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Jez Fletcher

@jezfletcher.bsky.social

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Films, music, beer, pretending I have a sense of humour by quoting The Simpsons he/him

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · Nov 11

Maybe time for a pinned post? I'm Jez! I post about things that interest me. Notably: films, beer, music, food, art, theatre, my kids and their wonderfully weird brains, variations on the Negroni.

I'm a software engineer by trade, but I find talking about it intensely boring.

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 3h

I am now watching ROOFMAN. I don't know if this is a good idea.

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 3h

The boys in the group chat and I just want Big Daddy's Burger Bar to make up with their landlord.

A closed store on King Street in Newtown with a now lying business hours sign, and a note saying "Take note that the Landlord has taken back possession of the premises.

Any forced entry will be deemed as trespassing and reported to the local authorities"

And a seemingly conflicting sign saying: "APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE

CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE"

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5h

It's my bi-weekly night out at the cinema tonight, and first I'm catching up with a film I missed at #sydfilmfest: TWINLESS

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

How is it? Mine is in transit somewhere between Adelaide and Sydney

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 3d

Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month.

Here’s Claude Moe-net.

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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone have recs for Android document scanning apps?

I was using the full version of Adobe Scan but cancelled my Adobe subscription earlier this year in protest (AI in everything + big price hike). CamScanner used to be great but it's $$$ now that it's on a subscription model.

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social · 3d

A statement. Please read.

It has come to my attention that some very troubling allegations have been made against me. It is my intention for this statement to bring some clarity to the situation.

My whereabouts from 9:30AM to 9:37AM CET on October 19th, 2025 are perfectly accounted for. I was with my friend Lune at the Musée de la Révolution française in Vizille, Southern France. It is a 3-hour train ride away from Paris, which is in Northern France. It is not physically possible for me to have crossed the country and back within the span of minutes. I would provide time-stamped photographic evidence of this, but I was so overcome with emotion that I neglected to take any. Sometimes what matters most in life is living in the moment.

Some have pointed out that my bookcase in my previous Reel looks different from my usual bookcase. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this that I am declining to reveal for privacy reasons. I am not in hiding. I am not in possession of priceless jewels I am now struggling to think of how to sell without alerting French authorities. My actions online are not an attempt to distract from any crimes.

My personal animosity for Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte aside, I would never think to partake in any act of blatant, brilliantly planned and expertly executed theft of his family jewels. I would not know what to do with them. I would be hoping someone in the comments would tell me what to do with them. But I am not asking that because I do not have them.

- XJZ 💔

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 4d

This was the recipe cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

Nonalcoholic Negroni

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 4d

This non-alcoholic negroni kinda kills

A class of spiced hibiscus tea, grapefruit juice and tonic, served with ice and garnished with orange.

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 4d

Woo! #Top100Books

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, voted in at #34 of the #Top100Books countdown, which is only my second vote on the countdown (so far).

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Fred the Swede.

Not a sitcom, fight me.

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Not only was it hard before; they keep counting down books I've been meaning to read but haven't. So my long list is going to get longer for the next time they do this 😅

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Ha, hilarious. I didn't clock what the cover image was doing at all.

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent choice. I probably would have voted for Year of the Flood too, but it would have had to have been a write-in vote.

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Radio National is counting down the #Top100Books of the 21st Century this weekend, and I'm a sucker for a countdown of any kind, so I'm tuning in.

This is what I voted for:

My Votes:

Oryx and Crake (2003) - Margaret Atwood
The Song of Achilles (2011) - Madeline Miller
The Fifth Season (2015) - N.K. Jemisin
Ancillary Justice (2013) - Ann Leckie
Our Share of Night (2019) - Mariana Enriquez
The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) - Patrick Ness
The Three-Body Problem (2008) - Liu Cixin
Never Let Me Go (2005) - Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement (2001) - Ian McEwan
The Nickel Boys (2019) - Colson Whitehead

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 6d

I rewatched the first episode tonight and it was quite a delight. I think I'll keep going with the rest. I don't think I ever managed to finish it when it was on in the 90s. I feel like it probably got moved around timeslots a lot and I probably missed it after a while.

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 6d

I stumbled upon a long forgotten show I watched as a teenager called UNDERWORLD, which was the first thing I remember hearing described as a "black comedy".

All 6 episodes are on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=df86...

Underworld Season 1 Complete Collection (1997) | Comedy Thriller Series | Real Drama

YouTube video by Real Drama

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 7d

More info on the film's genesis: www.smh.com.au/culture/movi...

How Thai cave rescue hero Richard Harris found peace on a remote New Zealand dive

The adventurous anaesthetist features in a new film about one of his most extreme dives yet.

www.smh.com.au

Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 7d

Jennifer Peedom's excellent documentary DEEPER is getting a wider release later this month in Australia, and it's worth your time. My review from #sydfilmfest: boxd.it/9UZMmd

A ★★★★ review of Deeper (2025)

A pretty thrilling documentary following Australian anaesthetist and cave-diver Richard Harris, as he attempts to break a diving depth record in New Zealand's Pearse Resurgence, a cave system in the n...

boxd.it

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 9d

This is excellent

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 9d

newrepublic.com/article/2011... Nice one, @davidklion.bsky.social

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 9d

Beer people! Another interesting direct-to-consumer Aussie producer just launched, who are all about ultra-fresh beer shipped directly to you. Their first beer is on pre-sale now, and I just bought my first 4-pack: www.faffbeer.com.au

F.A.F.F | FAFF Beer

F.A.F.F - Australia's Freshest Beer. Order online

www.faffbeer.com.au

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 10d

riding in the car when my son (3.5) said “i have something silly to tell you. roll up the windows so nobody hears” and then he told us a clown is coming to our house. to live with us forever

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 11d

The secret is to take tiny bites, like so

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 11d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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