Matthew Sullivan
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I’ll protect you from the hooded claw.
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On the road with the Tasmanian State Library bookmobile, 1960 (Libraries Tasmania) 🗃️
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
On the road with the Tasmanian State Library bookmobile, 1960 (Libraries Tasmania) 🗃️
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I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
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We’re approaching the 40th anniversary of this spectacular bit of TV, an intro sequence to Wogan’s chat show. If anyone ever says that the 1980s were shit, just shake your head, smile condescendingly and play them this
youtu.be/ntTckWx8MMw
youtu.be/ntTckWx8MMw
Wogan Titles December 1985
YouTube video by 23111963
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
We’re approaching the 40th anniversary of this spectacular bit of TV, an intro sequence to Wogan’s chat show. If anyone ever says that the 1980s were shit, just shake your head, smile condescendingly and play them this
youtu.be/ntTckWx8MMw
youtu.be/ntTckWx8MMw
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
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Diarmaid Ferriter: Like Neville Chamberlain in 1938, Donald Trump is errand boy of gangsters
Diarmaid Ferriter: Like Neville Chamberlain in 1938, Donald Trump is errand boy of gangsters
The British leader pledged ‘peace in our time’ after appeasing a tyrant – will history repeat itself?
www.irishtimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Diarmaid Ferriter: Like Neville Chamberlain in 1938, Donald Trump is errand boy of gangsters
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Robert Butler’s NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER is great and currently available to stream free on the wonder that is @kanopy.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Robert Butler’s NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER is great and currently available to stream free on the wonder that is @kanopy.com
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Late to this because I’m working overseas… but anything that includes the marvel that is Jenny’s Gone And I Don’t Care is worth a listen. Best song Scott Walker never recorded. Absolutely spellbinding.
Became a bit obsessed with this theory so fell down a well and compiled a playlist of songs where Roger sounds like a weird cult leader, sociopath, serial killer or deranged itinerant preacher with blood upon his hands. Apologies for Spotify. Tidal is f-ing up.
open.spotify.com/playlist/7lz...
open.spotify.com/playlist/7lz...
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Late to this because I’m working overseas… but anything that includes the marvel that is Jenny’s Gone And I Don’t Care is worth a listen. Best song Scott Walker never recorded. Absolutely spellbinding.
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This time last year I was settling in to the Purple Weekender in Leon where I was DJing lots over the course of three nights. I’d brought enough records with me as you can see. I think they all ended up getting played, especially the Vince Hill one.
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This time last year I was settling in to the Purple Weekender in Leon where I was DJing lots over the course of three nights. I’d brought enough records with me as you can see. I think they all ended up getting played, especially the Vince Hill one.
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There was a bloke who used to turn up to northern soul events I DJd at in the early 90s who danced like this,especially to Astral Trip by The Mystic Moods.His day job was being one of the Royal Ballet’s star dancers. Incredible to watch. Lovely bloke. Patrick his name was.Anyone else remember him?
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There was a bloke who used to turn up to northern soul events I DJd at in the early 90s who danced like this,especially to Astral Trip by The Mystic Moods.His day job was being one of the Royal Ballet’s star dancers. Incredible to watch. Lovely bloke. Patrick his name was.Anyone else remember him?
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This is, genuinely, one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the source materials of Britpop. No reverence for the sacred texts being studied here, just celebration of how they make Sandie feel. She just wants to have a good time. The version of Love Me Do packed the floor at Blow Up.
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is, genuinely, one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the source materials of Britpop. No reverence for the sacred texts being studied here, just celebration of how they make Sandie feel. She just wants to have a good time. The version of Love Me Do packed the floor at Blow Up.
Talk about burying the lede. Never mind the damned tech, what about the quicksand. That’s what I’m clicking for
Austin Dirks used a Garmin satellite device to reach emergency responders, who rescued him in a remote canyon in Arches National Park. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Stuck in Quicksand, a Hiker in Utah Has His SOS Answered
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Talk about burying the lede. Never mind the damned tech, what about the quicksand. That’s what I’m clicking for
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
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Oh how I love those gloriously unhinged vintage Christie covers.
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Oh how I love those gloriously unhinged vintage Christie covers.
“The FBI’s shift to focusing on alleged left-wing violence comes despite researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies finding that despite an increase this year, it remains “much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by right-wing and jihadist attackers.”
