Rob Derr
@deeppurple64.bsky.social
British, happy husband, 🐈 dad. I’m a prog-rock loving, 🍷 drinking, sci-fi reading, left leaning bloke. Unoriginal thinker, working on allyship, openness and acceptance. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ supporter 🇪🇺 rejoiner ❌ 🚩DM’s, crypto, nazis, pornbots, OF, hookup merchants etc.
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
David Squires on … Lionel Messi enjoying his true passion after Argentina retirement
Our cartoonist imagines how the football legend might while away the hours after calling time on his Argentina career
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I cannot recommend this enough, a contender for my favourite album of 2026. I urge you to go buy a copy here shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/products/the... music.apple.com/gb/album/as-...
As We Once Were by The Anchoress on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 14 Songs
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I cannot recommend this enough, a contender for my favourite album of 2026. I urge you to go buy a copy here shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/products/the... music.apple.com/gb/album/as-...
As We Once Were by The Anchoress on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 14 Songs
music.apple.com
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
The UK will experience a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday 12 August. The extent of the Sun's coverage and the timing of maximum obscuration will differ across the country. Never look directly at the sun; use a pinhole projector or certified eclipse glasses to view it.
My new album, As We Once Were, is released today! 14 tracks. One massive concept. 21 vintage synthesizers & four generations of women. All wrapped up with some really special guests including James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers, Hannah Peel, Gwenno, and Eaves Wilder. Fill yer boots!
Ivan Kenneth Eyre (1935-2022) - Foothills 1998 Ivan's landscapes depict gently rolling, forested hills seen from an elevated perspective with narrow skylines. He created “invented landscapes”, dreamlike spaces that reflect memory and emotion. #artzeal
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
Introducing the limited edition blue vinyl version of my new album, As We Once Were, with leopard print etched fourth side. Out Friday August 7th on linen, coral and transparent burgundy (indie store only special). Which colour will you choose?
As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
Any cricket fans out there? Give Ukraine Cricket a follow.
Ukraine Cricket@ukrainecricket.bsky.social · 2mo agoCan we get to 4,000 supporters before the weekend? Mention someone below who would read our story 🇺🇦🏏⬇️
I used to work in fire safety until I got burnt out
Person 23@hibernaculum.bsky.social · 2mo agoI used to work for the AA until I had a breakdown.
Just come on all nostalgic, did you know there are still some Princes out there that need you help in unlocking their fortune? Ah those were the days…
Burn for Bellingham. Get the big lad up front and go Route One……
David was a cracking singer and a lovely bloke.
Burning Shed@burningshed.com · 3mo agoThe David Longdon Foundation is a UK-registered charity that has been set up to raise funds for disadvantaged young musicians & the UK’s largest music therapy charity https://burningshed.com/newsletters/newsletter_02_07_2026.html #MusicTherapy #UKCharity #SupportTheArts #Music #MusicSky #VinylSky
Just 28 minutes of record shops and music history in east London. Bloody terrific. youtube.com/watch?v=xN2X...
Stewart Lee - Record Shop Crawl - The Dig
YouTube video by [Object Object]
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Cor(iander) I bet he’s mustard, hope the board gives him thyme…COYP! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Crystal Palace appoint Pierre Sage as head coach
Crystal Palace appoint Lens manager Pierre Sage as their head coach on a three-year contract to succeed Oliver Glasner.
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found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate
Cracking album, possibly their finest yet. music.apple.com/gb/album/thr...
Through Zero by Elder on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 6 Songs
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Thoroughly enjoying the new AA Williams album. Triffic stuff music.apple.com/gb/album/sol...
Solstice by A.A. Williams on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
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This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...
What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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