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Unklerupert

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Train booked, hotel booked, ROGUE TROOPER LFF UK Premiere 9th October… TWO WEEKS TO GO, BUDDY! @manmademoon.bsky.social

youtu.be/BshxCIjNEjY?...

ABBA - Super Trouper

YouTube video by AbbaVEVO

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September 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM

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Duncan Jones

@manmademoon.bsky.social

Hello Los Angeles, you cheeky monkey!

If you don’t have anything to do on Saturday, how about joining me at the fabulous Egyptian Theatre to come see THIS?

beyondfest.com/film/rogue-t...

Rogue Trooper - Beyond Fest

From the anarchic British comic 2000 AD, it tells the story of 19, a Genetic Infantry soldier, who is accidentally dropped behind enemy lines in the midst of a secret military operation. With the bioc...

beyondfest.com

September 24, 2026 at 2:09 AM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

Yeah I grew up listening to jazz

September 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

Hacks S5, Ava and Deborah having a pop at AI 👍🏻👍🏻

September 24, 2026 at 7:12 PM

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Charlie Brooker

@charliebrooker.bsky.social

(it’s aimed at people who like jokes)

Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social · 23h

From the mind of Charlie Brooker, Blackmere is destined to be an "absurd comedy" like no other 😵‍💫

Here's a sneak peek at the show, coming to Netflix early 2027.

Read more: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/lena-heady-paddy-considine-cast-charlie-brooker-blackmere-netflix-first-look-newsupdate/

September 24, 2026 at 5:52 PM

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Joe Barton

@joebarton.bsky.social

Hey we’re back

The Playlist @theplaylist.bsky.social · 23h

‘Black Doves’ Season 2 Trailer: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Return To Netflix’s Spy Thriller November 5

Netflix’s slick British espionage series “Black Doves” returns this fall, bringing Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw back together for another round of secrets, assassins, and deeply compromised loyalties. Following its well-received first season, creator Joe Barton’s spy thriller returns November 5 with another six episodes and a considerably expanded ensemble. READ MORE: ‘Black Doves’ Review: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Charm In Joe Barton’s Witty & Entertaining Spy Series Season 2 finds Knightley’s Helen Webb still feeding British secrets to the covert Black Doves organization just as her husband Wallace (Andrew Buchan) prepares to become Prime Minister. Continue reading ‘Black Doves’ Season 2 Trailer: Keira Knightley & Ben Whishaw Return To Netflix’s Spy Thriller November 5 at The Playlist.

dlvr.it

September 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM

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Ben Smith

@mrbensmith.bsky.social

New @manmademoon.bsky.social interview! Gunnar will absolutely love the billing he gets at the top of this interview.

dailydead.com/tiff-2026-in...

TIFF 2026 Interview: Director Duncan Jones Unleashes ROGUE TROOPER - Daily Dead

Duncan Jones’ name hasn’t been on the big screen for far too long. Jones’ last film, Mute, was for Netflix eight years ago, so it’s actually been a decade since we’ve seen a theatrical release from th...

dailydead.com

September 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM

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Paperback Paradise

@paperbackparadise.bsky.social

Photo of a vintage book cover featuring a bearded man chopping planks of wood in half. Title and copy read

Defeating Wood

Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved

Gary Arkanasse

September 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

Reform's brains have claimed asylum in a bin after being invaded by super bent thoughts.

September 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM

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Tom Jamieson

@tomjam.bsky.social

You always think Reform has displayed all their stupidly to us...and yet somehow we're always wrong.

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 1d

Reform's Jaymey McIvor says 'English people are claiming asylum in the Home Counties' due to 'out of control immigration'.

'Did they not just move house?' Shelagh Fogarty asks him.

September 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM

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Film Stories

@filmstories.bsky.social

Now 45, director Peter Hyams’ space western is a classic in its own right, but can also be enjoyed as an unofficial Alien spin-off.
filmstories.co.uk/features/out...

Outland is Alien with shotguns instead of aliens, which is why it's an underrated classic

Now 45, director Peter Hyams’ space western is a classic in its own right, but can also be enjoyed as an unofficial Alien spin-off.

filmstories.co.uk

September 24, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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Steven Sheil

@scsheil.bsky.social

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles.)

This is #84 and it's called "Chard".

Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 1d

#84: Chard

A screengrab of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads "I'm an avid fan of chard - but you can have too much of a good thing"

