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@scriobh
Niall
2 years
That time I talked about how the ghost of a Dublin song haunts @BobDylan 's Blood on the Tracks, but pushed it a little too far. @venetianblonde @1michaelgray1 @LankumDublin
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@scriobh
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3 years
Corbyn was not 'unelectable'. He was deemed dangerously electable by certain people, who worked tirelessly to ensure he was not.
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@scriobh
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3 years
What's your favourite Irish thing?
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3 months
What the hell is this?
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@scriobh
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4 years
It's another sunny #SocialistSunday . Hit the like button and then follow everybody who's done the same. It's a win/win situation.
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@scriobh
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I can go six months without listening to it, maybe even a year, but when I do it always hits me that this is the greatest album of the 21st century.
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@scriobh
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1 year
When #BobDylan told him to play it fucking loud, you know what? #RobbieRobertson played it fucking loud!
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@scriobh
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@LetsTheorize @canderaid They're right though, blue ticker.
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@scriobh
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5 months
Still love how both of these guys played Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.
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4 years
@Sara_Rose_G Angina is a heartstoppingly lovely name.
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@scriobh
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4 years
@DevineDelvine @DailyMirror Maybe he doesn't want to be around racists anymore.
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@scriobh
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3 years
@justmy2penneth @marksw10 I would say the conscious decision not to wear a mask in a confined space during a pandemic in which the contagion is airborne is typical confrontational behaviour.
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@scriobh
Niall
3 years
Still not understanding why #BobDylan 's 80th birthday tomorrow is not an international holiday.
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@scriobh
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3 years
Exciting times over at Starmer Towers this afternoon.
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@scriobh
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3 years
Almost sixty years later, #BobDylan 's Only A Pawn In Their Game is still painfully relevant. Here are two verses.
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@scriobh
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2 years
Bob Dylan and Carolyn Dennis, hanging out in Moscow in '85 with Robert Bly, Seamus Heaney, Ruth Bly, and James Ragan. Some poetry was possibly read.
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@scriobh
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3 years
Just James Baldwin and Bob Dylan chillin.
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@scriobh
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10 months
Can I just say something?
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@scriobh
Niall
3 years
The last time I saw #NeilYoung he was enjoying #BobDylan just as much as me. Happy birthday, old man.
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9 months
@FGD1092 @Variety He's deeper things going on, my friend.
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4 months
@Aoibhin_B That's me innocently waving goodbye to yet another phone charger I plugged in at the wrong side of the bed.
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@scriobh
Niall
3 years
Just #BobDylan and some of his dogs down through the decades for you.
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@scriobh
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2 months
@EdThomasNews Fantastic work, Ed, but all of this and far more was exposed by brave women on twitter over the past few years. Women who have suffered the most vile attacks for their work, often from people associated with very popular accounts. You really should speak with @BlackWontCrack .
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@scriobh
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4 years
What's that one song that still breaks your heart? You know the one.
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@scriobh
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10 months
One of #BobDylan 's most beautiful accomplishments is that a 60 year old song haunted racist killer William Zantzinger to the end of his miserable life. (From Greil Marcus's brilliant Folk Music.)
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@scriobh
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6 months
Bob Dylan spent 6 years learning how to write and perform this 6 minute song. @bobdylan
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Bradley Cooper Spent spent 6 years learning how to conduct 6 minutes and 21 seconds of music in this scene
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@scriobh
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82 years of looking cool. Happy birthday to @BobDylan .
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@scriobh
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4 years
@JolyonMaugham At my weekly Tesco shop this week I loaded all the Mails (hero teacher headline) into my trolley and stuffed them underneath the expensive duvet sets, way back. No one's every down that corner.
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@scriobh
Niall
4 years
How ironic that we've been pushing Anti-Bullying at school all week. These fascists don't live in some parallel reality. They live in ours. #AntiBullyingWeek #ToryHypocrites
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2 years
@KuntsChristmas @supertanskiii I'm blocked by @supertanskiii for my left-wing anti-grifter views. Would appreciate a block from you too.
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3 years
@RubyWaves_ When the corrupt politician/businessman's dirty dealings are uncovered by plucky journalists/investigators and in the next scene they are being taken away in cuffs by the police.
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@scriobh
Niall
7 months
Lockdown era @BobDylan was prime era @BobDylan .
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@scriobh
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1 year
@LozzaFox What's the purpose of this, you pathetic racist?
