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Just popped here to say to you and @phlaimeaux.bsky.social just how much I enjoyed this episode. An hour of absolute joy. Thank you both

Ironically, The End (and Her Majesty) from Abbey Road. Bonkers

I give you “Coatbridge Sunnyside”

Just breaking up the timeline

Fantastic; look forward to reading that Graeme

Nora Welsh - thank you for doing this Ian #mums26

It's Alright by Steve Earle

30 years this week since the release of Steve Earle's It's Alright. Post jail and rehab, he made one of his best records; its title is equal parts hope & defiance.

he should definitely be involved in Mexican Grand Prix

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Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

Done! Hope it’s an enormous success Jonn

Ha ha! My apologies

Then there' the Seafield sewerage works, some yards along the shore,
Processing folks' waste for many a year (and more),
The people of Leith are fortunate to be so near to that pipe,
But alas, in summer, the stench is awfully ripe etc etc

Terrific. As an adopted Leither, I was (I think blissfully) unaware of this utter doggerel.

Your poems are shit,
and so are your stunts.
You shout at hotels,
you wife-beating cunts.

Keep seeing this Copilot ad in which a woman pulls off a shit-hot 'business negotiation' by tapping away at Copilot to ask its advice every 20 seconds, as if that would put you in a position of strength rather than implying that you didn't have a fucking clue what you were doing.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

As I hope you already know, there's a new Springsteen song called "Streets of Minneapolis." I'm going on my fifth listen myself. If it's your first, you may well be saddened but you won't be sorry.

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

I thought first half,meh; second half, great. I blubbed twice 😩

Saw this tonight. Fantastic film; both sisters are incredible

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

One of the most underrated records of all time

Britain is broken. We broke it. Vote for us.
A bold electoral platform.

3/3 St Mungo with the robin he has just restored to life, in one of Glasgow's many gable end murals by Smug, this one in the High Street just down from the Cathedral. Today's the feast of St Mungo.

‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reform In the face of Nigel Farage, flag-waving and a longstanding housing crisis, some Glaswegians are taking on anti-immigration rhetoric

I asked bilingual high schoolers in Glasgow what they made of Nigel Farage's criticism of their language skills...
“Speaking another language definitely improved my cognitive skills and my memory", 16 year old Maria told me. "And it opens doors for jobs.”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

SUPREMES STONED LOVE

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In any sane world FIFA ought to cancel the World Cup.

Important listen (if I may) 👇 Thanks @polphilpod.bsky.social for the invite (ping @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social)

‘Big in Sheboygan’ will be the name of my first LP