Mike
@mike-solo.bsky.social
#BHAFC season ticket holder.
Hip Hop, funk, jazz soul, preferably on vinyl.
Beer snob & son of toil.
Hip Hop, funk, jazz soul, preferably on vinyl.
Beer snob & son of toil.
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Moebius, "Nighthawks"
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Moebius, "Nighthawks"
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Collector Dana McKissick says many vinyl records marketed as ‘audiophile’ fail to deliver superior sound, exposing marketing strategies behind premium pressings.
#VinylTruth #AudiophileDebunked #MusicCollectors #PremiumVinyl #RecordIndustry
#VinylTruth #AudiophileDebunked #MusicCollectors #PremiumVinyl #RecordIndustry
Veteran Collector Critiques Vinyl ‘Audiophile’ Label as Marketing Over Substance
A leading vinyl collector says the term “audiophile” has lost its original meaning, with record labels charging high prices for
journosnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Collector Dana McKissick says many vinyl records marketed as ‘audiophile’ fail to deliver superior sound, exposing marketing strategies behind premium pressings.
#VinylTruth #AudiophileDebunked #MusicCollectors #PremiumVinyl #RecordIndustry
#VinylTruth #AudiophileDebunked #MusicCollectors #PremiumVinyl #RecordIndustry
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Happy #HumanRightsDay!
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
European nations to begin major talks on ECHR migration rule changes
The talks are the most significant sign yet that international human rights law could be reinterpreted.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy #HumanRightsDay!
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
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sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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“I want you to design our peace trophy as though the hands of Thanos, Galactus and Darkseid are rising from a hell dimension and about to crush the Earth.”
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“I want you to design our peace trophy as though the hands of Thanos, Galactus and Darkseid are rising from a hell dimension and about to crush the Earth.”
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Let's hear it for the very first winner of the Fifa peace prize.
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Let's hear it for the very first winner of the Fifa peace prize.
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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There are Reform voters who are enthusiastic about mass deportations but will recoil if you say the P-word. That seems bad and inconsistent but it does explain why this story is so damaging to someone so adept (as an adult politician) at maintaining the veil
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There are Reform voters who are enthusiastic about mass deportations but will recoil if you say the P-word. That seems bad and inconsistent but it does explain why this story is so damaging to someone so adept (as an adult politician) at maintaining the veil
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It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
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"Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul."
Remembering Richard Wayne Penniman, aka Little Richard who was born today 5th December 1932
#photooftheday #photography #ClassicRock #MusicSky
Remembering Richard Wayne Penniman, aka Little Richard who was born today 5th December 1932
#photooftheday #photography #ClassicRock #MusicSky
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul."
Remembering Richard Wayne Penniman, aka Little Richard who was born today 5th December 1932
#photooftheday #photography #ClassicRock #MusicSky
Remembering Richard Wayne Penniman, aka Little Richard who was born today 5th December 1932
#photooftheday #photography #ClassicRock #MusicSky
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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T Ski Valley - Catch The Beat - Grand Groove Record 1981
YouTube video by Masta Cut
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
QTP with an album you’d rate a perfect 10/10 🎶
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
QTP with an album you’d rate a perfect 10/10 🎶
Rip Phil Upchurch
youtu.be/qJQxBtgDr6Q?...
youtu.be/qJQxBtgDr6Q?...
Phil Upchurch - Black Gold (1969)
YouTube video by Wajimacallit
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Rip Phil Upchurch
youtu.be/qJQxBtgDr6Q?...
youtu.be/qJQxBtgDr6Q?...
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Guitarist Phil Upchurch, who played with Donny Hathaway and Michael Jackson, dies at 84
Guitarist Phil Upchurch, who played with Donny Hathaway and Michael Jackson, dies at 84
Among the classic records Upchurch played on were Hathaway's 'This Christmas' and Chaka Khan's 'I'm Every Woman.'
www.latimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Guitarist Phil Upchurch, who played with Donny Hathaway and Michael Jackson, dies at 84
Can't believe we've lost both! Sad day..
Steve Cropper and Phil Upchurch 🙏🏿 happened to been on Stage with both and in studio with Phil
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Can't believe we've lost both! Sad day..
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber