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Stevie Chick

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Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · Jun 10

I bade farewell to the peerless, fearless, thoughtful and thankful Sly Stone. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain | Stevie Chick

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watch

www.theguardian.com

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1h

It is!

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😬

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My favourite Beach Boys album, such a weird treat

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 21h

The "master race" can't find suits that fit them.

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 23h

Femi Kuti, D'Angelo, Macy Gray - Water No Get Enemy

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S ABOUT TIME

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Were they ICE agents at his rally last summer? That seems unlikely.

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Breakfast soundtrack

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Would watch!

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Tobey and Kirsten as spider-girl’s parents?

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

God. He was just brilliance, incarnate. www.theguardian.com/music/2015/f...

D’Angelo review – steamy soul and showbiz touches the sublime

With his echoes of Sly, Prince and Parliament, D’Angelo is back from the wilderness, and he’s sharper and stronger than before, writes Stevie Chick

www.theguardian.com

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Ah man RIP D’Angelo, the very best to do it. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen was on the Black Messiah tour, at Hammersmith, the band just killed it, 15 minutes of Sugah Daddy was not enough.

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

I mean tbf he worked under a different name (and also he's been fairly anti-Greg since before Flag split iirc)

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

Life imitates Raymond Pettibon Black Flag flyer art

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 1d

So many great reasons to buy the new @mojo4music - Andy Fyfe on Lucinda Williams! Andrew Male on Brigitte Fontaine! Mark Paytress on Hendrix! Tom Doyle on Lennon! But also ME on Prince and the making of Around The World In A Day! OUT NOW

The opening spread of my feature on PRINCE’s Around The World In A Day

Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

What is most enraging is that in reality if you break the law you don't face consequences, at least not if you're Trump or anyone who followed his lead to ransack the Capitol on Jan 6th

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 3d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

I find this stuff (the museum director's take, not op's, obviously) so goddamn annoying. Were Lithuanians supposed to keep Lenin statues up? Were Iranians meant to not topple statues of the Shah?

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 3d

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 2d

Reclamation is as close as Fugazi got to dub imo. Might be my favourite of their songs.

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It's one of my favourites of theirs, tbh - I like the muted, downbeat feel of a lot of it. But it definitely doesn't have the production standards of, say, The Argument or End Hits.

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Breakfast soundtrack

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 3d

“She’ll be back soon” (hollow laugh)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 3d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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