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@simonscott1975

Mythical regulator. Bi-furious one-way time traveller. Repitching with Peter Dinklage in the lead. Mucks about with a puppet and blender.

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A poster allowing a model whose clothes look just enough like the ones Q wears in Star Trek for this joke to work.

A poster allowing a model whose clothes look just enough like the ones Q wears in Star Trek for this joke to work.

Enough of your games, Q!

07.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My understanding too. Pushed often to avoid having your home sold to cover care costs and, whatever you think of that home selling, trusts set up for this purpose don't usually provide any protection from it.

06.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Capitalism looked at Pink Slime and mechanically recovered meat and thought "what if we could do this but with arts and humanities?"

06.03.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Redacted emails raise questions over the BBC’s relationsh... Internal BBC emails show how a project that may have shed light on the broadcaster’s negotiations with the royal household was quietly shelved

The BBC WAC Campaign has after months of chasing through FOI uncovered the motivation for the 11th hour pulling of a public catalogue of its written archives. This falls short of the basic requirement of a major archive as well as the Charter itself.

Β£ but see reply.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

06.03.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a Β£185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.

06.03.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 435 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
A photo of the subject of the skeet.

A photo of the subject of the skeet.

Seriously. How is this guy not in the middle of explaining how, actually, he wasn't ripped off when he bought his fake Gucci trainers actually because actually they're all made in the same factory actually.

06.03.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha. That's what Andrew Tate sounds like? For real? I thought he was from Essex.

06.03.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

On the basis that we did very badly with a song about how although we left the EU we can still be friends, I'm quietly confident a song that seems to be about wanting to rejoin the EU might do quite well?

06.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On board at the intro.

06.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

We recreated the titles and credits for an item on my stream. Went on quite a journey of research and conjecture over the ace of spades, which we finally decided was embellished so as not to advertise. www.twitch.tv/jacklyttle/v/2622021103?sr=a

06.03.2026 08:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's like how waiting for a legal opinion is seen as a sign of weakness.

06.03.2026 08:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I find it fascinating that online it's relatively easy to find out the dancer's name but not the guy that made the title sequence.

06.03.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ken Trodd was such a huge force in TV drama. He’ll be forever missed. Here he is about to tackle a Knickerbocker Glory at The Delaunay in May 2019.

04.03.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lessissey more like.

05.03.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

KB dangerously close to arguing that Starmer should have done what he has done.

05.03.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
British Film - My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Clip 4
British Film - My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Clip 4 YouTube video by Mark Grogan

Any excuse to post this again.

youtu.be/OBnb5lwqGYc

04.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of the MBL team by the plaque.

Picture of the MBL team by the plaque.

Picture of the plaque.

Picture of the plaque.

On Sunday I attended the unveiling of the restored Rainbow Plaque, marking the location of Powders Laundrette in the movie.
Gordon Warnecke (Omar), writer Hanif Kureshi and director Stephen Frears were all in attendance.

04.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

04.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 1308 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 34

I appreciate calling IO a journalist was just a way of getting into an awkward question, but steady on.

04.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome back to our plucky British tax-dodging pariahs.

04.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm Grego Dolezal and I approve of ketamine."

04.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

World Book Day is my annual reminder of a colleague complaining about having to send one of her kids to school dressed as "James and the Fucking Giant".

04.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would be nice if the G&D election outcome meant we got more Hannah Spencer and less MG, but there we are.

04.03.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spending my hard won political capital eating a smelly sandwich in the office.

04.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Softest of hardball questions and he never has anything for them.

04.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Logged in with the emails they've sent mails to and deleted my account, but pretty sure I'd just created the accounts while logging in. Will hit them with a GDPR request if I keep getting emails from them.

04.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting privacy policy update emails from ChatGPT, a service I don't appear to have a login for. That's not very intelligent. No means of unsubscribing.

04.03.2026 11:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Labour solving the small boats problem there by frustrating another legal means of claiming asylum.

04.03.2026 11:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Microsoft accidentally buying a massive bomb, so
strapping its entire family to it in the hopes it will stop the bomb from exploding.

04.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump saying Starmer isn't Churchill wasn't a political statement, it was part of his spot the difference, cognitive health check that morning.

04.03.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0