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What are you listening to today?

@bat020 @Mr_Considerate ...with pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganso_%28…

@Mr_Considerate they should tour together

no

@bat020 Remember reading of Kurt Cobain's overdose in Italy and Jeff Buckley's drowning in Teletext text.

browsed Teletext since you ask

@SJG99 @AllyFogg 🇵🇹

@AllyFogg I worked in addiction services for a few years in the 80s. It was clear even then that harm reduction was the way to go. It's also clear that letting criminals control the supply of drugs does no good. Time to drop the failed strategies and try something different.

Campaign Diary, Day 12. On drugs. #VoteGreen #GortonAndDenton #greenparty #drugs

@SVG__Collection Hearing all those originals via Whosampled, it's really striking how imaginative and inventive many sample-based music artists are. Make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

@SVG__Collection Seems a strange signing for Impulse!

Recognize this song? Wait for it.

@bat020 Just got to this in A Scanner Darkly.

@Milqueman79 honestly don't know Tapestry was enough for me. but I saw her live a few years ago cos I randomly ended up at that bizarre BST "festival" in Hyde Park and she was headlining. that was when I found out she also wrote The Locomotion.

chanced upon this on a long haul flight entertainment system in the mid 00s shortly after a painful breakup and It's Too Late is basically seared into my soul.

@bat020 *other albums

@bat020 Was talking the other day how Tapestry looms large. Are her albums worth listening to?

@AimingWinehouse @adam_tooze From a former canning factory in Setúbal, now a museum.

@adam_tooze Portuguese canneries, the tempting industrial umami of WW2 neutrality... Bom apetite!

Ok comrades. I’ve slept on it and I’m here to admit that I do have a dark food secret. But it’s not DoorDash and a credit card. It’s tinned fish hoarding. This year I’m saying no. With the help of family & friends, I’m gonna “eat these down”. One tin per week will get me there.

@Nameless_Weevil @bat020 Have you tried Quarry?

@bat020 I watched several seasons of the mediocre US cop show Bosch partially because of the glorious incongruity of watching Jamie Hector (Marlo) play a cop.

heartstopping line; contemporary nihilism crystallised

@SVG__Collection Best £3 I've ever spent.

Gold.

@SVG__Collection The Vegyn remix album is surprisingly good. It's to the original what Mad Professor's No Protection is to Protection.

“Moon Safari” by Air was released on this day in 1998.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

I don’t know if you realize that rats are now attacking children daily inside the tents biting them in their sleep and causing poisoning. Things have become so bad that children are now more afraid of rats than the sound of bombs. Imagine a child too scared to fall asleep. Life in the tents is no longer bearable not even fit for animals. Cold, hunger, fear, and now rats... We’re not asking for the impossible. We’re simply begging to be allowed caravans, at least to have a safe space to protect our children. Life cannot go on like this... it just can’t.

@SVG__Collection Just read about them in Joe Boyd's excellent 'White Bicycles '.

Fun Fact: Astrud Gilberto was not a professional singer when she recorded “The Girl from Ipanema.” She stepped in almost by accident, and her understated English vocal became one of the most famous performances in music history.

@SightSoundmag With Nazi Le Pen in '57.

Brigitte Bardot, 1934-2025 From her scandalous breakthrough in And God Created Woman and the ensuing Bardomania, her bold, brazen screen image embodied a new freedom and made her a much scrutinised celebrity bfi.org.uk/features/brigi…

This year the British establishment covered up this new Banksy. Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes?? Protect the right to protest! RT!

@SVG__Collection With Nazi Le Pen in '57.

“Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.” — Brigitte Bardot

@bat020 "That was The Police with 'Doo Doo Doo Daa Daa Daa', their gibberish classic..."

they're playing The Cocteau Twins on Radio 3 and the presenter is earnestly explaining that the lyrics are all made up words