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Assessment type. Films, records, books, that Sort Of Thing. Will write for Scampi Fries, or cash with which to buy them. I’m not like this because I’m in Van Halen, I’m in Van Halen because I’m like this. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/jKip

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · Aug 7

*presses the self-promotion button*

Delighted to be in this Record Collector special, going on about The Mighty Crim, alongside some excellent people.

*ends*

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Oh, spot on!

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 11h

Big fan of Alan’s j(/sh)acket #celebritytraitors

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Why has Kate come to the round table as Blossom? #celebritytraitors

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‘A WHAT?’

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 17h

I seem to have angered local squirrels

The view out of my back door, across the patio. There is a squirrel, standing on the back step, his front paws up on the door frame, looking through the window with an air of ‘You wot mate?’

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 22h

Those first few paras are a hoot; will grab a copy (to go with the reissue hopefully landing tomorrow)

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Wow, this is ‘the actual business of the board game Mouse Trap’ levels of ‘I don’t care about your silly rules’ #celebritytraitors

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 1d

Will be adopting ‘don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining’ from hereon. #celebritytraitors

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Tartan strides klaxon #celebritytraitors

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

Stephen Fry: The perspicacity of our unseen nemesis is unfathomable

[A slowed-down acoustic cover of We Are The Cheeky Girls plays for no reason]

#thetraitors #celebritytraitors

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 1d

JW: Night Moves (1975). Arthur Penn’s California neo-noir with a superb lead performance from Gene Hackman. He plays an ex-footballer turned private detective. Hired by faded Hollywood actress to find her runaway daughter, he finds more than he bargained for, including smuggling and murder. #Filmsky

Poster for Arthur Penn’s Night Moves (1975). A black background with the film’s title in red. The byline is ‘maybe he would find the girl…maybe he would find himself’. An illustration shows Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) against an underwater scene, with a diver searching the depths, as Harry’s investigator license sinks into the water. A Yellow Sea plane flies above.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2d

This is devastating.

I think for my age, he’s *the* generational genius of pop music. That he’s a unique vocal talent, on the level of Marvin Gaye, goes without saying, but his colossal musical intelligence is what made him D’Angelo. A unique musical intellect.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51

Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer

www.theguardian.com

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 3d

Friends fear he’s… etc.

The view from a seat in NFT1, at a London film festival screening

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 4d

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 6d

Farewell to John Lodge, bassist and vocalist for the Moody Blues. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82

Musician died peacefully surrounded by sounds of Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly, family say

www.theguardian.com

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 6d

You have my attention.

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 6d

For our first Weekend Dish, Syrian chef Imad Alarnab adds aubergines to shakshuka, the classic recipe ‘that represents the whole Middle East’

Interview by Claire Armitstead

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Imad Alarnab in the kitchen. Text: The Nerve Weekend Dish: Imad Alarnab's Syrian aubergine shakshuka

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“I Can’t Believe It’s Just Hütter”

Steve Coogan Fan @stevecooganfan.bsky.social · 6d

And it's not even Kraftwerk – it's just Ralf and three random blokes

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 7d

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...