James
@thasceles.bsky.social
Queer. Autistic. Depressive. Cricket tragic. Dr Who fan since the age of 6. TWAW. TMAM. Horror film lover. BLM. He/him. RIP dad. And a hard-boiled egg. "Fix your hearts or die."
It's like if Garth Marenghi went into politics.
this is quite possibly the worse writing i have ever experienced. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's like if Garth Marenghi went into politics.
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If you are able to look at this and still not see the Gestapo. You have not only failed at the Christian you say you are.
You have failed at being a human.
You are the person who turned away when children were being murdered in gas chambers.
It didn’t start in gas chambers.
You have failed at being a human.
You are the person who turned away when children were being murdered in gas chambers.
It didn’t start in gas chambers.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you are able to look at this and still not see the Gestapo. You have not only failed at the Christian you say you are.
You have failed at being a human.
You are the person who turned away when children were being murdered in gas chambers.
It didn’t start in gas chambers.
You have failed at being a human.
You are the person who turned away when children were being murdered in gas chambers.
It didn’t start in gas chambers.
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Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism
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I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
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For anyone saying we already knew this, these are newly-emerged witnesses and victims, with their names on record.
💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
For anyone saying we already knew this, these are newly-emerged witnesses and victims, with their names on record.
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For reasons I needed to watch Its a Wonderful Life again last night.
Will do a thread closer to Christmas about it, but next time you watch it, remember this:
Both Capra and Stewart had just come back from WW2. Consider every directing, script and acting decision with that context in mind.
Will do a thread closer to Christmas about it, but next time you watch it, remember this:
Both Capra and Stewart had just come back from WW2. Consider every directing, script and acting decision with that context in mind.
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For reasons I needed to watch Its a Wonderful Life again last night.
Will do a thread closer to Christmas about it, but next time you watch it, remember this:
Both Capra and Stewart had just come back from WW2. Consider every directing, script and acting decision with that context in mind.
Will do a thread closer to Christmas about it, but next time you watch it, remember this:
Both Capra and Stewart had just come back from WW2. Consider every directing, script and acting decision with that context in mind.
Top 5 movie genres:
1 It's been frozen for eons. Let's melt it!
2 AND THROUGH X I SHALL HAVE THAT POWER!
3 I'll check the cellar. Be right ba-
4 Have translated inscription. Ooh, 'eck.
5 You think I'm locked in here, but I'm in your mind.
No, you're locked in there.
Shut up. I am very clever.
1 It's been frozen for eons. Let's melt it!
2 AND THROUGH X I SHALL HAVE THAT POWER!
3 I'll check the cellar. Be right ba-
4 Have translated inscription. Ooh, 'eck.
5 You think I'm locked in here, but I'm in your mind.
No, you're locked in there.
Shut up. I am very clever.
Top 5 movie genres:
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
Top 5 movie genres:
- This dude is haunted, we need a priest and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- This building is haunted, we need a team of amatuer paranormal investigators and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- The monkeys are like, really angry
- Space, but moody
- Barbra Streisand
- This dude is haunted, we need a priest and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- This building is haunted, we need a team of amatuer paranormal investigators and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- The monkeys are like, really angry
- Space, but moody
- Barbra Streisand
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
1 It's been frozen for eons. Let's melt it!
2 AND THROUGH X I SHALL HAVE THAT POWER!
3 I'll check the cellar. Be right ba-
4 Have translated inscription. Ooh, 'eck.
5 You think I'm locked in here, but I'm in your mind.
No, you're locked in there.
Shut up. I am very clever.
1 It's been frozen for eons. Let's melt it!
2 AND THROUGH X I SHALL HAVE THAT POWER!
3 I'll check the cellar. Be right ba-
4 Have translated inscription. Ooh, 'eck.
5 You think I'm locked in here, but I'm in your mind.
No, you're locked in there.
Shut up. I am very clever.
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Top 5 movie genres:
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
Top 5 movie genres:
- This dude is haunted, we need a priest and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- This building is haunted, we need a team of amatuer paranormal investigators and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- The monkeys are like, really angry
- Space, but moody
- Barbra Streisand
- This dude is haunted, we need a priest and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- This building is haunted, we need a team of amatuer paranormal investigators and I'll film everything on my camcorder
- The monkeys are like, really angry
- Space, but moody
- Barbra Streisand
Top 5 movie genres:
- Going in to the jungle to find out what happened to a previous group.
