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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 15h

Mesmerised by the band behind him, especially the guitarist (woman, top right) staring daggers at his back, pretty much throughout. youtu.be/skc24Hxp9hE?...

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Shane Gillis Stand-Up Monologue - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 18h

This year's really fucking bleak. Please look after yourselves.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20h

So, the most philosophical take: that in this world, we need all kinds of people to show us how to be - how to live. The logical dreamers to invent things. The dreamy people to make art. And the monsters to remind us what the guardrails of acceptable behaviour should be. Otherwise, I got nuthin'.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 20h

As others are posting, DT is now so divorced from any relatable sense of humanity - posting poor Will Chapman videos and making memes of himself wrestling a tiger to the tune of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - he's practically a kiln. A chainsaw. An orgre from the Brothers Grimm.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 21h

you can do both, for fuck's sakes - you can do anything you fucking like!! Mix and match even within the same fucking paragraph. It isn't as if Laurence Sterne or BS Johnson hadn't broken all the rules years ago anyway. And by the way, you should break the fucking rules. Gleefully.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 21h

Memoir coming along. One of the reasons I was so blocked for 15 years (aside from the fact it's facing some truly grim things) is that I was explicitly told many years ago by another writer you should only write your memoir in either past or present tense. And I couldn't decide. Until I realised...

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

PS - The brilliant and fabulous ALCS is, of course, the Guardian Angel of freelance writers, and if you haven't looked into them yet, have you got a potentially lovely surprise waiting for you!

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Niche post, for other freelance writers. Just phoned the ALCS to see if there was a loophole re newspaper articles (which the photocopier fairies still don't pay out for) if they're replicated online by other sites, such as AOL or MSN etc. Nope. Saved you a phone call.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just thought you should know what a Bluesky bot looks like. Here's a reply by "Emilia" to a bereavement post. Do feel free to call her whatever you like. She literally hasn't a soul.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To be clear, I close it at *nights*. I'm not some lily-livered FUCK.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Finally caved in. I haven't put the central heating on - I'm not a damn soyboy *cuck*. But I have closed the bathroom window.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just received a travel refund from TFL, who graciously reassured me I'm far from the only gullible idiot they've had to reimburse after falling for AI's wicked lies. Moral: Citymapper may be patchy, but it’s more accurate than this humanity-destroying bilge.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy Birthday John Lennon. One I made earlier. (No, it's not fucking Imagine.)

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taken just now from the window of a bus.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Comparative screenshots of X and BlueSky taken a few seconds ago.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you so much! That's really kind of you.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interviewed by ITV before the result. Zero sleep, completely wired. But she would have haunted me to death if I hadn't been there today.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

She really was / is. Force of nature. And thank you x

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Incredibly sad to let you know my girlfriend, bezzie, co-author, and rock, Elise Burns has died. One of the kindest, most vital and spirited people I've ever known, her tireless campaigning with Dignity in Dying will literally be changing the world, for years to come. I love you so much, my darling.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just waking up this morning to discover John Waters calling our SCALA!!! movie great. 😮❤️🙏 Thank you John! Full interview link here, to mark the paperback release of ReFocus: The Films of John Waters. youtu.be/Py6epI3PsdA

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thank you so, so much to everyone who's sharing this today. SCALA!!! was a massive labour of love made on a microbudget, and turned down by everybody, until the BFI, thank God, picked it up. As it's not widely available, it's fantastic to be able to share it for free with potential new audiences. x

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My and Jane's little film SCALA!!! is now FREE to watch for 14 days via this link, thanks to our lovely distributors, the BFI. And it has a terrific intro by Kermode too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... But do consider taking out a BFI player subscription too!

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Extremely fun - and stimulating (not like that - well, a bit like that, here and there) movie. A love letter not just to a cinema, but a scene, a movement - and also to a London that doesn't quite exist anymore. Viva Scala.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Bloody hell. Such a brilliant film about a lost movie world, Sign up!

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theraygun.bsky.social @theraygun.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ali and Jane are lovely people and this is a wonderful film about the place where I discovered so much wonderful stuff. The Alice In Wonderland psychedelic all-nighters were something else

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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is a fantastic doc if you haven’t seen it!

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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 18/05/2026

It's bloody marvellous. Fans of cult movies, fleapits and just cinema in general should check this out.

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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a really enjoyable documentary and very worth your time. It predates all the generative AI guff but really highlights the importance to art of the weird coincidences, chances and connections that make humans create interesting and unique things, rather than flattened out averages.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is genuinely an excellent film, and I'm not just saying that because it also contains time-lapse footage of cartoons being drawn by me.

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