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Dr Matt Colbeck
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Research: reps of Disorders of Consciousness/brain injury/BI & homelessness. Author: "The Language & Imagery of Coma & Brain Injury", Bloomsbury. Founding member: Head Injury & Homelessness Research Group (HIHRG). Bassist with @lost-teeth.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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We’re being asked by half the media & politicians to swallow the idea that known racist football hooligans should be allowed to rampage through our cities for NO OTHER REASON than that they happen to be Israeli.

Fuck. That.
October 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It’s Roger Moore’s birthday
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Very excited for this -- as I am the launch! πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
October 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Utter scumbag.
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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In memoriam...
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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September 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
September 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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'.
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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.
September 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing*

Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for Β£25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.
September 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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September 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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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 β€œher father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Quarry.
Aquarius.
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?
September 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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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 β€˜a van’. Our bureaucracy: prurient, petty, and perversely glorious.
The β€œbang 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: β€œHaving taken the risk of googling Bonnie Blue’s Bang Bus, the vehicle appears to be a van.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hah. Sorry - I wish. Need to go on the dark web for that.

OST = Original SoundTrack!
September 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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.
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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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
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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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..."
September 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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.
September 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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 πŸ”₯🀘πŸ’₯)
September 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM