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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 16h

Dan if you’ve managed to make it to now without either seeing it or having someone plotspoil it, you must be in line for some kind of award! (Avoid the American remake AT ALL COSTS)

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 17h

Got my Antifa membership card this morning. Looking forward to the AGM.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 17h

So great to see The Vanishing in here - a film so traumatic that I believe anyone who saw it when it first came out is still suffering a form of movie PTSD, a quarter of a century on. If you see someone looking frantically for someone in a service station, you know what they’re thinking.

Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 17h

The most stressful film I have ever seen was, having no idea of the plot, “An Ideal Husband”, the 1999 film starring Rupert Everett and Julianne Moore

‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies

With the US release of Rose Byrne’s anxiety-inducing motherhood spiral If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writers relive their most uncomfortable movie watches

www.theguardian.com

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 21h

Both Cream and The Jam were going to reunite for gigs in Devon and Cornwall this year, but the venues couldn't agree about who should go on first.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a Manchester United supporter. I’ve worked in sports media, managed some of the biggest football podcasts and been responsible for whole station’s podcast output. But I just can’t be bothered with the incessant drama around football any more. Hardly consume any of the crap that comes with it 1/🧵

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 1d

Well said!

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 2d

Article doesn’t mention how Truth Social is an unauthorized fork of Mastodon. Mastodon is notorious how it handles DMs in a non-standard way. This weird UI/UX probably confused the president which had legal implications. These articles should be inquisitive about it. newrepublic.com/post/201529/...

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 2d

The best pub in London. I don't make the rules.

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 2d

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 3d

I can see Trump or Farage or Badenoch reading social media posts and going, yeah, actually fair point, I'll try harder in future.

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 3d

I wish someone online would point out some hypocrisy or inconsistent behaviour because only then will we have real change.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 3d

This is one of those ‘surely this person is now completely identifiable’ fesses. Which are my favourite fesses.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

Used to travel with the same three guys monthly for work, fancied one of their wives so I "accidently" video called her to talk about their son's first day at new school whilst my colleague talked about his latest escort in the background. This week my stepson turned 16.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 3d

It’s like if Facebook manifested a car

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 3d

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 3d

This is the kind of sociological analysis that is sorely needed.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 3d

This is a lovely thread. I always associate 'the apparatus' with those long wooden beaches with rubberised bits on the end which for some strange reason were called 'forms'.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 3d

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 3d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 4d

"I'd have to say The Best of Terrry Pratchett."

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 4d

Our stuff keeps getting nicked, businesses that got rid of all the checkout staff have confirmed

UK must tackle daily shoplifting ‘war’ on its high streets, says Iceland boss

Thefts are costing frozen food retailer £20mn a year that could be invested in its shops, says Richard Walker

www.ft.com

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 5d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 4d

Surely some kind of drone service must be available.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 4d

A biscuit. A biscuit. My kingdom for a biscuit.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 4d

A point about Jenrick's comments that may be missed as are so obnoxious. Handsworth, the place he talks of is majority "BAME" (the term in the stats, soz). But is a mix! It's around a 25% split of Indian/Pakistani background. 10% Bangladeshi, 10% white, 10% Afro-Caribbean.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 4d

POLITICS COMMENTATOR, 10 AM: Looking at electoral polls this far out from a general election is a complete waste of everyone's time.

POLITICS COMMENTATOR, 2 PM: Bloody hell, look at this new poll, it's mad.

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 4d

Noteworthy that she says she 'has' all the books, not 'has read' all the books.

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Phil Wills @phil-wills.com · 5d

Handsworth is where my mum worked and I went to scouts and church. It's where my brother and his family live and work. It has people from many backgrounds living with, not just alongside each other. That doesn't matter to those with Jendrick's mindset www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 5d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com · 6d

God I hope not.

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