everyone to remind them that "SHEFFIELD IS NAZI FREE" this Saturday.

Two women smiling in the foreground of a large anti-racism protest with a yellow banner and many signs. Text highlights the experience as "HAVING FUN" and encourages a swipe to remember how enjoyable fighting the far right is.

Wide shot of a massive, crowded anti-far right/anti-racism demonstration marching down an ornate city street. Protesters hold signs and a large pink and yellow banner reading, in part, "WOMEN AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT", "STOP THE FAR RIGHT STAND UP TO RACISM."

Urgent Call! Stop UKIP leader Nick Tenconi (“Nazi Nick”) from marching in Sheffield this Saturday.

​We need all Anti-Racists, Anti-Fascists, and Nazi-Haters for a massive counter-demo at Sheffield Cathedral, Sat 8th Nov, 12pm (S1 1HA).

Join us to reject Nazis 🗣️ and welcome refugees 🫂 Share widely!

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

I can't wait already 🍻

👀 is it a ticketed do this year? I've got a day's annual leave left that might come in handy 😉

YouTube video by The Craft Beer Channel No one makes beer like St Mars of the Desert.

NEW VID!

This week we visit St Mars of the Desert – a brewery that rejects style definitions, brews hazy lager, adds mad acids to its mash, hand paints anything that stands still long enough – and happens to make some of the best beer in the world.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJo...

Ralf und Florian. Formative members of kraftwerk. Florian looks like he's just started working in a bank, and Ralf is still dressed like a student.

The Foxes Trust, Foxes Pride and Union FS have today released the following joint statement:

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement. Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."

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Yeah, we're pretty good company 🍻. Just make sure we're home before it gets out of control... 😉

I've just come in from the Sheffield camra festival and it was wonderful to see a load of young people there, maybe there's some hope yet!

We were all about the shipstones mild with a bottle of manns brown in the East Midlands.

Bask in the knowledge that anything that goes wrong for the next 6 months will be blamed on you...

150 quid for Sheffield! At what point do people say no?

Just once. I bought taco of death by extra hot sauce instead of 1987 by klf, reasoning that I could pick up 1987 next payday. Before I could buy it, all unsold copies were recalled and destroyed.
Taco of death is garbage, and it took a wad of cash years later to add the klf to my collection.

A better image of the 1997 UK Express account of Ghislaine Maxwell supplying Donald Trump with young women:

Middleton's website: Who is Ant Middleton? Discover who Ant Middleton is and what he's all about. Ant was invited to President Trump's inauguration Ant shares a joke with King Charles

Ant Middleton's name removed from Prince's Trust website after Channel 4 axe EXCLUSIVE: Former SAS: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton has been taken off the Prince's Trust website after was sacked from the Channel 4 show for making 'inappropriate comments' to female crew members

On Middleton's site, it says, "Who is Ant Middleton?" and shows a pic from 2019 of him shaking hands with the then Prince Charles titled, "Ant shares a joke with King Charles."

Sadly, there isn't room to note that, in 2021, he was scrubbed from the Prince's Trust site following his firing by C4.

It's absolutely insane to us that anyone still uses Twitter. You don't have to. You can just stop. It was a *massive* part of our growth but you can just let it go. However important your business is to you, it's less important than this:

Apparently Steve is putting on a big club night tonight. He claims to have booked a venue and printed flyers that say “Free entry if you bring Steve a pint.” I suspect the 'venue' will be our living room, and I've checked his playlist, it's one song on repeat: Darude Sandstorm. You have been warned

@acidgrandads.bsky.social change sandstorm to energy flash and it's sounding familiar 😘

A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for gala pie - a pork pie with a boiled egg in the middle

Can I introduce you to the gala pie, still very popular in Yorkshire. Must admit I never knew there was chicken in the mix, I'm sure it's all pork.

AI Survey 11. Why would you not use AI for music-related activities in the future? My audience trusts me to create music that reflects my experiences, perspectives, thoughts and feelings as a human being, and I have no intention of breaking that trust. Creativity lies at the very heart of what it is to be human and, as such, generative AI is the end of humanity. Finally, is there anything else you would like to say regarding AI? KILL IT WITH FIRE

Just completed the PRS survey on AI-generated music

Last night’s clambake wfmu.org/playlists/sh... @wfmu.bsky.social

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👏👏👏well done young man, that's a right effort!

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out