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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Following up “I’m easy” with “…as that toilet wall says.”

Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seems wide of the mark given he, you know, signaled the end of the triple lock and wants to undo the Brexit settlement. Those aren’t things many people will like.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most striking of all is that this is explicitly a very *pro-politics* speech, a direct rebuttal to the anti-politics that is so widespread. And rightly so: politics can change things, it is an admirable thing to choose to engage in and a duty for us all to step forward and pursue.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw a headline today about OpenAI deciding not to release its latest model because of “safety concerns”. And I thought, what an absolute genius piece of marketing to cheat your investors.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw Michael Palin at an event several months ago and he made a pleasantly vicious joke about how “some of us had wives to pay”, which was why Monty Python did their reunion show

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Fa-ghoul-tha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think all the time about how on Twitter Eric Idle said he doesn't talk to Cleese, and some stupid little parasocially warped shit said 'That makes me sad' and Idle said 'Why? It makes me happy.'

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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tfw you decide after several years of trying you'd rather not be the regional hegemon

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✋🏻 Just Jack 🤚🏻 @luxurytrash.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The museum scene from Batman (1989) set to Prince’s “Partyman”, which was written for the film’s soundtrack

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✋🏻 Just Jack 🤚🏻 @luxurytrash.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Poison Ivy’s entrance in Batman & Robin

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m reading ‘Barbarians at the Gate’ - about the collapse of RJR Nabisco in the late ‘80s - and there seemed to be *so many dumb people* operating in senior positions

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can remember a class where we had to write jingles for some reason one day 🤔🤔🤔

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve always thought the idea that Burnham was “neutralizing” Miliband by putting him in the Foreign Office was wide of the mark. Whichever Cabinet job he was given, he’d make moves.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Re Bayeux Tapestry discourse: I knew Oliver Dowden was a dense ball of mass when, amid the BLM protests and the removal of statues, he complained that the “woke” Left would probably want us to return the Tapestry to France next…

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Sam P @samjoshphillips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Haven’t checked the news all day Keir Starmer is going to be George in Sunday in the Park with George?!

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I used to think this, but then saw reports that he hated adjudicating disputes between ministers. So like, I guess he wouldn’t have enjoyed being a judge either!

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An accountant makes some changes in their life

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

Oppenheimer saying “I’m a New Deal Democrat”

Andy Burnham embracing a haunted Ed Miliband in the Cabinet room

The last Japanese soldier fighting the War

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I had to stop reading Tim Snyder’s Bloodlands. The endless horrors were *too much*

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There was a great meme on Old Twitter where it was stills from Batman films, from Adam West onwards. Each one getting dimmer and dimmer. Then “Batman (2028)” was just a black screen.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

would have been the funniest thing that ever happened

White House Construction May Have Contributed to Marine One Close Call

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What makes this even more confusing is that, ahead of The Odyssey, the original trailer played right before one for Hugh Jackman’s Robin Hood film

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In so far as I “give it” to Tim Montgomerie, I think the Right missed a trick in not embracing his approach to gay marriage - reimagining something progressive as actually conservative, and using that to gain new support for a traditionalist view of society.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Still several months to go, but a tentative 37/37 list…

1. Moonstruck (1988)
2. Heat (1995)
3. Dangerous Liasons (1988)
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
5. The Fugitive (1993)
6. Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
7. First Wives Club (1996)
8. Do the Right Thing (1989)
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
10. The English Patient (1996)
11. Before Sunrise (1995)
12. The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
13. The Hours (2002)
14. Secrets and Lies (1996)
15. GoldenEye (1995)
16. Mission: Impossible (1996)

17. The Secrets in Their Eyes (2010)
18. Ronin (1998)
19. The Birdcage (1996)
20. Sister Act (1992)
21. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
22. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
23. Miss Congeniality (2000)
24. Three Colours White (1994)
25. Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991)
26. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
27. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
28. Julie & Julia (2009)
29. Tremors (1990)
30. Conclave (2024)
31. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
32. Parasite (2019)
33. Speed (1994)
34. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
35. Point Break (1991)
36. Twister (1996)
37. Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I saw a journalist goading Burnham yesterday on whether there’ll be an election this year. May didn’t call one a good nine months or so into her premiership.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Andy Burnham in Kyiv: "Ukraine has been Europe's protector. Not a drain on our security, but a front line of keeping Europe safe. On behalf of everyone in the United Kingdom, днем незалежності україно, Happy Independence Day]... We are with you in this struggle, all the way, heart and soul."

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Don’t get me started on Oxelstierna!

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kinda similar with the stuff The Economist atm. This isn’t, I would say, what their readers want.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Latest in “What’s going on at The Economist?” bsky.app/profile/arch...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

>imperial concubine controls national security >court eunuchs are ceaselessly fighting for internal influence >the viziers are scheming over who replaces the leader >the leader fritters away all his time repeatedly replacing the grass on the lawn >the palace debt grows greater by the day

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Another one of her lovers was the husband of the author Olivia Manning. When David bumped into him in London just after the War, he greeted her with: “Elizabeth! How lovely to see you! Let’s fuck.”

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m reading a biography of the great food writer Elizabeth David - and this reply from an ex-lover about the news of her marriage is absolutely ruthless:

Elizabeth was too perceptive not to be aware that many of the people she most respected were not impressed by Tony. Perhaps this was why she always seemed rather reluctant to talk about him, and certainly her letter to Peter Laing announcing her marriage was reticent in the extreme. Many thanks for your letter telling me of your marriage,' wrote Peter from Montreal on 10 December. T hasten to wish you every happiness and I am sure you will be happy too. Your brief note, however, does not disclose in any manner the identity of the fortunate man. In fact, it is written in such a way that all that appears to have occurred is that you have changed your name'

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Restore the social, personal and professional cost of racism.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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Sam P @samjoshphillips.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can we just reckon with the fact we’ve just witnessed the press force a Black man to his death

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Stavros Halkias: I don't wanna do the both sides bullshit because it's not true. One side is worse than the other, objectively speaking. One side is disappearing people and one side wants children to have healthcare. A lot of stand up comics happened to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Detective Hole was *not* the show I was expecting when I pressed play on Netflix

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