bjlems
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Scottish, physicist, like sci-fi and the quirky.
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#nowwatching The Thing on Shudder. One of my favorite movies and in my rotation for my favorite John Carpenter movie. The setting, the score, acting, and special effects! It has it all and I never grow tired of it. I watched the Apocalypse Trilogy in the wrong order but oh well #horror #movies #film
January 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM
#nowwatching The Thing on Shudder. One of my favorite movies and in my rotation for my favorite John Carpenter movie. The setting, the score, acting, and special effects! It has it all and I never grow tired of it. I watched the Apocalypse Trilogy in the wrong order but oh well #horror #movies #film
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One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?
![A comic for the Guardian by Stephen Collins on New Years Eve 2024. Script as follows:
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THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him.
Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading:
OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England
FAN 1:
That’s Harry Styles!
FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]:
Can I have a selfie, Harry?
2
FAN:
What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry?
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HARRY STYLES:
Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘
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*FSHW*
[Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM]
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[We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it]
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[Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles]
[Legend on screen]:
ARTIST ELIMINATED
HOLLAND:
Goddamn it
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HOLLAND:
Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT?
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HOLLAND:
Tim Davie!
TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]:
Y-yes Jools?
HOLLAND:
Who’ve we got left for this year?
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TIM DAVIE:
The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond
HOLLAND:
Almond *again*?
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TIM DAVIE:
We’re running out of artists to call, sir…
M-must we keep killing… so many…?
HOLLAND:
You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it…
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HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]:
Must be eliminated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiafp3a2py3i5qz3lw3bwk3zrjnjnwxmm72tonf47xx67ilulotrtu@jpeg)
December 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Listening to Mason Williams perform “Classical Gas,” and I can’t tell you how much it pleases me that to make this one song he spent so many hours learning to play guitar, cello, violin, French horn, trumpet, trombone, and drums. He made something utterly beautiful. And completely human.
Mason Williams - Classical Gas (1968)
YouTube video by vintage video clips
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Listening to Mason Williams perform “Classical Gas,” and I can’t tell you how much it pleases me that to make this one song he spent so many hours learning to play guitar, cello, violin, French horn, trumpet, trombone, and drums. He made something utterly beautiful. And completely human.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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I know how they got to that point.
Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I know how they got to that point.
Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
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Sensible Letter to @thetimes.com today.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Sensible Letter to @thetimes.com today.
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Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
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1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
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1/22
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
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1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
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1/22
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65% of white Britons say they ARE well represented in advertising.
So why lead with the far smaller figure?
So why lead with the far smaller figure?
27% of white Britons say they don't feel well represented in advertising in terms of their race, with Reform MP Sarah Pochin causing a row on the subject
White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%
Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%
Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
65% of white Britons say they ARE well represented in advertising.
So why lead with the far smaller figure?
So why lead with the far smaller figure?
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Holmes puts retirement on hold to investigate one last case...
#ArthurWontner stars in 🔎 THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1935) 6:35am with #LynHarding #JaneCarr mystery drama #TPTVsubtitles
#ArthurWontner stars in 🔎 THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1935) 6:35am with #LynHarding #JaneCarr mystery drama #TPTVsubtitles
October 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Holmes puts retirement on hold to investigate one last case...
#ArthurWontner stars in 🔎 THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1935) 6:35am with #LynHarding #JaneCarr mystery drama #TPTVsubtitles
#ArthurWontner stars in 🔎 THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1935) 6:35am with #LynHarding #JaneCarr mystery drama #TPTVsubtitles
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The left always follows the same pattern,
Spend years squabbling which allows the right to dominate politics, and when they finally win a general election, spend years squabbling allowing the right to dominate politics.
And you wonder why the country is in such a mess.
Spend years squabbling which allows the right to dominate politics, and when they finally win a general election, spend years squabbling allowing the right to dominate politics.
And you wonder why the country is in such a mess.
September 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The left always follows the same pattern,
Spend years squabbling which allows the right to dominate politics, and when they finally win a general election, spend years squabbling allowing the right to dominate politics.
And you wonder why the country is in such a mess.
Spend years squabbling which allows the right to dominate politics, and when they finally win a general election, spend years squabbling allowing the right to dominate politics.
And you wonder why the country is in such a mess.
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Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform.
A relentless klaxon of failure.
A relentless klaxon of failure.
What a gargantuan mess. #Brexit
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform.
A relentless klaxon of failure.
A relentless klaxon of failure.
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It’s one (splendid) thing to have lots of FAB Thunderbirds stuff going on in Tracy Island. It’s another thing to work how all that stuff fits together & works. Fortunately we have Graham Bleathman to make the impossible feel conceivable.
September 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It’s one (splendid) thing to have lots of FAB Thunderbirds stuff going on in Tracy Island. It’s another thing to work how all that stuff fits together & works. Fortunately we have Graham Bleathman to make the impossible feel conceivable.
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Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again.
So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version
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So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version
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September 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again.
So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version
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1/21
So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version
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1/21
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Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
September 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
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This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads.
Race hate.
Race hate.
August 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads.
Race hate.
Race hate.