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Mike Doherty retweeted
Elon's dad and Tommy Robinson hanging out in Moscow. As Russia edges closer to collapse, it has become a popular hotspot for grifters of all kinds. There's plenty of money to be made by spreading Russian propaganda and nonsense online, and none of these losers want to miss out.
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Mike Doherty retweeted
No, sweetie. Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it. Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region. Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there. Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus. Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform. We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles. It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books. And then you arrived. And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit. You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war. You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts. You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever. You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World." You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation. It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair. And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.
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Mike Doherty retweeted
The Kremlin is trying to make this video, in which the goblin dictator fails to yell “hooray,” disappear. Let’s make sure it gets the online amplification it deserves.
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Mike Doherty retweeted
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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Mike Doherty retweeted
Hi everyone, I won't be on here much. Life has gone to pot - entirely self-inflicted - but the upshot is most of my record collection needs to go. Still lots to add, but plenty to go through already. RTs appreciated to get it all gone. ebay.us/m/5VwXmI

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 30 | Last track from an album Let’s close out April with: Radiohead - Videotape From the album In Rainbows. Thanks @DavidMiddleham for the challenge! youtu.be/stOYrPNGXFw?si=oPjH

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 29 | From the 60s Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now Written in ‘66, but released on the ‘69 album, Clouds. youtu.be/yXr2EFomFkU?si=Pfgh

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 28 | By the artist you last saw live Ásgeir - Ferris Wheel Saw this Icelandic singer backed by his band of two fellow Icelanders at the Islington Assembly Hall. youtu.be/LT6qolTsrwc?si=STY1

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 27 | With 3 words in the title Interpol - Not Even Jail youtu.be/5Dwng9LP95E?si=YL0u

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#SawItLive Day 21 - TShirt / merch bonus day 2 More recently, I got this ace shirt from the LCD Soundsystem residence at Brixton Academy last year.
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#SawItLive Day 21 - TShirt / merch bonus day 1 I have this pair of shirts from Mogwai’s 20th anniversary residence at Camden Roundhouse (see day 19 post) The black works a lot better. Based on the #starwars arcade game!
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 26 | From the 1970s Buzzcocks - Harmony in my Head youtu.be/VrafPlgQlME?si=1Nbl

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#SawItLive Day 20 - a favourite live moment #4 Yo La Tengo play the London Palladium, April ‘23. In particular, playing a Motörhead cover as part of their encore! youtu.be/SWImIfWeML8?si=5J2H

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 25 | A famous person in the title The Thrills - Whatever Happened to Corey Haim youtu.be/tzhZzIzJqek?si=bJsW

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#SawItLive Day 19 - Act you’ve seen the most. It’s very easily Mogwai. From being support act in a pub in ‘96 to festivals and the Royal Albert Hall. Video is someone else’s, from their 20th anniversary residence at the Roundhouse. youtu.be/5uliEJPY-EI?si=qhLG
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 24 | A duet or collaboration The Postal Service - Nothing Better So it’s a duet, but also the “band” was a long distance collaboration in the first place. youtu.be/yiFLQklABUg?si=zZzV

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 23 | In a language other than my own The Wedding Present / Ukrainians - Verkhovyno youtu.be/z_8DPgKutLM?si=mzjf

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#SawItLive Day 18 - If I had a Time Machine
 I like to think I’d go to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, in New York, 1966. But maybe I wouldn’t feel cool enough to go

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#SawItLive Day 17 - On my bucket list Radiohead I had a couple of chances in the 90s/00s I guess to see them, and didn’t. Really wanted to last year but couldn’t get one of the very limited tickets. Maybe a pipe dream now

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 22 | From the 80s Mudhoney - You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) youtu.be/Dc5a_lgbahs?si=4WFc

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