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Gavin Lenaghan

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Artist, writer, vinyl collector, Prince fan, and all-round creator. Also on Mastodon: https://mastodonapp.uk/@gavinlenaghan

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · Feb 15

Trying out this again after putting it on Mastodon threw up some interesting entries… ha ngl.link/gavinlenaghan

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 4h

Awesome, thanks - grabbed them now. Had kept one other DL link I'd seen on FB, but I hadn't got round to trying it yet, ha

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4h

Possible lesson here for Labour?

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4h

Will Hayward: "Beyond this campaign, the aim of the party to appeal to Reform voters that are never coming back (and often were never Labour voters anyway) at the expense of left and centre left traditional supporters has been a catastrophe."

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 4h

And yet a sizeable proportion of the "Very Online" #Prince fan community doesn't seem to want to move on from X, so I feel the need to keep looking back there if I don't want to be completely "out of the loop" on stuff like the recent Diamonds & Love leaks... sigh (there's always Reddit, I suppose)

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 1d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 1d

A downside of not being surrounded by #QuincyJones “stans”: no one ever tells me about cool stuff like this popping up on streaming, I just stumble across it months later

Didn’t realise Q was doing “Love is in Control” in his own “live” shows in the early ‘80s. Sounds like James Ingram on vocals

A Quincy Jones live album on Spotify, entitled Goin’ Down (Live). It has live 1982 versions of “The Dude”, “Razzamatazz”, and “Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)”

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Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) 💜☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️🎶📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning, Twin Cities! Here for just a couple of days to go to meetings and see the #PurpleRain musical. So this will be a short thread. 🧵 I come here at least once a year, but I am always excited. First stop in the Minneapolis Airport is the #Prince store, always, of course!
#Prince4Ever
💜🎶🕊️☔️

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.com · 1d

The East Wing used to be how members of the public would enter the White House.

It's been replaced by a ball room for billionaires.

The symbolism here could not be more on the nose.

Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 1d

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Time for my annual Get Out tweet. Feels like a lost cause at this point but anyway …

I left Twitter two years ago and haven’t regretted it once. Popping back in to say you can do it too.

Staying here means choosing to let your mind marinate in a right-wing cesspool. I don’t care how savvy you imagine yourself to be, you’re not immune to its distortions. Get out.

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 1d

#np #Prince - “Come (Alternative Dance Mix)” from the LP Chameleon Vol. 2 (2024) 💿 🎵 🖤

#Prince4Ever #NowPlaying #Vinyl

The Prince LPs Chameleon volumes one, two and three on vinyl

Prince’s Chameleon Vol. 2 LP on vinyl, playing on an Audio Technica LP120 turntable

A close-up of the label of Prince’s Chameleon Vol. 2 LP on black vinyl

The back of the outer sleeve of Prince’s Chameleon Vol. 2 LP on vinyl

Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely surprises me that certain folks who I otherwise like are still reasonably active on there.

The last time I looked, even the sodding *ads* shoved into the feed have so much hard-right nuttery about them these days

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

X now has fewer daily users than Threads... yet so many reporters remain there as their main platform. I just don't get it.

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Jon Baker, future Spirit Halloween @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 2d

Sex is a scam invented by Big Biology just to sell you more kids

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when Obama put up some art, and the Fox News crowd went batshit insane accusing him of "desecrating the sanctity of the White House."

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 3d

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

ok the actual lesson is that everyone has to campaign in the nude. like the greeks of old

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 4d

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 5d

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 5d

Peace and be wild 👌 ❤️💜 #Prince #NoKings

(Source: Prince Party UK on FB)

Signage reading: “In Minnesota we have no kings, only a Prince”

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 5d

This is an interesting and enlightening piece from Chloe Lipton #everydaysteminist

everydaysteminist.substack.com/p/lets-give-...

Let’s Give Dummies Breasts! The Shocking Gender Gap that is Costing Women’s lives (and What We Can Do to Change It)

CPR is supposed to be the great equaliser in a cardiac emergency – push hard and fast on the centre of the chest, and you can double a person’s chance of survival .

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Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 5d

#np #Prince - "West" from the LP N.E.W.S (2003) 💿 🎵 💜 #Prince4Ever #NowPlaying #2000sMusic #Instrumental

Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 5d

Paid a “20th-anniversary” visit to the pretty #NorthYorkshire town where I spent seven years of my education (‘98 to 2005)

My old sixth-form block hasn’t survived, but a lot else has.

The riverside walk’s become a bit more plush and “touristy” than it was in my day 👀

#Stokesley #Yorkshire

Cars parked on a street in Stokesley, North Yorkshire

The walk by the River Leven in Stokesley, North Yorkshire

Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 5d

The (extremely light on) “law and order” party

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

Gavin Lenaghan @gavinlenaghan.bsky.social · 6d

Great shade of blue 💙

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6d

written 2700 words today and about to edit a different batch of 2500 words and god what a job to have, shovelling all these words, endlessly moving words from place to place

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James Turner @james.loadingreadyrun.com · 7d

So I know I'm not alone, and to be clear I am also 100% guilty of this, but it's my current understanding that everyone is either one or more of the following: Stressed, anxious, tired, scared, angry, frustrated, ect and in turn it's making normal day to day stuff hard. Right? So patience is key.

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