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23.11.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@stane.bsky.social
Leeds and Dublin, once a musician, now an academic; last refuge of the scoundrel etc. https://beyondthespelloflabour.wordpress.com/
Winner
23.11.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Getting like that old Soviet joke -'we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us' becomes 'we pretend to teach and they pretend to write essays'
23.11.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0'I want to live like common people '
23.11.2025 12:15 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Played
23.11.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What is this? (in Paris)
23.11.2025 10:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Smaller gigs a glare can do the job - at Gwenifer Raymond last week, that's all it took from me and one other to nip it in the proverbial.
23.11.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Unemployed post PhD, someone I knew on a record collecting forum mentioned some work at their university distantly connected to what I studied. So after doing philosophy to get away from music, I'm teaching in a music school.
23.11.2025 09:25 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Had Saturday Glenroes all day y'day, but also a toothache; since I can't get to a dentist, I took some painkillers prescribed for something else, and not only did they deal with the tooth, but also banished any fear of the future.
23.11.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0U Thant be serious. (sorry)
23.11.2025 09:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Ah! looks similar, but then I was drinking at the time....
23.11.2025 08:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I don't remember voting to have our asylum and immigration policy made by the British government.
23.11.2025 01:16 โ ๐ 59 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Colchester? One of the last places I drank regularly before giving up.
23.11.2025 08:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A couple of years later, for the first Sunstroke festival (Faith no More/ Sonic Youth/ Sugar) myself and a colleague spent a day with an angle grinder cutting down those barriers as they were deemed unsafe for alternative rock. I managed to set my jumper on fire with the sparks from the grinder.
22.11.2025 19:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mono recording from 1962. Spectacular sound.
22.11.2025 18:09 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My favourite scoreline at the moment
www.theguardian.com/football/mat...
Highway to hell. Both directions.
22.11.2025 15:15 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I've seen the guitar player on SR with the Strat in other James Last vids and he always looks like he wants you to know that he's a serious musician and has his own band, and maybe you'd like to have a listen sometime to the tapes?
22.11.2025 15:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0really nice piece on braxton in the nyt today. no fireall
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
They're cool, but also a bit of a red flag when cited as an influence.
22.11.2025 12:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I spent 7 years in UCD, PhDing and then teaching, and everytime I go back, there's a dozen new buildings.
22.11.2025 08:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Real life Spinal Tap at the base.
21.11.2025 21:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Unusual in the north of England.
21.11.2025 20:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Was tempted to watch the Hungary match there, but wiser counsels...
21.11.2025 20:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The fish has just been told the price of something and is saying 'ow much?!
21.11.2025 11:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And finally, for a contemporary account, shamelessly partisan, by a participant
21.11.2025 11:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I probably disagree with Roy Foster about many things, but this is excellently written and captures Dublin before the rising captivatingly:
21.11.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0JJ Lee's Modern Ireland 1912-1985 is the best overview of (most) of the 20th century
21.11.2025 11:39 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Because that's what I did for the next two hours, having been rudely awoken.
21.11.2025 08:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The prominently displayed copy of General 'Sir' Mike Jackson's autobiography in the local Oxfam Books....
21.11.2025 08:23 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โProhibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.โ
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited โwords & concepts.โ I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories Iโm discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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