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Luke Turner

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Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️‍🌈

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 29d

Back from an ace We Have Ways festival, I was blown away by the response to my talk on WWII as sexual revolution. At the last minute I added material about the far right march - I believe telling the diverse truth of those who fought in the war is a powerful tool in combating the far right now (1/4)

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 29m

Absolutely fantastic writing by Tariq Godard on our need for religious ecstasy and Ethel Cain live:

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Cain Is Able: Ethel Cain live in London | The Quietus

Tariq Goddard sees the light, temporarily at least, when watching the overwhelming Preacher's Daughter, Ethel Cain, live in London

thequietus.com

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1h

my slight problem is that anything I read ends up in my nightmares – it's why I can't watch horror films, there's just no point. I should probably just stick to Max's Thomas collection for a good night's sleep.

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2h

oh yeah, I am permanently skint because I spend a fucking fortune on therapy – it works in that I no longer end up *REDACTED*, but alas does not help the brain horrors. My suspicion is it is to do with sleep apnea, but the waiting list for the NHS sleep clinic to investigate is extremely long

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2h

Haha! This is patently untrue because if I eat food on the other end of the spectrum sleep is even worse due to my insides roiling like the eternal flames of hell

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2h

Haha!

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 15h

Our Strange World of #YokoOno article is now accompanied by a curated playlist of essential tracks that define her career

Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks)

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Yoko Ono - Fly album cover. The artist's face with the album title printed in the corner.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 16h

It is absolutely horrible in places but I found it pretty riveting

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 17h

Yep! That video is bonkers. As is the Judas Pig stuff about his pigeon success.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 17h

Also a good read is the official judgement when Hunt foolishly sued The Sunday Times for calling him a gangster, and lost

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 17h

Oh man I’ve been on such a massive wormhole with him, highly recommend these two - Legacy the serious journalism on how he’s got away with it, Judas Pig the demented bleak novel about him by his former partner Jimmy Holmes. I normally don’t read gangster stuff but this is fascinating

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely! And why not?

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18h

"Post you from a different era" is middle-aged Bluesky code for "lemme see you when you were hot"

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 19h

HAHAHAHA!

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 19h

I used to go to America a lot (was married to one) and as well as "I am related to William Wallace" auld country bollocks everyone (well, the sort of counterculture leftist types I was with) insisted they 100% definitely had Native American ancestry; of course many must but also

a bald man with glasses is talking to another bald man .

ALT: a bald man with glasses is talking to another bald man .

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 19h

According to the bottom one there we're actually long-lost cousins?!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 20h

Just had to have a nap due to bad sleep from nightmares last night. Nap interrupted by a daymare in which a postman at the door was actually the headless form of Essex gangster Davey “Long Fella” Hunt barreling through it to kill me.

I would *love* to not have day/nightmares every time I sleep.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 23h

I'll take that!

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

ha! Yes I suppose there is

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

YES! Same, I love this record for the wildly OTT bleakness, strange deadpan delivery that makes it quite funny, and heavy exuberance of the music

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era

2004 me, last years of the twink

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

haha!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

water and oats but with tonnes of weird additives to make it vaguely convincing, all hidden behind appallingly twee packaging – "the no-milk generation" etc.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

I believe something similar is done with oat 'milk' to make it smooth and frothy for coffee. A scam!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

this looks fascinating!

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay 1999: Francis Wheen on the disturbing acquaintances and vocabularies of one Nigel Farage...
(full online version of the article at www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/...)

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Ha yes, I love that place!