Chris Bell
@chrisbellwriter.bsky.social
Word salad tosser. Stardust, The Last Czars, Alexander: The Making Of A God and more (not that much more)
RIP Tom Stoppard: just an incredible writer. But also Hollywood’s go-to emergency guy for rescuing scripts for YEARS, under the pseudonym “Barry Watson”. Like when he totally saved the script to the third Indiana Jones just weeks before they filmed it:
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard: just an incredible writer. But also Hollywood’s go-to emergency guy for rescuing scripts for YEARS, under the pseudonym “Barry Watson”. Like when he totally saved the script to the third Indiana Jones just weeks before they filmed it:
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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Spotted near Russell Square today.
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Spotted near Russell Square today.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x
September 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x
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This is some pretty impressive high school journalism.
Hello Mr. Chadbourn, I’m Zach, a high school journalist. just published an exclusive investigation into how around 200 Trump donors funneled $2M through Guam, raising quid pro quo and campaign finance concerns. Would be grateful if you gave it a look or shared:
zachkahn.substack.com/p/trumps-sec...
zachkahn.substack.com/p/trumps-sec...
Trump's Second Favorite Island
Republican donors funnel millions through Guam, spotlighting the need for campaign finance reform
zachkahn.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is some pretty impressive high school journalism.
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Thrilled to be supporting the legendary Jackie-O Motherfucker at the beautiful St Mary’s Creative Space, Chester, on Sunday, 24th August!
Tickets are £16 in advance from Grey n Pink Records, Chester or See Tickets
www.seetickets.com/event/jackie...
@shitchester.bsky.social
Tickets are £16 in advance from Grey n Pink Records, Chester or See Tickets
www.seetickets.com/event/jackie...
@shitchester.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thrilled to be supporting the legendary Jackie-O Motherfucker at the beautiful St Mary’s Creative Space, Chester, on Sunday, 24th August!
Tickets are £16 in advance from Grey n Pink Records, Chester or See Tickets
www.seetickets.com/event/jackie...
@shitchester.bsky.social
Tickets are £16 in advance from Grey n Pink Records, Chester or See Tickets
www.seetickets.com/event/jackie...
@shitchester.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to announce the release of our new album, NEW LOW, on 5 September 2025.
Pre-order now on Bandcamp and check out the epic track
IN SEARCH OF ANOTHER DISTANCE:
Listen 🔊 torpa.bandcamp.com/album/new-low
Watch ▶️ youtu.be/1lubU29v8DY?...
Pre-order now on Bandcamp and check out the epic track
IN SEARCH OF ANOTHER DISTANCE:
Listen 🔊 torpa.bandcamp.com/album/new-low
Watch ▶️ youtu.be/1lubU29v8DY?...
July 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
That episode of The Simpsons was absolutely 🎯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Moment Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey'
The MP ended his time in parliament by drinking beer out of his shoe during his farewell speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
That episode of The Simpsons was absolutely 🎯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
New unit of astronomical measurement just dropped.
Out: “…the size of Texas” or “…the size of ten double decker buses.”
In:
Out: “…the size of Texas” or “…the size of ten double decker buses.”
In:
May 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New unit of astronomical measurement just dropped.
Out: “…the size of Texas” or “…the size of ten double decker buses.”
In:
Out: “…the size of Texas” or “…the size of ten double decker buses.”
In:
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The Vatican was excluded from the tariff list and Italy is at the 20% EU rate. I hope some scheming cardinal sees the opportunity here.
April 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Vatican was excluded from the tariff list and Italy is at the 20% EU rate. I hope some scheming cardinal sees the opportunity here.
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As retaliation for the Tariffs we will now be showing any American made TV show without the last five minutes. Good luck finding out how Frasier got out of that one.
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
As retaliation for the Tariffs we will now be showing any American made TV show without the last five minutes. Good luck finding out how Frasier got out of that one.
It may take a while before the reality of Trump destroying the world order filters down to normal American people, but I’m genuinely not sure they’re prepared - psychologically or culturally - for what they’re about to become: the “bad guys”.
April 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It may take a while before the reality of Trump destroying the world order filters down to normal American people, but I’m genuinely not sure they’re prepared - psychologically or culturally - for what they’re about to become: the “bad guys”.
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Paul Verhoeven is one of the only filmmakers to correctly predict how fucking stupid and tacky modern American fascism would be.
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Paul Verhoeven is one of the only filmmakers to correctly predict how fucking stupid and tacky modern American fascism would be.
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Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.
www.londoncentric.media
March 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Love love love this particularly British form of protocol shithousery
Correction: Zelensky will meet Charles at the Sandringham Estate tomorrow, which is the King's country estate.
Quite the honour, which will infuriate Trump.
Quite the honour, which will infuriate Trump.
March 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Love love love this particularly British form of protocol shithousery
Hey hey so who's up for a BALLSY TACTICAL GAMBIT for the EU and Ukraine?
A quick amateurish thread 🧵:
A quick amateurish thread 🧵:
March 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Hey hey so who's up for a BALLSY TACTICAL GAMBIT for the EU and Ukraine?
A quick amateurish thread 🧵:
A quick amateurish thread 🧵:
Same with the guys guarding the moon landing sets. Just sheer panic
bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET
February 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Same with the guys guarding the moon landing sets. Just sheer panic
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read a lot of posts calling this unprecedented and I’m sorry but if there’s one thing that’s very precedented it’s nazis destroying a democracy
February 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
read a lot of posts calling this unprecedented and I’m sorry but if there’s one thing that’s very precedented it’s nazis destroying a democracy
Telling that after his public plea last year for the “great and the good” of the techbro world to help him remake America, the best recruits Elon Musk could muster… were these guys.
So these dudes just pushed past security? And folks are unable to physically remove them? These dudes?
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Telling that after his public plea last year for the “great and the good” of the techbro world to help him remake America, the best recruits Elon Musk could muster… were these guys.
Always remember:
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Always remember:
Loving this official funeral photograph of the presidents released by the Jimmy Carter Center. Wonder who they’ve cropped out?
January 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Loving this official funeral photograph of the presidents released by the Jimmy Carter Center. Wonder who they’ve cropped out?
Just in case you were optimistic that it wasn’t the end times, the “hawk tuah” girl has just launched her own version of bitcoin:
x.com/halieywelchx...
x.com/halieywelchx...
x.com
x.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Just in case you were optimistic that it wasn’t the end times, the “hawk tuah” girl has just launched her own version of bitcoin:
x.com/halieywelchx...
x.com/halieywelchx...
Like a kind of dark, reverse version of Brewster’s Millions: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Truong My Lan: Vietnamese tycoon loses death row appeal over world's biggest bank fraud
She is now in a race for her life - if she can pay back 75% of what she took, she could be spared.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Like a kind of dark, reverse version of Brewster’s Millions: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Excellent. Now just the white power Christo-fascist as Defence Secretary and the Russian double agent in charge of all four US intelligence agencies to go, then.
November 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Excellent. Now just the white power Christo-fascist as Defence Secretary and the Russian double agent in charge of all four US intelligence agencies to go, then.