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We had been four weeks in the Downlands, myself and Brom. Four weeks on foot through valleys and dales, cross meandering streams and fast-running rivers; four weeks living off the few small creatures that Brom managed to catch - barely enough to keep a dog alive, let alone a dog and man. Thankfully, we had encountered no further Remnants, but we had seen no other Living either and I had begun to think that we two might be the last left alive in this region.
Finally, at the point where hunger had begun to feel like an ever-present companion for us both, we came across a small cottage by a wood. Deserted, near derelict inside, it held little prospect as a camp until I pushed aside the cracked back door and found myself looking at a wondrously overgrown vegetable garden. Chard leaves, almost reaching to my own height, filled the wide beds, and I, desperate for something other than toasted squirrel meat - and simultaneously heedless of the suspicious twitchings of Brom’s wet nose - grabbed handfuls of the stuff and began eating.
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The taste was glorious - earthy, full, with a tinge of bitterness - everything my deprived body had craved. And the supply appeared boundless. Despite Brom’s clear reservations, I decided to make the cottage our temporary home.
The years of wandering through The Scorched Country and The Flesheries - all that Brom and I had seen, and fled from and fought - should have given me more pause, I know that now, especially considering what horrors we had encountered, all spawned from The Great Blast. But the taste - ah, the taste of those leaves was so beguiling, so moreish…
Over the course of a week, during which I ate only the leaves - with poor Brom left to scavenge for whatever small prey he could find in our vicinity - I found myself becoming increasingly torpid and indolent. My skin took on a glistening appearance, as though sticky wet. At the same time I found my limbs growing weak, almost seeming to recede back into my body. I began to wonder who had made this garden, and where they were now?
Then one night the answer came. Crawling out into the garden almost on my belly, desperate for another leaf or two, I spied through the thick stems, a pair of stalked eyes staring back at me. Parting the stems with my wizened hand I saw him - what once had been a man, now something other; a creature resembling some kind of slug-human hybrid. His lipless, wet mouth opened in soundless greeting. I went to reply and found my own voice vanished.
Then teeth grabbed my trousers and I felt myself getting pulled away, back through the house, out through the front door, back through fields away from the cottage - away to safety.
With a weak hand I scritched Brom’s head. My saviour. My friend.
“Good boy,” I said, my voice now returning, “Good, good boy.”
Brom’s eyes spoke of love. And not a little reproach.

September 24, 2026 at 1:23 PM

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Ed Morrish

@edmorrish.com

“given the concerns expressed from inside the ai industry, we are suspending all government ai programmes until the companies involved can assure us that their technology will not kill everyone”

there, i just saved you a few billion pounds

Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 15d

what would be funny would be to make ai illegal based on that “it’s got a ten per cent chance of killing by everyone” tweet and then making them defend that statement in court

September 24, 2026 at 12:48 PM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

@rodene.bsky.social oi oi! Wishing you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ro. Hope you have a simply spiffing day x 🎉🎂

September 24, 2026 at 12:45 PM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

Is that... is that DARK EMU?!?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posted this photo on Truth Social this morning. Look close!

#TravelWithNatalie

pic of Trump saluting next to Xi with the lovely Ms Harp in the background

September 24, 2026 at 12:01 PM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

Gurney Slade is proper potty, surreal, years ahead of anything at the time.

NetworkOnAir @networkonair.bsky.social · 1d

#BOTD the multi-talented Anthony Newley. We know and love him for Gurney Slade, but he’s known to millions as the writer of Feeling Good, sung by Nina Simone, What Kind of Fool Am I, sung by Sammy Davis Jnr., and as co-composer of the score for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

September 24, 2026 at 10:50 AM

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PJ Holden

@pauljholden.com

I love this.

Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 1d

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

September 24, 2026 at 9:56 AM

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Russell Parker

@pussellrarker.bsky.social

Such a sad decline from his Sherlock/Doctor Strange heyday www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

Burst Cumbernauld sewage pipe leaves smelly 'Pringles tube sized keech' on path

The issue is said to have been reported to Scottish Water after a pipe burst, spewing raw sewage onto the path behind Drumpellier Gardens.

www.glasgowlive.co.uk

September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM

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Mary Gillis

@marygillis.bsky.social

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary.
That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

September 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

They should cover You Shall Not Pass The Dutchie

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · Dec 20

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Middle Earth Wind and Fire

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Dec 20

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

September 23, 2026 at 10:15 PM

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The Jase

@thejase.bsky.social

The dramatic head turn by Rory Stewart works better with the Batman transition sound fx.

September 23, 2026 at 12:57 PM

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Gregorios Kythreotis

@eteogreg.bsky.social

It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary!

I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works

Find out more here:

www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...

Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

www.eteogames.com

September 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM

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Prince Charles Cinema

@princecharlescinema.com

One of the great ghost stories, THE INNOCENTS, returns to the PCC in a beautiful 4K restoration Wed 21st Oct at 1pm.

🎟️: buff.ly/VLE7c2M

September 23, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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Liberty Films

@libertyfilms.bsky.social

Watch @manmademoon.bsky.social @mrbensmith.bsky.social and Stuart Fenegan intro ROGUE TROOPER at Toronto International Film Festival + Q&A

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ROGUE TROOPER (U.K.; 2026) TIFF Intro + Q&A w/ writer-director Duncan Jones and producers

YouTube video by Coolestmovies

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September 23, 2026 at 5:22 PM

Unklerupert

@unklerupert.uk

Ah fuck he's ace, get some Kiwanuka in your ears.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey, this appears to be on top of the health issues that postponed the album and tour in the first place. Hell of a tough break, but it's good to hear the album is now going to come out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Michael Kiwanuka: Singer reveals he is recovering from a stroke

The award-winning musician says he faces a "tough journey ahead" after a "quite severe" brain injury.

www.bbc.co.uk

September 23, 2026 at 4:43 PM

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