As he releases new album Different When It’s Silent and prepares for a set at this year’s Green Man, Tricky takes Manu Ekanayake through his life in 13 songs There’s Nothing Like It: #Tricky’s Favourite Songs buff.ly/bzg34te

NEW: How a small network of high-profile, right wing accounts systematically floods the digital landscape with coordinated, manufactured and often inaccurate, misleading narratives. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/21/f...

Flood warning - How manufactured outrage on social media travels faster than facts – HOPE not hate

Today, more people consume news through social media than through traditional journalism. Therefore, the information that influences public opinion is increasingly shaped by algorithms, engagement, an...

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Sonic Youth. Love loads of the things that influenced them (let's pick This Heat) and loads of the things they influenced (let's pick My Bloody Valentine) but they still leave me cold.

Rob Chapman@scribblerrob.bsky.social · 3w ago

What band or artist do all your music tastes suggests that you probably should like and yet you don't. Me Plastic People of The Universe. Chet Baker.

Excellent by @joemuggs.bsky.social on the false idea that music has stopped evolving, beautifully illustrated by the joy of seeing his teenage kids so excited by a wildly diverse array of sound: bestfitmusic.substack.com/p/the-monday...

The Monday Meeting

Despite critics hailing this as an age of cultural stagnation, a quiet, globalised explosion of taste is happening right now led by teenagers, writes Joe Muggs.

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Always happy to be reminded of this piece of genius

Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dreamt I was trying to explain the copyright arrangements of the T.S. Eliot Estate to my next door neighbour

In May 2019, a reporter from the far-right Canadian sewer Rebel News / The Rebel tried to interview people on the streets of Manchester about Stephen Yaxley-Lennon / Tommy Robinson who was standing as an MEP, and encountered the (NSFW but very honest) Queen of the North.

luketurner.bsky.social I just had a meeting with my work coach at the Norwich job centre so I can get Universal Credit. We spent it all chatting about The Quietus, which he'd spotted on my CV. He said he'd met you once at a festival. The life of an East Anglian music journalist, there.

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Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: Th...

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Reform UK claimed to have the “best vetting in the country”. Their candidates told a different story. Here are some with records of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conspiracy theories and links to far-right groups. They are now in office and must be held to account. 🧵

In 2010 I went to Northampton with gentleman Dave Ma to meet Alan Moore, for a cover feature for Stool Pigeon and a big feature for theQuietus [ln1k in thared]. Dave just sent me these photos which I wanted to share because... well, you would, wouldn't you? Moore was a fantastic host... 1/?

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

Devastated. Rest in peace maestro. Thank you for everything. My favourite person even before my favourite drummer, which you surely are. Rest in peace Sly Dunbar 💔

I see various people posting this up. Here’s me from 2001 talking about AI. Dunno how accurate it is. I hope it isn’t. youtu.be/6mvUqM2Ty5c?...

Conference "A.I." from the Armando Iannucci Show

YouTube video by Simon Kidd

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party is opened by Reeves & Mortimer covering Hawkwind's Silver Machine. No explanation, no lyrical changes unless a cameo by the riff from Day Tripper counts, never released, and they weren't hosting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeb...

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - Silver Machine (Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 1995)

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As before, his own main Crowdfunder remains active, and #OneMoreTune is still going in turn. However you can help, spread the word.

ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch - ONE MORE TUNE, by The Dark Outside, TDO Cassettes & Bibliotapes

41 track album

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A quick update on #JDTwitch -- a new separate fund to raise money for care for others at the hospice he is at has been started by the family, with some of the Crowdfunder proceeds helping to start things there. Full details are here -- JD continues to want to give back to others.

Love to JD Twitch

Keith’s Hospice Tribute Fund

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