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Contributing editor for Albumism, writer of stuff and Prince fan(atic?). I have a million notebooks with ideas and unfinished scripts/books/screenplays in - maybe one day I’ll get one seen. Doubt it though!

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I just finished Isabel
Wilkerson’s amazing ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’ - that’s a good place to start.

19.11.2025 10:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel the same. Either we’re believing kids as survivors, or we’re not. It doesn’t matter who the ‘adult’ is.

19.11.2025 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Positively subterranean, here.

18.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like it too

18.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

[powerful black mold crawls out from bathroom stall, posts on social media]: I also lived with Olivia Nuzzi for 4 years

18.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 294    🔁 37    💬 8    📌 3

Please tell her some random dude from Enfield appreciates her efforts!

18.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What a wonderful thing for her to do. Good on her.

18.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel so helpless in the face of this torrent of bile. What can I do except raise my daughter right?

18.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In 2019 he went on Fox News and openly pushed Great Replacement antisemitism and praised Orban's antisemitic attacks on George Soros.

18.11.2025 18:38 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

How thoroughly depressing.

18.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit.

Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won.

Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not.

This is on you.

18.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 130    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 3

When I was in hospital for 4 days and diagnosed with cancer, my wife overstayed by 2 mins and then accidentally input the wrong number plate due to the sudden stress etc. We ended up paying £120 in fines. From that moment, I have been rage filled at anyone paying for hospital parking.

18.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Audio)
YouTube video by NinaSimoneVEVO Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Audio)

the national trust for historic preservation just finished restoring nina simone's childhood home in tryon, nc. i'm producing a radio segment about that -- which, of course, provides a prime opportunity for me to use this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17-...

18.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Pharage/Reform suggest these alleged comments/behaviour from 40+ years has no public interest. But, his politics aligns with his alleged views from then. It's all division and blaming everything on "foreigners".
It always has been.
He's a deeply unpleasant man.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

18.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

On top of all her obvious strength, she’s gotta have a doozy of a neck to carry all that hardware!

18.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

18.11.2025 09:43 — 👍 3568    🔁 1283    💬 214    📌 440

Words to live by!

18.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you or someone you know was interviewed by Olivia nuzzi you maybe entitled to compensation

18.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 202    🔁 30    💬 5    📌 1

How do they know what people want who voted for them? Is the mandate simply to make things better? What is the data they have that indicates their interpretation of the mandate?

18.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White supremacist youth club launched in UK Active Clubs England, a network of neo-Nazi fight clubs, promotes Albion Youth Club as a route into militant fascism for next generation

The Times - A network of neo-Nazi fight clubs in England launches a group aimed at children as young as 15 to groom the next generation of fascists. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

17.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 23    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 5
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A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

17.11.2025 23:16 — 👍 3227    🔁 1093    💬 121    📌 126
THE DISNEY+ BLACK PRINCE STORYBOARD BLUES 

to die the hero as cinema 
with soundtrack blaring 
a black hole leaping 
across the void smiling 
into the camera 
into the languages of light 
the dawn on your shoulders 
your boots full of stardust 
and twilight… but better yet 
to not die the hardluck knight 
the hero with a sly smile 
left for dead / but instead 
forever rising / many 
many sequels later. 
well-scripted. well-funded. & black; 
the franchise of your cameo fabled.

THE DISNEY+ BLACK PRINCE STORYBOARD BLUES to die the hero as cinema with soundtrack blaring a black hole leaping across the void smiling into the camera into the languages of light the dawn on your shoulders your boots full of stardust and twilight… but better yet to not die the hardluck knight the hero with a sly smile left for dead / but instead forever rising / many many sequels later. well-scripted. well-funded. & black; the franchise of your cameo fabled.

the disney+ black prince storyboard blues

18.11.2025 08:53 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

I wrote about James Brown’s wondrous ‘Sex Machine’ album earlier this year.

18.11.2025 07:43 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Hardback edition of Prince’s autobiography and paperback edition of Questlove’s ‘Music Is History’.

Hardback edition of Prince’s autobiography and paperback edition of Questlove’s ‘Music Is History’.

I have had an exciting day of cleaning and tidying bookshelves (not that you’d know by looking at them!) and have found two duplicates of books I have. If there is anyone in the UK who wants them, I’d happily give them away for the cost of the postage and a small charity donation. Any takers?

17.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a strange mix of childish comedy and that melancholy you’d mention that makes it really affecting to me. The infantile stupidity of them with the pathos. I love it.

17.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I used to think you were a fungi.

17.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Go splits?

17.11.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So that’s that.

17.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In lieu of an actual job, I’ve decided I will win the Euromillions tomorrow night.

17.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I try not to think about that playing a part because there’s nothing I can do about it and it infuriates me so much. But I do think it has something to do with it. Grrr. Thanks for your kind words.

17.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0