Afterglow
@afterglow2046.bsky.social
Film watcher, book reader, etc, etc
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In the UK you can do whatever the fuck you want to a child and claim their trans and face 0 jail time
Absolutely normal fucking country
Absolutely normal fucking country
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In the UK you can do whatever the fuck you want to a child and claim their trans and face 0 jail time
Absolutely normal fucking country
Absolutely normal fucking country
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
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Some years ago I was sitting on a bus when I suddenly realised that everything in the universe had once been in one place. Like, really realised it. There's a proton on the other side of Laniakea that used to be in exactly the same place as every atom in my body. Comforting.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Some years ago I was sitting on a bus when I suddenly realised that everything in the universe had once been in one place. Like, really realised it. There's a proton on the other side of Laniakea that used to be in exactly the same place as every atom in my body. Comforting.
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Robbie Gibb says he finds the idea there's been a coup at the BBC is "offensive". I doubt he finds it nearly as offensive as I find his efforts to interfere with editorial independence or hiring decisions, but sure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Robbie Gibb says he finds the idea there's been a coup at the BBC is "offensive". I doubt he finds it nearly as offensive as I find his efforts to interfere with editorial independence or hiring decisions, but sure.
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just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
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😔 I loved the songs and the film. Thank you, Jimmy.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
😔 I loved the songs and the film. Thank you, Jimmy.
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Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.
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I discovered this little masterpiece of Irish folk horror last night on youtube:
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
Three Irish Boys witness Virgin Mary Apparition, Taghmon, Co. Wexford, Ireland 1971
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I discovered this little masterpiece of Irish folk horror last night on youtube:
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
youtu.be/nNTjF2ICnSM?...
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I want AI to do the laundry and my admin while I write and illustrate books.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I want AI to do the laundry and my admin while I write and illustrate books.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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You don't hate the media enough.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You don't hate the media enough.
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I have hundreds of hours of un-transcribed conversations with my elderly neighbor who worked with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and the Smurfs.
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
An Interview with Peggy Webber - Part Four
My 97-year-old next door neighbor.
kliph.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I have hundreds of hours of un-transcribed conversations with my elderly neighbor who worked with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and the Smurfs.
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
I'll get back to posting more some day. In the meantime, here's one you may have missed:
kliph.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
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Alex Cox, adapting Gogol as a Spaghetti Western, with himself playing the guy buying the souls? Sure, why not! Bring it on!
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Alex Cox, adapting Gogol as a Spaghetti Western, with himself playing the guy buying the souls? Sure, why not! Bring it on!
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible
it's not useful, it's the Mail. but that is how they've reported the covid inquiry report. it's better than the Telegraph which is "three of our columnists think it's a waste of money" for a thousand words before they even mention its actual findings. Get more news from the Beano.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
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Love Clint the IT guy
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Love Clint the IT guy
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
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"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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One thing about Celebrity Traitors I’ve not heard yet is it’s made I’m A Celebrity look a billion times more knackered as a format.
Underpowered cast! Dated format! Too much screeching, screaming and laddish tedium! Thank goodness for Ant and Dec! Here's my review of last night's #ImACeleb launch episode #ImACelebrity #IACGMOOH www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/im-a-ce...
I’m a Celebrity, review: Show’s lacklustre return lands with a dull thud
A lukewarm launch with a cast more worthy of a provincial panto – was a certain Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor not bookable?
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
One thing about Celebrity Traitors I’ve not heard yet is it’s made I’m A Celebrity look a billion times more knackered as a format.