Rob Gilroy
@robgilroy.bsky.social
I'm a bitch, I'm a mother, I'm a child, I'm a lover, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. Hobbies include cycling.
Make web series and funny things. Being the best me I can be, which is usually someone else.
Make web series and funny things. Being the best me I can be, which is usually someone else.
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we do the script in audio-only (via cleanfeed if you're interested) but i really liked this joke which i wrote about ten seconds before we finished recording.
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
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Just because NonCensored is a rival to BBC News that doesn't mean it takes any pleasure in the crisis at the BBC.
Listen now, in all the superior podcast apps.
podfollow.com/NonCensored
Listen now, in all the superior podcast apps.
podfollow.com/NonCensored
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
we do the script in audio-only (via cleanfeed if you're interested) but i really liked this joke which i wrote about ten seconds before we finished recording.
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
anyway, remember that this is bluesky and likes do very little to help this get seen so if you like it, please share it
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November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis
‘Play for Today’ one-off films were a seminal moment in television in the Seventies and Eighties, writes Hannah J Davies. Decades later, Channel 5 is bringing them back, and aiming to diversify small-...
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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forget Mile Graham’s job - I say La Vache is the man for the BBC Director General post
Poor Mike Graham. Couldn't have happened to a more horrible man. But if they need a replacement...
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
forget Mile Graham’s job - I say La Vache is the man for the BBC Director General post
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Excellent thread here from Kit
Time for GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S FRANKENSTEIN DISCOURSE!
I keep seeing people worry about whether del Toro properly did justice to Mary Shelley. And I have to ask: why is that del Toro's job more than anyone else's?
And also, didn't he?
And also, how could he? He's not a mother. 1/
I keep seeing people worry about whether del Toro properly did justice to Mary Shelley. And I have to ask: why is that del Toro's job more than anyone else's?
And also, didn't he?
And also, how could he? He's not a mother. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Excellent thread here from Kit
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Poor Mike Graham. Couldn't have happened to a more horrible man. But if they need a replacement...
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Poor Mike Graham. Couldn't have happened to a more horrible man. But if they need a replacement...
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Farewell to the great Gilson Lavis, drummer for Squeeze (and so much more). Here's a fine example of exactly what he did:
youtu.be/9bTWF7eirJw?...
youtu.be/9bTWF7eirJw?...
Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Farewell to the great Gilson Lavis, drummer for Squeeze (and so much more). Here's a fine example of exactly what he did:
youtu.be/9bTWF7eirJw?...
youtu.be/9bTWF7eirJw?...
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It's supposed to be a STRESS POSITION.
New episode available from tonight -
Please share. Is it too much to ask?
New episode available from tonight -
Please share. Is it too much to ask?
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It's supposed to be a STRESS POSITION.
New episode available from tonight -
Please share. Is it too much to ask?
New episode available from tonight -
Please share. Is it too much to ask?
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Definitely worth re-sharing this amazing @coreyatad.com story
An in-depth look at the video team that helped so many people get into the Zohran Mamdani campaign: defector.com/selling-zohran
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU…
defector.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Definitely worth re-sharing this amazing @coreyatad.com story
A great article on something that's bugged me about these ads for the last few years. Although, I will not stand for the personal assassination hidden in the line 'one of them hides his sadness by buying a new shacket every month'. Uncalled for...
Since I'm a famed sappy dad, the Observer asked me to interrogate the John Lewis Christmas Ad Industrial Complex. On this oddest of cultural lodestars being stripped to its bare wires; a confusing, crass, and effective bit of emotional weaponry.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The John Lewis Christmas ad is machine-tooled schmaltz – ...
Expensive, creative yet weirdly formulaic: this annual extravaganza has nearly collapsed under its own weight
observer.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A great article on something that's bugged me about these ads for the last few years. Although, I will not stand for the personal assassination hidden in the line 'one of them hides his sadness by buying a new shacket every month'. Uncalled for...
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*Chris de Burgh voice*
Dick Cheney is dead!
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
*Chris de Burgh voice*
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Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian.
[Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa].
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PRESENTER:
Now - some disturbing new research has shown
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PRESENTER:
that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK.
[Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives
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PRESENTER:
In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage
[We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage]
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PRESENTER:
Nigel, what’s your view?
FARAGE:
Well I think this very worrying.
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FARAGE:
And just another reason why we should ban all immigration.
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PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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PRESENTER:
Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it?
FARAGE:
Oop - plug time!
PRESENTER:
Ha ha
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FARAGE:
Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’.
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[Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc]
FARAGE:
It’s a really emotional journey
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FARAGE:
with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...
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FARAGE:
as I answer the question:
*Am I the only option for Britain?*
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[Cut back to studio]
PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
Isn't this a Flight of the Conchords bit? They went back in time and taught David Bowie his own songs. In the end they gave him an Easy to Play: Bowie book to save time.
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Isn't this a Flight of the Conchords bit? They went back in time and taught David Bowie his own songs. In the end they gave him an Easy to Play: Bowie book to save time.