@stevenc63.bsky.social
Co-host of Nothing Is Real … a podcast about The Beatles. www.nothingisrealpod.com
YES YES YES thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🙏
😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!!
"In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️
It's. that. simple.
![[73] HOWARD GOODALL: What few people know is that George’s comment is part of an illustrious lineage of cheeky-yet-endearing remarks between artist and prospective patron. Mozart, when first brought in to the presence of Emperor Joseph II in 1781,charmed the notoriously chilly monarch by telling him he didn’t like his wig. Going even further back we are reminded of a surviving extract from the diary of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. In June 1717 he writes ‘I met a man applying himself for position of Kapellmeister. I sought to ensure our interview was conducted with brevity but the fellow made merry, telling me he did not like my breeches. This amused me greatly and I told Herr Bach he could take up the post as of Lammastide.’ Moving back to the twentieth century it is entirely possible that George Harrison was among those watching when Malcom Arnold told the then-82-year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams that he didn’t like his tie during an appearance on In Town Tonight in June 1954.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:erjquqznvcj6cqon2mbnqj2m/bafkreigeigsuehdeqm5kgrhitdcjturxaun4hjphxb3qkt6p4l7x4ra7cm@jpeg)
[73] HOWARD GOODALL: What few people know is that George’s comment is part of an illustrious lineage of cheeky-yet-endearing remarks between artist and prospective patron. Mozart, when first brought in to the presence of Emperor Joseph II in 1781,charmed the notoriously chilly monarch by telling him he didn’t like his wig. Going even further back we are reminded of a surviving extract from the diary of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. In June 1717 he writes ‘I met a man applying himself for position of Kapellmeister. I sought to ensure our interview was conducted with brevity but the fellow made merry, telling me he did not like my breeches. This amused me greatly and I told Herr Bach he could take up the post as of Lammastide.’ Moving back to the twentieth century it is entirely possible that George Harrison was among those watching when Malcom Arnold told the then-82-year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams that he didn’t like his tie during an appearance on In Town Tonight in June 1954.
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My wifw went on holiday to Indonesia in the Summer.
Oh, Jakarta?
No. She went in her #HondaAccord
I can barely get through my working day without wanting to punch at least one of my work colleagues in the face, and now I’m expected to put on a Christmas jumper and sit down for lunch in a sweltering restaurant with them all? Isn’t the NHS under enough pressure?
12.12.2025 10:21 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
12.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 9901 🔁 1830 💬 422 📌 227The environmental benefits of the collapse of tourism to the USA will be huge. Hopefully FIFA can invent and give that man some sort of Climate Reversal Award Prize.
12.12.2025 07:43 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Notice that not only Franklin was seated by himself, he's the only one in a lawn chair. They wouldn't let a brotha sit on the good furniture!
Franklin ain't having it, y'all!😂
*sound*🔊
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
Thanks for sharing. Hard Rain is a better record than critics claim; it's rough and a loose and everything you want from a Rolling Thunder recording in the windy outdoors of the mid 1970s.
#MusicSky
Don’t bother to pack a bag. Just walk away.
11.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Birthday Brenda Lee.
youtube.com/watch?v=_QK1...
Dancing at the Storyville Jazz Club, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1952
📷 Helmer Lund Hansen
How did Reese Witherspoon get there?
11.12.2025 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
@stevenc63.bsky.social the movement you need is on your shoulder.
11.12.2025 10:06 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Not an album I ever really loved … then I saw the title track played live and it all became clear!
10.12.2025 23:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That is such a great picture.
10.12.2025 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I only have one more -
10.12.2025 22:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Enjoying the wiki page for my hometown.
10.12.2025 21:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Collect two more participants and you are legally obliged to stage a reunion concert.
10.12.2025 21:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0COUNTDOWN TO KEEFMAS! VIP & GA tickets still available for our annual holiday show (and Keith Richards birthday celebration) this Sunday, December 14th at Cafe Wha? in New York City.
Get yours: tinyurl.com/KEEFMAS2025
Ha! And it deters burglars. Probably.
10.12.2025 21:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It really was quite something when it came out. I was gutted when, after about a year, it stopped blinking at me from the shelf, but it was quite easy to fillet out the mechanism. And order is restored …
10.12.2025 21:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s that time of year when, in my house, we put up the tree and change the battery in “Pulse”.
10.12.2025 21:32 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1Finding out your boyfriend couldn’t fight the Boers on account of his rickets
10.12.2025 20:11 — 👍 40 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I enjoyed the remix of the album - although nothing could ever save Cherry Oh Baby - but yes, it was disappointing overall. I guess they didn’t have much to work with in the vault. Still, better than Anthology 4!
I need to pick up the Dream Syndicate box. And probably The Replacements too!
