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Nigel Wallis

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Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.

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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

ok yes that lrb piece is as good as everyone is saying

10.03.2026 10:15 👍 85 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 0

Ah sorry, I hadn't seen the whole thread.

10.03.2026 11:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

John Lydon. Terrible singer, excellent vocalist.

10.03.2026 10:38 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Oh yeah, that's going to work

08.03.2026 23:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

19 tequilas later, we had a deal:
Havana goes back to the mob
And Fidel and I open a chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken stores

08.03.2026 21:44 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you for the follow up, as I was racking my brains trying to dig up where I'd heard that before. Ain't life sweet?

08.03.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

08.03.2026 20:25 👍 5612 🔁 1046 💬 59 📌 49

This is an important thread for anyone who cares, not only about archive research, but BBC accountability.

08.03.2026 09:47 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

08.03.2026 14:52 👍 7161 🔁 1859 💬 124 📌 45

I'm not familiar with that one but will seek it out - thanks.

08.03.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am old enough to remember a teacher absolutely losing her mind at a classmate who did not remove his hat during the national anthem at a football game

08.03.2026 13:14 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Orbits for years, and you're there.

07.03.2026 12:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anything but a man asleep there.

07.03.2026 10:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The Leftovers is back for series 4?

07.03.2026 07:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Despite the fact I've got just about everything on it, this comp looks like a must-buy. Have Black Truffle ever released a bad record?

06.03.2026 22:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enough is like Graham's number: finite, but much too large to comprehend.

06.03.2026 22:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I instantly heard that in a Roger Waters "Nobody Home" voice.

06.03.2026 19:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So that's where all the world's RAM has gone...

06.03.2026 18:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of the album Looking (Berlin Version) Solo by Cecil Taylor.

Cover of the album Looking (Berlin Version) Solo by Cecil Taylor.

Cover of the album Looking (Berlin Version) Corona by Cecil Taylor, Harald Kimmig, Muneer Abdul Fataah, William Parker and Tony Oxley.

Cover of the album Looking (Berlin Version) Corona by Cecil Taylor, Harald Kimmig, Muneer Abdul Fataah, William Parker and Tony Oxley.

Cover of the two disc compilation album The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir / Bonobo Beach by Hans Reichel.

Cover of the two disc compilation album The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir / Bonobo Beach by Hans Reichel.

Bandcamp Friday time. Have a good weekend all, happy listening.

06.03.2026 17:55 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Psychic Resynthesis, by Mark Fell 10 track album

5 releases and 15 years of blood, sweat and tears. Full digital discography now just €19.60 at Bandcamp (60% off). frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

06.03.2026 07:13 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

👏👏👏

05.03.2026 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One imagines Trump's office as having three portraits: two of himself and one of Wound Man.

05.03.2026 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

05.03.2026 11:55 👍 4013 🔁 1256 💬 206 📌 329

Between this and Yo-Yo Ma's cello, you've had quite the instrument collection go through your hands.

05.03.2026 11:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Unthanks - Close the Coalhouse Door
The Unthanks - Close the Coalhouse Door YouTube video by am l

The Unthanks' version of Close the Coalhouse Door

(note: "bairns" - dialect for young children. Context: share.google/PFiql213KzlF...)

youtu.be/xS4K4aFMHJE?...

05.03.2026 08:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hadn't - cheers!

04.03.2026 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is a scene with Edward G Robinson that looks a lot better on the big screen.

04.03.2026 19:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@dmfalconer.bsky.social One for you here

04.03.2026 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pondering Ellis' fate at the moment.

04.03.2026 19:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RASKIN: Is it lawful for federal agents to shoot and kill a person for engaging in peaceful protest?

NOEM: No

RASKIN: Is it lawful for agents to shoot someone just for driving away from them?

NOEM: No


RASKIN: Well, I'm glad you got the law right

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