I was Jack Janglebones on t'other site. I'm back to being Johnny Ninefingers on here. Retired guitarist. I used to be first-call at TPA Studios when Steve Kent ran it. Played with some people you've heard of. Sometimes more than once. I collect books.
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Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
English water companies spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches. Abuse of bill payers. Companies pay lawyers instead of investing in infrastructure to prevent sewage dumping.
Just a reminder to all all those bleeding hearts and media taking up the Father Ted Guy's case getting arrested, this is where the toxic debate got us. Teenagers jailed for ‘exceptionally brutal’ murder of Brianna Ghey | Knife crime | The Guardian share.google/46bUpWcwjPhN...
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
🧵 I was a Zionist a few years ago - Here’s the full story When I was young I proudly raised the Israeli flag, so I want to talk a little bit about what happened since then I grew up learning that Israel is "surrounded by enemies" so it’s a miracle we got to survive that we must serve in (1/8)
Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
stephen miller targeting mexican independence day celebrations, anything you want to say about this man is correct
Tice dismissed the suggestion that his party had brought chaos to County Durham Council after two of its councillors quit, triggering by-elections and a third was suspended. "There's no chaos, there is success." 😂🤣😂 What would failure look like? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m sorry; I’m experiencing extreme fatigue today. My apologies for not responding. Here is a piece of art from 2020 that I’ve either not put up on Bsky, or it was a really long time ago (measured in # of posts). The Night Library, Laura Mellin, 2020.
🔴‘The Forgotten Human Impact of Yvette Cooper’s Cruel Anti-Refugee Policies’ The Home Secretary’s decision to stop people fleeing from war and torture from reuniting with their families should shame this Government, argues refugee rights campaigner Nick Beales bylinetimes.com/2025/09/03/t...
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
EU UK N AU JP need to take defense and security very seriously...mordor's armies are gathering...
Well, we have thesis, first instance, and many subsequent confirmations. Every single conservative who favoured Hayek over Keynes owns this. (And each time, instead of digesting this data, they buried their heads in their denialist catechisms & tried again.) And we are left with this debacle.
History shows it clearly: austerity creates the conditions in which fascism thrives. When governments strip away public services, weaken safety nets and deepen inequality, people lose hope in democracy and turn to authoritarian “strongmen.” youtu.be/UMa-aZVLI6I?...
💖 Prized beyond rubies is a pupil who practises and takes it seriously. You will be introduced to wonder. Eventually we come to Bach; via Chopin and Debussy and Liszt and Ludwig and Wolfgang. And Art Tatum... obvs. [Tips hat.]
“The development of shoulder subluxation occurs mostly during the first 3 weeks of hemiplegia” www.physio-pedia.com/Hemiplegic_S...
Shoulder brace for a stroke hemiplegic shoulder sublaxation
This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “This president doesn’t care about gun violence. He just wants his own secret police force that would do publicty stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking. That’s what this is about.”
Zack Polanski, "Nigel Farage is the leading cause for Brexit, one of the biggest disasters, I believe, for this country" "That man has the audacity to say on the international stage that he wants to remove us from other organisations" "I believe that ultimately our heart is in the European Union"
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
“There’s a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It’s a nonrenewable resource. Once you’ve spent it, and if you’ve spent it badly, it’s gone forever.” ~ Neil A. Fiore
Because they're not the old Nazis.
🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
Exceedingly camp.
So austerity utterly failed then, didn't it? And while it was failing it caused huge damage to the social fabric of the country.
Wait, what? You mean there isn't a simple explanation and it isn't all the government's fault? Surely not? @chrisgiles.ft.com on the UK's public finances www.ft.com/content/bd3d...
At £30K a year for each of them, I hope so. 🤪🤬
Kids back to school today.
In an earlier version of this, I misled my readers again: It was Friday, not Thursday. www.unpopularfront.news/p/confession...
If Nigel Farage really loved Britain he wouldn't talk it down at every opportunity to a bunch of ill informed right wing American fuckwits who know sweet FA about the reality of this country.
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That Pritzker presser? Unreal. A sitting governor saying, flat out, the Union is coming apart and his state is being invaded by an authoritarian regime. This is a whole new level of crisis.
Ranavalona I Queen of Madagascar 1828-1861. Very powerful, she strongly resisted attempts to Christianise her country, as well as French & British desire for colonisation. Read more in Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy 4 Sept @wearefootnote.bsky.social #womenwhoruledtheworld
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
People not suiciding because they want to wait for Ar-Pharazon the Orange to die. After which they’ll be too happy to suicide for the next few years. Suicide as a verb. Barbaric, I know. Suck it up bitches.
You have to practice. Mainly because you think kindly about your poor piano tutor, obvs. And I now know chaps in their 60s who were ordinary, if not sub-par players for many years, but who persevered, and now they are very good indeed. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Nah, you passed the dividing line separating right-wing conservatism from fascism about 8 months ago.
if you’re constantly advocating that the rights of other people should be conceded to right-wing psychos you can live with being made fun of online
VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 🔥 A traction substation in the Kropotkin settlement was hit. 🇺🇦 AFU cleaned Udachne in the Donetsk region and setting up the flag. 💥 BAVOVNA in Mariupol near airport area and in Rostov! 1/4
🇩🇪 Merz will propose holding ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia in Geneva at the "Coalition of the Willing" meeting. 🇺🇦 Zelensky: Russia continues to strike. We will respond to this. Respond asymmetrically, so that Russia feels the consequences of its impudence. 4/4
🛡️ Rutte: NATO countries have already purchased lethal and defensive weapons from the US for Ukraine worth $2 billion. 🐝 Ukraine is the first country to routinely use AI-powered drone swarms in combat against Russia, - WSJ 3/4
☠️ 124 Russians killed per square kilometer during the spring-summer offensive. 🇫🇷 France and Ukraine are working on the joint production of drones for AFU 🇭🇺 Átlátszó: Berlin is considering freezing €43 billion in EU funds and pushing to suspend Hungary’s EU voting rights under Article 7. 2/4
I met her when my family moved to Newport News, halfway through seventh grade ('84). She was the ONLY kid from the huge school who stopped by my house to introduce herself. We bonded over Duran Duran and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and have been tight ever since. She even visited us in England.
