Sam
@spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social
I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew.
London-based. Film, television, games, politics, Charlton Athletic Football Club.
He/him.
London-based. Film, television, games, politics, Charlton Athletic Football Club.
He/him.
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Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!
Issue for Labour now isn't whether they break their manifesto pledge on tax. It is whether they do so in a way which is blatant, honest but sustainable - or whether they do so by a myriad of complex and likely insufficient means whilst arguing they are not.
Imho, one seems more toxic than the other
Imho, one seems more toxic than the other
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!
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The James Bond franchise faces a big problem: me, the viewer, has been shot at the start of the movie through the barrel of my gun, and I'm dripping blood over my own eye balls (they're in the gun)
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The James Bond franchise faces a big problem: me, the viewer, has been shot at the start of the movie through the barrel of my gun, and I'm dripping blood over my own eye balls (they're in the gun)
This does rather betray that Reform’s ultimate plan is to steal the chaos emeralds.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This does rather betray that Reform’s ultimate plan is to steal the chaos emeralds.
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The new Apes movies are all quietly pretty good (though I’m weird and like the first and last ones most).
The bairn came back from her friend’s house while we were watching Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and was hooked by it. She just watched Rise and is going absolutely daft for it. She’s seven.
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The new Apes movies are all quietly pretty good (though I’m weird and like the first and last ones most).
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
I saw it on the big screen ~two weeks ago so I’d just like to take the opportunity to say I came by my “I don’t get the big deal” honestly.
Frankenstein is available to stream on Netflix today, so expect a bunch of “I don’t get the big deal” takes from people uninterested in the movie who half-watched it on their phones.
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I saw it on the big screen ~two weeks ago so I’d just like to take the opportunity to say I came by my “I don’t get the big deal” honestly.
As the legends foretold?
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
As the legends foretold?
Dress for the job you want (in my case, Pokémon master).
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Dress for the job you want (in my case, Pokémon master).
I do fondly remember people getting inordinately angry at Tony Leung being referred to as “a Marvel actor”.
Being an actor is wild. You can be one of the great literary polymaths of the 20th century, but you do one walk-on role on a network sitcom where your only line is, “Ey, who’s cookin’ boigas in da bathroom?” and for the rest of your life you’re “the boiga guy” to everyone except, like, Terry Gross.
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I do fondly remember people getting inordinately angry at Tony Leung being referred to as “a Marvel actor”.
This whole thread is delightful.
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This whole thread is delightful.
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"Person who just bought toilet paper, only to find that there was none left in the supermarket restroom (based on a true story)"
x.com/dailyportalz...
x.com/dailyportalz...
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Person who just bought toilet paper, only to find that there was none left in the supermarket restroom (based on a true story)"
x.com/dailyportalz...
x.com/dailyportalz...
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there is no debate to be had about integration in the UK. The debate should be about what we do about the way we indulge delusional people by pretending their arguments are not bad faith.
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
there is no debate to be had about integration in the UK. The debate should be about what we do about the way we indulge delusional people by pretending their arguments are not bad faith.
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Our November programme has landed - and it’s one of our biggest yet. Over 150 films fill both our screens this month, from autumnal favourites and rediscovered gems to cult deep cuts and 70mm epics. Expect the kind of eclectic mix that makes the PCC what it is.
🎟️: tinyurl.com/5b935zfe
🎟️: tinyurl.com/5b935zfe
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our November programme has landed - and it’s one of our biggest yet. Over 150 films fill both our screens this month, from autumnal favourites and rediscovered gems to cult deep cuts and 70mm epics. Expect the kind of eclectic mix that makes the PCC what it is.
🎟️: tinyurl.com/5b935zfe
🎟️: tinyurl.com/5b935zfe
This reminds me of the fond memory of me and the man who went on to be the best man at my wedding (because of this moment?) having to sit in the dark for a few minutes after Fast and Furious 7 because we were both quietly weeping.
Just realised that *I* am someone’s cinema weirdo story, because the day we sold our flat, went to the movies, and I started weeping, proper Julia Stevenson in Truly Madly Deeply levels of tears at the Foxton’s advert.
Oh come on, God forbid you chat instead of paying rapt attention for why you should Get Into Teaching
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This reminds me of the fond memory of me and the man who went on to be the best man at my wedding (because of this moment?) having to sit in the dark for a few minutes after Fast and Furious 7 because we were both quietly weeping.
It’s been… well, since release that I’ve seen this. I’m due a rewatch.
My wife is Chilean and there are lots of parallels to the referendum on Pinochet where he was defeated. The pro-Pinochet ads were doom and gloom. The anti were upbeat and sunny. There was a movie about it: youtu.be/lt8VayTqQhQ?...
NO | Official Trailer HD (2013)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It’s been… well, since release that I’ve seen this. I’m due a rewatch.
The reason this doesn’t track isn’t *just* because it’s a misreading of Tolkien. Robinson isn’t a ‘hard man’ - like Musk, he’s a shit-stirring little weasel. He’s Gríma Wormtongue.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The reason this doesn’t track isn’t *just* because it’s a misreading of Tolkien. Robinson isn’t a ‘hard man’ - like Musk, he’s a shit-stirring little weasel. He’s Gríma Wormtongue.
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Gotta say, the idea that my home life is an invention of “propagandist marketing“ is faintly amusing/fucking revolting.
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Gotta say, the idea that my home life is an invention of “propagandist marketing“ is faintly amusing/fucking revolting.
Obviously fuck The Sun but this from 20 years ago is quite funny.
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Obviously fuck The Sun but this from 20 years ago is quite funny.
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Farage is a Quisling. Everyone supporting him should be asked a simple question - are you a rube or a traitor?
🔴 Farage’s new senior advisor has some awful views on Russia and Ukraine
Farage’s new hire won’t help his Putin problem
He’s got a new senior advisor... who has some pretty awful views.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Farage is a Quisling. Everyone supporting him should be asked a simple question - are you a rube or a traitor?
They’ve got to finesse the message in case they accidentally imply immigrants are people worthy of dignity or respect or that their own voters have opinions worth listening to.
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
They’ve got to finesse the message in case they accidentally imply immigrants are people worthy of dignity or respect or that their own voters have opinions worth listening to.
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Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker.
They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker.
They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.
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The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...