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Tom Sutcliffe

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1h

I refer you to Hilaire Belloc

Lord Finchley

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light/ Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!/
It is the business of the wealthy man/To give employment to the artisan.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2h

What are you thinking!!!

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Jul 6

For just $30 an hour I will watch streaming shows with your parents and tell them whether something is a flashback

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1d

I do hope all this adulation doesn’t alter President Trump’s gracious and unassuming character…

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Or “Not experienced experience”. As I call it.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1d

Someone on the news talking about “vicarious lived experience”. Which presumably is another way of saying “unlived experience”.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1d

I like it that Death is such a big fan of Heath Robinson too. Really puts the work in on the detailing. He’d be huge on YouTube…

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Final Destination: Bloodlines. Pure cinema. Every close-up an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon in embryo.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 1d

Netflix’s “Slow Burn”: two hours of plot spread over eight.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2d

Not for me. But some people seem to love it.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2d

I’m also questioning the wisdom of lighting the brewery with a mixture gaslight and GIANT BONFIRES.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2d

Ironically the street scenes are strikingly short of horseshit…

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2d

Watching The House of Guinness. There’s a publican who appears to be in his way to a fancy dress party as a leprechaun. I’m not *absolutely* convinced this is an accurate representation of nineteenth century Dublin.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 3d

You’d hope. But I checked and I’m pretty sure it is.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 3d

Is it possible for a country to die of embarrassment?

@realDonald Trump
Thank you to President Putin!

Above a Putin quote about President Trump not winning the Nobel
Peace Prize:
"This award lost credibility. The committee discussed the prize for people who have done nothing for the world."
"He solves complex problems, crises that last for decades."

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure. But it’s close to midnight I think.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 3d

Went to see Katherine Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite. Quite glad I’ll be among those who won’t have a clue what the hell just hit them.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 4d

I endorse this message.

Pair of pale blue jeans draped over an overflowing bin on the Blackstock Road. “DO NOT LISTEN TO HIM” is scrawled in blue marker pen over the seat and upper legs.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 4d

Brace yourself…

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 4d

It would be disastrous to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. He wouldn’t have to make any kind of effort to win it any more.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 5d

Chalky I could handle…. Though I should confess that my opinion is based on around 25 minutes of the first episode of the first series. I know perfectly decent human beings who tell me that it ISN’T a perfect distillation of our faithless, solipsistic, truth-deprived times.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 5d

A headline that neatly sums up why I don’t watch Traitors.

Headline from The Times

REVIEW
The Celebrity Traitors — a fun start but will these luvvies get nasty enough?

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 6d

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 6d

The details in this story are magnificent.
www.thetimes.com/article/3dc7...

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 7d

People are laughing. But I for one am proud to be Britiash….