@VividRicky

Graphic design, podcaster w/ @_MentallySound, community connecter, NEAR, @PSCNorthEast, red+green socialist, NUFC fan, #PTSDawareness, classic introvert!

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined May 2012
…catch me on Bluesky, albeit late to the party: bsky.app/profile/rickykumart…
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Here’s Bari Weiss honouring Peter Thiel ahead of his special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award from the new owner of the Daily Telegraph. Should you ever be tempted to take that paper seriously ever again: don’t H/t @jeremymbarr
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Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder handcuffed at Netanyahu protests outside NYC U.N. 🎥: FreedomNews.TV
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Ash Sarkar: “There are mobs of men styling themselves as paramilitaries & you’ve had more to say about refugees than racism…This is small penis behaviour. You guys are just saying well, it’s about the small boats - well maybe it’s about the racism & the thuggery” #bbcqt
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In the late 1980s, a small community of talented, sludgy local bands began attracting attention in the Pacific Northwest. One of those bands was from Aberdeen, Washington, just outside Seattle, and called itself Nirvana. Nirvana had a reputation for writing surprisingly catchy songs and for putting on chaotic live shows. Their first album, the heavy and noisy “Bleach,” from 1989, had been produced for just $600. It was their second record, “Nevermind,” released on this day 35 years ago, that brought the trio of underdogs into the mainstream. When Hua Hsu listened to “Nevermind” for the first time, he was just a teen-ager, casting about for something new. The divide between mainstream and alternative music still seemed meaningful, and Nirvana still felt like a secret: “The band was a gateway,” Hsu writes. Revisit Hsu’s interactive 2018 essay about the history, creation, and legacy of the seminal grunge album: newyorker.com/culture/touchs…
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Nevermind was released 35 years ago today. nirvana.lnk.to/nevermindalbu…
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As a reformed alcoholic and lifelong attender of football matches, I don’t think Burnham lifting the booze ban in view of the pitch is wise. If you can’t go 45 minutes without a drink, you should probably seek help.
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BREAKING: For months, an account called "Big Time Charlie" has been building a database of charity workers, aid workers and others it brands "traitors", using AI to pull information from LinkedIn and elsewhere. Our investigation shows he is an activist and has donated thousands to Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/2…
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About 100 plastic patriots outside Basingstoke police station shouting 🗣️Free DT Yeah that’ll work I’m sure the police will be like come on Tommo lad go home 😒 So fucking thick
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🦏🇿🇦Lihawu is a rhino calf from South Africa who lost his mother to poachers at just 10 months old. Now recovering, he needs specialized care, nutrition & veterinary support. 🔗 Your donation can help give him a second chance: zurl.co/NwTDG
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Tonight on @C4Dispatches at 11.05pm “Britain’s Gaza secrets exposed”, our latest and 4th film on Gaza since October 7th. Firstly, as ever we must pay tribute to our colleagues in Gaza who risk their lives every day there. Journalists have been targeted and killed in greater proportional numbers than in any other war in history. In Gaza journalism, like healthcare, the subject of our last film, has become a lethal profession. We have spent the last year sifting through hundreds of internal FCDO IHL – (international humanitarian law) – assessments of Israel’s military conduct in Gaza. As those who have not looked away will know, 73,000 people, including at least 21,000 children have been killed in what a special @UN commission and the majority of international experts call a Genocide, which was meant to stop with the ceasefire last year, but which has effectively continued, albeit at a slower, but still regular child killing, pace. So if it is a genocide- what did we, the UK do ? Did we stop it, as is our legal duty if there is a clear risk ? Did we intervene ? Or did we help enable it ? This film looks at what role our own UK government played, through both Conservate and Labour parties, and the process by which the FCDO assesses whether Israel’s military conduct complied with international law. Watch at 11.05pm on channel 4 to find out. I don’t want to give anything away but the process led to less than a handful of incidents, out of the many hundreds it examined, most with graphic video evidence, being described as possible war crimes. We try to explain how that happened. Why ? is a question for others- and perhaps international courts. Please watch.
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Thank you so much to everyone who has generously donated to Richard’s GoFundMe campaign. Please, if you haven’t already, donate to help Richard & Sheila during this difficult time. gofund.me/ac38637ce 📸 Hugh Brown (1978)
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This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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The MAGA event known as Patriot’s Day Freedom Fest, featuring Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter, has been scrapped after it was revealed that only six VIP tickets were sold. ew.com/maga-event-freedom-fe…
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#NicoleEisenman #Art #Review: ICE-like goons clash with sublime stargazing as America’s magical magpie returns #SadieColesHQ, #London Abstract, humorous yet deeply unsettling, the painter’s dazzling #exhibition sees her caught between distant skies and the ugly reality on the ground theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Reform's @McivorJaymey says 'English people are claiming asylum in the Home Counties' due to 'out of control immigration'. 'Did they not just move house?' @ShelaghFogarty asks him.
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Tino Asprilla 🤩
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This picture is a very important picture to look at. It’s what America has become. Screaming powerful dudes treating others as if they are their servant property. My heart is breaking for this young Marine One pilot. He doesn’t deserve this shit from trump.
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Footballer Andy Carroll reveals he was victim of 'traumatic' sexual assault by 'celebrity' pal lbc.co.uk/article/andy-carro…
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Tony Blair has dismissed the phrase "Free Palestine", saying that Palestinians need a solution, not slogans. Palestinians need Tony Blair to stay away from Gaza. The solution is an end to the occupation - and we will never stop until there is real freedom for Palestine.
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