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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 25m

So my name is Sam, not Samuel. But totally independently I have twice been given the nickname (that I hate) ‘Wello’ by people in my life (Samuel -> Samuello -> Uello -> Wello). Really bizarre.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 29m

I do think it was quite easy for people to come off as dopey when 99% of their day is left on the cutting room floor, to be fair. For the viewer, it was two minutes ago and accompanied by a sinister musical sting. For the player, it’s one moment among thousands.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 31m

I will say I think when people have you bang to rights the double bluff murder is the best move. You remove someone pouring heat on you and get to play the “It would be quite a stupid move if I was a traitor” card.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 54m

Shows how ridiculous Rotten Tomatoes is as a metric. Predator, Predators and even Predator 2 deserve better. The Predator should be thankful for such a high score.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 2h

This sounds incredibly trite but I think you should trust a professional sportsperson’s ability to read a game.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16h

[Guy Fawkes falls and breaks his neck]

Get a load of this fucking guy.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Genuinely indistinguishable from MAGA trolls, it’s incredible.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 17h

It’s important to have clearly demarcated Law Obeyance Zones.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 17h

It’s hard but you know it’s the right thing to do.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 19h

It’s SO GOOD. That whole series is fucking GORGEOUS!

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh, is this an Alex Maleev piece?

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

I will say Kate’s traumatic childhood story about - if memory serves - Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is an all-time bit of self-parody.

I remember someone pasting her story from the original film on an old forum and people claiming it was creepypasta because it’s so extreme.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM?...

“You just like a child, you have the *brain* of a child” is something I find myself saying internally a lot.

Key & Peele - "Gremlins 2" Brainstorm - Uncensored

YouTube video by Comedy Central

youtu.be

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

“May I explain how binary search works?”
“I’d rather you didn’t.”

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

I just looked it up and yeah, that’s basically just a plot summary.

Fortunately I am gifted/cursed to forget a blurb moments after having read it.

Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, agree on that much, and entirely prepared to accept I’ve overindexed on ‘Twitter is not real life’ given recent events. As in, it’s still not, but it has a tendency to bleed across in ugly ways.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 21h

A rare disagreement - I’ve long thought Poppy Watch was the first panel and poppy culture the second.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22h

I have more (but still little) sympathy for the private school thing because I could see someone somehow scraping together the money for one and not being absurdly wealthy. Inheritance tax as is by definition only affects the very, very, very wealthy - and even then has lots of obvious loopholes.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22h

Sorry, should say ‘estates’ rather than ‘households’.

Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22h

I guess I would say that taxing inheritance at such a high level (or indeed even lower) that it affects ~4% of households (or indeed multiples more) doesn’t in my view encroach on autonomy or looking after your kids (unless they have very expensive tastes).

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23h

I say this as someone to who inheritance tax may actually… apply:

I’ve always thought it kind of grubby how bent of shape people get about what is basically a big pile of free money they did nothing to earn (and as a result think thresholds should be lower but good fucking luck).

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23h

It’s peculiar. I wouldn’t expect developers to continue to support online games indefinitely because, with rare exceptions, it’s obviously impractical. But then I’d also consider it fair to get a refund when Concord goes tits up after a week. So the question is: where do you draw the line.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 1d

And yet I’m going to demonstrate an incredible resistance to such thinking when I say:

I think people have been trained by Labour leaders, not least the incumbent, to see a leadership hopeful making any sort of left wing noise and go, “Nice barefaced lies for self-advancement you have there.”

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, if anything, grasping the nettle is the least characteristic thing for this government to do.

“They’ll do the thing they’ve already repeatedly done” seems a safer bet.

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