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2 years
@zarahsultana 'When she calms down'. What a petty little fascist.
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2 years
Can someone figure out @bobdylan 's family situation from Love and Theft? It's been 21 years.
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@scriobh
Niall
4 years
When you think your night is over, then these lads rock up in the chipper behind you. #BobDylan #shanemacgowan #Dublin #dublinnights
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4 months
@leahdionne__ I did. Just because it was Shakespeare. Should have done my research. Worst evening ever.
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@scriobh
Niall
3 years
What was it you wanted? That. Exactly that. #shadowkingdom
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@scriobh
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2 years
"I started out on Burgundy, But soon hit the harder stuff. Everybody said they’d stand behind me When the game got rough. But the joke was on me, There was nobody even there to call my bluff. I’m going back to New York City, I do believe I’ve had enough." @bobdylan 1965/2021
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@scriobh
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5 years
@ChatByCC @realDonaldTrump I think you misspelled democracy again.
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@DavidMackayy @allthatchas @JustStop_Oil Yep. Nobody hurt. Got people's attention. Good stuff.
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@scriobh
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4 months
If Martin Scorsese could film these good fellas one of these nights it would beat any atomic bomb movie.
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@scriobh
Niall
4 years
Happy #SocialistSunday , you lovely people. Like, comment, retweet each other for a follow. But more importantly, get talking. For now is the winter of our discontent.
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@scriobh
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2 years
It's (almost) Hull-time, man! @bobdylan
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@scriobh
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5 years
@Bobmaxx @AOC The selfishness of the few.
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@scriobh
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4 years
Six English-speaking nations. Three(US, UK, Australia) are dominated by Murdoch's media. Three (Canada, Ireland, NZ) not so much. Which three are doing better with Covid, racism, cultural division?
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what are two characters you’d wanna put in a room together just to see what happens
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@scriobh
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2 months
@RebeccaCNReid Backpack still full of packing paper from the display rack.
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@scriobh
Niall
4 years
Tonight I will be listening to #DavidBowie and drinking. Do join me. #FiveYears
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@scriobh
Niall
3 months
@Baddiel Shocking stuff indeed, David. Thank you for being so fair and balanced in your equivocating.
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@scriobh
Niall
7 days
186,000 butchered and the guy you voted for wishes the fascist well.
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I am appalled by the shocking scenes at President Trump's rally and we send him and his family our best wishes. Political violence in any form has no place in our societies and my thoughts are with all the victims of this attack.
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@scriobh
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1 year
@JonathanPieNews Why not go throw some heat on the 30p guy instead of deliberately misreading my tweets, and yes, stop being abusive towards someone making a perfectly reasonable response.
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@scriobh
Niall
2 years
For those of you who think I post too much Bob Dylan stuff or too much anti-racism stuff, here's a little bit of both. #OnlyAPawnInTheirGame #BobDylan
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@scriobh
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2 years
It's #Bobtober at last! Who's seeing @bobdylan this month?
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Niall
2 years
#BobDylan surrounds me.
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@scriobh
Niall
9 months
@rayfp Calling @harryhew . Your dude is cracking me up again.
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@scriobh
Niall
4 years
@carriesymonds Or you could just stop using Amazon and support local and small businesses.
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Niall
4 months
Actor Bob Dylan across the decades.
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@scriobh
Niall
2 years
Off to the south of France to see Bob Dylan in August.
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Niall
4 years
When those we trust to look out for us choose to act against us, we need to look out for each other instead. Happy #SocialistSunday . Follow, comment, like, retweet, and follow each other back to keep building. #ToryCorruption #robberbarons
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@scriobh
Niall
4 years
@seanbgoneill The 1m v 2m cultural divide is going to be seismic too. People who would like to keep that extra distance won't be able to.
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@scriobh
Niall
2 years
Bob Dylan has arrived.
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@scriobh
Niall
2 years
Since the launch of the James Bond and Bob Dylan franchises in 1962, there have been 6 different Bonds, and 57, or possibly 58 Dylans.
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@hadar_lit @StagecoachGM @CST_UK @antisemitism @StopAntisemites @JewishNewsUK Well done for keeping calm, driver. A steady hand at the wheel there.
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@scriobh
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7 months
Your daily reminder to be very careful where you choose to donate your money. The malicious people behind this account are best avoided.
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9 months
@FGD1092 @Variety Just making movies.
