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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS

@cosmogalaxy.bsky.social

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Committed to rejoining the EU. Had the luxury denied by our children of working and living all over Europe as an IT Contractor in the 1990's and early 2000's. Hate the Tories. Detest Trump Love cricket 🏏 and follow my little hometown of Brentford FC.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Along with the block lists these four text muted seem to be working very well for me. Zero sex bots today.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 11m

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Been watching this on Film4 UK after the cricket this evening but is fairly terrible.
2*.

Gemini Man (2019) ⭐ 5.7 | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

1h 57m | PG-13

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 37m

But there's so many stupid people in this country it scares me.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 2h

England beat Sri Lanka by 89 runs.
Women's 🏏 World Cup.
Very good. We're three from three and top of the group.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 5h

England post 253-9 against Sri Lanka in the Women's 🏏 World Cup. Should be enough.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 17h

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Would like to stay up for this now on Legend Ch 41 Freeview UK but am very knackered and expecting more building work noise in my block early in the morning.

Pandorum (2009) ⭐ 6.7 | Action, Horror, Mystery

1h 48m | R

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 18h

He speaks the truth.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 18h

So guess out of one CD and one DVD which was more expensive to buy ?

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 19h

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Bit more late night popcorn movie now with this on Legend Ch 41 Freeview UK.
Not brilliant but do like a bit of J.K. Simmons in his cameo here.

American Renegades (2017) ⭐ 5.5 | Action, Adventure, Crime

1h 46m | PG-13

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 20h

Have ordered Robert Plant Saving Grace CD. Saw him on Later With Jools Holland last week. Sounds like great music from my Black Country hero I grew up listening to in the West Midlands.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 20h

Okay. Acknowledged.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 20h

So Tron: Ares is out but reviews not great.
Is it worth going to the cinema for ?
Big fan of the original and belated sequel.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 21h

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Give this a go now on Legend Ch 41 Freeview UK.
Might only be 3* though.
Friday night popcorn movie.

The Replacement Killers (1998) ⭐ 6.1 | Action, Crime, Thriller

1h 27m | R

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 22h

Don't tell me Welfare spending is too high in the UK.

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 2d

✅ Liberal Democrat HOLD

Yesterday's Yateley West (Hart) council by-election result:

LDEM: 54.7% (-5.9)
REF: 27.9% (+27.9)
CON: 17.3% (-8.2)

No Lab (-10.5) as prev.

+/- 2023

Estimated turnout: ~30% (-4)

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Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

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Give this a go on Legend Ch 41 Freeview UK.
Might not be very good though.

Backtrace (2018) ⭐ 3.8 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

1h 32m | R

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Just a fact.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Think I'm done for the week. Hope Friday doesn't present any problems.
Seems to have been a long week already but done some good things.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

They would have to.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Where is the money coming from you Traitor ?

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

We do have our our fair share of arseholes idiots the gullible and racists over here as well.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

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Giving this a go on Film4 UK now.
JJ Abrams reduced flick.

Overlord (2018) ⭐ 6.6 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

1h 50m | R

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Well he is an absolute one.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

Real name Neil Pinch. Another thing he lies about.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 1d

England 3-0 Wales ⚽ friendly wasn't so bad. At least Wales pushed a bit in the second half.

Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 2d

BBC News - How Britain's ECHR membership became a political hot potato - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pretty fair minded article from the BBC for a change.
Good long read if you don't want the UK to leave the ECHR.

How Britain's ECHR membership became a political hot potato

The extent to which leaving the Convention would make a difference to immigration has been greatly exaggerated, argues Lord Sumption