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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15m

Off you fuck!

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3h

Banking billionaire becomes latest member of ultra-rich to leave UK

Banking billionaire becomes latest ultra-rich lister to leave UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15m

Ha! A journalism degree was my first choice…then I looked around at the newspapers I might have to work for…

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 16m

😀😀
Look Ma! Top of the world!

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 18m

I’ve got an English degree & look how successful I am - incessantly posting jokes with crap puns on here.
*starts sobbing uncontrollably*

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 2h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 33m

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 35m

Deep cut

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 38m

Yes!

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1h

Haha

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3h

Haha
Are you serious?
Would not surprise me.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3h

Call me Andy, Chris.
I’m not really a hat.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3h

Love your art btw, Chris!

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4h

😀
Yes, loved him in Near Dark.
As did I.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4h

Sooo many of my Film students believed Jack & Rose were real people

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4h

Titanic survivor Rose DeWitt Bukater lived long enough to meet Bill Paxton

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 6h

Abridge too far

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 6h

Abridge this: fuck off

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15h

You might enjoy this, Andy. Lovely podcast too. pca.st/episode/5ea5...

Episode 297 - Graham Nash

pca.st

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15h

This Hamlet looks shit

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15h

Tbf to you I posted with Reheat first and then deleted it as I didn’t know if it worked. Which it does.
So now I’m doubting myself and spiralling fast.