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Charlie Ashby
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Entertainment Journalist | Host/Creator of @impsenatepod.bsky.social & more. #AFC - he/him
Ah, man. I did think something must be up recently, but it’s good to hear that he’s doing better.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Happy 62nd Birthday to #DoctorWho ❤️❤️

Have you been visited by the 3 wise men yet?
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Not as much fun when they do it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Eze goal on Derby Day?
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
COME ON YOU GUNNERS
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November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I found 2024 incredibly frustrating. Because I (and lots of other people) kept explaining that the fiscal position of all parties was literally impossible but broadcast (in particular) was never willing to go that far.
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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For the first time, a US politician used the platform of the oval office to call out Israeli genocide and US complicity in that genocide, and centrists are confused about why folks have more grace for him than they do for someone who enthusiastically and materially supported that genocide.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This was all I could think about when seeing those photos of Trump & Mamdani.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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help
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I haven't listened to Anthology 4 yet, but I'm not a massive fan of the new version of ‘Real Love’.

I think there was something to the sort of ethereal nature of the tape recording of John’s voice that added to the magic of that song’s existence.

But I'm excited to check out the rest.
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media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It seems so obvious that while all the racists would hate for us to go back, the economic boom of rejoining would actually make people less racist.

Austerity delivered Brexit. Brexit is delivering the far right.

The thing they have in common is they have made people poorer.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the trans people lost to violence in the U.S. this year.

Widespread poverty, homelessness, and discrimination makes trans people 4x more likely to experience violence than the average person.

We shouldn’t have to live in fear to be who we are.
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“Why didn’t the Mandalorian just move on from Grogu and focus on Bounty Hunting?”

BECAUSE THAT’S HIS CHILD YOU FUCKING MONSTERS! - and he still goes around the galaxy making a buck, so who cares?
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media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’ll wait to hear what replaces this, but a welcome development nonetheless.

Proud of the Supporters Group for speaking up for us fans too!
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is absolutely ridiculous.

It’d be like if the department of health did something stupid and counter intuitive like suggest that vaccines are bad or that it’s actually normal to get measles in 2025.

And we all know THAT wouldn’t happen!
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I talked about this recently, but here we are again.

I’m telling you that the gutting of jobs in the arts, or reporting on culture is not a coincidence.

They’re squeezing the imagination and truth out of every single person & hoping you won’t question it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Absolutely evil. What an embarrassment.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ooh, we finally got a full HD version of ‘Born Again’ - the Tenth Doctor’s first story/minisode.

It was originally for Children in Need & bridges ‘The Parting of the Ways’ & ‘The Christmas Invasion’.

Always a favourite of mine, seeing how well David takes over immediately. youtu.be/U9fkuf7rXhs?...
David Tennant's First Episode as the Tenth Doctor | Born Again - Children in Need 2005 | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
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November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I also saw this in an article in nymag.com - how fucking depressing is this?

Shopify run ads on the Arsecast, but I will be informing Acast to immediately cease any further campaigns with them.
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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We didn't HAVE a Small Boats Problem before the Tory Brexiteers fucked EVERYTHING.

And we wouldn't have one if 3/4 of the political class didn't insist on keeping it all fucked.
If you can zoom in far enough, check out the heady days of 2018 before the Conservative government closed access to legal applications thereby *causing* a small boats problem. And today they’re (mainly Chris Philp) doing the media rounds telling Labour where they’re going wrong. #refugees #r4today
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.

Absolutely dead government.
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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