Paul McGee
@paulmcgee.bsky.social
Semi-pro loudmouth. No break greater than 4hrs yesterday.
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
Pinned
Moodier Blues IV
Soft music with hard corners
www.mixcloud.com
Something to listen to, should you be so inclined. www.mixcloud.com/Paul_McGee/m...
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen:
Chaka Khan
The Clash
Run-DMC
Joy Division
David Bowie
Chaka Khan
The Clash
Run-DMC
Joy Division
David Bowie
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen:
Public Enemy
Super Furry Animals
George Melly
Buddy Guy
Jake Thackery
Public Enemy
Super Furry Animals
George Melly
Buddy Guy
Jake Thackery
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen:
Bellowhead (lots of times)
Danny & the Champions of the World
BNL (one time supported by KT Tunstall *and* Boothby Graffoe; one time supported by Colin James Hay; and lots of other times (...)
Lizzie No (at the Gate to Southwell Festival)
Peter Tork
Bellowhead (lots of times)
Danny & the Champions of the World
BNL (one time supported by KT Tunstall *and* Boothby Graffoe; one time supported by Colin James Hay; and lots of other times (...)
Lizzie No (at the Gate to Southwell Festival)
Peter Tork
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen:
Chaka Khan
The Clash
Run-DMC
Joy Division
David Bowie
Chaka Khan
The Clash
Run-DMC
Joy Division
David Bowie
Great piece on one of the first big heroes of my childhood.
Bruce Lee was born on this day in 1940. I looked at his Criterion box set, and his irreplaceable persona, for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social:
Classic Corner: Bruce Lee's Greatest Hits — Crooked Marquee
The five films in Criterion’s new box set form to tell a story of their own – of an artist growing and evolving, before tragedy cut his journey short.
crookedmarquee.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great piece on one of the first big heroes of my childhood.
If you've never seen this, trust me it is world class.
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you've never seen this, trust me it is world class.
Here be draggin's.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here be draggin's.
Happy "Arguing With Your Racist Relatives" Day to all my American friends, followers and follows.
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy "Arguing With Your Racist Relatives" Day to all my American friends, followers and follows.
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Jesus Christ on the tone of this article. Maybe someone better remind the BBC that the fucking car had to be lifted off children.
Paul Doyle: 'Nice neighbour' behind Liverpool parade carnage
Before he ploughed his car into the parade, Paul Doyle was considered a steady, dependable family man.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Jesus Christ on the tone of this article. Maybe someone better remind the BBC that the fucking car had to be lifted off children.
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Singer/songwriter is an art that requires less of an expense than illustrator in that you don't even need crayon and paper.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Singer/songwriter is an art that requires less of an expense than illustrator in that you don't even need crayon and paper.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
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By the way, note that the description of Biden as being "in obvious mental decline" was left in the speech, while the description of Trump as the "most openly corrupt president in American history" was removed:
Note that the BBC openly admits in an email to me that the removal of this claim about Trump's world-historical corruption was done "on legal advice."
Translation: Trump's threat of a lawsuit, no matter how bogus, has now been rewarded.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Translation: Trump's threat of a lawsuit, no matter how bogus, has now been rewarded.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
By the way, note that the description of Biden as being "in obvious mental decline" was left in the speech, while the description of Trump as the "most openly corrupt president in American history" was removed:
The actual physical manifestation of "revenge is a dish best served cold."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The actual physical manifestation of "revenge is a dish best served cold."
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“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.”
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.”
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
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'He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia' - Freudian by the President on that Air Force One clip.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
'He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia' - Freudian by the President on that Air Force One clip.
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
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We should stop dignifying people with high minded descriptors. Sometimes people are Just Cunts.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We should stop dignifying people with high minded descriptors. Sometimes people are Just Cunts.
Narrator: Michael Prescott, David Grossman and Robbie Gibb were all unavailable for comment.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Narrator: Michael Prescott, David Grossman and Robbie Gibb were all unavailable for comment.
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
"And that's the second one from Bovril Amphetamines, in session for us tonight, one of my favourite sessions for quite some time, as a matter of fact. Coming up next, the b-side of the new single by Bogshed - played the other side at completely the wrong speed last week... *chuckles*"
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"And that's the second one from Bovril Amphetamines, in session for us tonight, one of my favourite sessions for quite some time, as a matter of fact. Coming up next, the b-side of the new single by Bogshed - played the other side at completely the wrong speed last week... *chuckles*"
Thank God for the alt-text here, that's all I can say.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thank God for the alt-text here, that's all I can say.
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Contributing to Star Wars discourse by saying you can watch the 1980 New World cash-in written by John Sayles Battle Beyond the Stars right now, nobody can stop you or nothin'. youtu.be/igPrv6LTjKA?...
Battle Beyond The Stars
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Contributing to Star Wars discourse by saying you can watch the 1980 New World cash-in written by John Sayles Battle Beyond the Stars right now, nobody can stop you or nothin'. youtu.be/igPrv6LTjKA?...
A tremendous bit of writing on a great film.
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A tremendous bit of writing on a great film.
Several people have correctly pointed out that Jimmy Cliff recorded and performed You Can Get It... on the soundtrack of The Harder They Come and had a minor 90s hit with a version of I Can See Clearly Now, so I ought to acknowledge that it's not as cut-and-dried as it might appear. 1/2
Obviously it's sad that one of Jamaican music's legendary figures has joined the ancestors, but fucking hell, The Guardian really needs to wind it in with the AI. It was Desmond Dekker who had the hit with You Can Get It If You Really Want, and I Can See Clearly Now was a hit for Johnny Nash.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Several people have correctly pointed out that Jimmy Cliff recorded and performed You Can Get It... on the soundtrack of The Harder They Come and had a minor 90s hit with a version of I Can See Clearly Now, so I ought to acknowledge that it's not as cut-and-dried as it might appear. 1/2
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Obviously it's sad that one of Jamaican music's legendary figures has joined the ancestors, but fucking hell, The Guardian really needs to wind it in with the AI. It was Desmond Dekker who had the hit with You Can Get It If You Really Want, and I Can See Clearly Now was a hit for Johnny Nash.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Obviously it's sad that one of Jamaican music's legendary figures has joined the ancestors, but fucking hell, The Guardian really needs to wind it in with the AI. It was Desmond Dekker who had the hit with You Can Get It If You Really Want, and I Can See Clearly Now was a hit for Johnny Nash.
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for