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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 22h

It’s ok to not have an opinion on where demolishing the White House falls in the Rankings of Shit.

Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Asking as an autistic who would hope to be able to access assisted dying if terminally ill.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Does he mean they would get access to assisted dying FOR their autism or learning difficulties, or does he mean that their autism or learning difficulties would not *prevent* them from accessing assisted dying in the face of terminal illness?

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, neither JKR nor Glinner are musicians. So I think it’s just middle aged people.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Blobby has been found in many photographs throughout the 20th century, and he appears in central European woodcuts and tapestries as early as the 9th century.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

He exists, but only in the Otherworld of British light entertainment television. If you watch, or worse, go ON television, you are crossing into His domain, and He can get you. Noel summoned Blobby into being, thought he could control Him, and Noel’s mind was rent asunder in payment for his hubris.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Casting a guy with a very normal voice and a weird face to play a weird-faced elf character in voice only is a specifically Harry Potter bit of non-logic previously used (decades ago now) to cast MC’s friend Toby Jones as Dobby in the films.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. He’s made a body of work all about outsiders and odd people finding joy in their otherness and loving their best lives. I think that work brought comfort to lots of misfits. He’s the biggest kick in the teeth for me. SIDEBAR:

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

But also - a “lead stunt double” from the films, doing an audiobook read? Wtf is the logic path there?

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

I’m certain Amazon must be offering disproportionately big sums to get these people on for an audiobook, especially given the friends and agents surely giving them reputational advice against doing the gig. But most of these are not people who are often out of work. They are in a position to say no.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a song by Flipron called Cerberus Is As Cerberus Does, and I love it very much. “If you pat one head, you’ve got to pat all the rest”

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to be using “just be glad you don’t understand” from now every time someone catches me doing something awful. Genius coinage.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 2d

0.5% seems very optimistic!

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 5d

I dunno man, I don’t think the Bobs were English-teachering on that level when they picked a cool-looking car to be the time machine. Famously in early drafts it was a fridge.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t think it’s okay to protest unless it solves every problem that exists immediately

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 6d

Really going for that broad demographic who still use the phrase “I’m sick and tired”

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 8d

Tregard came to our school as a storyteller once. Also my 12-year-old friends and I once emailed Lord Fear himself, Mark Knight, who was by then trying to live a quiet life in America. He was very nice and indulged our questions.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 8d

“Going along with the fascism is just playing into their hands!” “Resisting the fascism is just playing into their hands!” Like, at some point you have to accept those are your only two options and one is better than the other.

Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 12d

I would merely point out that using AI to make a laser’d helicopter picture for the poster is a very fash-coded thing to do.

Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 12d

Update: turns out I’m already a member and had forgotten. Classic lefty.

Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 13d

I think this just got a Green membership out of me

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, people were always fighting the self-service checkout gates in the 1970s, you’re so right

Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 13d

Glad of your voice, wherever it is.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 14d

*ideally breaks the gates

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 14d

“Please mister Sainsbury’s, pick me! Pick me!”

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