Always a joy, always important, new words by the brilliant patrick jones on #NationalPoetryDay2024 💖

This is really shit news. An astounding athlete, great man and dad - terrible for Sara their young family.

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Merry Christmas from Manic Street Preachers. 2003 saw the release of ‘Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers’. The album featured James’ acoustic version of the Wham! classic ‘Last Christmas’, taken from TFI Friday.

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the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.

In the wake of Elon Musk's sideways salute to Trump, people are 'explaining' that Nazis didn't do sideways salutes. Really?

Let's have some fun and play "Finish that line..." Shakespeare edition. Answer key at the end of the thread. Share your score in the replies. Let's start with an easy one. 1. From Julius Caesar: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ____"

Today's Manic Street Preachers setlist from Kingston PRYZM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 01/02/2025 (Afternoon Show) "The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas" - Walter Benjamin #ManicStreetPreachers | Manic Street Preachers

📷| Manic Street Preachers - PRYZM Kingston 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 01/02/2025 (Evening Show) #ManicStreetPreachers | Manic Street Preachers

On constant repeat with us, "Critical Thinking" is an absolute triumph! Congrats Manic Street Preachers on another fantastic record 💕 Diolch to the band + Columbia Records UK we've got some free posters, these will be going randomly with pre-orders, so pop in to see if you're a lucky winner!

.Manic Street Preachers ahead of Sabrina Carpenter in race for this week’s UK Number One album nme.com/news/music/man…

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So my unpopular (?) opinion is that listening to an audio book is not the same as reading, so any attempts to plug the reading gap through listening to books is unlikely to work. Experiencing a wide range of stories is important, but the medium is the message here.

“With AI you never have to draw, paint or write again!” Why does that prospect excite you? We were put on this earth to think and create. Some people are so eager to be liberated from joy.

Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (19th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Benjamin Zephaniah Day: a celebration, but a call to activism too. Good to hear this on BBC Radio 4. Jeremy Corbyn Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 & others to speak. Among much else, some will recall Benjamin as a fine anti fascist. Stand Up To Racism @Searchlightmagazine thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…

Bruce Springsteen won't be silenced. He was back at it again tonight in Manchester. Still The Boss.

Joseph Campbell said, “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning … a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and might be,” and I’m not kidding when I say this could change lives.