@paulwsimmonds.bsky.social
Songwriter, mandolin player, resilient optimist
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Rest in Power, Dolly ✊🏼
August 28, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Rest in Power, Dolly ✊🏼
Couldn't have said it better myself!!
“The irony is that these super-patriots really hate their countries, that’s why they’re fleeing into an imaginary land.”
The Cosplay Patriots
MAGA and Reform hate their countries
chadbourn.substack.com
August 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Couldn't have said it better myself!!
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Just replace the Eagles and Stars with Lions and Union Jacks…
August 25, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Just replace the Eagles and Stars with Lions and Union Jacks…
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#Olbys #Margate #supportlivemusic #thementheycouldthang #Swillodgers #Ramsgate #Kent #Thanet #Punk #Folk #wegottickets.com #Seetickets.com
August 22, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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25 surprisingly small changes that can significantly lower your dementia risk www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/25...
#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness
#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness
25 surprisingly small changes that can significantly lower your dementia risk | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Here are some of the behaviours that scientists believe will keep your head in the game
www.sciencefocus.com
August 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
25 surprisingly small changes that can significantly lower your dementia risk www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/25...
#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness
#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness
Could Ossoff be the one?
Ossoff: "Just think, 250 years on, what the Founders would see if they visited us today. *crowd groans* But wait -- they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land, and then women, and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights ... "
June 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Could Ossoff be the one?
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In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.
June 4, 2026 at 6:47 AM
In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.
My uncle bequeathed me a 1941 Epiphone (made in NYC) just before he died. Today I'm back in the studio making it sing like a bird...
May 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
My uncle bequeathed me a 1941 Epiphone (made in NYC) just before he died. Today I'm back in the studio making it sing like a bird...
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Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
February 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
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It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Genius
April 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Genius
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If 2025 is the beginning of a new era, maybe this is the first essential piece of writing. A small masterpiece in its own way; full of nostalgia, principle and, most of all, foreboding....
TODAY: BRAND NEW CANADRIAN HYDRA Nathan Munn observes the chaos across the southern border. "To a working-class kid like me who had never travelled any great distance, America was always more of a concept than a place." flaminghydra.com/r/6ab1c03c?m...
On guard
Nathan Munn, reporting from Canada
flaminghydra.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If 2025 is the beginning of a new era, maybe this is the first essential piece of writing. A small masterpiece in its own way; full of nostalgia, principle and, most of all, foreboding....
My take on White House meltdown? Trump got sucked in by JD Vance. It's Vance who has scuppered the deal and he looked pretty pleased about it. Horrifying to watch it in real time....
February 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My take on White House meltdown? Trump got sucked in by JD Vance. It's Vance who has scuppered the deal and he looked pretty pleased about it. Horrifying to watch it in real time....
Almost worth a trip to Leeds in itself! :)
If you're at a loose end in Leeds this Thursday, I'm giving a free talk on the Northern Star and the Chartist movement for the Ford Maguire society at the Swathmore, LS3 at 7pm. Free entry, all welcome!
drvicclarke.co.uk/2025/02/24/e...
drvicclarke.co.uk/2025/02/24/e...
Event: Leeds and the Northern Star (1837-1852)
I’m stoked to be delivering a FREE lecture on the Northern Star in Leeds this Thursday 27th February at the Swarthmore Education Centre, in association with the Ford-Maguire History Society, …
drvicclarke.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Almost worth a trip to Leeds in itself! :)
By some margin the greatest British political journalist of this age.....please listen, this is where we are going....
On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves.
The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...
The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...
Elon Musk's main aim is 'world domination' | Lewis Goodall on LBC
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
By some margin the greatest British political journalist of this age.....please listen, this is where we are going....
Up early for a flight to Glasgow for Celtic Connections....God, I hate flying...feels like being processed at Folsom Prison...with barely hidden hysteria and panic as an extra ...people half running everywhere...aaarghh!!
January 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Up early for a flight to Glasgow for Celtic Connections....God, I hate flying...feels like being processed at Folsom Prison...with barely hidden hysteria and panic as an extra ...people half running everywhere...aaarghh!!
How big is a blank page of white paper? Sometimes, when the writing fever is burning, its a tiny scrap. Other times it's a sheer icy wall stretching to the sky. After 18 months of performing, rehearsing and recovering, i'm about to re enter the real creative process :) Regular reports incoming here
January 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
How big is a blank page of white paper? Sometimes, when the writing fever is burning, its a tiny scrap. Other times it's a sheer icy wall stretching to the sky. After 18 months of performing, rehearsing and recovering, i'm about to re enter the real creative process :) Regular reports incoming here
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True to its long history of exploitation and obfuscation, Meta makes it as hard as possible to delete your Facebook account. It keeps changing the procedure. In some cases it directs you to the wrong tabs. But this video by Gauging Gadgets provides a simple guide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZIJ...
How to Delete Facebook Account Permanently on Desktop, Laptop, Mac, or Chromebook
YouTube video by Gauging Gadgets
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
True to its long history of exploitation and obfuscation, Meta makes it as hard as possible to delete your Facebook account. It keeps changing the procedure. In some cases it directs you to the wrong tabs. But this video by Gauging Gadgets provides a simple guide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZIJ...
It's long gone twilight for this key generation of musicians. I always enjoyed Peter, Paul and Mary...probably the first 'folk' music i ever heard
Peter Yarrow, singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86. cnn.it/4gGn8Pp
January 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's long gone twilight for this key generation of musicians. I always enjoyed Peter, Paul and Mary...probably the first 'folk' music i ever heard
Timing and perspective are such key yet random factors in the way of things. So for example, the very qualities that made Biden, at the age of 78 the right guy to take on Trump in 2020, are the same qualities that meant he was unable to see it was time to step down well before 2024....
January 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Timing and perspective are such key yet random factors in the way of things. So for example, the very qualities that made Biden, at the age of 78 the right guy to take on Trump in 2020, are the same qualities that meant he was unable to see it was time to step down well before 2024....
It's hardly surprising that Trump and gang are being mean to Keir Starmer....they are bullies and he's a nerd. I don't imagine Mandelson will have much luck either; that camp high englishness doesn't cut much mustard in Queens or Pittsburgh
January 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
It's hardly surprising that Trump and gang are being mean to Keir Starmer....they are bullies and he's a nerd. I don't imagine Mandelson will have much luck either; that camp high englishness doesn't cut much mustard in Queens or Pittsburgh