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Dan Ball

@danball57.bsky.social

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Kent via Wolverhampton via Birmingham via Chicago via London. 20th Century (mostly) Jamaican and American (mostly) music nut. Retired early. Had a stroke. English, Irish, and Polish. "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind" BCFC

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 16d

Gregory swag levels = thermonuclear 🎩 ☢️ 🫡

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1h

😆 yeah probably more fitting

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty much same, thought there must be something to the hype but not seeing it after a couple of tries. Maybe I’m too misanthropic

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1h

Traitors? What a load of shite

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 4h

Wonderful Flabba Holt/Israel Vibration arrangement ❤️‍🔥

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 5h

He should be doing an album every ten years for the next 30 with no label pressure whatsoever Sade level RIP 😞

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D'angelo live cruisin'

YouTube video by PULSARICHARD

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 6h

2/2

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1/2

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 7h

Big body coup 97 CL500

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 7h

Praise be the re-issue gods 🙏 💣

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely love Derek, my old pal Tims step dads photos. Racist people are just scared, that's all. Scared of themselves. Scared of the world.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 11h

I have to have a few scoops on the knife

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 11h

When absolutely everyone thinks you're a c**t your mother's all you have left

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

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Morning Train Riddim (Nitty Gritty)

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

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Joy In The Morning - Alton Ellis (Featuring – The Gaylads)

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Alan & Havoc did a great job on the new Mobb Deep record. Here’s Prodigy, Havoc , West One and myself trying to look hard lol. When in Rome etc. London 2014

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 2d

Rofl

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."