"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
14.11.2025 09:13 — 👍 1806 🔁 461 💬 278 📌 156
It's incredible the things the state broadcaster takes responsibility for & what it does not. Months of Israeli propaganda, nothing. One episode that told the truth about Trump's involvement in J6th&heads must roll. Suggests both foreign involvement & a politicised broadcaster.
09.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 55 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
Siegfried Sassoon
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Bloody Hell, no wonder K-9 and Company didn’t get picked up.
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A boot-shaped observatory against a sunset sky. The sky is lighter and blue on the right, transitioning to dark with twinkling stars on the left.
What if you could capture a two-hour sunset in a single photo?
This composite was built from ~6,000 photos taken on a night in mid-July, each contributing just one column of pixels.
Look closely and you’ll spot stars starting to twinkle in the upper left as the night begins ✨🔭🧪
28.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 84 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 2
HELL YES SCARY GERMAN SUPERMARKET BREAD SLICER
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Variant Thirteen 53 - 10th October 2025
It's here ! Latest show, now available on Mixcloud :) #psychedelic #ambient #electronic #experimental www.mixcloud.com/mark-newman1...
12.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
sun shines through a medium-sized green leaf, still on the tree, showing its spines and tiny gaps. top right it looks like a small worm has taken a winding nibble through a now damaged section. the leaf is yellow and brown on the edges. blue sky. other leaves blurry in the background.
Take a moment to enjoy the colours and structures of a leaf in the October sunshine.
11.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Not long now, my pretties....
(3pm to be precise)
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You're welcome :)
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....with tracks from:
@moraynewlands.bsky.social
@gardengate.bsky.social
@lauracannellmusic.bsky.social
@whitehills.bsky.social
@jenniferballads.bsky.social
and more :)
07.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Variant Thirteen returns to Radio Buena Vida this Friday 10th at 3pm on its new every-two-months schedule, but still with the regular helping of mainly recent #psychedelic #ambient #electronic #experimental sounds.
Listen live at buenavida.co.uk (use LISTEN link top-left).
07.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
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Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
X.com
Convincing my left-wing former close friends on
Facebook that Charlie Kirk wasn't a Nazi or a
fascist is completely futile because I can't even
convince them that I'M not a Nazi or a fascist, and
many have known me since early grade school.
1:20 PM • 9/15/25 • 850K Views
truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself
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Here comes the money: UK lands Trump tech deals
Britain’s quest for AI sovereignty is made in the USA.
The more we hear about the deals Mandelson has been negotiating with Trump, the scarier it gets.
This week Trump will be accompanied by corporate billionaires on his state visit. Their agenda is a massive risk to all of us 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/uk-m...
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Cocteaunly Child
13.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I know !!!! And I have to confess that, despite coming from Norfolk, I had never heard of Cley until now. Two buses came along at once!
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People are like "you need to show empathy" but if you were in one of the many, many groups this racist, sexist queerphobe victimised why would we offer what we never once got from him or his deranged supporters? Asking for sheep to pray for the wolf is a bold move in ignorance and indulgence.
11.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 95 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 2
It's a good point.
Where are the govt ministers, police, councillors, or other community leaders demanding that our "legitimate concerns" about the rise of fascism and racism are heard?
When will Keir Starmer say "I hear you" to us?
#r4today
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Tory councils should consider asylum hotel challenges, says Badenoch
The Tory leader writes to council leaders after a court blocked a hotel from housing asylum seekers.
1/8 Future historians of Britain will puzzle over this. How the hounding of people seeking asylum (which won’t stop once they are moved from hotels to houses) became the defining issue of 2020s politics.
Badenoch encourages Tory councils to challenge asylum hotels www.bbc.com/news/article...
21.08.2025 06:33 — 👍 38 🔁 26 💬 7 📌 2
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
15.08.2025 09:58 — 👍 6262 🔁 2394 💬 118 📌 171
Variant Thirteen 52 - 8th August 2025
Ready for a listen ? Here's my latest doings ! www.mixcloud.com/mark-newman1...
10.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You're very welcome :)
09.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
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Covering the best ambient, noise, experimental and anything else outside of the norm. Reviews (almost) daily. Managed by @larshaur.bsky.social
women's tennis gifs. Support: https://ko-fi.com/tennisgifs
LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Social historian of modern places. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out March 2026. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Changing the noise/industrial narrative away from fascist apologists.
Offensive language warning!
LGBTQ+safe space. Art & Noise.
Sometimes harsh.
No bigotry.
Fash fuck off.
I read a phrase today, ‘we are a collective of equals’.
I like that.
Artist & Writer
No opinions just Art & Photography oh yes.
We work to combat prejudice and intolerance.
Sophie was murdered because of her alternative appearance. We tell her story as a catalyst for change 🖤
https://linktr.ee/sophielancasterfoundation?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
The Gentlemen of Musicke
moonwiringclub.com
Scottish, theatre loving, queer, gym rat 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
A Glasgow-based but Scotland-wide group of LGBTQ+ elders forging links and offering social and cultural activities to those aged 50+ and also the wider community.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/438698260205503/?ref=share
Music. Images. Wilful obscurity. Since 2002.
No money changes hands.
www.learntoswimrecordings.co.uk
Radio presenter for Camp Radio (Plant Noise) Member of live plant based project The Lichon. Environmental sound artist. Make music, love mud. https://alexhduncan.bandcamp.com/
Thelichon.com
Music created from field recordings; caves, coasts, woods, fairgrounds, vintage toys…Part of Scissorgun. Also in Spectral Bazaar and Lines of Silence
https://cavendishhouse.bandcamp.com/
https://daveclarkson.bandcamp.com/
https://Scissorgun.bandcamp.com
Folk horror, cats, mist, cheesy chips.
The Changing Face of British Society & Culture. EXHIBITIONS | SHOP | GALLERIES
Dr. Kort is a sex and relationship therapist and recently published a book for gay men called “Side Guys“ where he talks about coining the term “side” and sides share their personal stories www.joekort.com