Michael Spooky Bell 🎃🦇👻

I'll have to check it out

For me it had to be Weirdo by Emma-Jean Thackray but there was so much else better than Fender on the shortlist

CMAT, FKA Twigs, and Wolf Alice all lost out to that?

Fucking dad rock for kids

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

Sam Fender won the fucking Mercury Prize? Over Pulp and Emma-Jean Thackray? Seriously?

So is it just a glorified Brit Award now then?

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

Heaton Stan haven't lost a game since August. Their last six games have been three wins and three draws. Much more comfortable season so far that last. Think we're growing into this league now

Feel like some of the apparent panic from the EHRC would be because they know the only way to push through the trans segregation is by force and not to look into it with due care so the minister seemingly not brute forcing throws their whole scheme off

Been thinking a lot about this exact thing recently

I should've moved sooner but the final straw was Spotify putting up the threshold for artists to receive any royalties at all to 10k monthly listens. There are artists big enough for me to have seen on UK tours that don't get that and so don't get a penny (or fraction of a penny) from Spotify

I've been on it at the suggestion of @onelifestand87.bsky.social and it's great. Even the very most obscure stuff I knew from Spotify is there too, so no worries at all about not having the same library. I spent years building playlists and they all move over easily

I guess the frogs are anthropomorphic? Sort of?

Tbh I didn't really think the No Kings march was gonna be as big as the last one, until I seen how scared the administration obviously is of it

I got the impression that she hadn't read it but had assumed it was a useful comeback to any annoying questions about trans rights (it's not)

I spent time with Preet on the Co-op Party NEC, and in my experience of her, she has zero knowledge/understanding of this topic. In an exchange where I raised concerns about comments from Streeting about "single sex spaces" she referred me to the Cass Report, which is not about "single sex spaces"

You're right, but like, I don't think Corbynism being rooted in the traditions it was was a good thing for anyone

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

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“Buffalo Stance” by Neneh Cherry #nowplaying #6music

Sign on a brick building, says Welcome to the UTS Stadium

Two players run for the ball, one in green and white, one in blue and white

International break? What international break?

Went to Dunston UTS Vs Blyth Spartans tonight, with a home win of 3-0. Howay the Fed!

My gf reckons Woltemade should put small perforations in his shirt, so when defenders pull on it it rips, alerting the attention of the ref

Given how well-known and loved their work is, at least in the UK, it surprises me how rarely ABBA are ever covered

This (fascinating) audiobook thread reminding me of the hardest choices you have to make as a parent, “how many characters in this book are getting funny voices?” b/w “can I actually do the accent I am attempting?”

Yeah that was true even before Brexit, I stopped going on that subreddit in 2014 and it was very Ukippy then

Yes!

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It's the opening piece to Disney's Fantasia and they lean more into it just being a soundscape

Cos some classical pieces were written to be spooky and still are, but I'm not sure that was

What was the main cultural association to the audience at the time