Thomas Dolby
@ThomasDolby
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TED Music Director 2002-12. Endowed Professor at Johns Hopkins U. Director of New Media, Peabody Institute. Chairman, Living Classrooms Foundation music program
Somewhere in the aether
Joined February 2009
Thank heavens we don't have to live in a country that revises its own history!
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All records of DT's impeachments have been removed from the Smithsonian. Fishy? consider this: one of my students wrote the score for a Chinese documentary, but it was banned there because of shots of people in masks. They said: "There was no Covid here!" https://t.co/8AhCTh23Y4
cnn.com
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History last month temporarily removed a board that referenced President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit on the American presidency.
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'Aligator Alcatraz' is starting to sound more like a different prison camp beginning with an A. https://t.co/0ip9jinw4F
edition.cnn.com
Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and...
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If you've ever wondered what you would done in Germany in the 1930s--you're doing it now.
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The New Yorker claims if the Big Beautiful Bill passes, 57m US households will see their taxes stay flat or increase, while the top 5% will get a tax BONUS totalling $1.5 trillion. The single largest transfer of wealth from the poor/middle classes to the rich in US history!
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My attorney advised me to 'keep my head down' in the current political climate, and try to post stuff that doesn't offend anyone. I told him, I'll be damned! Silence=assent. But let me just state for the record: I am DELIGHTED with my new pedal bin.
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NO KINGS is a good slogan for protests to rally around, methinks. We can all agree that booting out King George was a big part of what made America great in the first place!
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Un-box-setting my friend Bruce Woolley's excellent retrospective collection
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Sad to hear of the death of Simon House, violinist on 'She Blinded Me With Science' who also played with Hawkwind, Bowie and Bruce Woolley.
ultimateclassicrock.com
Simon House, the multi-instrumentalist who was a member of Hawkwind and David Bowie's touring band, died in May 2025.
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Amazing album of classic ringtone remixes! Several Beatnik toons in there--apologies to any of our guys that did not get mentioned. Brian Salter is justly credited for his sterling work for Nokia and others. Might spot a few of mine too. Highly recommended
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What are your Top 5 greatest songs from the 1980's? (Excluding mine, please.)
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When alone in a room that begins to fill with smoke, 75% raise the alarm within minutes. Yet, surrounded by others who remain passive, only 10% take action. This is the "bystander effect." A silent, unresponsive crowd stifles our instincts – even when our own lives are at stake.
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A conman, a liar, and a hypocrite go into a bar. Barman says "What'll you have, Mr President?"
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Every DT executive order so far is designed to benefit rich white males at the expense of the rest of humanity. Retribution is well underway as security is revoked for Fauci, Pompeo etc inviting them to be used for target practice. It's clear what the G in MAGA will actually mean
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Decadent video from the PowerPop days--Bruce Woolley's US tour in 1980 with occasional rather camera-shy shots of me
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My friend and first bandleader Bruce Woolley is experiencing a well-overdue revival!
amazon.com
Three CD set, a comprehensive 69-track anthology covering the recordings of Bruce Woolley & the Camera Club between 1978-1981. Includes 41 previously unreleased tracks taken from their unreleased...
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