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English Primitive reinventor, Moonshake/Wolfhounds ranter, Swell Maps supply guitarist, nature writer. #MDANT https://davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/down-to-the-marshes

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Lucky Now, by Lande Hekt 11 track album

Oh yay.

09.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Lande Hekt - Romantic
YouTube video by Lande Hekt Lande Hekt - Romantic

Indie pop isn't my favourite of genres, despite being ancestrally embedded in it, but sometimes the genre throws up an excellent, nuanced songwriter who deserves much wider recognition. This is superlative – and there's a new LP soon:

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

10.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Thanks – the (admittedly expensive) reissue sounds even better than the original :)

08.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@davidlancecallahan.bsky.social been revisiting Eva Luna, what an album.

08.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy Research by YouGov showed some politicians had β€˜grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.

Shame their party wants to frack and hates green investment.

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

08.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Kuy is right. This time will be split into Parliaments, Recesses etc, it will fly by.

And the entire time Starmer is sat β€œBidening” his time, expending the ability he temporarily has to regulate press, social media and fix all this.

We are on course to a Trump style Reform Govt.

08.10.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's trouble with being against pluralism, diversity and difference. You never quite know where it ends.

07.10.2025 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

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First day recording - been laying down some backing tracks with a heavy heavy monster rhythm section (groovy sax player not shown) ...

07.10.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
'We stayed calm - they couldn’t break us'
YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show 'We stayed calm - they couldn’t break us'

Many flotilla members are back but some are missing. They are the best of us.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMH...

06.10.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have left the building.

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A creepy-looking tree standing tall on a farm.  It might have murderous intent!

Image credit Eric Johnson via wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A creepy-looking tree standing tall on a farm. It might have murderous intent! Image credit Eric Johnson via wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Trees: a symbol of a healthy ecology, clean air, and a tranquil environment.

And also maybe responsible for a mass extinction.

1/7 βš›οΈπŸ§ͺ

05.10.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
Michael Palin, dressed in ragged clothes / hair / beard, drags himself up the shore, the sea not far behind him.
And... if you've no idea what I'm going on about - the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus began today 56 years ago on BBC1. The show began with Michael Palin quite far out to sea, making his way to the shore, crawling towards the camera, and just managing to utter the word "it's..." before he's interrupted by the opening titles and a voiceover telling us the name of the show. Every episode of the first series began with a variation on this, the raggedy character never quite getting to make the full announcement

Michael Palin, dressed in ragged clothes / hair / beard, drags himself up the shore, the sea not far behind him. And... if you've no idea what I'm going on about - the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus began today 56 years ago on BBC1. The show began with Michael Palin quite far out to sea, making his way to the shore, crawling towards the camera, and just managing to utter the word "it's..." before he's interrupted by the opening titles and a voiceover telling us the name of the show. Every episode of the first series began with a variation on this, the raggedy character never quite getting to make the full announcement

Fifty six years ago today, around eleven-o'clock-at-night-ish, Michael Palin crawled out of the sea.

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Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Ecocide and resistance in Palestine The Palestinian perspective: Israel is committing not only human violence, but also climate violence: genocide and ecocide.

theecologist.org/2025/sep/02/...

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I said a while back, our right to protest will eventually consist of silent solo marching, within our own homes, whilst holding a blank placard.

05.10.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

05.10.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 918    πŸ” 361    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 12

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

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Freedom is just another name for β€œa gap in the law”.

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Tawny owl

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking β€œSo when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧡

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The Owl Service Episode 8 Transmitted: 8 February 1970
YouTube video by Fraance Tate The Owl Service Episode 8 Transmitted: 8 February 1970

All there on Youtube. Clunky but genuinely creepy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r15...

05.10.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TV THAT TIME FORGOT: The Owl Service (ITV/Granada, 1969)

Swinging London crashes PVC-bootedly into folk horror-adjacent rural Wales as mismatched trio of teenagers fall under the sub-Antonioni flashframed influence of local scare stories courtesy of some possessed crockery.

05.10.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

The answer to this is press regulation. The reason we won't see it is because Morgan McSweeney persuaded Murdoch to keep his corrupt behaviour off the front-page of his rags, and therefore he knows that going after the press would be his political suicide note. Labour are simply corrupt.

04.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œFlags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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top 5 cock sparrer songs:

1. wrong time, wrong place, wrong wheelie bin
2. hosepipe ban
3. pork pie factory
4. shagging the tracksuit geezer's missus
5. (every day is) giro day

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4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written

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When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

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Here's a poster from the first time I saw Edwyn Collins, when Orange Juice played in Oxford in 1981. He's been a hero ever since. Now on my way to see him for what may be the last time. It's going to be emotional

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I’m working on a play about American fascism that I wrote six years ago, and realizing I’m going to have to revise it, because I did not at all account for how dumb it would be

04.10.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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