The justice secretary will be given the power to veto changes to sentencing guidelines proposed by an independent body, following the "two-tier justice" row earlier this year news.sky.com/story/justic...
I wonder if Toxic Cowboy and his associates do this to Jewish politicians.
That’s me every fucking day now. Can’t think why.
Why is everyone so angry these days? Can anyone explain it? Come on, explain it to me. Explain it to me NOW. COME ON YOU FART-FACED FISH FUCKER, EXPLAIN IT BEFORE I SET FIRE TO YOUR FUCKING PUDDING. I DEMAND A PISS FLAPPING EXPLANATION FROM ONE OF YOU TWATS BEFORE I BURN IT ALL. Thanks in advance.
The ten worst journalists in Britain 10. Peter Hitchens 9. Isabel Oakeshott 8. Allison Pearson 7. Quentin Letts 6. Melanie Phillips 5. Richard Littlejohn 4. Andrew Neil 3. Stephen Glover 2. Sarah Vine 1. Dan Hodges #media
There are some issues with the ranking but not the content.
There used to be a sideman/sessionman list on who not to work with and why. Apropos of nothing, it is difficult to imagine Van Morrison sharing top billing with anyone, but one can imagine Sting being a worthy support act.
At least 25 per cent of Canada’s domestic internet traffic “unnecessarily routed through the U.S., where it loses Canadian control and protections and is subject to U.S. surveillance and other forms of interference.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
🇱🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Luxembourg joins the PURL initiative, which will purchase weapons from the US for transfer to Ukraine.
Well he can talk the talk. Let’s see if he can walk the walk. #ZakPolanski #GreenParty #c4news
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
When I moved to the UK it was explained to me repeatedly and emphatically that flying a lot of flags or particularly caring about flags was a weird US thing that most British felt was uncultured or unnecessarily
The real problem isn't that billionaires can't be taxed, but that when you do tax them you find they have so much stolen loot that you can just keep taking and taking and taking, and they barely even get poorer. This of course is only a problem for them, if it starts happening.
Trump will do anything to coverup the Epstein files, including die or fake dementia to get out of being held accountable.
Kids and parents! Stephen King knows!
Starting the countdown for Graham Linehan to try and pass off a stalking arrest as political imprisonment.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
This is pure fascism. Starmer’s Zionism claims more victims.
This is how dictatorships behave
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Really wish the media would speak with the same clarity as judges - absent a rebellion on U.S. soil, the President cannot deploy the National Guard to act as a police force under his control. I know the rule of law is not click bait, but it undergirds the functioning of society.
“A complaint by environmental groups about an Alcoa newspaper advertisement has been upheld by Ad Standards. The watchdog found the advert's claim that Alcoa had rehabilitated 75 per cent of the jarrah forest it had cleared was not truthful” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
A total of 185 Palestinians in Gaza died “due to malnutrition” in August, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, amid Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave. (Al Jazeera)
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Both Starmer and Cooper posed as supporters of asylum and human rights in opposition. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to: Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely. Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out. Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy. Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad
Telling it like it is, and cutting through.
Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
I don’t care if BlueSky is growing or dying, it’s nice here and I’ll never go back to Twitter - or bother with something like Threads - and honestly I’m pretty disappointed in all the folks I know who still use Twitter because they care more about reach than integrity.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Peak rail fares have now been scrapped across Scotland's rail network" "it is to encourage people to switch from cars to trains" Why isn't this happening across England and Wales too?
The Brazilian Supreme Court Judge sanctioned by the US opened the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro vowing to stand firm against pressure from Washington.
'They spent all those billions on defence for decades and then just imploded due to their own rampant stupidity'
aware my followers might not know about uk flag politics. basically if a guy flies the union flag (🇬🇧) he has really strong views on anthony eden's handling of the suez crisis. if a guy flies the england flag (🏴) he's saying that he's thrown a can of foster's at somebody's head at 11:30 am*
Banning refugees – people whose asylum claims have been processed by a hostile system and found to be legitimate – from bringing family members has one predictable and awful effect: instead of travelling alone, men will bring their wives and children on small boats, and some will drown.
I want Keir Starmer to lead - to call out racism, not mutter about bunting. To offer real refugee policy, not parrot Farage. To show Britain is better than this. Instead we’re cowering. We must do better. They must do better.
Yes indeed. A little less Tankie than Corbyn would have suited me fine. Nevertheless Corbyn would have been inestimably better.
When I voted Labour, I didn’t really want them to follow Suella Braverman’s policies.
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
What will Donald announce today? A. "Russia has just two weeks" B. His successful defection C. A successful defecation D. His recent death E. A new crypto scam
Come on Yvette, surely you mean camps.
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
I can’t say a lot But I just heard an IDF soldier talking about the genocide in Gaza At least some of them seem to be completely aware of the reality there
grumpy toad 