Sam
@sdbedford.bsky.social
Records and @nonemorerecords.bsky.social
My eyes saw the glory in Bilbao.
My eyes saw the glory in Bilbao.
Pinned
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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big L for transphobes to end the week, you say?
Hampstead Ponds will remain inclusive. Our analysis of the judgment.
Hampstead Heath Ponds to remain inclusive
The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive
goodlaw.social
January 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
big L for transphobes to end the week, you say?
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I know attention is on the US/Greenland, and it’s hard to get proper news from Iran, but this from @christinalamb.bsky.social estimates at least 16,000 people have been killed and over 300,000 injured. Many (most?) victims are thought to be under the age of 30
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I know attention is on the US/Greenland, and it’s hard to get proper news from Iran, but this from @christinalamb.bsky.social estimates at least 16,000 people have been killed and over 300,000 injured. Many (most?) victims are thought to be under the age of 30
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Amid Iran's internet blackout, there are concerning reports of large scale killings by security forces.
Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
January 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Amid Iran's internet blackout, there are concerning reports of large scale killings by security forces.
Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
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At least 1,850 protesters have been killed in more than two weeks of anti-regime demonstrations in Iran, rights group says. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4qOHgmR
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
At least 1,850 protesters have been killed in more than two weeks of anti-regime demonstrations in Iran, rights group says. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4qOHgmR
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Is the ambient pedal steel zone oversaturated?!?!? Not if there are new records as good as this one. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8055488...
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins - in a fugue state
Heard some complaints in various places recently that the so-called ambient/new age pedal steel zone is oversaturated these days. You won't hear...
doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Is the ambient pedal steel zone oversaturated?!?!? Not if there are new records as good as this one. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8055488...
Pallagher going to be the new Bentinha.
January 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Pallagher going to be the new Bentinha.
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Getting to see finally Bobby Weir last year was one of the great, great joys of my life. A hero.
January 11, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Getting to see finally Bobby Weir last year was one of the great, great joys of my life. A hero.
In the beginning…
60 years ago today, the fillmore acid test, the 1st known grateful dead tape. 4 songs & then cops show up & it turns into psychedelic slapstick: archive.org/details/gd19...
we did a whole deadcast about it: www.dead.net/deadcast/hug...
but someone on lossless legs recently flagged something... /1
we did a whole deadcast about it: www.dead.net/deadcast/hug...
but someone on lossless legs recently flagged something... /1
January 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
In the beginning…
Me @ this season
a man in a suit and tie is raising his hand in the air in a crowd of people .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is raising his hand in the air in a crowd of people .
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Me @ this season
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January 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened and was also expertly drawn
December 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened and was also expertly drawn
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
Just one more change upstairs will definitely solve it. Definitely. All those other ones didn’t change anything, but this one, this one definitely will.
🚨 EXCL: Tottenham Hotspur in advanced talks to name Manchester City executive Rafi Moersen as head of football operations. Deal set to be done for highly-rated CFG director of football transactions to join #THFC from #MCFC in prominent role
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
City Football Group executive Carlos Raphael Moersen in advanced talks to join Tottenham
Moersen, known as 'Rafi', has spent the last 10 years working for CFG clubs, including negotiating deals for Manchester City.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Just one more change upstairs will definitely solve it. Definitely. All those other ones didn’t change anything, but this one, this one definitely will.
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Howay the lads.
This year, Newcastle United's owner had people put to death at a rate of nearly one-a-day.
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Howay the lads.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.
Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.
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It isn't that long ago, a few years perhaps, where saying this out loud would have been career suicide. How far we have fallen in such a short time. :(
Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here.
Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc).
archive.ph/rycVD
Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc).
archive.ph/rycVD
Strip residency of migrants who are a net financial drain, urges Tory MP
Ministers should withdraw permanent residency from those who draw more in welfare than they contribute, a former No 10 adviser has said
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It isn't that long ago, a few years perhaps, where saying this out loud would have been career suicide. How far we have fallen in such a short time. :(
This year’s ’albums I have enjoyed’ list. As ever, in no particular order. Will be the last Spotify playlist too as I’m going to move to Tidal.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2S6...
open.spotify.com/playlist/2S6...
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This year’s ’albums I have enjoyed’ list. As ever, in no particular order. Will be the last Spotify playlist too as I’m going to move to Tidal.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2S6...
open.spotify.com/playlist/2S6...
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60 years ago tonight, the san jose acid test, the grateful dead’s 1st gig as the grateful dead, in a house downtown after a rolling stones show. several hand drawn flyers showed up this year, as described in tom wolfe’s electric kool aid acid test, but with seemingly the wrong address on them. [1/4]
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
60 years ago tonight, the san jose acid test, the grateful dead’s 1st gig as the grateful dead, in a house downtown after a rolling stones show. several hand drawn flyers showed up this year, as described in tom wolfe’s electric kool aid acid test, but with seemingly the wrong address on them. [1/4]
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GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament