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@laurenlaverne thanks for playing Haunted this morning - of course it does reduce me to tears every time I hear it :-)

@AllyFogg @billybragg @ClareSudbery Wow! Didn’t know you were so well connected ;-) Just back from what was an awesome gig tonight !

Always a pleasure to meet up with a random Twitter mutual for lunch ⁦@ClareSudbery⁩ ⁦@billybragg⁩

@O2ApolloManc @billybragg Do you have the stage times please?

It just goes on and on and on and on. How much more of this crap. Seriously!? Suella Braverman says rough sleeping is ‘lifestyle choice’ theguardian.com/society/2023/n…

@TraffordCouncil looks like the whole trafford.gov.uk site is unavailable at the moment ?

Residents are being asked their views on a set of design rules to help improve the quality of new buildings across Trafford. To read the draft Design Code and give your views, please go to the website: trafforddesigncode.uk Read more here trafford.gov.uk/residents/news…

At last

@BBC6Music Forever J - you've got me in tears. So sad to hear the news about Terry Hall...

@CreativeFstone Just wanted to say thanks to your informative guides for our amazing tour round #ProspectCottage last Saturday. It really was a privilege. p.s. Derek's unsual stove top espresso machine looks like it's an Atomic. Just one of so many intriguing objects

Archimedes discovered that if you add the volume of a cone and a sphere, you get the volume of their bounding cylinder. It’s one of the most beautiful results in 3D geometry! Learn more at math.fit/sphere-volume

ouch. no beer. whatever next / who’d have thought it. no homosexuals perhaps… what a shit show

We're doomed. But let's get things in proportion theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I agree with ⁦@Foxglovelegal⁩ and believe this to be unlawful. UK hospital patient data set to enter Palantir system • The Register theregister.com/2022/11/04/uk_…

My thoughts on "Is Mastodon a Twitter replacement?"- It depends which bits of Twitter you want: blog.korny.info/2022/11/05/is-… TL;DR - Mastodon replaces the "enthusiast conversations" part of Twitter, not the "passive zeitgeist consumption" part - and that's fine.

The Brexit disaster is talked about openly, except in Brexit Britain

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… I can totally identify with other gay teens in the 80s who must, like me, have seen the BBCs adaptation of Leslie Stewart’s „the two of us” and had such a profound sense of a program speaking to me directly. This really helped me make sense of things :-)

If you want some good scholarship to help understand the Soviet background of the war in #Ukraine, you would do well to read "Red Famine" by @anneapplebaum, and "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag" by @GolfoAlexopoulo

Absolutely genius again!

@zackpinsent I could have done without a whole weekend worrying about it though. Still. yes it’s a relief. We’re not going to get a general election but at least we’re not having that twat back to be rewarded for his previous shitshow.

Thanks fuck for that!

THREAD: Energy Bill Support Grant. I have just been notified that I will get £67 a month off my energy bills under the govt scheme. For enormous numbers of people this support will be absolutely vital. But it won't be vital for everyone, and that includes me. (PLS RT) 1/