Happy birthday, Rafa Benitez! 🥳🖤🤍

It's actually pretty weird that strings of symbols or sounds can mean things. Has anyone looked into this?

35 years ago we all went to a football match, full of hope, on the sunniest of days.
97 men, women and children never returned. They're not just a number, they had lives and dreams, families that love them now and always.
Us, the survivors returned, our lives changed forever, we…

“Have you fallen or had an accident in the workplace?”

☎️ 0800 - 404 040 #nufc #thfc

Best moment of that half: when a very, very long clearance hit this horse

If I have to go 3 miles into Newcastle city centre for less than about 2 hours, it’s cheaper to drive (petrol & parking) than it is to take the bus and takes 1/3 the time. If that’s not a sign that public transport needs a radical new approach, I don’t know what is. 👍

Brian Clough and Jack Charlton were two working-class legends who stood up to the fascists in the 1970s and were in solidarity with mining communities under attack in the 1980s.

A thread 🧵

#Defiance #MinersStrike

The Animals are cool cuz they are way scarier than any heavy metal band while wearing matching little suits. They’ve definitely killed people.

Dear God, just *being* in New Jersey is so fatiguing. It’s as if everything that makes life empty and pointless was gathered together in one place.

My favourite Bertrand Russell story...
On returning to England in 1947, “unfortunate censors” had to read all papers in Russell's luggage, lest they “contain information useful to the enemy”.
This included the *full* draft of his History of Western Philosophy.

The legendary Scott LaFaro was born on this day in 1936. Much loves for his work with Bill Evans, I love him with Ornette Coleman (OC sure did know how to pick bassists). But have you heard him on Booker Little's debut? He's, not surprisingly, great: bookerlittle.bandcamp.com/album/booker-l…

Oooookay….Yeah….Wow….Just goes to show what an awesome show Soul Train was.

not being able to enjoy a historical Tory disaster because the party replacing them is still pro-genocide, pro-landlord, racist, transphobic, pro-privatisation, all total cunts who want you dead. that's a shame isn't it.

Jesus H Christ fuck me.

RIP Joe Flaherty. Brilliantly funny lynchpin of SCTV, far more of an influence on me than SNL, and a key part of the late, lamented Freaks and Geeks. Apparently William F Buckley is being rehabilitated. Here’s what a pompous asshole Buckley really was: youtu.be/kUJKDw2SULU

A Rickenbacker 4003, a 1964 Hofner 500/1, and a 1973 Fender P-Bass. @juancarloscs

Remembering the incomparable Dennes Dale “D.” Boon, guitarist, singer, songwriter and 1/3 of the greatest guitar, bass and drums beyond punk trio that ever was. Born on this day in 1958, gone much too young. (📸 Dave Rick)

BBC Grandstand’s classic April Fool’s Day gag

'I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.' Bakunin

This is what we champion when we say that trans women are women and trans men are men. They are allowed to be whatever they want to be. And you have no authority of their mind or their body and we want to smash the State so it doesn't either.