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George McKay
@georgemckay.bsky.social
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Prof Media Studies. Writes about popular music, festival, disability, jazz, peace, protest, gardening, + most recently Oxford Handbook of...Punk Rock. Charcot Marie Tooth. Plays music: double bass, bands (jazz)

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Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social · 1d
We’re looking for an exceptional, values-led Chief Executive to lead JB into our next chapter.

This is a unique opportunity to boldly lead our organisation with imagination, clarity & care as we turn the power of culture into meaningful climate action.

Deadline 18 Oct >> tinyurl.com/2zz96uau
The text reads - Could you be our new Chief Exec? With the JB logo in the top corner and an image of a musician performing with decks.

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George McKay @georgemckay.bsky.social · 1d
I’d definitely like to hear Mark E Smith’s cover of Madonna’s ‘Material girl’, mentioned here as the music he was working on when he died
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
www.theguardian.com

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 2d
Listen to Jackie Kay read “George Square” on the Poetry Archive
#peace #poem #poetry
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
George Square - Poetry Archive
My seventy seven year old father Put his reading glasses on To help my mother do the buttons On the back of her dress. ‘What a pair the two of us are!’ my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist,...
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asls.org.uk
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 2d
My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…

—Jackie Kay, “George Square”
from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005

Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace
#peace #poem #poetry
www.un.org/en/observanc...
George Square by Jackie Kay My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress. ‘What a pair the two of us are!’ my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist, you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’ And off they went, my two parents to march against the war in Iraq, him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis to congregate at George Square where the banners waved at each other like old friends, flapping, where they’d met for so many marches over their years, for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.