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Dan Ball

@danball57.bsky.social

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Kent via Wolverhampton via Birmingham via Chicago via London. 20th Century (mostly) Jamaican and American (mostly) music nut. Retired early. Had a stroke. English, Irish, and Polish. "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind" BCFC

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 16d

Gregory swag levels = thermonuclear 🎩 ☢️ 🫡

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 51m

I have to have a few scoops on the knife

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 53m

When absolutely everyone thinks you're a c**t your mother's all you have left

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/XYo8uaQcmu0?...

Morning Train Riddim (Nitty Gritty)

YouTube video by Jamaican Roots

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Surt...

Joy In The Morning - Alton Ellis (Featuring – The Gaylads)

YouTube video by Skallarta

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Alan & Havoc did a great job on the new Mobb Deep record. Here’s Prodigy, Havoc , West One and myself trying to look hard lol. When in Rome etc. London 2014

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Rofl

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

And then lots of other people did in solidarity, too. It was completely normal and fine

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

What is this guy running on?

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Losing battle lol

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

True

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

that's your inbuilt breadcrumb-solescence that is mate

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah but Stephen Miller

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Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

No ones ever seen a turn like it

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

What times

Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 1d

NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MITIGATE THE SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

i am going to lose my entire fucking mind

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Dems need to jump aboard the hubris train, pronto. Hypocrisy is the baseline

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yeah the Communists. If only

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

I offer you three hamburgers for the Delroy

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

I love this LP so. Get's better all the time

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah cos everyone hates cheaper cleaner energy

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Pointing out the hypocrisy is so 2021

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

🥃

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason why ditching Meta products and X is one of the most politically consequential things us prols can do.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible news. I was lucky to see him play in Chicago in 1996 a true multi-instrumentalist bona fide genius. RIEP far too young 💔

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Nooooooo. Fuck

Dan Ball @danball57.bsky.social · 1d

Surely the people this appeals to are just going to vote Reform. So mind numbingly stupid.

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