@joezblair.bsky.social
I will post about Wimbledon football, guitars, the blues and Bruce Springsteen a little more than might be healthy for you Sorry, not sorry
To be honest it's a hard listen
But worth it nonetheless
#Nebraska
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A little local gem
#Earlsfield
Robert Cray
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Honouring the war dead by contributing to road casualties.
25.10.2025 18:04 β π 14 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0We weren't great. Missed a pen and then struggled
Wasn't a FK for Burton (well taken goal) and I'd love to hear why Burton didn't have to take players off the pitch for head injuries
This is what oligarchy looks like:
Trump gave corporate America a $920 billion tax break.
Now, corporations like Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google & Lockheed Martin are returning the favor by giving Trump $300 million for a fancy ballroom.
Thatβs a pretty good return on investment.
this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case
over to you, Kemi Badenoch?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Reform swaggered into Caerphilly, ready for a coronation. An unpleasant surprise lay in store | Will Hayward www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
24.10.2025 12:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
24.10.2025 01:34 β π 2062 π 673 π¬ 31 π 32I mean, I joke, but Iβm pretty certain Robert Jenrick has decided the message of the Caerphilly by-election is βwe should deport all Muslimsβ and is currently preparing a TikTok video on the subject which Kemi will applaud, not realising it contains the message βmake me leaderβ.
24.10.2025 08:47 β π 36 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0
Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.
23.10.2025 16:59 β π 3031 π 663 π¬ 91 π 58
Dealer waged 'sustained terror campaign' for Russia in UK
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Weβre encouraging our loyal supporters to come together in support of three of our teams as AFC Wimbledon men, @afcwwomen.bsky.social and Academy prepare for cup action at the Cherry Red Records Stadium π
#AFCW π‘π΅
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The Chinese will eat up America under Trump. He and his minions simply do not command respect because everybody can see theyβre thick as mince.
22.10.2025 21:29 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This season on The East Wing...
22.10.2025 21:35 β π 891 π 279 π¬ 39 π 28Because I am a glutton for punishment, I have just been to hear Curtis Yarvin speak.
The speech was an extraordinary parade of straw men, bogus historical analogies and bizarre non-sequiturs, delivered to an almost exclusively male audience.
Is this really the great thinker of the radical right?
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because itβs even worse today.
21.10.2025 22:54 β π 29980 π 16303 π¬ 2411 π 1710Just clocked that it is Jenrickβs stated position that it should be legal to call for asylum hotels to be burned down, but illegal to wear particular clothes.
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Poland threatens Putin with arrest if he flies through its airspace on way to Hungary β Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
21.10.2025 12:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Itβs Back to the Future Day.
Imagine building a time machine and going back to 1985 only to find Russia run by the KGB who started a brutal war they can't win and the USA is run by a deranged casino owner...
Labour spokesman
βThe Tories want to retrospectively change the rules to deport people who have been in this country and contributed to our society for decades. They would separate British children from their parents and expel doctors and nurses who have been serving patients in the NHS for years."
One benchmark of a democracy is whether it is willing to hold those who have served at the very highest levels to account.
Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
19.10.2025 02:09 β π 13598 π 2155 π¬ 738 π 153This is a crucial point
And why the βstay on X/Twitter so you donβt cede the public squareβ is such a nonsense argument
It isnβt Hyde Park, itβs a billionaire controlled algorithm *designed* to spread far right ideologies
We're on fire!
#AFCW
Think weβve crossed a pretty major threshold β and a very bad one β if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.
18.10.2025 08:56 β π 1097 π 360 π¬ 41 π 12The Paradox of Tolerance
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Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick Follow Something has fundamentally changed in Birmingham. And Britain, too, has changed with it. Consider football: the rough and tumble of our national game is nothing new for the West Midlands. Growing up in the eighties, my Dad took me to more than a few matches at Villa Park in the away end. The language, chants, and antics were - at times - less than well-mannered. But it was largely good-natured fun. Where there was violence, the police put a quick but firm end to it. Such was the rhythm of British life. The same men and women worked together all week, turning up and supporting different teams on a Saturday.
Democracy cannot survive if people like Jenrick, who is prepared to lie continually and without compunction, can prosper.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
Like Bobby J I am harking back to an imagined 80s which I wasnβt a part of and so for tonightβs musical selection here is
Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald
