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Linguist/Teacher/Translator. Interested in all things linguistic. Otherwise music/politics/cats He/him. Owned by Marmite (see avi) Ateistyczny lewacki degenerat Music: https://dwoogie.bandcamp.com/ #ActuallyAutistic, so please be direct Kraków, Poland

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · May 27

“Music is too important to be left to the marketplace.”
Liz Pelly, a researcher on streaming platforms.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

We were observing church-powered right-wing Politics in Poland over the last three decades (in our case, roughly Catholic (I am saying roughly, as they are more Catholic than a Pope and consider the last two popes to be heretic lefty plants)).

Did not end well for the church, nor for the country.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 1h

#NowPlaying Can - "Future Days"
The first Can album I heard, courtesy of my local record library, and still my favourite.
Very calming.
youtu.be/wQxMB4Wk_y8...

Can - Future Days [Full Album]

YouTube video by Jinu

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 2h

Well… good?

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2h

A fireworks show described as the 'largest in Scotland' has been cancelled last minute due to the rising costs of delivering the event at such a scale

'Largest in Scotland' fireworks show cancelled at last minute

www.thenational.scot

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 2h

Yes, and I know that's the point. I just don't understand why it's funny.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 2h

That is an excellent idea.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16h

"Good news, everyone. We're going to try to stop it from getting you to kill yourself. Don't ask how. Also, you can fuck it. Don't ask why."

And the US is spending more on *that* than consumer spending. Every company relentlessly trying to cram *that* into their product. The government included.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2h

In another life, I wrote a whole novel about bunker building doomsday preppers and managed to interview several on background for research. My overwhelming conclusion is that they do it for fun. Because Diggy Diggy Holes.

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 2h

PSA: The whole doomsday bunker fantasy is fortunately one of the most painfully obvious aspects of these billionaire's delusional views of reality. It's a self-propped up fantasy that I'm guessing people who build bunkers are getting well paid for. As is the "computer intelligence" takeover.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 2h

For the longest time I thought I was the only one. Everybody seemed to be using that bloody gif of him shrugging.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 2h

I honestly have no words for this. But as she says, if she was treated like this, as a Swedish citizen, then imagine how much worse it must be for the Palestinians.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 3h

Always loathed him.

Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 3h

Controversial question. Is it just me who doesn't find the Alan Partridge character funny? He's all over radio and telly at the moment.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3h

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 3h

No idea about the discourse, but yes, I 100% agree.

Night of the Libby Dead ☠️ @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 4h

I have seen the discourse and fwiw Zack Polanski not having Labour Brain is a good thing.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 3h

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 15
Everybody, everything, or everywhere in the title
Future Sound Of London - Eyes Pop - Skin Explodes - Everybody Dead
Don't be put off by the title (which is a quote from "Repo Man", this is ambience par excellence.
youtu.be/bNHA2Ru7t1M...

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 3h

#NowPlaying Ash Ra Tempel - "Schwingungen". This was the first Göttsching album I heard, some time in the mid 80s. It blew my mind. "Darkness - Flowers Must Die". Goodness me.
One for anyone interested in Kosmische Musik.
youtu.be/ZpHdPdxNxU4...

Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen 1972 (full album)

YouTube video by Thebestdream I had

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 4h

#MoanAlert

It's so tiring when every single day is just an unending struggle.

I didn't sign up for this. Shit, I didn't sign up for anything.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 4h

True enough.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 5h

Well, 4 visits and a lesson. It's going to be a nightmarish morning.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 5h

It's all obvious stuff, but nice to have it in one short post.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 6h

No, this week's not brilliant.
Sounds like you've got a lot of stuff to do, too. Good luck with it all.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 6h

Yup. Bought this as an import when it came out. Really only of interest to Zappaphiles, but it's ggod fun and you can absolutely hear FZ honing his craft.

music in head @musicinhead.bsky.social · 6h

#vinylsky #vinyl #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #musicsky #dailyvinyl #zappa

Various - Frank Zappa's Rare Meat
1983 Del-Fi / Rhino

quick EP spin and off to have lunch with my mom

collection of early singles produced by FZ pre-mothers

studio Z

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6h

In the 1980s Nicola Sturgeon joined a party that explicitly described itself as social democratic, which was explicitly social democratic, which has always governed in a way that is significantly to the left of any stance ever expressed by Duncan in words.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 6h

Eaten a tube of Pringles and a quarter pound of raspberries.

It's not going to win me any awards for healthy eating, but it's something.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 6h

Haha! I'm trying not to!

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Tony Iommi @iommi.com · 6h

Had a fantastic time discussing Black Sabbath's legacy with Carlos Acosta and host Professor Paul Jackson at the University of Birmingham last night.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 6h

I'm absolutely sure you already know 95% of it.