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skipratmedia
@skipratmedia.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Jobs I've done apart from what I do now:
1. Petrol station attendant.
2. Glue factory production line worker.
3. Nightclub bar human.
4. Land surveyor theodolite holder.
5. Costumed performer at Alton Towers.
Here is a photo of me at the glue factory.
1. Petrol station attendant.
2. Glue factory production line worker.
3. Nightclub bar human.
4. Land surveyor theodolite holder.
5. Costumed performer at Alton Towers.
Here is a photo of me at the glue factory.
My Top Five Movie Genres
- We know you're only enjoying this film because it looks beautiful and that's fine.
- This film reminds you of you.
- You wished you'd played a part in this film don't you.
- You wish you were in this imagined reality don't you.
- It's as if the director can read my mind.
- We know you're only enjoying this film because it looks beautiful and that's fine.
- This film reminds you of you.
- You wished you'd played a part in this film don't you.
- You wish you were in this imagined reality don't you.
- It's as if the director can read my mind.
My Top Five Movie Genres
- We sincerely like this genre and we have a sense of humour too
- It's cold and/or raining
- There's no hurry
- Clever > Beautiful
- I bet they're going to...oh no they're not!
- We sincerely like this genre and we have a sense of humour too
- It's cold and/or raining
- There's no hurry
- Clever > Beautiful
- I bet they're going to...oh no they're not!
My top five movie genres:
- The monster is a metaphor
- Not a metaphor just a monster
- These people aren’t nice and yet they’re smiling a lot
- Don’t touch this. Oh you have.
- Tilda Swinton
- The monster is a metaphor
- Not a metaphor just a monster
- These people aren’t nice and yet they’re smiling a lot
- Don’t touch this. Oh you have.
- Tilda Swinton
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My Top Five Movie Genres
- We know you're only enjoying this film because it looks beautiful and that's fine.
- This film reminds you of you.
- You wished you'd played a part in this film don't you.
- You wish you were in this imagined reality don't you.
- It's as if the director can read my mind.
- We know you're only enjoying this film because it looks beautiful and that's fine.
- This film reminds you of you.
- You wished you'd played a part in this film don't you.
- You wish you were in this imagined reality don't you.
- It's as if the director can read my mind.
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Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
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Christ I’m soo tired of leadership challenges against sitting PMs whatever the party. Nobody cares about your internal fucking popularity contests. Just get on with the job and try not to make quite such an arse of it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Christ I’m soo tired of leadership challenges against sitting PMs whatever the party. Nobody cares about your internal fucking popularity contests. Just get on with the job and try not to make quite such an arse of it.
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Did Trump watch the Panorama programme or did someone grass the BBC up? Snitches get stitches.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Did Trump watch the Panorama programme or did someone grass the BBC up? Snitches get stitches.
Funko are well inside my top five Evil Genius brands of the last decade.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Funko are well inside my top five Evil Genius brands of the last decade.
There was a dude at the Adam Ant gig in Hammersmith last night, who looked like he posseses everything ever released by Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Faust and Cluster nodding along to virtually every song.
The gig itself? The band were superb, Adam focused, with his timeless stage presence intact.
The gig itself? The band were superb, Adam focused, with his timeless stage presence intact.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
There was a dude at the Adam Ant gig in Hammersmith last night, who looked like he posseses everything ever released by Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Faust and Cluster nodding along to virtually every song.
The gig itself? The band were superb, Adam focused, with his timeless stage presence intact.
The gig itself? The band were superb, Adam focused, with his timeless stage presence intact.
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Magavaggio
This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Magavaggio
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Just boarded a train from Sheffield to Preston (<60 miles) and the return ticket is nearly £50. Seems like a good time to read this account from Mick Lynch of the 30+ year disaster that has been UK rail privatisation tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/mick...
Mick Lynch: Rail Privatisation Has Been 30 Years of Failure
The privatisation of British Rail began this month in 1993. It created a system that prioritises profit above the wellbeing of both workers and passengers — and it's time to bring it to an end, writes...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just boarded a train from Sheffield to Preston (<60 miles) and the return ticket is nearly £50. Seems like a good time to read this account from Mick Lynch of the 30+ year disaster that has been UK rail privatisation tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/mick...
Ruddy hell its bonfire night. Meanwhile I am listening to Throbbing Gristle on a bus home from work. Might have a toffee apple for tea.
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ruddy hell its bonfire night. Meanwhile I am listening to Throbbing Gristle on a bus home from work. Might have a toffee apple for tea.
