MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday Howlin' Wolf
June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976
❝Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.❞
"For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept..."
On this day in 1991, the finale of season two of #TwinPeaks was broadcast on ABC - leaving viewers of the cult show on a cliffhanger and waiting 25 years to see the next chapter.
Context for Belfast riots
We have lived next to an empty piece of land for 23yrs - my family have always called it 'the spare ground' and it was a place of trees, bonfires, & adventures for all that time
But someone bought it & is building a house there so we will have a fence up from Friday
I took pics of my fave wall...
Another well poured Guinness. Cheers!
announcing DOOMED! my new album with Kenny Segal
the first single, Unfinished Concrete Initials feat Hemlock Ernst is out now
preorders for vinyl, casette and CD are live
out 8/14 via @backwoodzstudioz.bsky.social
openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/album/doomed
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What a thread 👏👏👏
iPlayer is just fantastic right now - Warhol's America, American Visions, Bridget Riley & Pauline Boty docs, The Three Kings, Schitts Creek...
dig in & forget the actual world for a bit 👇
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Growth has failed to eradicate poverty or to promote wellbeing. Poverty is not inevitable. It is manufactured.
Our op-ed with @deschuttero.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"
Ok I want to see your favorite sports photo of all time. Let’s do this.
BBC4 are re-showing the excellent Ken Burns series on Muhammad Ali. Even if you’re not interested in boxing, it’s a fascinating social documentary. Ali himself is mesmerising, of course. It’s hard to believe how young he was, seeing that level of self-possession.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
