David Ratcliffe

@davidratcliffe.bsky.social

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Deranged Leftist. Deformed in some way.

Screenshot from 'elasticaofficial' instagram post. Text says: Missed us? We've been busy behind the scenes, but we're back. Keep your eyes peeled, there are some exciting things in the works.
Screenshot of BBC News website. Text says: 'LIVE Suffolk wildfire not yet under control, fire service says, but no risk to nearby nuclear plant'. I'm reading this as 'no *immediate* risk'. Pictures shows what I take to be the Suffolk countryside horrifically on fire.
Still from The Red Shoes (1948) showing star Moira Shearer staring dead ahead at the camera.
Poster for the Bugged Out 2001 & On event at Drumsheds, London. Takes place on Saturday 10 October 2026. I'm not going to list all the confirmed acts but I'm excited for Dave Clarke and Kittin & The Hacker. Plus you have Leftfield, Felix Da Housecat and Erol Alkan amongst many others.
Pic of Garbage live on stage tonight in Southampton. From left to right - Steve on guitar, Butch on drums, Nicole on bass, Shirley on vocals (always wanted that Girlie Show shirt) and Duke on keyboards.
Photo showing Garbage on stage - taken at Stockholm, 3rd of June this year - pulled from their social media. Specifically it shows Shirley Manson (left) singing with one boot on the drum riser and one arm resting on the shoulder of current bassist Nicole Fiorentino (right).
Screenshot from Pop Will Eat Itself's Facebook post today. Classic cyberpunk-style graphics in the image. Text says 'Mayday, Mayday, Mayday'. Video by Paul Snell - with Stephen Mallinder. Text in the graphic shows PWEI.40 and 1000 x No Rework amongst other info on the audio file used. Suggests we'll be getting a new version of an old track on Monday.
Screenshot of two consecutive posts on my Bluesky feed. First is Michael Edison Hayden with a screenshot from Twitter (or X) showing Andy Ngo agreeing with Christopher F. Rufo's assertation that 'Reddit and Bluesky are engines of political derangement and, at the edges of the network, political terrorism.' Second is a post from The Museum of English Rural Life that says 'please make way on the timeline, cattle coming through' with an old picture of some cattle.
Screenshot from the Therapy? Facebook page. Text says: Rehearsing for @takedownfestival this Friday. We'll be on stage at 9:30pm. Looking forward to seeing you there. Pic shows: the lads in the band with all their gear in their rehearsal space. Neil and Andy are waving and I think Michael's saying something into his mic.
Flyer for Synthicide UK at The Old Blue Last (EC2A) tonight, 13th March 2026. Pic shows Synthicide boss Andi who will be playing all those songs I like.
Promo artwork from Audible. Image shows Dinklage and Patel as Poirot and Hastings respectively.
Still from Hellboy (2004) showing Ron Perlman as the main man (left) and Selma Blair as Liz Sherman (right). They're facing each other, but eyes are averted. All very gothic and romantic.
Still from Twin Peaks (1990) showing Coop (left) and Harry (right) and Coop is saying the immortal line 'Every day, once a day, give yourself a present'.
Still from My Cousin Vinny (1992) showing Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini (seated, left) and Ralph Macchio as Bill Gambini (standing, right). They're in a prison cell and it looks pretty dramatic.
Still from Dr. Strangelove (1964) showing George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson. What a performance!
Screenshot from Rotten Tomatoes showing the Audience Review summary of Melania (2026). It says 'An observational, behind-the-scenes look at the FLOTUS during POTUS' inauguration, Melania is as polished as its subject - elegant, charitable, and gifted with a famously distinctive fashion sensibility.' Grim reading, for sure. Link: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania
Pic of that young fella everyone thought was a top natty detective on the Paris Louvre heist case. To be fair I don't know the guy's politics, but I like the idea of Elon Musk being intimidated, face-to-face, by a bloke with genuine style and swagger. Give him a small room with no windows, two packs of Gitanes and a dismissive sneer.
Picture I took of the ruins at Waverley Abbey, Surrey. It was a bit waterlogged but made a nice walk and the nearby cafe was well stocked and comfy. Recommended.
Photo I took of Chichester Canal during a winter walk out of Chichester Marina. The sky is a very clear and bright blue. The trees and other greenery along the edge of the canal is a little dull as it gets in winter.
Still from Peep Show episode Spin War (2008). Mark 'gets excited' with Dobby in the stationery cupboard.
Screenshot of two posts from my timeline. First, from Prof Nisreen Alwan, says: 'As I was growing up in Iraq I used to think: damn the oil if it brings us so much war, destruction & fear. I still think it's a curse on people, countries and our whole earth. The sooner we as a species move on from it the better.' The second, from binary phase diagram, says: 'Iraq was facially about freedom but actually about oil. This is facially about oil but actually about social media machismo.'
Cover art for the Run-DMC single Christmas In Hollis (1987) by Keith Haring. The song was originally released on the A Very Special Christmas comp before being used in Die Hard the following year.
Exctract from the latest Buck 65 newsletter talking about the Bike For Three! project (with Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê) and Bandcamp Friday. It says: As I've been listening to the stuff this week, it has really hit me that Joëlle's incredible production scratched the itch I've always had for Mantronix and mid-90s era Aphex Twin. Joëlle is legit incredible and I feel like her music should have made her world famous. Very powerful musical mind. So be on the lookout for a super-deluxe version of More Heart Than Brains.
Cover art from the upcoming KMFDM album titled ENEMY. Classic Brute style showing a bikini-wearing woman in scuba gear. She's holding a harpoon gun aiming toward a giant octopus whose tentacles are reaching out to grab her.
