Gargarin
@gargarin.bsky.social
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
..Watson, przynieś swój rewolwer!
..Watson, przynieś swój rewolwer!
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To infinity and beyond
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
To infinity and beyond
I don't know, but I get the feeling that comments like this are only made by folk who live within walking distance of massively public funded public transport projects like Crossrail. Maybe we can just put up fuel duty inside the M25
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I don't know, but I get the feeling that comments like this are only made by folk who live within walking distance of massively public funded public transport projects like Crossrail. Maybe we can just put up fuel duty inside the M25
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Also probably banking on Mark Hamill's first flush of fame drawing in fans
On this day (25th November) in 1981, the Scala Cinema was showing Corvette Summer aka The Hot One and Sweet Revenge as a double bill. These were shown every day that week as the programmers considered them under appreciated and shelved by Hollywood.
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Also probably banking on Mark Hamill's first flush of fame drawing in fans
In Morrisons earlier I saw one of those expensive "how to" magazines for people who don't know how much books are or how to Google. It was titled "Everything you need to know about Chat GPT " I suspect it might have been written by Ai in a hellish closed loop.
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In Morrisons earlier I saw one of those expensive "how to" magazines for people who don't know how much books are or how to Google. It was titled "Everything you need to know about Chat GPT " I suspect it might have been written by Ai in a hellish closed loop.
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I hope Madonna falls down a man hole.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I hope Madonna falls down a man hole.
Yeah our little campus branch of Blackwells was a bijou outpost of enlightenment. Outside of set books they had Picador Spinners full of funky good stuff , Penguin classics etc as well our car crash colour collision college scarves.
Just stopped by the Fordham Lincoln Center bookstore for the first time in a while, and it’s been wholly remodeled—to have zero books, just gear.
Clearly a casualty of Amazon.
But. Man.
I LOVED to wander the bookstore as an undergrad, see all the cool stuff OTHER courses were reading.
Clearly a casualty of Amazon.
But. Man.
I LOVED to wander the bookstore as an undergrad, see all the cool stuff OTHER courses were reading.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yeah our little campus branch of Blackwells was a bijou outpost of enlightenment. Outside of set books they had Picador Spinners full of funky good stuff , Penguin classics etc as well our car crash colour collision college scarves.
It's rare that things described as "so bad they're good" are truly enjoyable, but this review of what sounds like a dreadful film was very enjoyable. Everyone's growing disbelief and anger at how the Biggles movies misfires and betrays the books was genuinely funny.
A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
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pod.fo/e/3564bb
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It's rare that things described as "so bad they're good" are truly enjoyable, but this review of what sounds like a dreadful film was very enjoyable. Everyone's growing disbelief and anger at how the Biggles movies misfires and betrays the books was genuinely funny.
Also he always trades* on his background and upbringing and is happy to bathe in its kudos, so he can't conversely try to dodge his poisonous formative behaviour either.
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
When Farage was singing Fascist songs etc (in the mid 70's-80's) they weren't a click away or a few minutes on Google. He would have to seek them out and make an effort to learn the lyrics etc. This wasn't schoolyard bantz
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Also he always trades* on his background and upbringing and is happy to bathe in its kudos, so he can't conversely try to dodge his poisonous formative behaviour either.
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
*even if it's not overtly he's secretly happy if people are impressed or defer to him for going to Dulwich College
I'm here a week now. Waiting for a mission. Getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker. And every minute Charlie Brown squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
Say you will, say you won't, say you'll do what I don't, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm here a week now. Waiting for a mission. Getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker. And every minute Charlie Brown squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
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Going to the bookshop annual party this week, and they’ve asked everyone to come as book cover or in a costume inspired by a book. I’m not really a dress up person, so I’m going lowkey with a prop to make a favourite book cover. Can you guess what it is?
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Going to the bookshop annual party this week, and they’ve asked everyone to come as book cover or in a costume inspired by a book. I’m not really a dress up person, so I’m going lowkey with a prop to make a favourite book cover. Can you guess what it is?
When Farage was singing Fascist songs etc (in the mid 70's-80's) they weren't a click away or a few minutes on Google. He would have to seek them out and make an effort to learn the lyrics etc. This wasn't schoolyard bantz
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
When Farage was singing Fascist songs etc (in the mid 70's-80's) they weren't a click away or a few minutes on Google. He would have to seek them out and make an effort to learn the lyrics etc. This wasn't schoolyard bantz
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Everybody calls kefir Cape Fear, right?
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Everybody calls kefir Cape Fear, right?
But as we know from Andrew Haigh, the Whitgift is heaven, so why not a winter wonderland
Really bemused that Taylor Swift has apparently filmed a Chistmas video in the Whitgift centre.
Surely she could find an abandoned mall to hire in the US?
Surely she could find an abandoned mall to hire in the US?
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
But as we know from Andrew Haigh, the Whitgift is heaven, so why not a winter wonderland
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I attended on the Saturday night. Feral is an understatement. :)
Several stashes of early 90s MDMA must have been exhumed for that night. So many gurning middle-aged men with a pass for the night reliving their youth.
Several stashes of early 90s MDMA must have been exhumed for that night. So many gurning middle-aged men with a pass for the night reliving their youth.
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I attended on the Saturday night. Feral is an understatement. :)
Several stashes of early 90s MDMA must have been exhumed for that night. So many gurning middle-aged men with a pass for the night reliving their youth.
Several stashes of early 90s MDMA must have been exhumed for that night. So many gurning middle-aged men with a pass for the night reliving their youth.
I've watched this twice now and it's amazing. TBH when the film came out I wasn't myself and lots of good things around then left me cold and even angry. But this is so full of feral energy and beauty and so totally compulsive. Plus you know Mani's Toby Jugs
Rewatching Shane Meadows’ Made Of Stone for a thing. It’s more love letter than documentary and works within those parameters but, man, that 2012 Heaton Park version of Fool’s Gold is utterly astonishing.
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youtu.be/jRswxxT3HQ8?...
The Stone Roses, Fools Gold Live at Heaton Park. Made of Stone DVD.
YouTube video by Jamie Hosey
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November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I've watched this twice now and it's amazing. TBH when the film came out I wasn't myself and lots of good things around then left me cold and even angry. But this is so full of feral energy and beauty and so totally compulsive. Plus you know Mani's Toby Jugs
I loved Toby's photos and so made this
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I loved Toby's photos and so made this
Post a movie where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Post a movie where you’re from
Hang on has my phone camera been hacked
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hang on has my phone camera been hacked
Watching this week's #gardenersworld someone's just used the phrase "my mate who's a sweet pea master" would that we could all have mate's like that
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Watching this week's #gardenersworld someone's just used the phrase "my mate who's a sweet pea master" would that we could all have mate's like that
The World Wide Web is my country, all mankind are my bro's and to chat shit is my religion
Thomas Paine would have absolutely have been a podcast bro
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The World Wide Web is my country, all mankind are my bro's and to chat shit is my religion
Jason Bourne's Sleeping Beauty is on BBC Four , the scene where he races through medieval Bavarian clinging to the evil queen's barouche is a classic
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Jason Bourne's Sleeping Beauty is on BBC Four , the scene where he races through medieval Bavarian clinging to the evil queen's barouche is a classic
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Merry Extra Large Pork Pie
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Merry Extra Large Pork Pie
Cin-cin ! It's Negroni Blanco Sunday ! Btw I am insomewhere fancy I apologise in advance for the foodie hokum
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Cin-cin ! It's Negroni Blanco Sunday ! Btw I am insomewhere fancy I apologise in advance for the foodie hokum