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Wow - Never noticed an author being misassigned like that. Is it a split second timing thing?

Aware that it's happened when you've done maintenance previously.

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Charanson - 'Descarga' (Around Midnight)

'Messiah Of Evil'

There's some chat and a little interlude of more chat, but it's a classic 70s horror flick.

Otoboke Beaver and Orbital.

Asha Puthli perhaps?

As I tell you every year, you could take all the bands away on that poster and you'd get value for your outlay.

My advice as a muso, is cut down on the headline bands and see other things.

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The US House of Representatives has approved a landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America.

The measure would give the social media giant's parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake, or the app will be removed in the US.

While the House bill passed by 352-65 in a bipartisan vote, it would still need to pass the Senate and be signed by the US president to become law.

Lawmakers have long held concerns about China's influence over TikTok.

ByteDance is based in Beijing and is subject to a national security law requiring it to share data with Chinese officials.

Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who co-authored the bill, said the US could not "take the risk of having a dominant news platform in America controlled or owned by a company that is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party".

 

BBC

I think the mugged off Tory Brexit dolts hate on Khan and Sunak way more than the actual traitors and wreckers, the Brexit PM and Farage.

The UK's in a bit of a state of flux with cannabis.

With police resources stretched as they are, they're not always taking the types they're finding with personal quantities of cocaine down the station anymore. If they're satisfied that they've identified you correctly? They'll take the sniff and I guess you'll get a fine or summons in the post? I didn't see what happened next to find out which? 

Cannabis edibles are here now, illegally obviously, but it's moving the culture away from the historic perception of being seedy and illicit.

Canada and Israel were in the top 3 stoner states a couple of years ago. I didn't see that coming in 1990.

Don't know what happens next really? At the moment on a still Summer day, everywhere stinks of weed in London. Brixton to Kingston there it is. Legalised, I suppose it's feasible that the smells could drop off? (Though I wouldn't put the mortgage on it ). There will be people that choose edibles, and the dry herb vapes hardly smell at all unless someone's exhaling in your face?

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A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is an event in which polar stratospheric temperatures rise by several tens of kelvins (up to increases of about 50 °C (90 °F)) over the course of a few days.[1] The warming is preceded by a slowing then reversal of the westerly winds in the stratospheric polar vortex. SSWs occur about six times per decade in the northern hemisphere,[2] and about once every 20-30 years in the southern hemisphere.[3][4] Only two southern SSWs have been observed.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_stratospheric_warming

We've clocked up three this year.

Not always a disaster by any means, but it is the roll of a dice.

Fake séance.

11 minutes ago, bickster said:

Twang Dynasty?

There are comedy sounding Chinese dynasties, so had to look it up just in case.

It's the name of the 90s comeback album by Man.

Maybe one to come back to?

3000 years?

Angry Birds pig.

No surprise, it was made in China. Maybe more surprising? It's 3000 years old.

Saturday 16th May had a pretty epic Thrash/Punk lineup, you're getting value for your £2 there.

1987

Teddy Lasry - 'Life'

Zaïko Langa Langa - 'Mizou'

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Last month was the world's warmest February in modern times, the EU's climate service says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a row.

Each month since June 2023 has seen new temperature highs for the time of year.

The world's sea surface is at its hottest on record, while Antarctic sea-ice has again reached extreme lows.

Temperatures are still being boosted by the Pacific's El Niño weather event, but human-caused climate change is by far the main driver of the warmth.

"Heat-trapping greenhouse gases are unequivocally the main culprit," stresses Prof Celeste Saulo, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68428348

Emily meets... Marjorie Taylor Green  

2 hours ago, Designer1 said:

Probably my favourite 2000AD character.

40 years ago  

Discovered Rebellion yesterday too.

Could see a market for 2000AD merch, but who's buying 'Battle'?  Also saw a new range of 'Labyrinth' toys in the (shit) 70s/80s figure style.

I get why kids would like cool looking accurate figures and models from McFarlane, also why adults might like a 3A Desert Bramble or ABC Warrior.

Are adults buying retro tat harking back to a time before they got mugged off and the future looked less bleak?

You could imagine Daryl McCormack's mates getting some mileage out of this.

"They needed a helmet and you were first name on the list" etc.