Nicole Smith

@rockculture.bsky.social

YELLING & WRITING ABOUT MUSIC 🎵 Passionate music journo and writer🖤 #amquerying #mamamusicandme

Brilliant take on what’s going on. Most people I see voting the #fckafd have no connections to foreigners or economic concerns. It’s been a media 💩storm and I think I know who’s been feeding it. It’s more important than ever that #Merz takes the wind out of the #fckafd‘s sails from Day 1.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2y ago

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

"No, we are not neutral, Frau Weidel - and your words only serve to confirm that I will do everything in my power to make sure you don't get your hands on power in this country" 🇩🇪likely next Chancellor Merz to AfD head in one of the punchier exchanges from yesterdays "Quadrell"

Trump administration is completely consolidating all federal power in the executive. Do you think they ever have any intention of giving that power up ever again? There won't be free and fair elections ever again because they can't allow that kind of power to change hands and be used against them.

I was interviewed about German politics this morning. Why would EM support the #fckafd when they are anti-American, was one of the questions asked. All these nerds and outcasts who were bullied getting their own back? Strength in numbers? Please enlighten me with your thoughts. Dankeschön.

I've been reading Adrian Edmondson's excellent autobiography Berserker!, and this observation on the writing process is something I think a lot of creatives will find highly relatable (in my case particularly the Fantasy Football bit).

Adrian Edmondson talks about it being normal to not be successful as a writer.

Pearl Jam is threatening to cancel tickets sold above face value to its upcoming tour and is not happy with the TicketMaster dynamic pricing scheme or the secondary market. Once again, if folks had paid attention to what PJ was saying in the 90s, we wouldn't be in this boat.

Musicians and artists deserve fair pay for our work! The current structure only benefits the huge companies that control the majority of the industry and leaves musicians with poverty-wage payouts, from streaming to live shows.

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