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Arron Wright

@nonoxcol.bsky.social

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Pop craziness! See alt @mu21cvs.bsky.social for music challenges. Current: #TheTwen2ie5. He/him. Profile pics from my #TheTwen2ie5 list: Yüksek ft Jupiter & Okwess, 'Kwatamaja' (#36)

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · Jun 24

#ProjectGA60

My month of self-indulgence is over.

I started it carried away and became more so. Which fits, as they started brilliantly and became more so.

Anyway, here's 'The Whole Lot(ta History)' Edition.

Signing off... now 🤞for a Deep Cuts Show :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

PROJECT GA60 - THE WHOLE LOT(ta History)

PROJECT GA60 “INTRO” Hi How U? What is ‘Project GA60?’ It is a celebration of a pop band who have been a perpetual source of joy, delight and comfort in the last nine years. It is timed to coincide w...

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 31m

#THETWEN2IE5 DAY 15

36.

YUKSEK ft JUPITER & OKWESS
'KWATAMAJA'
France/Democratic Republic of the Congo 2022

First of my former Peoples Pop mains.

2020❌not picked
2021 ✔️x2, curated group, both later
2023 ✔️much later
2024 ✔️ditto

Thanks Neil.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OKo...

36. YUKSEK ft JUPITER & OKWESS | KWATAMAJA Jun 2022
France 1/1, Democratic Republic of the Congo 1/2 2022: 9/12 Single Alpha: 24/50 Chrono: 22/50
PPP: Nomination (main) 2022, B-sides R1

The other discovery from Neil Kulkarni’s Substack was my main nomination in the 2022 People’s Pop Poll. It’s no longer my favourite of the year, but it reflected the spirit of 2022 - a mind expanded by a certain Spanish language album, newly open to all sorts of music from Africa, mainly amapiano. Neil described this as a “fab conjunction of techno, dubhousedisco and afrostep… that will DANCE everyone OUT.” In simpler terms, it’s a monstrous banger driven by vaguely familiar house beats, that breaks down and builds at least three times in five minutes, punctuated with ululations and chants and even some FGTH-style “hooowwrr”s. I pretend that's the Birmingham Piss Troll ;)

Artist and title, man's head, pink and grey border at top and bottom (YouTube thumbnail link).

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 11h

So, I just learned this is about to be A THING.

Bradley Whitford (the Emmy-winning actor formerly known as Josh Lyman) and Allison Janney (the multiple Emmy-winning actress formerly known as CJ Cregg) are about to be, respectively, First Gentleman and President of the USA in season 3 of The Diplomat.

And here are Bradley Whitford (Josh) and Allison Janney (CJ) in younger days, observing a presentation from the Cartographers for Social Equality in The West Wing S2 E16 'Somebody's Going To Emergency, Somebody's Going To Jail'.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16h

This is absolutely nuts. As well as racist, xenophobic, deeply offensive and entirely ineffective.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 18h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 13h

Want to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? Then you’re a cunt.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 16h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 17h

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.

Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 18h

Who could have guessed that demonising trans people would impact on their rights?

The moral panic was never about 'legitimate concerns' or protecting women or children, it was always about vilification, oppression and the mainstreaming of reactionary politics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

Council of Europe commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 18h

I'm just going to say that I did this with seven books in early May, and I don't feel even slightly bad about it.

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 22h

Connections
Puzzle #856
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨✅

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 22h

Gaga is the second artist in my list who will be picked for all three decades. No prizes for working out the first. They might even get picked together 🤯

With the 2025 option in Part IV, she could conceivably be picked for all four challenges.

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 22h

(friends fear he's started rewatching Peep Show again... well it has been two years)

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 23h

*Piff paff pouf, it's #THETWEN2IE5 DAY 14

*You can do better than that...

37.

LADY GAGA ("is Lady fucking Gaga")
in
'ABRACADABRA'
USA 2025

I like maximalist pop by people who know exactly how great they are, and if you can't handle it, you can just, you know, f-

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

37. LADY GAGA | ABRACADABRA Feb 2025
USA 13/19 2025: 2/3 Single Alpha: 4/50 Chrono: 48/50
PPP: Poppelgangers (2025) with Steve Miller Band, out early

Once I’d finished Charli’s #ArtistFave15, March was mainly about Mayhem, leading up to that genuinely incredible Coachella performance in the second week of April. People who know Gaga better said this was her best single since the Born This Way era. Popjustice later voted it second in a full rate, behind only ‘Bad Romance’. Regardless of whether you’d agree with that ranking (and I wouldn’t), as a later-period megastar pop revival, ‘Abracadabra’ is comparable to ‘Hung Up’. At one of my last visits to the Leadmill I saw the kids - possibly pre-schoolers when ‘Bad Romance’ was no.1 - absolutely revelling in it. It just seems to capture so much of what made her great: lyrics, production, vocal technique, video, performance aesthetic. Please, let’s poll it again for 2025, but properly.

Lady Gaga, with a black wig and huge red dress, surrounded by dancers, performing 'Abracadabra' early in her instantly legendary show at Coachella, 11 April 2025.

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

NOPE.

6music @6music.bsky.social · 1d

“A New England” by Jamie T #nowplaying #6music

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a person wearing a helmet that says uvex

Alt: Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards, bespectacled ski-jumper from the 1988 Olympics and embodiment of the "British love of the underdog", i.e. he was really fucking shit and didn't belong there at all, finishing last BY A DISTANCE in both events.

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

Fuming again, this time at not being able to vote for Jocelyn Brown (my second favourite A side of the day).

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

As Parkes on Lovejoy has already (rightly!) been posted, here's Parkes on Corden from 2010.

www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/...

Cheap joke

Taylor Parkes explains why watching the centrepiece of ITV's primetime World Cup programming was not an enjoyable experienceThe separation of foot

www.wsc.co.uk

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

www.thenational.scot/news/2553640...

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 1d

After marinating for a while, I think the most chilling part of this documentary is footage from Nazi book burning, seamlessly cutting to recent footage from Tennessee. You realise it hasn’t just been put in colour when you hear little 🇺🇸 girl asking ‘can I burn a book next, mommy’?

Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 5d

She’s describing the Gestapo but it could very easily be ICE. The religious right are so scared of books that they threaten librarians with violence. You should check out this documentary on BBC 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Labour spads looking at the massive increase in support for the Greens, "obviously this means we need to be even more like Reform".

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

I was/am unusual in that I don't like custard(1) or cream(2) either, and this was something that somehow reminded me of both, while being texturally more off-putting than either.

(1) will have a teaspoon on Christmas pudding
(2) will have a tiny bit on a scone with jam

Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's the texture, it just made me feel sick to look at... waste of jam tbh :)

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Rice pudding - turned stomach since childhood

Forrest Gump - as an American History MA it makes my brain puke

Breakfast At Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something, obviously!

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.

Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.

Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.

Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Avocado (with or without the toast) 🤢

Event Horizon (watched it once, scared the ABSOLUTE living shit out of me)

The fucking Macarena (and the dance that goes with)

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 2d

This is Graham Linehan, who UKLabour, WesStreeting and every columnist in the country rushed to defend when he was arrested by police, after inciting online violence and smashed a trans girl’s phone. They are even changing the law specifically to protect him. “Just a joke” @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Arron Wright @nonoxcol.bsky.social · 1d

Their biggest seller though!