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Truly poor, classically sexist
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Apparently no women have any opinions on reform of the Scottish Parliament. sundaypost.com/fp/in-need-of-
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They were fabulous. Tell me they’re two indomitable Midlands matriarchs now…
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Althea and Donna's glorious Uptown Top Ranking reached number one on the UK charts on this day in 1979. Here's a playlist featuring the tunes that inspired it plus many more that use the same riddim open.spotify.com/playlist/2hQ9Z
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The Stalin Society?! Indeed stalinsociety.net
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The map you’ve always wanted:
British Left Groups, by Adam Dant
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It is a contemptible scandal. Scotland is to lose £60bn, including billions from the public purse, after ScotWind undersells to big oil and multinational corporations. A criminal misuse of national assets brought to you by the SNP and Greens, as they proceed with swinging cuts.
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Potentially more fucks *because* of routine-absorbing AI, no?
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Woo! Prince (or “Camille”) at his most Ellingtonian. “Rock Hard In A Funky Place”
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Check out Remembering The Future here: neilscott.substack.com/p/remembering-
It also has , , , , , , , , , & more responding with an immediate thought about 'the future'.
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Okay, this is serious. @thecoastguy would seem to be summarising the argument of Secret Weapons for Silent Wars, a Protocols of the Elders of Zion type hoax document that circulates as real in the maddest and circles of conspiracy culture.
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📆 We said last year we must learn the lessons of #ScotWind so as not to make the same mistake again…
1️⃣ year on from #ScotWind, our feature in on ’s sell-off of Scotland’s assets.
heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/
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And on the bed, scrawled-on notebook at his side, is Bob Dylan, cradling a guitar, blinking slowly. A pause. “I’ll leave you to finish”, says Ray, slowly closing the door behind him as he left the building [As told to me by Ray] <
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—Busy! C’mon mate, let’s get busy promoting your career here…
The guitars quieten, and the door cracks open, Mike impishly in the gap.
—It’s cool, Ray, we were just writing… Ray pushes the door open a little further…
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He compels the room number from reception, and storms upstairs, filled with steely determination to get Mike to do his commercial duty…
—*Bang bang* Mike, it’s Ray. C’mon, we have to get to Wood Lane
—*groaning, one guitar, could be two* Oh! Hold on a minute Ray…busy here…>
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…He’s nowhere 2b seen, uncontactable, unlocatable. Panicked and infuriated, Ray sends out a Dickensian wave of inquiry across rock London. Has *anyone* seen Mike Scott?! A lead comes back: he was seen traipsing into a major city centre hotel. Ray steps forward to handle this >
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This particular week, the Waterboys had secured a coveted slot on Top of The Pops—requested to appear on the Weds before Thursday transmission. Ray was determined that Mike should turn up on time, do the business, keep everyone happy, seize his big break. However, on the day… >
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The story begins with the late Ray Cooper, our A&R man with , and a Falstaffian legend in the music biz. But one day he found himself “looking after” Mike Scott of the Waterboys, who was elusive and unbiddable at the best of times. >
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Faltering, then sublime: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Outtake, BBC, And It Stoned Me , Athens 27.06.1989. It reminds me of my Bob Dylan story. Can I tell? Thanks🧵
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The answer to this fatuity is: More than ever, since the denizens of Lagos will be being burned out of their homes because of unstoppable global warming caused by us, & (understandably) will be heading northwards… so bridges of understanding need to be maintained. Elite idiot
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“How far is it appropriate for audiences in Leicester, for example, to continue picking up the tab for services in, for example, Lagos?” asked Richard Sharp, the bbc’s chair, speaking at a recent event above an alley called Little Britain.
economist.com/britain/2023/0
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As millions went on strike to push back on the cost of living crisis, Shell & other fossil fuel giants announced hundreds of billions in 2022 profits. It’s a complete outrage. How can we—& Indy—rectify this situation? My column: thenational.scot/politics/23299
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Hasn’t already been a Labour candidate (with a keyboard and a byline) for as long as I’ve known him? Is the Pope a Marxist, etc
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Torcuil Crichton, the Daily Record’s long-serving Westminster Editor is set to become Labour candidate in Na h-Eileanan an Iar - adding to the long-line of journalists-turned politicians ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/02/03/poa
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Aimé Césaire's brief "Discourse on Colonialism", published in the 1950s, is one of the most powerful and necessary texts you will ever encounter. This passage in particular has remained with me since I first read the book almost twenty years ago:
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I am increasingly embarrassed by & ashamed of public life on these islands
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I like the shape of the single WORD
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"The complete Word of God which was in the beginning with God is not a multitude of Words, for it is not words. It is a single Word consisting of several ideas, each of which is a part of the whole Word."
- Origen of Alexandria, Commentary on the Gospel of John, 5.5, Heine, p.163
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So what should the response be, when the decortication of Radio Scotland occasions a 20% drop in listeners? Further dumbing down (given commercial music & patter stations are on the rise)? Or a return to seriousness that might serve a yearning citizenry?
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Study finds if we have a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as *all the data centres in operation today*
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I’m presuming that all of these characters being plastic toys on a vast merry-go-round display, turned on and off by some external force’s whim, is the critical/satirical point here. Otherwise…hip hop is running on Ayn Rand fumes
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And paying no tax in UK in 2022. Really, if states can’t redistribute from toxic behemoths like this, what is the point of a state?
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Huge debate as to whether this is really in Bucharest, or just some Generative AI. But does it matter, if it inspires someone to build it (or in its style)?
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Tracking this fellow. The shutdown on him had too much alacrity. Particularly as his boss, , was teasing us with emergent machine consciousness just before made his revelation: economist.com/by-invitation/
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Replying to @JayProjects @Google and @sundarpichai
You're not wrong. I still don't think people realize just HOW far ahead of what's publicly available @Google is.
"I hope that you can find your way back to us🇪🇺", my message to our fellow Scots on the third anniversary of #Brexit 👇
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Of course, would be elementally pleasing to see Tories reduced to a rump. I don’t know whether 6 months of a kamikaze Boris premiership would push them down to double figs, or inch them back over the line. Wish Scotland was Indy in EU and post all this nonsense
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Nowcast Model + Interactive Map (31/01):
LAB: 447 (+245) - 48.6%
CON: 109 (-256) - 26.8%
SNP: 43 (-5) - 3.9%
LDM: 27 (+16) - 8.6%
PLC: 4 (=) - 0.6%
GRN: 1 (=) - 4.8%
RFM: 0 (=) - 5.4%
Others: 0 (=) - 1.3%
LAB Majority of 244.
Changes w/ GE2019.
electionmaps.uk/nowcast
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Very embarrassing period in British history. Only slightly less embarrassing that Scots can’t manage to get themselves separated from these mountebanks
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I listen to these people today - Villiers, Rees-Mogg, Hannan etc - & wonder how the hell anybody ever took any of them remotely seriously. And then I remember that 80% of the British media not only treated them like geniuses but also violently agreed with their delusional idiocy.
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