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'A decadent album, entirely appropriate to the intersection between art and fashion that Grace Jones has always inhabited.'
Many Happy Returns to #GraceJones' Slave To The Rhythm, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/MhmcFtH
Many Happy Returns to #GraceJones' Slave To The Rhythm, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/MhmcFtH
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'A decadent album, entirely appropriate to the intersection between art and fashion that Grace Jones has always inhabited.'
Many Happy Returns to #GraceJones' Slave To The Rhythm, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/MhmcFtH
Many Happy Returns to #GraceJones' Slave To The Rhythm, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/MhmcFtH
@onlyconnectquiz.bsky.social who’s trolling who?! @nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
@onlyconnectquiz.bsky.social who’s trolling who?! @nytimes.com
Soft Cell, man. RIP David Ball.
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Soft Cell, man. RIP David Ball.
Cop Will Eat Itself
ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro https://cnn.it/3KUlfn5
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Cop Will Eat Itself
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Perhaps the most honest thing he's ever said.
Trump Raises Eyebrows After Admitting That He Doesn't Think He's 'Heaven-Bound'
www.comicsands.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Perhaps the most honest thing he's ever said.
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I can't claim to being a TV fan back in the day, but I was never going to turn down the chance to speak to Wendy James or review her gig at The Brook.
I have a lot of admiration for an artist who still loves what she does and appreciates those who come to watch her do it.
I have a lot of admiration for an artist who still loves what she does and appreciates those who come to watch her do it.
"Rock n roll runs through her veins"
See the full gig review of Wendy James at The Brook.
www.in-common.co.uk/2025/10/12/r...
See the full gig review of Wendy James at The Brook.
www.in-common.co.uk/2025/10/12/r...
Review: Wendy James, The Brook, Southampton - In-Common - Southampton
By Darren Grayer. Wendy James really needs no introduction to anyone who was around at the end of the 80s. Numerous Top Of The Pops appearances with her chart-topping band, Transvision Vamp, and cove...
www.in-common.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I can't claim to being a TV fan back in the day, but I was never going to turn down the chance to speak to Wendy James or review her gig at The Brook.
I have a lot of admiration for an artist who still loves what she does and appreciates those who come to watch her do it.
I have a lot of admiration for an artist who still loves what she does and appreciates those who come to watch her do it.
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Minton Door Surround #Leek #NorthStaffordshire
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Minton Door Surround #Leek #NorthStaffordshire
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If you were born the year after the Specials first split up then you don't get to pass comment on multiculturalism in the Midlands.
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If you were born the year after the Specials first split up then you don't get to pass comment on multiculturalism in the Midlands.
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"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
October 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I have just accidentally photobombed (videobombed?) an influencer type video that was *so* Nathan Barley it was either well meta or we are all truly finished, doomed, sunk, cooked.
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I have just accidentally photobombed (videobombed?) an influencer type video that was *so* Nathan Barley it was either well meta or we are all truly finished, doomed, sunk, cooked.
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After a late summer break, Monstrosities Mon Amour is back, and with a seaside special: Blackpool's Golden Mile with the brilliant @seasideferry.bsky.social. And also, discover her passion for 50s wonder-fabric Crimplene! Fun, actual fun. open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Golden Mile, Blackpool, with Kathryn Ferry
#10. John Grindrod meets seaside historian Kathryn Ferry to explore the outlaw Victoriana of Blackpool's Golden Mile and Macclesfield's 50s wonder-fabric, Crimplene
open.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
After a late summer break, Monstrosities Mon Amour is back, and with a seaside special: Blackpool's Golden Mile with the brilliant @seasideferry.bsky.social. And also, discover her passion for 50s wonder-fabric Crimplene! Fun, actual fun. open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...
Thought I’d give Question Time a go. What a dufus.
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thought I’d give Question Time a go. What a dufus.
Ruin a book with a car
Keep the Vauxhall Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Vauxhall Aspidistra Flying
Ruin a book with a car
It Shouldn't Happen to a Corvette
It Shouldn't Happen to a Corvette
Ruin a book with a car
A portrait of the artist as a yyong sang
A portrait of the artist as a yyong sang
September 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Ruin a book with a car
Keep the Vauxhall Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Vauxhall Aspidistra Flying
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Fucking hell, that broke me.
Well done, Brighton.
Well done, Brighton.
September 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Fucking hell, that broke me.
Well done, Brighton.
Well done, Brighton.
anyone want an ear worm? Metallica. Enter Sandman. Just take it.
September 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
anyone want an ear worm? Metallica. Enter Sandman. Just take it.