Event art for tonight's show: Sunday 23 Nov. - Green Door Store, Brighton. Not going to look too closely at how many years it is since Boomania was released.
Screenshot from Jazz Cafe website confirming details of Nitzer Ebb live in London, 21 March 2026. Image shows Dave (to the left) and Bon standing in front of a large wooden door.
Screenshot from BBC News website showing the headline 'Doctor strike inflicting pain and misery on patients, says health secretary'. There's also a nice little video where we can watch Wes Streeting's awful little face saying cunty things out loud, should we wish to. Sod that. Pay the resident doctors, you bumhole.
Screenshot of @shoe.bsky.social's own screenshot from twitter re 'wherever he goes he wants to leave' and a thought provoking response from @lastthird.bsky.social which suggests that perhaps 'the shitposting and meme wars that got us to this place could be the things that get us back out'.
Album cover art for Post Historic Monsters (1993) by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. Image shows a black and white illustration of the head of dinosaur (T. Rex, or similar?)
Zohran slogan but Leftover Takeaway for Breakfast.
Cover art for Chicks & Speed: Futurism (1990) by Lead Into Gold. Black and white images showing a portrait of an attractive young women (left) and a vintage motorcyle (right).
Poster art for The Spy Who Loved Me (Gilbert, 1977) starring Roger Moore as James Bond and Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova.
Screenshot showing BBC News headline 'Poppies transform Gloucester Cathedral in immersive light show'.
Screenshot from Marc Almond's facebook post sharing the sad news of Dave's passing. He begins... 'Dear Soft Cell fans' which is like, all of us, right? 'It is hard to write this, let alone process it...' Image is a recent b&w portrait of Dave looking cool as fuck. Headline text says, simply, Dave Ball 1959 - 2025.
Screenshots from BBCs Top Of The Pops show. Here we see Frankie Goes To Hollywood performing Two Tribes. This pic shows lead singer Holly Johnson, looking cool as fuck, reading a copy of The Sun newspaper.
New 2026 line-up poster for Bearded Theory festival. Big headliners are Pixies and Skunk Anansie. More to be announced, it says.
Screenshot from local independent cinema website. Text says 'WHAT'S ON' and then 'There are no films'.
Screenshot from YouTube clip of recent Nitzer Ebb show in the US. Shot from the audience we see the band stood motionless, heads bowed in mourning. Screen behind the band shows a relatively recent portrait of Douglas, looking fantastic.
Promo pic for Dracula at Lyric Hammersmith. Photo shows Lucy (facing the camera) and Mina (looking upward, with her arm across Lucy's chest, protectively?) tinted red. Production is written by the brilliant Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and runs until 11 October.
Tour dates poster for the second leg of Betty Boo's Boomania 35 tour. Artwork style straight from the Boomania LP. Dates include Brighton Green Door Store on Sun 23 Nov and London Bush Hall on Sun 14 Dec. Exciting!
Photo of Jimmy Saville's countryside home covered in graffiti following abuse revelations. Clearest text says 'Jimmy the beast'. source: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/jimmy-saviles-glencoe-cottage-to-be-demolished-w5p5qqjkf
Screenshot of Canongate skeet which says: London! Join Nick Cave and Matt Smith for a special preview of the Sky Original drama series The Death of Bunny Munro, produced by Clerkenwell Films, at the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival on 30 October. Pic shows headshots of Smith (left) and Cave (right).
Official England Football socials graphic with images of the team, the venue and text confirming the date and kick-off time.
Screenshot of Empire Magazine skeet which tells us: Tom Cruise performed Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning's insane burning parachute stunt for real, even lighting his own 'chute. It goes on to say more, but it's just more of the same crap about that creepy fucker single-handedly saving cinema, putting his life on the line for OUR benefit, or whatever. Picture shows a parachute on fire, or something.
The classic fighting in a kebab house meme (taken in Ken's, Portsmouth) showing a scuffle, labelled 'BBC banning Kneecap', and in the foreground a guy sitting alone, unflinching, labelled 'Bob Vylan putting together a set list'.
Screenshot of David Bowie performing live (Berlin, 2002). He's bantering with Gayle Ann Dorsey 'Oh come to your daddy, baby... What is it with this daddy shit?'
Screenshot of Noisey (Vice) post on facebook. Text says: Billy Idol spoke out about old school British punks wearing nazi swastikas as "performance art" and... he is clearly not reading the room. Image is a live shot of Billy with Tony James performing as Generation X (by Gus Stewart) and includes headline text: Billy Idol says this is why some British punk bands used to wear swastikas.
Promo art for as yet untitled Spaceballs sequel (due 2027) showing a damaged Dark Helmet. Casting details come from Deadline.
Screenshot from Recoil/Alan Wilder Facebook page that writes: Douglas McCarthy 1966-2025, and follows with a statement from Alan. Image is a black and white portrait of Douglas with him raising two fingers in a rude gesture.
Pop Will Eatself 'Delete Everything' tour dates for October and November 2025. Includes south coast dates at Brighton Concorde 2 and Southampton 1865.
Self-portrait with skeleton arm (1895) - cropped image showing only the artist's head.
Behind the scenes promo shot from Royal Ballet and Opera showing Sissens (Romeo, kneeling) and Takada (Juliet).
Screenshot of The News, Portsmouth Facebook post showing 'A historic ship which played a prominent role in the Falklands War has been wrapped in pride colours'. Picture shows Landing Craft F8 at dock, painted with a rainbow flag colour scheme.
Screenshot from my blood.co.uk account - confirming my tenth donation. They'll let me know where my blood has gone too, which is fun.