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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 2h

When growing up with my Chinese cousins (who of course were not blood relations) the "older brother" was designated by one of the grown ups and it was whoever they thought was the most responsible child for the activity regardless of age or gender

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 5h

Want to watch this in an Irish cinema so the "stick it up your bollocks" line is greeted with a big cheer like the Avengers assembling

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 5h

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 6h

Three years ago, Labour was polling in the 50s.

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 6h

When Assad got ousted out of Syria the Express went with "EXCLUSIVE: Dictator's wife's million-pound London house" and it was a pebble-dashed semi in Acton

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway I hope Coogan's learned his lesson and isn't making any more films about subjects with contentious narratives... oh

SAIPAN Trailer (2025) Steve Coogan

YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 7h

The funny thing about this saga is that she was already famous, found the body and got him a state funeral and herself an MBE. Absolutely didn't need to make a libellous film to say "needless to say, I got the last laugh", but did it anyway, which ironically was a very Alan Partridge thing to do

Jack-o'-lantern Tindale 🎃 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly love how Philippa Langley just about managed to keep her absolutely insane Ricardianism out of public life and it's finally coming out again. It's all a bit Captain Tom, really.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film

Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 1d

600 quid for 3 chairs? I think I paid 299 for my last office chair and I was worried I had massively underpaid and was getting a cheap piece of crap

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 1d

One of the worst changes Britain last twenty years has been the ever-growing miserliness of our national character, the moneysavingexpertisation of an entire nation which is now convinced you can scrimp and save yourself to success

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 1d

Editor: You get those photos of Chris Tarrant and Cookie Monster?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin respectful just like you asked

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · Oct 27

As November approaches, never forget that the BBC pinned a poppy on Cookie Monster.

"YPRES MAKE COOKIE MONSTER SAD. NO COOKIES AT SOMME."

A middle-aged white man in a dark suit seated next to Cookie Monster. They are both wearing poppies for remembrance of WWI. I believe that Cookie was a key advisor to Field Marshal Haig.

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, it's certainly a turnaround. Right-wing bigots for years have been insisting they are definitely not racist, don't even see race, don't care if people are black/brown/blue. But now it's wall-to-wall, mask-off, absolutely unhinged racism, in a relatively short space of time

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 1d

Think one of the key things why adverts are such a thing with them is that people in ads are usually enjoying themselves and having a nice life; seeing non-white people be happy is something that drives your typical racist absolutely mad

Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 1d

Something I can't get over with the Sarah Pochin comments is that it's not just racist, it's also pathetic? Like oh wittle Sarah doesn't like the wittle adverts is it? Get a grip, you're a grown woman and member of parliament, stop being a snowflake and find a real problem to deal with

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I guess so, and can only be broken out of with new builds that are bigger or delegating the deliveries to "dark" kitchens (a term I'm not a fan of btw). Both of which favour capital and big business over mom & pop joints

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 3d

Also have realised this is creating a negative feedback loop - increase in delivery orders degrades the eat-in experience, so fewer people come to eat, so the restaurant become more dependent on the delivery orders...

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 3d

Then we went to a different place, and after making our order, I was apologetically told starters would be late as the kitchen was so busy with delivery orders

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 3d

Idle enshittification anecdata: restaurant we went to tonight got slammed with a string of Deliveroo orders just as we ordered, and they lost our order in the chaos, and were so slapdash we decided to cut our losses and leave

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 7d

My favourite example of retroactively trying to make something off the record

The following is an edited transcript of Newcastle interim manager Joe Kinnear's first official press conference yesterday
JK Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?
SB Me.
JK You're a cunt.
SB Thank you.
JK Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order.
Absolutely fucking out of order. If you do it again, I am telling you you can fuck off and go to another ground. I will not come and stand for that fucking crap. No fucking way, lies.
Fuck, you're saying I turned up and they [Newcastle's players] fucked off.

There follows an exchange regarding the circumstances under which Kinnear had met the owner Mike Ashley and executive director (football) Dennis Wise.
Steve Brenner (football writer for the Sun) We are all grown men and can come in here and sit around and talk about football, but coming in here and calling people cunts?
JK Why? Because I am annoyed. I am not accepting that. If it is libellous, it is going to where I want it to go.
Newcastle press officer What has been said in here is off the record and doesn't go outside.

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 7d

Lol @ someone forgetting to pull the AWS ads during half-time of the football tonight, where the semiautomated offside isn't working because of the AWS downtime

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 8d

Walking past this place in Forest Gate always made me double-take

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 8d

Makes me really sad that Heist Podcast is on indefinite hiatus, it would have been a hell of an episode this week

🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 8d

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 8d

We regret to inform you...

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 8d

Need to know if they were as hard done by as they say, or if the food/service was actually just plain bad

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8d

an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy

Don Ciccio Osteria Italiana | Italian Restaurant | 1A Hampstead Lane, London, UK

Don Ciccio Osteria is a true italian resturant in North London. Home made fresh pasta, meat and fish specialities. We're home of the authentic italian truffle

www.donciccio-highgate.com

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 8d

us-east-1 going down seems to come earlier and earlier every year

Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11d

So lots of people defend Starmer as a proper football fan but this is an argument against - fans all across Europe know that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans make Millwall look like the Quakers

Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 11d

so the Prime Minister, and it seems the entire political establishment, is demanding that one of the nastiest ultra groups in UEFA should be allowed to run amok in Birmingham. Absolutely nuts.
news.sky.com/story/starme...

Starmer criticises decision to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending Aston Villa match

Police say the decision is based partly on what happened in Amsterdam last year, when Israeli fans attending a match against Ajax were caught up in attacks.

news.sky.com

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 11d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 12d

Attitudes to generative AI in C21st are like television in C20th - some people have become clearly addicted to it, while others will performatively declare they don't use it all

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12d

In today's least surprising news

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