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Jon Dennis

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Books and records, mostly. I'm also hedging my bets on Threads @jondennisesq@threads.net

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Balderdash's avatar Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social
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England reach a major final on foreign soil meaning Keir Starmer has achieved more in less than a week than any Prime Minister in history.

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Twenty-odd years ago, my pal Tom and I made this tribute to wonderful Berwick Street, before the street food replaced the fruit and veg and before half of it was demolished. Features the sound of actual market traders and records bought in the vicinity. youtu.be/JXEI5unPseQ?...

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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I tried to post the clip from Casablanca where they sing La Marseillaise on Facebook and this happened

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Jon Dennis's avatar Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social
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Likewise, David. Also, you’re right about Help!.

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Farage and Reform will soon be pushing for proportional representation. For that to happen, there will have to be a referendum. But we had a referendum in 2011 and PR was rejected. If he wants another referendum on the voting system, why can't we have another one on Brexit?

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Me too! I can’t understand why some people have dismissed it as dull. Sunak getting soaked! The sheep! D-Day! Betting! Endless Reform crazies! I’m going to miss it.

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Alex von Tunzelmann's avatar Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social
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I’m very struck by this reply, which explains so much bad and boring storytelling. A consequence of seeing storytelling merely as information delivery. bsky.app/profile/gabe...

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Alex von Tunzelmann's avatar Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social
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This is a really good thread on the dumb-down literature app, and there are a lot of good replies too. Crucially, from @iboudreau.bsky.social: “It's not just a failure to understand Gatsby (or insert whatever work you want here), it's a failure to understand that there's anything to understand.”

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Helen Barrett's avatar Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social
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John Ficarra's spoof Connections is very good.

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Dave Hutchinson's avatar Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.

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Otto English's avatar Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social
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Russia Today still using the useful idiots useful idiot

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Jon Dennis's avatar Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social
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Just listening to this and realised that Let Me Roll It > Cold Turkey

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Steve Peers 's avatar Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social
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This party claims that it is not far right

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Jon Dennis's avatar Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social
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Getting served some absolute drivel on Facebook. Faux-patriotic, AI-generated, divisive nonsense. No36 bus to Pokemon, anyone?

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This all sounds lovely, thanks!

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I'm planning a trip to THE HAGUE. Any tips - places to eat/drink/see stuff/buy records - gratefully received.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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It’s like antisemite whack-a-mole.

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constant badthoughts's avatar constant badthoughts @allwrongthink.bsky.social
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"It’s that aspiration thing I spoke about with the Windrush stuff: why can’t working-class people be smart? Why can’t working-class people wear nice things. Because I’m working class, and I like certain things."

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The Fig Economy's avatar The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social
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What they call “incrementalism” is often just “taking what progress we could get under the constraints imposed by reality, and if we could have gotten more we would have.”

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Remember how sunny it was when Labour won in ‘97?

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC's avatar Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social
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The AP deleted this 10 seconds after posting probably the most debasing thing a news organization has posted in 8 years

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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The richest man in the world with the biggest megaphone in the world is just asking questions about why people don't like neo-Nazis. And he's turned his website into one where thousands of people reply to him that the AfD is totes cool and so is he.

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Jon Dennis's avatar Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social
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Sorry, late to this, but my 16-year-old son loves the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (Nothing to do with me)

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Wordle 1,086 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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#nowplaying I understand why it has its detractors, but it’s one of my favourite Bert albums. The songs are beautiful, and I like the period orchestrations.

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Lev Parikian's avatar Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social
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What, for me, Bach does, is make the law sound like freedom." – Greg Bright

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Twlldun 's avatar Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social
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Amazing community note work here

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