A goat with bright orange eyes

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Hurray for everyone,. Good luck!

I’ve finally resolved my mysterious ban on Bluesky, so please forgive my tarditude.

Citizen Shanty YouTube video by Commoners Choir - Topic

Ffs @teamlabouruk.bsky.social what are you doing?

#RefugeesWelcome

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Share this with a gif from your fave comfort telly.

UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’ Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

1. Breach of our UN obligations
2. Adequate safe routes to claim asylum would make dangerous routes largely redundant
3. People should be able to flee persecution, and hunger - UN countries should work together to address the problems
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Howden, Hemel Hempstead

The satisfaction of finding where the previous owners wrote down an alarm code while you are mid waah-waah is unmatched.

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When we hit 2,000 followers we'll give away our ten favourite graphic novels of 202 to one lucky UK follower.

I don’t have a question, but am loving it so far. Just past ‘Envy’…

2024: That Was The Year That Was 2024 was far and away the most fun, and most successful year I’ve had as a musician, and I wanted to reflect a little while saying THANK YOU to everyone who helped me along the way. It was bo…

Just a handful of my favourite memories of 2024 to accompany my traditional 'That Was The Year That Was' blog now available to read here:

joesolomusic.com/2024/12/28/2...

Thanks so much to every one of you for making the last 12 months so incredibly special.

I can't wait to get stuck into 2025.

The Santa Claus Army YouTube video by Commoners Choir

Is it xmas yet?

#Santa
#RobinHood
#ActsOfRadicalGood

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Ulp

Freedom Studios closure is not the Bradford 2025 news I wanted.

#theatre #bradford #artsemergency

Saltaire Victoria Hall. Hey ho, let’s go.

Tree Roots (detail)
Vincent Van Gogh

#lastpaintings
#paintings

Ibrahima Bah: Pilot of migrant boat sentenced for Channel deaths Four people drowned when a dinghy steered by Ibrahima Bah began to sink on an attempted crossing.

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I had managed to not hear about this before the latest Over the Top Under the Radar podcast.

Yes 🙏

Joe’s Substack | Joe Luscombe | Substack My personal Substack. Click to read Joe’s Substack, by Joe Luscombe, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

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#substack

Theseare little bits of writing I’ve done in the last few months. A few people have read them, but the deafening silence makes me feel like I have belched at a dinner party. Please feel free to interact.

The face is an astonishingly real but still smeary face, the rest is roughly mapped out red and black on canvas.

Francis Bacon ‘Self-Portrait’ 1991-2.
#lastpaintings
#painting

Vince Guaraldi phase of Advent has begun.

From midnight tonight, I begin a 'Sponsored Do Nothing' raising help for Medical Aid For Palestinians. Basically, I aren't allowed to do anything musical or political for a full week.

I am already struggling, and it hasn't started yet!

Donations link:
www.justgiving.com/page/joe-sol...

The Wire magazine’s January issue is always one of my favourite things. Out now kids! #music

This is the Soviet war memorial at the Imperial War Museum in London. It has remains of graffiti reading ‘stop war in Ukraine’. Not to disagree with the sentiment, but given sensitivities about a) war memorials and b) protest that breaks laws is it odd that no fuss has been made? (To my knowledge)

'Set to become a classic." Philip Hensher, The Times ERASURE Percival EVERETT Winner of the 2002 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per post for 20 days, in no particular order, not necessarily every day. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

The Jakarta Method Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per post for 20 days, in no particular order, not necessarily every day. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

I’m fed up of hearing politicians and journalists talking about immigrants as if they’re not people. Repost if you agree!🚨🚨🚨

Maybe it was wind.

GLOBAL: It's not a joke: Conversations about gender-based violence and harassment at workplaces www.bwint.org/cms/it-s-not...

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