Lesley
@basculerascule.bsky.social
Introvert.
Professor of all things poo by day. @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social
Professor of all things poo by day. @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social
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Putting the utter horror of taking things from people who have lost everything aside for a second, these people have sold everything to pay the boat gangs. If you want their valuables you should reopen all the old legal asylum routes and get in ahead of the other bastards.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Putting the utter horror of taking things from people who have lost everything aside for a second, these people have sold everything to pay the boat gangs. If you want their valuables you should reopen all the old legal asylum routes and get in ahead of the other bastards.
You only really appreciate how good the BBC is when you spend extensive amounts of time in other countries. It's in no way perfect but it is essential.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
You only really appreciate how good the BBC is when you spend extensive amounts of time in other countries. It's in no way perfect but it is essential.
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Trying to quell the blinding rage regarding this vile, cruel rhetoric about immigrants and refugees. Like this country wasn’t forged and didn’t survive and rebuild without them.
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Trying to quell the blinding rage regarding this vile, cruel rhetoric about immigrants and refugees. Like this country wasn’t forged and didn’t survive and rebuild without them.
Any excuse to highlight the wonderful Neil Innes. This thread is lovely.
A quick little throwaway tune in RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION from the late, great Neil Innes.
I'd love to hear various artists cover this ditty in concert... (Which artist will take up the challenge first?)
I'd love to hear various artists cover this ditty in concert... (Which artist will take up the challenge first?)
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Any excuse to highlight the wonderful Neil Innes. This thread is lovely.
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There have been many attempts at lampooning Elton John over the years, but the brilliance in Neil Innes' approach from RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION is to emulate Elton's musicianship while gently ribbing the oft-times endearingly flowery/nonsensical nature of Bernie Taupin's lyrics...
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
There have been many attempts at lampooning Elton John over the years, but the brilliance in Neil Innes' approach from RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION is to emulate Elton's musicianship while gently ribbing the oft-times endearingly flowery/nonsensical nature of Bernie Taupin's lyrics...
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I love that this is expanding to include books, music etc. I’m not curating it or making any judgments, it’s not *my* preferences, anyone who makes stuff is welcome to reply to my original post. (Not this one, far fewer people will see it.)
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I love that this is expanding to include books, music etc. I’m not curating it or making any judgments, it’s not *my* preferences, anyone who makes stuff is welcome to reply to my original post. (Not this one, far fewer people will see it.)
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is one of the greatest paintings of all time.
Two small yet exquisite exhibitions last night and this afternoon. Joseph Wright of Derby was perfect for a dark evening. Coming at The Air Pump from a different view was really cool. That poor bird though, like Keats’ lovers on the Grecian urn, forever caught between two states.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is one of the greatest paintings of all time.
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The Gremlin's found a new cushion.
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Gremlin's found a new cushion.
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A friend's mother-in-law on Vancouver Island has been missing for over 24 hours. Please boost this for visibility.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A friend's mother-in-law on Vancouver Island has been missing for over 24 hours. Please boost this for visibility.
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Indulging my mother's love of the That's Oldies music channel and trying to work out why there's random footage of Cliff playing tennis in the Devil Woman video.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Indulging my mother's love of the That's Oldies music channel and trying to work out why there's random footage of Cliff playing tennis in the Devil Woman video.
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Sick burn.
"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Sick burn.
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Don't normally share but one of my best mates sent me this about his mate who was supportive when my mate's dad died. Don't know the guy but shit that sounds awful and have given him a little donation. Said I'd spread and it is legit. Shit thing/nice guy: www.gofundme.com/f/f988g-find...
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In April 2024 I had routine back surgery to alleviate a… Nicholas Jardine needs your support for Find a home to keep my family together!
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November 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Don't normally share but one of my best mates sent me this about his mate who was supportive when my mate's dad died. Don't know the guy but shit that sounds awful and have given him a little donation. Said I'd spread and it is legit. Shit thing/nice guy: www.gofundme.com/f/f988g-find...
So good.
The explosively brilliant THE BEAST IN ME launches on Netflix today. Do not miss. Matthew Rhys (obnoxious billionaire and possible murderer) and Claire Danes (bereaved, blocked writer sniffing out the truth) are at the very top of their games. Contains the most iconic dance scene since EX MACHINA.
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So good.
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Listening to two podcasters talking about Del Toro’s Frankenstein and while I don’t think you have to have read the book to watch the film I have an issue with people praising GDT’s faithfulness to the novel [side eye] whilst also praising him for “telling it from the monster’s perspective.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Listening to two podcasters talking about Del Toro’s Frankenstein and while I don’t think you have to have read the book to watch the film I have an issue with people praising GDT’s faithfulness to the novel [side eye] whilst also praising him for “telling it from the monster’s perspective.”
Guy on a mobility scooter riding through Norwich playing Wish You Were Here at full volume.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Guy on a mobility scooter riding through Norwich playing Wish You Were Here at full volume.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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I’m selling original artwork like this, an unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black. I’ll post the originals & their prices on here & you can also purchase giclee prints for £75 (Free P&P - UK only - but I also ship internationally) visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more.
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’m selling original artwork like this, an unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black. I’ll post the originals & their prices on here & you can also purchase giclee prints for £75 (Free P&P - UK only - but I also ship internationally) visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more.
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ARRIVAL was released 9 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great science fiction movies of the 21st century, and among the most popular of director Denis Villeneuve, the story of how it was made may change the way you perceive time…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
ARRIVAL was released 9 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great science fiction movies of the 21st century, and among the most popular of director Denis Villeneuve, the story of how it was made may change the way you perceive time…
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Banging headache and three hours of online meetings. Don't want to watch that series.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Banging headache and three hours of online meetings. Don't want to watch that series.
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My daughter is 21 today. Most memories of that moment are as precious as can be imagined. All but one.
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Not My Child
Sometimes a man cannot do a thing, not a single thing, to help.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My daughter is 21 today. Most memories of that moment are as precious as can be imagined. All but one.
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Tatsuya Nakadai (RIP) as the elderly King Lear-ish warlord in Akira Kurosawa's RAN (1985) whose plans to divide his kingdom among his three sons go horribly wrong.
Akira Kurosawa | RAN - Hell's Picture Scroll [4K]
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Tatsuya Nakadai (RIP) as the elderly King Lear-ish warlord in Akira Kurosawa's RAN (1985) whose plans to divide his kingdom among his three sons go horribly wrong.
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If you've never seen Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri today would be a good day. Not only is it one of the greatest films ever made (and one of the most beautiful) it's also a piercing critique of the ruling classes, systems of power and how oppression often masquerades as "tradition".
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If you've never seen Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri today would be a good day. Not only is it one of the greatest films ever made (and one of the most beautiful) it's also a piercing critique of the ruling classes, systems of power and how oppression often masquerades as "tradition".