Despite saying that antifa is the biggest U.S. domestic threat, the FBI couldn’t explain how the movement is a “terror organization” — or an organization at all.
How Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers.
Despite saying that antifa is the biggest U.S. domestic threat, the FBI couldn’t explain how the movement is a “terror organization” — or an organization at all.
interc.pt
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“The FBI’s shift to focusing on alleged left-wing violence comes despite researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies finding that despite an increase this year, it remains “much lower than historical levels of violence carried out by right-wing and jihadist attackers.”
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Thought it’d be cool (because that’s the kind of nerd I am) to reread some Jim Thompson while on long train rides in Spain, so I did. Now I’m finishing it while smoking under a tree in California (roughly 100 miles from where Jim died). Love when a book travels with me like that.
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thought it’d be cool (because that’s the kind of nerd I am) to reread some Jim Thompson while on long train rides in Spain, so I did. Now I’m finishing it while smoking under a tree in California (roughly 100 miles from where Jim died). Love when a book travels with me like that.
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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#AdventMovies2025: 3 Godfathers. Just beautiful boxd.it/c0IOap
A ★★★★½ review of 3 Godfathers (1948)
Beautiful Christmas fable in which three outlaws on the run, led by John Wayne, are entrusted with the newborn baby of a dying woman. The story is simple but heartfelt, by turns funny and tragic, and ...
boxd.it
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#AdventMovies2025: 3 Godfathers. Just beautiful boxd.it/c0IOap
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Decided to follow up James Herbert's The Rats with another of his and somehow ended up picking the one non-horror one.
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Decided to follow up James Herbert's The Rats with another of his and somehow ended up picking the one non-horror one.
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Iceland has joined Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands & Slovenia in boycotting Eurovision due to Israel’s genocide* in Gaza.
*The ICJ described the situation as a ‘plausible genocide’ & the UN special report called it a genocide.
Israeli propagandists are now claiming every Icelander is ‘antisemitic’
*The ICJ described the situation as a ‘plausible genocide’ & the UN special report called it a genocide.
Israeli propagandists are now claiming every Icelander is ‘antisemitic’
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Iceland has joined Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands & Slovenia in boycotting Eurovision due to Israel’s genocide* in Gaza.
*The ICJ described the situation as a ‘plausible genocide’ & the UN special report called it a genocide.
Israeli propagandists are now claiming every Icelander is ‘antisemitic’
*The ICJ described the situation as a ‘plausible genocide’ & the UN special report called it a genocide.
Israeli propagandists are now claiming every Icelander is ‘antisemitic’
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Patti LaBelle and her son Zuri Kye Edwards have wiped out more than $667,000 in unpaid school lunch debt, helping thousands of children across the United States. LaBelle called the act “a victory greater than any Grammy,” emphasizing that no child should ever have to learn on an empty stomach.
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Patti LaBelle and her son Zuri Kye Edwards have wiped out more than $667,000 in unpaid school lunch debt, helping thousands of children across the United States. LaBelle called the act “a victory greater than any Grammy,” emphasizing that no child should ever have to learn on an empty stomach.
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Literally the whole "is antifa in the room with us right now, Mr. FBI?"
(Also, again, if antifascists are the enemy, what does that make YOU?)
(Also, again, if antifascists are the enemy, what does that make YOU?)
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Literally the whole "is antifa in the room with us right now, Mr. FBI?"
(Also, again, if antifascists are the enemy, what does that make YOU?)
(Also, again, if antifascists are the enemy, what does that make YOU?)
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Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber.
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
Obituary: Nick Salvatore - The Ithaca Voice
Nick Salvatore, 82, of Ithaca, New York, died on Saturday, November 29th after a period of declining health. He passed away peacefully, listening to music he loved and comforted by […]
www.ithacavoice.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber.
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
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I wish I was allowed to fail upwards
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I wish I was allowed to fail upwards
1st go around with @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social click & collect. C @irishtimes.com review by Colm McKenna sold me on it. ‘Service’, John Tottenham. Starting a curmudgeonish, middle aged, bohemian bachelor bookseller with lousy teeth & fading dreams of writing.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
1st go around with @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social click & collect. C @irishtimes.com review by Colm McKenna sold me on it. ‘Service’, John Tottenham. Starting a curmudgeonish, middle aged, bohemian bachelor bookseller with lousy teeth & fading dreams of writing.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Poor Mr Met could use a meeting
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Poor Mr Met could use a meeting