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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Very excited for this -- as I am the launch! 🔥🔥🔥

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Utter scumbag.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 6d

In memoriam...

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 10d

I couldn't believe it when I saw Djalili on the bill, given his laudable campaigning for the rights of Iranian women. & a Carr/CK co-headline act: the Ludovico Treatment for stand-up.
"You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this comedy is wrong, wrong and terribly wrong".

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 10d

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 10d

Spinetingling #Bookdrop yesterday. The @sstpublications.bsky.social/@sgj.bsky.social Unholy Trinity is finally complete 😱🔥🤘

#MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 16d

EVIL EDNA (1981): The antagonist on BBC animated kid's show Willo The Wisp (Kenneth Williams having a ball on voice-over duties). A nasty witch in the form of a CRT telly, complete with aerials, metal legs, and, presumably, a 625-line face. Many a female teacher was given the nickname 'Evil Edna'.

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 17d

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 19d

LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 18d

ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing*

Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 23d

Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages

Robert Redford in All The President’s Men

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 24d

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 25d

Saw this viral post going on IG about how Vera Wang started over at 40 when everyone in fashion told her she was too old, and launched a wedding dress empire. And I was like hell yeah that’s awesome, and then in the 8th slide “her father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 26d

Quarry.
Aquarius.

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 26d

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 27d

Trust Britain to meet the Bang Bus with not moral panic but clerical pedantry, some pallid council drone, worsted trousers shiny with duty, googling a pornstar at taxpayer expense, then loftily ruling her vehicle ‘a van’. Our bureaucracy: prurient, petty, and perversely glorious.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 27d

The “bang bus” owned by adult entertainer Bonnie Blue, visiting Oxford for Freshers’ Week, will not be eligible to pass through the High St bus gate. An Oxfordshire County Council spokesman told the Clarion: “Having taken the risk of googling Bonnie Blue’s Bang Bus, the vehicle appears to be a van.”

The wheels on the bus bounce up and down, all day long

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 27d

Hah. Sorry - I wish. Need to go on the dark web for that.

OST = Original SoundTrack!

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · 27d

Top line-up! The Simon Boswell gig will be ace. Funnily enough, only the other day I was trying to find a copy of his OST for Richard Stanley's 'Hardware'. They're like hen's teeth but am currently watching one on Ebay! Aberystwyth is lovely. My father-in-law lives there so always nice to visit.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 28d

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.

What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 29d

Don’t look here, look for small boats and refugees, get angry at desperate poor people not rich entitled twats who try and play you for fools.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Boris Johnson under pressure to explain how private office follows funding rules

Office is part-funded by public duty costs allowance, which should only be used to support public work of former PMs

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · Sep 7

Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Totally. Hypocrisy matters across the political spectrum. And while it's more often the case that hypocrisy occurs on the right of politics, it isn't a balancing exercise. 100 hypocritical acts of a party we do not support does not (and must not) outweigh 1 hypocritical act of the party we do.

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · Sep 5

What... that's IT?!

That's their fucking list?!

CALIFORNIFUCKINCATION?????

Oh mate indeed.

I'd even go as far to say...

(Aside - extremely excited to see you play Sheffield on Wednesday 🔥🤘💥)

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yeah... it's not exactly Saturday Night Escapism 😬

The book's even worse, I think. Though I think that's down to the accurate portrayal of acute mental illness, a real rarity in such texts...

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Dr Matt Colbeck @mattcolbeck.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ah, maaaan! This is what I'm currently reading; nearly finished it, in fact.

Aiming to rewatch this after I finish the book, as I saw it when it was released at the Stoke Film Theatre, Stoke being my hometown 🤘

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · Aug 17

Superb scene from Stephen Frears’ The Hit with mob assassin John Hurt perplexed by supergrass Terence Stamp’s seemingly zen-like acceptance of his impending death at his hands.
Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...

Terence Stamp, The Hit (1984)

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · Jul 29

Amazingly, one of my short stories made it into this anthology — thanks to @saltpublishing.com and the editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for picking it up. You can preorder at discount of 25% to the end of July

Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · Jul 28

Pre-order our flagship anthology, ‘BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2025’, with a massive 25% discount from Waterstones today – head to bit.ly/4l4lZT4

You will need to enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP

Offer ends 31 July.
#WPreorder #BookSky

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