Steve Hanlon

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Stuck in a freezing rented house. Three years of this. I'm sick of it

Breithlá sona duit!

This weekend finds @spraypopmusic.com and @thisblissmusic.bsky.social in London and Leicester on the first leg of their jaunt around England. They’re supported in London by Infra Violet and in Leicester by @bjornfelle.bsky.social. Come on down.

🎟️ buff.ly/wzEPAfd

Actually, Wharf Chambers in Leeds is a great spot, our eldest took us to a 7" record club there a while back (7x7). That's tempting!

Will keep an eye out! If I knew how to get you to Ireland then I'd pull the strings. In the meantime I'll try to catch you when visiting England. That shiiine set was great fun last year

Fabulous! Top fun live too. Will we be blessed with a Spray set in Minehead this year?

All that apple money and not a cent for tasty crisps.SMH

Pub commissions

Quality pub €6
Stiggy fight pub €659

•will not be painting the brick

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

No worries, it's fab! I moved from Ormskirk to Ireland three years ago and this took me right back. You'd weep if you saw how the canal in Newry has been left to rot.

Voted. I love this painting

Bridge 39

I have been selected by a panel of judges to be in the public vote for “Spring”

The overall winner is voted Lancashire artist of the year

Please vote on the below link for “bridge

www.lancashire.gov.uk/artist-of-th...

Please repost the hell out of this and vote…then tell others to vote

It’s not inevitable that musical dinosaurs dominate the charts. Here’s how we rescue pop in Britain | Eamonn Forde Thanks to streaming, the charts are dominated by albums from years ago. Australia has shown how to give new artists a chance, says music business journalist Eamonn Forde

It’s not inevitable that musical dinosaurs dominate the charts. Here’s how we rescue pop in Britain | Eamonn Forde

HDRF Releases on Wormhole World, Institute for Alien Research, Castles in Space, Sounds for the Soul Records, Church of Noisy Goat, Moolakii Club Audio Interface and Dustopian Frequencies. Go seek them all...

Full galactic jingly, wobbly back catalogue for less than the price of a pint.

hdrf.bandcamp.com

The Spray Synthpop Masterclass Podcast · spraypopmusic · Electro duo Spray (Ricardo Autobahn and Jenny McLaren) take you through their history as musicians, via digressions and anecdotes from the heady days of being Radio 1 regular...

Ahead of our reSpray remix project beginning this week, we've launched a podcast - which may take you back through the history of Spray or we might not be able to remember anything.

open.spotify.com/show/5lskzEo...

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

That was the first thing I spotted too!

Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

I'm new to the parish in Dundalk and am late to Jinx Lennon but astonished by the range and beauty of his new album. Don't Feel Sorry For The Man has moments of sheer joy (up there with Aeriel by Kate Bush). Can't wait to see him in a couple of weeks at An Táin arts centre

Then I'll enjoy my lovely digital copy instead. Thanks! :)

Will there be a vinyl version at some point? Would happily spend more ££€€ if there is (but I'm very aware that it's costly for you too)

It was on this day in 1742, in Dublin , that George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" was performed for the first time.
It happened at the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street. The performance was a fundraising event for charities and prisoners, with tickets costing a half-guinea each.

The Gist: Where did the houses go? For most of the history of the state, Local Authorities have been building houses to put people in. Then FG became the largest party and that mostly stopped. This is the Gist.

This post, with a chart made of a very dull spreadsheet posted in a corner the Dept of Housing website, became the most frequently quoted graph I did.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-whe...

Unbelievable isn't it. Same in sunny Dundalk (yikes)

Here’s my playlist for upcoming show #704 on @bombshellradio.bsky.social - April 8

#NewMusic #MusicSky #Radio

Fair enough. In my experience the vast majority of red wall labour MPs would defend the ECHR in public and private, but then my experience is from a few years ago now. I really hope this isn't what things have come to

I'm a sucker for a dub cover. I love this! I'm sure you're all over it, but the Easy Star All Stars version of OK Computer (Radiodread) is sublime

For what it's worth, here's main text of my formal complaint to IPSO on *that* Daily Telegraph 'mass deportation now' piece from midweek, which I claim breaches art 1 of the Editors' Code & requires correction & apology.

To be frank, it's not worth much, but it's part of the journey to resistance

Awful but I can't find a link to see who's saying this. Want to make sure it's not one of the local MPs from when I lived in Lancashire. Who is it?