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This is simply incredible. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Watch Travelling for a Living - BFI Player
This "musical profile of the Watersons" is a precious document of the British folk revival, much of it shot in their hometown, Hull.
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May 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is simply incredible. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
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April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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/5 Put another way, this is on Americans, not just the people who lead them. A truly “freedom-loving” people would not endure this and would not have developed a political culture so encrusted with servile deference to authority that permits it. A free people would find it revolting.
April 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
/5 Put another way, this is on Americans, not just the people who lead them. A truly “freedom-loving” people would not endure this and would not have developed a political culture so encrusted with servile deference to authority that permits it. A free people would find it revolting.
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Outstanding 40K foot view on where we are, from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: An Attempted Regime Change
The plate tectonics of the current legal and political fights.
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March 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Outstanding 40K foot view on where we are, from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Police, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears and UB40 (Unemployment Benefit 40) amongst others and from a variety of income security directions:
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The old UK arts scene, the dole and basic income.
It is fun when you can merge two favorite subjects. It can shade into dangerous territory when your Visa is already bloated and you see books on the subject for sale. I did break down, but only twi…
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March 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Police, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears and UB40 (Unemployment Benefit 40) amongst others and from a variety of income security directions:
basicbc.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/t...
basicbc.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/t...
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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Extremely disturbing first-hand testimony to Parliament from a retired NHS surgeon who spent Aug-Sep in Gaza. "The drones would come down and pick off civilians—children. We had description after description. This is not an occasional thing." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Oral evidence: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, HC 373
committees.parliament.uk
November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Extremely disturbing first-hand testimony to Parliament from a retired NHS surgeon who spent Aug-Sep in Gaza. "The drones would come down and pick off civilians—children. We had description after description. This is not an occasional thing." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
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Oh shit just seen the news J Saul Kane has left the building. He seemed to care more about photography than music in later years but my god his catalogue is up there with the greatest of the greatest.
The Octagon Man - Genotype X
YouTube video by Nemo U Mulateru
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November 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Oh shit just seen the news J Saul Kane has left the building. He seemed to care more about photography than music in later years but my god his catalogue is up there with the greatest of the greatest.
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Lee Perry at Black Ark recording the Upsetters #musicsky #reggaesky
November 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Lee Perry at Black Ark recording the Upsetters #musicsky #reggaesky