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Herbert & Momoko - Clay
Accidental is Matthew Herbert's platform which supports the creation and release of original music, without compromise since 2000
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i've made an album with artist/drummer/producer @momokogill called CLAY. we're signed to strut records
our first single is out today and you can hear it here:
strut.lnk.to/Babystar
album info here.
accidental.ochre.store/herbert-momo...
our first single is out today and you can hear it here:
strut.lnk.to/Babystar
album info here.
accidental.ochre.store/herbert-momo...
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new thing, please listen & share!
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» آواز پنهان « hidden songs
We Are the Girls of Barchi
A group of young women rappers and
poets in Afghanistan write for their
freedom.
► https://rec-on.org/hiddensongs.html
download mp3 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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» آواز پنهان « hidden songs
We Are the Girls of Barchi
A group of young women rappers and
poets in Afghanistan write for their
freedom.
► https://rec-on.org/hiddensongs.html
download mp3 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
new thing, please listen & share!
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» آواز پنهان « hidden songs
We Are the Girls of Barchi
A group of young women rappers and
poets in Afghanistan write for their
freedom.
► https://rec-on.org/hiddensongs.html
download mp3 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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» آواز پنهان « hidden songs
We Are the Girls of Barchi
A group of young women rappers and
poets in Afghanistan write for their
freedom.
► https://rec-on.org/hiddensongs.html
download mp3 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!”
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
September 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!”
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right
Masked far right gangs have mobilised in Dover and Portsmouth to physically blockade refugees from entering the country. This is a significant, organised and well-funded escalation. We need to get org...
actionnetwork.org
September 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do.
They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated.
The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated.
The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
July 21, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do.
They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated.
The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated.
The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
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Cafe de Flore (30th Anniversary Reissue), by Doctor Rockit
6 track album
matthewherbert.bandcamp.com
July 12, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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Since Oct 7 2023, the Israeli military and settlers killed 240 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Read the B'Tselem report.
www.btselem.org/video/202606...
www.btselem.org/video/202606...
July 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Since Oct 7 2023, the Israeli military and settlers killed 240 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Read the B'Tselem report.
www.btselem.org/video/202606...
www.btselem.org/video/202606...
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twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics
Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes
May 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics
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‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’
Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 29, 2026 at 8:15 AM
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’
Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘More than 780 Palestinians have been killed and 2200 injured in Gaza since the “ceasefire” last October. The bombing continues. “The massacres happen every day,” Bisan Owda reports from Gaza. “Nothing really changed.”’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
Selma Dabbagh | Displaced
Last Wednesday, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 28, 2026 at 3:30 PM
‘More than 780 Palestinians have been killed and 2200 injured in Gaza since the “ceasefire” last October. The bombing continues. “The massacres happen every day,” Bisan Owda reports from Gaza. “Nothing really changed.”’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
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you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.
April 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.
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It's just an objective fact that Republicans like it when mothers die. It's been a core policy plank of the GOP my entire life.
"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births."
gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality
In this observational study, we provide estimates of the impact on the maternal mortality ratio of swings in US aid for family planning and reproductive health driven by changes in the implementation ...
gh.bmj.com
March 27, 2026 at 10:15 PM
It's just an objective fact that Republicans like it when mothers die. It's been a core policy plank of the GOP my entire life.
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A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.
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This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
March 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
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Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.
119 UK Parliamentarians call for further sanctions on Israel and a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements in letter to @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social following yet further illegal Israeli government measures in the occupied State of Palestine. caabu.org/news/news/11...
March 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.
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I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel
March 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel
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Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.
March 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.
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The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.
March 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.
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60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah.
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
Top Secret Document Exposes UK Role in Ghana Coup
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org
February 24, 2026 at 7:53 AM
60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah.
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
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Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme.
www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
United Kingdom to join the Creative Europe programme from 2027 - Online petition
This is a Europe-wide petition calling on the UK Government to formally declare the United Kingdom's interest in fully participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme (https://culture.ec.europa.eu...
www.openpetition.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 AM
pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme.
www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International.
iranintl.com/en/202601255198
iranintl.com/en/202601255198
Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents re...
iranintl.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International.
iranintl.com/en/202601255198
iranintl.com/en/202601255198