Bloody hell. This is around the corner at the pharmacy I walk to every couple of weeks. I didn't ever hear a thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tonight's film. Always wanted to see this one.

The sound of a working tumble dryer has made my Christmas. I was worried we'd need a new one.

Tumble dryer broke on Christmas Day. Engineer was due on Friday but got a text to say he's coming today. Mad dash to do everything I thought I'd have all of tomorrow to do including fixing a plug. Kitchen looks immaculate. Amazing how easy it is if you just move all the rubbish into the living room.

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'Brotherhood of the Wolf'. I was beginning to think there are no bad French movies but this has been pretty rubbish.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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Second of the night. Been wanting to see this for a while.

Tonight's film. Going to try to fit in a double bill.

Damnit. I know there was a lot of controversy later on but I prefer to focus on her early career, Mempris and La Vérité, and her collaborations with Gainsbourg... Plus she actually wrote back to Stan when I was working on my second book. Life is complicated. You can miss the good parts of a person.

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Tonight's film.

Two people died in 2025 whose work broadened the ways I could perceive the world - Jane Goodall and Martin Parr

Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock

America is not nearly angry enough about the fact that Donald Trump has turned a building we all collectively own into an exact replica of the antechambers leading to Saddam Hussein's sex dungeons and torture cabanas

📝 The one from Substack I’m most pleased with from 2025. Primarily because people rarely make the comparison between Farage and Johnson, despite the fact they share the same brand of elitist, chaotic, egomaniac politics 👇🏻

“Do you know whose voice we HAVEN’T heard in the debate over capital punishment, whose perspective sorely needs airing? That extra from Porridge who presented a Safari-themed kids gameshow for a couple of years in the 80s.”

Hateful Farage sending two fingers to the majority of us who oppose hunting and welcome the end of trail hunting, as he again joins a boxing day hunt. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Second film of the night. 'The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh'.

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🚨The Gov could FINALLY be about to end fox hunting for good, by banning trail hunting. But the likes of Farage are criticising the ban. We need to drown them out: sign the petition now to back the ban and tell the Government to hold firm: 38d.gs/trailhuntingdf

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

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Youtube is trying to sell me some late Christmas gift ideas. I want to know how my Youtube knows @frmo.bsky.social's wishlist.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Can confirm there is still nothing better than sitting in a darkened room gazing up at gorgeous faces in extreme close up

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Apple keeps recommending podcasts to me where celebrities talk to celebrities for 30 minutes when what I want is 20 3 hour episodes breaking down the production history of the original Battlestar Galactica.

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The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up. A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.

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What a fucking dumb time to be alive.

Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for

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Christ! That’s awful 😂

You in a million years would not guess correctly who directed the 90s remake of Christmas in Connecticut.

WTF? I've read this twice and I still can't understand what it's about. I think there's a subtext I'm missing. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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I’ve put a shift in today.

I ain't saying nothing.

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