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Dubwise On-U head, kosmik punk, noise freak & #MDANT🏅 struggling on the raggedy edge between cradle & grave. For big hearts, open minds & all that instigates, originates, elevates, agitates. I have no control over this - music is the navigator...

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · Nov 12

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1h

Fab publisher, pls help if you can.

Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 3h

We need your help. 💙 Salt is fighting to keep indie publishing alive — discovering new writers, nurturing voices that matter. Every pound helps us publish more books. Please donate or share today. #SupportIndie #KeepBooksAlive #Books #Writers #IndiePress

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

gofund.me

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 17h

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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1 of 100 @weare1of100.bsky.social · 2h

Proud to stand with The Bluebells on their new anti-fascist single No Pasaran!
Wear it loud, wear it proud — special edition tees drop 8am Friday. No Pasaran! ✊

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 2h

Random acts of senseless beauty #90

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TraceyB @ineeddirection.bsky.social · 3h

#80sTop30 Unranked Day 13

Inca Babies - Devil in My Room

"Oh dear God I wish I had the strength to meet you
But I’m holding onto a dream that will deceive me"

youtu.be/Cy2kl3MxD2k?...

Devil In My Room

YouTube video by Inca Babies - Topic

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Andrea @parramaterial.bsky.social · 3h

For Brighton and southeast folk, this is a great double bill. @deathandvanilla.bsky.social put on a wonderful gig when I saw them in Manchester a few years ago; I'm keen to see the @innerstrings.bsky.social music project but I'll have to wait!

innerstrings @innerstrings.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t forget this tomorrow night; the wonderful Death and Vanilla are at Brighton Komedia, and I’m supporting as Malaphors; my new AV project!
I’m putting the finishing touches to the set today. It’ll be a mixture of styles; I wanted it to be all drone, but somehow a drum machine has crept in!

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 12h

#BookSky 📚📚📚✊️✊️✊️

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 12h

Good evening #BookSky Well, #BannedBooksWeek may be wrapping up but the fight for the right to read continues. Here's a quick thread of things you can do all year to help...

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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 12h

So far, these are my two favourite descriptions of AI:

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 13h

Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine and a black hankerchief?

Gene Vincent, who died on this day in 1971,
was in the city, in 1960, to play a week at the Glasgow Empire with fellow US rocker Eddie Cochran, and had taken his gammy leg for a hirple up to the Royal Infirmary.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 20h

Random acts of senseless beauty 🖤

Fiery Mark @fierymark.bsky.social · 21h

Low tide at Tyninghame beach looking toward Bass Rock.
Peace and serenity as befits a day of rest

Rocky foreshore with seagull on a boulder and guano covered isle in distance

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Reggae Vibes NL @reggae-vibes-nl.bsky.social · 21h

Hollie Cook’s fifth album ‘Shy Girl’ marks a return to Mr Bongo Records, fifteen years after her debut. The twelve-track set explores love and self-discovery with her signature soulful vocals and dub-soaked elegance, featuring The General Roots Band and MC Horseman.

New album: Hollie Cook - Shy Girl | Release | Reggae Vibes

New album: Hollie Cook - Shy Girl | Fifth studio album, dropped via Mr Bongo Records, that brings her journey full circle.

www.reggae-vibes.com

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 22h

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 23h

Food for brains 👇

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23h

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23h

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 23h

Random acts of senseless beauty #89

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House of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.social · 23h

Happy 71st birthday to Linval Thompson.

Linval is currently on tour in Europe and still recording new tunes. Here's a classic 12" of his from 1980, which he recorded at Channel One with the Roots Radics...

youtu.be/kMRwrVGZNAQ?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

12" of Linval Thompson - Mr Boss Man on Strong Like Sampson label. Released in 1980. Produced by Linval Thompson.

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to hear that. It's on the way 😎👍

BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

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Jooly @jooly13.bsky.social · 1d

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit missed that! A belated very happy birthday to ya Stu 😎👍🎉 Hope the day was grand & you didn't behave yourself too much 😉

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

If you missed out on 'Studio Electrophonique' events earlier this year, then happily @coldtapfilms.bsky.social is on the road again this month, with events at @otsfestival.bsky.social #Sheffield, TOWN Festival #Halifax and London.
Tickets & info here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/ #booksky

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Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social · 1d

At last!! Truth will out mate!!!!

Prancey Dog @pranceydog.bsky.social · 1d

Today in the massiveTower Records in Shibuya Tokyo.
@marcrileydj.bsky.social
Just one copy of the Grotesque Live album remaining. Loads of the new Taylor Swift album though, probably proving that The Fall is more popular than Taylor Swift.
@stephenhanley6.bsky.social

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BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

Haunted, I trust?

BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

@davidlancecallahan.bsky.social I know you liked the original - have you heard this?

BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

Ears 😎

mayssajallad.bandcamp.com/album/marjaa...

Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels (Versions) [Ruptured & Six of Swords], by Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad

6 track album

mayssajallad.bandcamp.com

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