Flaxen aka Simkin. University lecturer by profession. Writer by vocation. Singer-songwriter in the margins. Chuck Prophet and Green On Red biographer
Joined August 2019
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I’m British. And I can assure you the biggest threat to small towns here isn’t migrants — it’s billionaires on ketamine hallucinating about hobbits and imaginary crime waves.
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Watch it. Then share it.
Amidst all the discussion of #CivilWarMovie there is not enough attention given to what an immensely gifted visual artist Alex Garland is.
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Civil War film-maker Alex Garland: ‘In the US and UK there’s a lot to be very concerned about’ theguardian.com/film/2024/ma…
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Polls show that, somehow, most voters don’t know or have forgotten most of this, so here it is all in one place, as presented by @sethmeyers in tonight’s Closer Look: An overview of Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president.
(And this is only a small fraction.)
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage with @bobdylan for the iconic ‘Hard To Handle’ concert special, filmed during the True Confessions tour stop in Sydney, this month in 1986.
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Why do some people become addicts and not others?
@DrGaborMate says addiction is a response to emotional pain
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Meet your new Migration Minister Tom Pursglove.
Climate change sceptic, arch Brexiteer and looks like he was born with a full set of teeth which he used to eat his way out of his mother.
I could wish that #TomPetty was not trending simply because he has a song in the trailer for the new #GTA6 but I'll take good news where I can get it these days. Here is one of his many better-than-Runnin'-Down-A-Dream songs youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wa-HG3…
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Does a film that is enjoyable for 1hr 40 and falls apart in the last 15 deserve a very bad review? Asking for a #catperson friend. @MatthewLeggatt ? @DanMattingly87 ?
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Just heard @beveryquiet for the first time on @cerysmatthews youtu.be/_anf9SLxxN4?si=lcSC… wow.
Any creative person and anyone who cares about creativity should read this.
Saw an ai thing specifically “designed” to produce things in “Nicholas Kole style” and I am trying not to spiral existentially but it feels like my brain is losing grip on the surface of the earth and I’m floating off into disassociation
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The judge has given us the go-ahead
Suella Braverman: SEE YOU IN COURT
#DefendDemocracy
📹 @AkikoMHart
Anyone fancy a vote on a neglected @JasonIsbell song he and the #400unit should dust off and play? My vote would be The Day John Henry Died. Barnburner.
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Good to see another serial offender behind bars. But why did the headteachers at these schools fail to stop him? Tillson abused children at three different ones, according to survivors I've heard from - passed from one elite establishment to another. kentonline.co.uk/tonbridge/n…
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While Ramaswamy spoke in Lancaster NH, a sign that said "Truth" fell over on him:
More food for hungry thoughts
Since leaving my academic job this time last year, I’ve been writing. And today I wrote about leaving my academic job: thewritingpath.substack.com/…
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