- Slow burn drama pivots in to full tilt horror.
- Slimy antagonist character is actually the devil.
- You know what would make this rote movie better? Ninjas!
- Hey Sean Bean's still aliv... oh never mind.
- Going in to the jungle to find out what happened to a previous group.
- Slow burn drama pivots in to full tilt horror.
- Slimy antagonist character is actually the devil.
- You know what would make this rote movie better? Ninjas!
- Hey Sean Bean's still aliv... oh never mind.
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
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Some actors you look at and just know that their visage puts them beyond being just another actor; they are instead a MOVIE STAR.
Toshiro Mifune is one of those actors. #HighAndLow #NoirAlley #TCMParty
Toshiro Mifune is one of those actors. #HighAndLow #NoirAlley #TCMParty
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Some actors you look at and just know that their visage puts them beyond being just another actor; they are instead a MOVIE STAR.
Toshiro Mifune is one of those actors. #HighAndLow #NoirAlley #TCMParty
Toshiro Mifune is one of those actors. #HighAndLow #NoirAlley #TCMParty
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
Ozzy's a good bloke going through a difficult time. If anyone can help, please do.
So if you could spare a couple of quid, I'd be eternally grateful:
paypal.me/karohemd
I hate this so much.
paypal.me/karohemd
I hate this so much.
Really not coping well atm. Everything is shit, I don't know how long my overdraft is going to last and Labour are cranking up the hostile environment rhetoric. Sure, I have settled status now but I don't trust them to not just revoke it on a whim because I'm obvs. not contributing to society. FML
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Ozzy's a good bloke going through a difficult time. If anyone can help, please do.
Please feel free to add your own suggestions.
Hands up anyone who'd like people including, but not limited to, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, transphobe fantasy author, Graham Linehan and the current UK cabinet to fall into a vat of raw sewage with hilarious consequences.
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Please feel free to add your own suggestions.
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Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.
Hands up anyone who'd like people including, but not limited to, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, transphobe fantasy author, Graham Linehan and the current UK cabinet to fall into a vat of raw sewage with hilarious consequences.
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hands up anyone who'd like people including, but not limited to, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, transphobe fantasy author, Graham Linehan and the current UK cabinet to fall into a vat of raw sewage with hilarious consequences.
Just finished reading this half an hour ago. Very, very enjoyable - brought back lots of memories from my childhood.
If you're in Liverpool, there's now even more signed copies of The Golden Age Of Children's TV - the last lot sold out! - in Waterstones. If you aren't, you can find out where to get if from here: timworthington.org/2025/10/23/t...
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just finished reading this half an hour ago. Very, very enjoyable - brought back lots of memories from my childhood.
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A young Brian Blessed?
Fancy!
Fancy!
The wait is over! Tonight at 8pm the first black and white episode of Z-CARS (1962) on #TalkingPicturesTV as featured in @RadioTimes
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A young Brian Blessed?
Fancy!
Fancy!
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
Just watched the trailer for Wuthering Heights. Genuinely unsure whether anyone who's worked on the film has ever read the book. Or so much as seen a copy of the book from across a crowded room. It looks awful. Plus, describing it as the world's greatest love story betrays an utter misunderstanding.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just watched the trailer for Wuthering Heights. Genuinely unsure whether anyone who's worked on the film has ever read the book. Or so much as seen a copy of the book from across a crowded room. It looks awful. Plus, describing it as the world's greatest love story betrays an utter misunderstanding.
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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"YOU. BETRAYED. ME?!"
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"YOU. BETRAYED. ME?!"
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His regeneration into William Hartnell is almost complete.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
His regeneration into William Hartnell is almost complete.
This. For me, melodrama heroes - James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, the Doctor, John Steed - aren't characters. They're events. Someone is planning to take over the world, but James Bond happens to them - he shags their wife, drops their henchman off a tall building and kills them in an amusing manner...
Melodrama heroes are built to have infinite adventures. But to do that *they cannot change or grow*. Change and growth can happen to those *around* them, but Batman can't say "you know what? Dressing up like a bat and beating people up is silly."
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This. For me, melodrama heroes - James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, the Doctor, John Steed - aren't characters. They're events. Someone is planning to take over the world, but James Bond happens to them - he shags their wife, drops their henchman off a tall building and kills them in an amusing manner...
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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.