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The really big names might be very familiar indeed – Elton John, Paul McCartney, Queen, the Who, the Rolling Stones, ELO – but the terms in which they’re discussed are frequently not. “Is Your Fave Rave Rock Star Old Enough to Be Your Father?” screams an [1976] NME cover: inside there’s a spread of pictures featuring most of the above, beneath the damning headline “All the People On This Page Will Be 30 Or Over During The Next Year – How Will They Live With It?”

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‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded - The Guardian

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@dokem brilliant!

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I have two things to say today.

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God bless the NHS.

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….and wear sunscreen

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@stamfordlola.bsky.social is it good?

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I’m slightly embarrassed that I’ve never been

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How to create a shortcut that always runs something, in this case MS Terminal, as admin: mattypenny.micro.blog

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White rabbits

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“Introducing the panel, Cadwalladr said: “I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”

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At the end of the event, Wynn-Williams received a standing ovation from the audience, during which she was moved to tears.”

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

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When did saying a thing was a thing become a thing?

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“When I get to heaven, I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.”

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Winston Churchill the Painter, Wallace Collection, London, to Nov 29

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@matthewhurst 😂😂very good!

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A sad comment in the paper. Meera Syal on the death of her parents

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“I felt doubly orphaned because I had lost my living link with India”

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@julieo25.bsky.social there was a bit of air-punching here

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I am sad for my Gooner-y chums, but…..

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Caption on the big photo on the front page of today’s Times.

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Television critic Kevin McCloud, the Grand Designs presenter, has said he finds reality TV “slightly exploitative”.

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If the King, or the Prime Minister, or Tommy Tuchel had said reality TV was “extremely exploitative” and should be abolished immediately, then that would seem to me to be a front page thing.

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Kevin McCloud saying it’s slightly so….I’m not sure

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Probably why I’m a computer monkey and not a journalist

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In the paper today

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[Agatha] Christie once said she got the ideas for her novels while eating apples in the bath

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Not something I’ve ever done

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First time this year I’ve had to oil up to take the dog out.

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This is party meteorological, and partly just me being lazy

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#WearSunscreen

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@stamfordlola.bsky.social Sounds like fun - have a great time!

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I use what I know as ‘the Windows Run Box’ quite a bit - the command prompt that pops up when you do Windows Key and R together.

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It keeps a history, which is great until you make a mistake. I tried editing out such a mistake in the Registry. The history is in:

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HKEY_USERS\\user id, or possibly a user...
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@danherb10.bsky.social It’s amazing that something so small can make such a racket.

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Proportionally it’s surely as if we all spoke at Knebworth volume all the time

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@philpin.com I love that song. I’ve not listened to Hawkwind all that much, they’re not quite my cup of tea but I play that a lot

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@boffbowsh I’ve got a lot of sympathy with everyone involved tbh.

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As Bielsa said in the original case, it’s accepted practice in other countries, and it’s EFL’s Regulation 127. I can easily imagine a manager just not being across that many rules and reg’s

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I finished watching ‘Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story’

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It was weird to watch. Bits of town I know really well. Bits I don’t. Lovely shots of the cathedral. My football chum Salah in Episode 3.

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And then this awful tragedy, and unfathomably bad people.

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www.channel4.com/programme…

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A young friend, who’s not from these islands, just got a job in an Irish pub.

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I’m worried that this will put her off Irish music forever

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The swifts are back at Salisbury station 😀

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(TBF they look like they could be bits of dirt on my phone lens in these pics, you’ll have to take my word for it)

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Sad for my Saints-supporting chums, both for losing the chances of promotion and because I don’t know what will happen to the players and management. Up until now they had been doing pretty well.

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BBC News - Spygate appeal: Southampton lose appeal against expulsion from play-offs - BBC Sport\nwww.bbc.co.uk/spo...

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Call me shallow but I’m quite pleased that even though the Arsenal have won the Premiership for the first time in 20-odd years, it’s not even the top football story of the day 😀

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc #Southampton

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Jeepers Southampton making the TV main news, not just the sports news

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It’s only usually Chelsea that ever do that ! ⚽

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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…

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Share a song released 2+ years ago that you recently discovered.

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I love this song.

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I like funny songs, and this one is an answer record to one of my favourite funny songs, A Boy Named Sue

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It’s very witty, there are musical...

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@derekpeden true. I still think that he’s the best person for the job, except that I think he’s unlikely to get re-elected :(

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More thoughts on yesterday ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc \"A : mattypenny.micro.blog

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A disappointing result, but we gave it a go against the best team in the country. Could have easily gone the other way. I was lucky to be there ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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I’m not sure whether I’d prefer to be the next Prime Minister, or the next Chelsea manager.

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Neither role seems to have a great deal of job security, tbh

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Six in eight years vs ten in ten years, according to the internet. Possibly not counting interims.

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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There was bit on the radio this morning about the Saints spying scandal, and then another bit about the new James Bond.

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Surely the bloke behind the tree with the video camera is the ideal person to take on the role? ⚽😇🕵️‍♂️

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@yamjam.bsky.social really sorry to hear that. the loss of a dog is wretched. Look after yourselves

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I’ve been to see Jude Rogers talk about music, and both memory and memories at Salisbury Cathedral. Really interesting….will read the book

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@mattypenny.bsky.social Very sorry, no offence…as I say, it says more about me than the Stones.

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The other song is Paint it black

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Is that one you might have guessed?

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@JohnPhilpin have you heard their “Ain’t Goin’ to Goa”? Love that song.

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@cheesemaker congratulations! But be careful…half-marathoning can turn into a habit 😀

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@mattypenny.bsky.social - a club legend (Super Frank, as an interim)

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….and none of them have worked out, in one way or another

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So…what sort of manager are we going to get next? And how will it work differently?

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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@adders whose kit is that?

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@yamjam.bsky.social i don’t mind having a go…the sporting directors have made worse decisions

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@bluebaby1967.bsky.social what they said ☝️

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@yamjam.bsky.social we seem to generally have three or four managers still somewhere on the books at any one time!!

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@leftback.bsky.social Exactly that…I don’t know if I blinked or something, but he was in one place and then seemed to suddenly be six feet away, shooting. Magical.

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@movingthrough.bsky.social I’m really hacked off we let him go!

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@mstblue.bsky.social congratulations!

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@matthewhurst I read this novel about him a few years back

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harpercollins.co.uk/products/…

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@matthewhurst it’s this one

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/pl…

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I’d previously read a bit about him. He was one of those Victorian or Edwardian men who was keen on ‘helping’ women, but possibly had ulterior motives. A sad but quite interesting story

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haro…

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@8stringandsushi.bsky.social it seems like Kid Rock is being seen as a member of your Royal Family?

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How else would this be patriotic?

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@fakehistoryhunter.net tbh I didn’t know D’Artagnan was a real person

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