Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)

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Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

Here's my compilation of things I heard for the first time in 2025 in a vague drone/post/punk mode here - with links to videos and Bandcamp (and with some wittering) one by one below (tomorrow as I have been busy today) 🧵

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

Here's my compilation of things I heard for the first time in 2025 from around here - with links to videos and Bandcamp (and with some wittering) one by one below 🧵

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Ian McQue
@ianmcque.bsky.social

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

O the joy in imagining being offended at how little I was paying, Spanish owned, Scottish Power! I would love to be badly photoshopping Achewood but alas

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

bbc.co.uk'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclearAfter defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.
Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

St. Olaf's managing to look so many types of spooky

Andrew Krueger@akpix.bsky.social

Seeing photos/reports that the weathered, twisted tower of the derelict St. Olaf Church near Tioga in western North Dakota finally toppled a few weeks ago. It’s amazing it held on as long as it did. Glad I made it back out there for these photos earlier this year

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

I don't disagree with a word I say in here but the Peel Session version of Winter at 1:32 when the drums come in and he says "The mad kid walked left side south side" is what I would have said for many a year

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

The most obvious one possible but 2:59 into the live version of Totally Wired on A Part of America Therein the MES has just "My heart and I agree" and the guitar comes back in - this is the most transcendent moment, the apex of 20th century music: this is why we're doing human society

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

Long term I can see there might be problems with my method for fixing my mood (exhaustion and great music) given the often chemical ravages inflicted on my body achieving the exhaustion so the great music can hit just right but it's been working great for the first 50 years

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

These are very good photos but we might want to be a bit cautious before mixing Burroughs and headshots

Robert@robertd1.bsky.social

I'm not saying William Burroughs should be a role model for anyone - but I am saying why don't we see more author's headshots like this anymore.

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JacquiWine
@jacquiwine.bsky.social

'In Queen’s Gate, Kensington, in Harrington Road, The Boltons, Holland Park, and in King’s Road, Chelsea, and its backwaters, the bachelors stirred between their sheets, reached for their wound watches, and with waking intelligences noted the time...' 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/10/25/t...

jacquiwine.wordpress.comThe Bachelors by Muriel SparkThrough sharply observed novellas such as The Driver’s Seat and The Ballad of Peckham Rye, the Scottish writer Muriel Spark has shown herself to be an inventive writer, often teasing out the idiosy…
Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

The most obvious one possible but 2:59 into the live version of Totally Wired on A Part of America Therein the MES has just "My heart and I agree" and the guitar comes back in - this is the most transcendent moment, the apex of 20th century music: this is why we're doing human society

Nick J Mascisaurus Rex Sr.@bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social

Tell me about a part, a moment, a time stamp in a song that has you like this.

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Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

Walking into the storm, the sky a bruise, barely able to push against the wind I felt my little troubles getting blown off me like wet leaves on a bonnet when you reach the motorway, then I knew what to do: hunched over the MP3 player I found it, hit play and I knew what the answer was anew

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

The purpose of music is to let you completely escape from your worries, your thoughts, your body, everything. No music has ever done that, for me at least, like The Fall and they never did it more perfectly than at that moment

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PlanetCarnival
@planetcarnival.bsky.social

Journalist Vivien Goldman played The Clash’s POLICE AND THIEVES for Marley and Lee Scratch Perry, the dub genius who produced the original. Marley immediately felt an affinity. “Punks are outcasts from society” he said. “So are the Rastas. So they are bound to defend what we defend".

planetcarnival.substack.comPUNKY, REGGAE, PARTYNotting Hill at the crossroads of musical history
Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social

Mick Jones’s guitar break on the Clash’s cover of Junior Murvin’s “Police and Thieves”

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

The most obvious one possible but 2:59 into the live version of Totally Wired on A Part of America Therein the MES has just "My heart and I agree" and the guitar comes back in - this is the most transcendent moment, the apex of 20th century music: this is why we're doing human society

Nick J Mascisaurus Rex Sr.@bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social

Tell me about a part, a moment, a time stamp in a song that has you like this.

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

I woke up feeling all wrong this morning, a lyric of a similar vintage "when what used to excite you does not, like you've used up all your allowance of experience" bouncing about my head and went through the motions but in a low grade funk, achy, a clicky shoulder, enervated, hopes being foreclosed

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

I knew I had to do something to get my head out of this and so I took a walk along the canal to Tollcross listening to a thing about Spiritual Jazz and how it's greatest exemplar, Alice Coltrane, stopped doing that and made Ecstatic music, music not to soothe but but to shake us into transfiguration

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

I can't believe the violence of the periphery is returning to MY imperial core !

WBUR@wbur.org

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

trib.alICE wants robot dogs. Boston Dynamics' workers urge company to 'cancel the sale'Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

The bold move would be to call a campaign of non payment for the BBC licence fee - it's the kind of radicalism Scottish Nationalism hasn't really done this century and it's very hard to imagine the Swinney's SNP anything but The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social

After the death of BBC Scotland, there’s only one possible course of action: the SNP must demand that broadcasting powers be devolved from Westminster to Holyrood. This country has been deliberately failed by London. So we need to take broadcasting into our own hands In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

heraldscotland.com'SNP must demand powers over broadcasting after death of BBC Scotland channel'Neil Mackay argues the closure of BBC Scotland's TV channel exposes a failure of leadership and makes the case for devolving broadcasting to Holyrood.

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Association for Scottish Literature
@asls.org.uk

From @kamack.bsky.social’s article: a mock epitaph on Lord Strathure (the judge who sentenced John Maclean to five years in Peterhead jail) written by John S. Clarke, “a poet, a journalist, a politician and a lion tamer” who once cured Lenin’s dog

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk

'My favourite thing about these books is the way writers, publishers and events reappear across time.' @kamackinnon reflects on the Glaswegian radical print she has collected, and her experiences sharing it with the public on historical walking tours (@radicalglasgowtour).

historyworkshop.org.ukThe Word on the StreetKatherine Mackinnon reflects on the Glaswegian radical print she has collected over the years, and her experience of sharing this with the public on historical walking tours.
Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social
more mr. spice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social

take me out at the ball game / disappear in the crowd / hide me behind a memorial plaque / walk away calmly and never look back / stay en route route route to your own seat / that you bought with a false name / though you'll want. to. flee or hide out / watch the whole. ball. game

Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

It's not the point but Dutch James Bond is a very funny idea: ja the namesh Jamesh, Jamesh Bond

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social

Jared Kushner has some questions to answer. 'As soon as they got inside, when Kushner used his phone the Dutch intelligence service began capturing every image of his screen, filing their own cache of surveillance on their computer servers.' www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...
Johnny McBob (Maigret arc)
@wolfmanramirez.bsky.social

When I was a teenager if I wanted to hear a Fall album from *seven* years previously I needed to send away to New Zealand and wait 3 months to get it, a kid today can listen to almost anything they at the click of a button. Oh yeah we eliminated cervical cancer too

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?