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@scriobh
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3 years
Britain, you're being gaslighted, played for idiots, by an administration that bears all the hallmarks of fascism. It's #SocialistSunday again, but it's every day. Get informed.
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1 year
@onlymrme @JonathanPieNews She's been hounded before by centrist melts like Pie.
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@scriobh
Niall
4 months
The opening paragraph alone of Jeffrey Donaldson's Wikipedia entry is full of stuff I'll bet you didn't know.
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4 years
@Dave_AFCB @DavidLammy @amazon Not being a victim, racist.
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@scriobh
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2 years
Just a little Rail Car from @bobdylan for those who are into that kind of thing.
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@gmbarnard22 The Oxfam CD Rack Stage.
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@scriobh
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4 years
@Kevin4fingers23 @AyoCaesar Good luck Kevin. Hope you get what you need.
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@scriobh
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4 years
@AMartinezNY If you can afford to pay a housekeeper you can afford to pay a housekeeper.
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@scriobh
Niall
7 months
2024, ladies and gents.
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Niall
4 years
It's another #SocialistSunday , you lovely people. Hope you get some rest, do some reading, talk to each other, and work out ways to get these #robberbarons out of power. Like, follow, share, or comment for a follow.
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@scriobh
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4 years
The first film I saw in the cinema was Star Wars. Yes, the original unadulterated Star Wars. What was yours? #Cinema #movies #film #firsttime
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Far too many gullible people in this country are still supporting racist enterprise @Depheruk . Please do some reading.
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Sorry to disappoint you @Depheruk but I don't work for the Daily Mail and never have. The fact you're claiming I'm behind this expose when it's a male reporter called James Fielding (it clearly states his byline) shows how utterly obsessed you are with targeting Black women 1/2
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@scriobh
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Ain't it just like #BobDylan to wait till the day after his birthday shenanigans to show us what he's been working on during lockdown?
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@scriobh
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9 months
I'm sorry, but what do I need to do to vote for this guy?
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"There are more important issues": Humza Yousaf responds to Celtic fans' Palestine flag display at a Champions League match last night 👇
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@scriobh
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@ejoftheweb @michael_chessum So we're just pleading with racists to vote for us now.
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@scriobh
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3 years
80s Bob, spotted in the alleyway. #BobDylan #SpringtimeInNewYork
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2 years
Not only is he going to explain how bluegrass relates to heavy metal, but he's going to do it using lines from a Paul Auster novel, a Vietnamese cookery book, and a 19th century Spanish travelogue. #BobDylan
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Cannot wait to read an essay by Bob Dylan "[explaining] how bluegrass relates to heavy metal." Or the 59 other essays "focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone."
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@scriobh
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The two things I have learned today. 1. You know that @bobdylan fella? He's at his peak right now. 2. You know those @bobdylan people? They sure can dance.
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One year ago. Seems like some other universe. #bobdylan #NeilYoung #kilkenny #livemusic
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@ToonDazza @TheStrangeUnus1 @I_amMukhtar You're outnumbered here, racist.
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1 year
One for the old man. Gone 9 years ago tonight.
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@scriobh
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4 years
What's the last album you've listened to?
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@scriobh
Niall
3 years
Rumours that Meghan will announce that she'll be playing herself in the final series of The Crown on Oprah. #TheCrown #AbolishTheMonarchy
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@MaxRobertFinch @cernusson It's perfectly acceptable to disagree with both of them, Max, which most clued-in people seem to be doing this evening.
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@scriobh
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@AyoCaesar It's frightening how quickly mass deaths became normalised in April.
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@scriobh
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Three years of getting away with open bigotry and promoting the worst kind of racists on this app, @Rachael_Swindon is still begging from gullible people. #SocialistSunday : watch who you follow.
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@scriobh
Niall
1 year
Songs of innocence and experience. @BobDylan
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@scriobh
Niall
2 years
Listening to @benclaywolf 's masterful remaster of Berlin, and realising I may not be emotionally ready to be in the same room as @bobdylan this evening.
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Happy #SocialistSunday , you lovely people. Though the road may be rocky, springtime is ahead. Like, comment, retweet and follow each other below. Keep to the path!
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@scriobh
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"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now." Samuel Beckett said that. #BobDylan still aflame.
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@scriobh
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1 year
Album covers that look exactly like the album sounds.
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album covers that look exactly like the album sounds
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