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Séamus Reilly

@ewzername.bsky.social

Spotify playlists, occasional photos, and luke warm takes.

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Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oxford City Council is reminding residents and visitors to the city's open spaces in the current warm weather to dispose of their rubbish, particularly in Port Meadow. In recent years, two cows, including a seven-month-old calf, died after eating plastic bags, balloons and other discarded rubbish.

Horses and a boat on Port Meadow (credit Roger Close)
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday

if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · yesterday

I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

Andrew Hickey@andrewhickey.500songs.com · yesterday

Really interesting thread outlining a course I'd have loved to have when I was at university (and have basically ended up teaching to myself).

Ethan Hein@ethanhein.bsky.social · yesterday

I think I figured out what song we're going to start with in History of 20th Century American Popular Music: "Swanee" by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar. We'll start with Al Jolson's recording from 1920, and then his performance of it from the film Rhapsody in Blue from 1945..

Rob Manuel@robmanuel.b3ta.com · 2d ago

One of my riffs in my head that I've never said out loud is I miss Paul McCartney as a song fixer. He could take Help and write an incredibly backing vocal counter melody, or do similar on bass for Something. When he went solo, he was no longer fixing others' songs, and it's a side of him I love.

Alex Wilcock 🔸🏳️‍🌈@alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2d ago

OTD 1966: The news broadcast from which Simon and Garfunkel make Silent Night/7 O’Clock News Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme opens and closes with beautifully-sung standards intertwined with new creations. This one is a bit like they invented Bluesky posts 60 years ago, but far more beautifully.

Simon and Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme album cover – Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sit amid flowers, against a dark background