★ Martin Black ★    

@martinxo

Loves curry, punk rock & jazz. Dislikes fascists, Stalinists & drum solos. Heterodox centre left. Existential Detective. "Щастя, здоров'я, ковбаси!"

Ely and London, UK
Joined September 2007

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  2. Gonna fry some food, laters.

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  3. 13 minutes ago

    I’m not saying this is why eeyore is depressed, but being valued at precisely half a tigger probably isn’t helping his sense of self worth

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  4. 4 hours ago

    I can’t keep up with Paul M’s politics, but he’s right here. Lenin’s fundamentally anti-working class pamphlet “What is to be done?” (eulogised in the Morning Star article he attacks here) laid the foundation for the very worst of the 20th century left.

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  5. On the day zips into Congress, Britain's Morning Star, a Stalinist rag still influential in Labour, publishes a diatribe against party democracy by a man who thinks she and leftwing Dems should not be supported. There's more ...

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  6. is thinking about schnapps

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  8. Need a copy of this

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  9. 22 hours ago

    Wife and I have ongoing argument about whether one of the cats is fat (me) or just “fluffy” (wife). Vet told wife yesterday that cat is dangerously fluffy and needs to be 25% less fluffy to avoid diabetes risk.

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  11. Great piece from Bulgakov's 1923 essay on Kyiv

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  12. Lampshades as bourgeois vulgarity

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  13. This is just insanely good : Cannonball Addereley - Fiddler On the Roof via

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  14. 29 Dec 2018

    Some favorite covers from the set. (This will also lead to my finally rereading the half-dozen or so I’ve never gone back to.)

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  18. 21 hours ago
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  19. 18 hours ago

    My explanation of what the candidacy of Ukrainian Comedian for the presidency actually means. Whose person is he really? ⁦

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  21. Jan 3

    *PLEASE SHARE WIDELY* I am looking for single mothers living in temporary social housing to talk about their experiences and the impact of temporary accommodation on well-being.

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