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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Any time that arsehole Merz opens his mouth about needing to be ‘tough’ on right wing issues, I want to deck him. All the countries doing this fence sitting bollocks are deluding themselves (and the population) because it keeps their power and their money.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Depressing to see no one learn how to a) combat hateful populism, b) these anti-establishment folks are the establishment and c) other countries never get better with arseholes like this in. History repeats itself. People can’t imagine life better for them so want it worse for others. Sigh.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fifth Gamescom done. First time doing a booth. Devs can drink. I am a shell.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Who can ever resist something like this? Went purely on instinct to avoid any overthinking so it’s a rough ride. boxd.it/WOgNQ

boxd.it

Top 100 Favourites of the 21st Century

Well everyone else is so I can’t resist jumping on in. In no particular order.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For the love of god, what do we have to do to get people to stop holding lapel mics in videos? What’s the price? Where are the protests? How did we get here? Who’s responsible? I want NAMES.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Immediately overthinking which is why it’s a good question. Cheating a little. Not my favourite artist, but underrated in my favourite genre: youtu.be/r_fb91kP5ek?... Curveball addition would be Phil Collins ‘Wish It Would Rain Down on Me’. Dead serious. I love some Philly C.

youtu.be

Humble Ledger (Gnostic States)

YouTube video by Eidola

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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I still have to check IMDb before I watch any new movie to make sure James Corden is not in it.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Bangover. Voice still six octaves lower. Boiled alive. Take me back to Outbreak.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Jon Champion going through a divorce or something? Weird comments throughout.

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi, the artist, creator and director behind the Oscar-nominated Persepolis and many other works, has sadly passed away. filmstories.co.uk/news/in-memo...

filmstories.co.uk

In memoriam: Marjane Satrapi, author, artist and filmmaker

Marjane Satrapi, the artist, creator and director behind the Oscar-nominated Persepolis and many other works, has sadly passed away.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It’s Always Sunny The Wire BoJack Horseman Barry Curb Your Enthusiasm Arrested Development Perp Show Succession The Sopranos The Rehearsal Taskmaster Malcolm in the Middle The Office (US) Breaking Bad Schitt’s Creek

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Bless him, even when Keir tries to be a twat he’s not even good enough at that. No heart to put into it, but he ‘couldn’t be more clear’.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Keir can’t even win that, Friedrich Merz now leads that race. He’s a top tier twat. I’m sure Starmer will focus group a new way to be insufferable this week.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth, ry’n ni’n yma o hyd.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 06/01/2026

One of the giants of modern European cinema has fallen. RIP Hungarian maestro, Béla Tarr. Damnation, Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Turin Horse… to have made just one of these extraordinary films would have been a life's work completed.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Enjoy it! Let me know what you do to add to my list ha

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

That you’ve got no hope of haha. Only with Glühwein and getting inside to eat. Heumarkt is mad pricy and touristy. Nice to see, not to eat. 🫡 Ehrenfeld is a cool district, good for gigs. Belgisches Viertel has loads of good food.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Nice, enjoy. Let me know if you need any recs. I live near there now.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

There’s going to be three companies left in America at this rate.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Not to bang on the ol’ cinema etiquette drum, but couldn’t resist the special case today of someone bringing and using their fucking laptop?!

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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/11/2025

The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...

a Verge headline: The algorithm failed music

Illustration: A colorful waveform starts to pixelate

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Congratulations! What an incredible dress. Hope you had an amazing day and many years of celebrating together to come.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true

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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Robert Redford had a long and storied career, the kind of episodic tale Robert Caro might write about, and you're going to hear all about it today. Rightly so. That said I'll just contribute that it's one of man's great ambitions to make it to 89 with unbelievable hair and god dammit he did that.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The City Formerly Known as Chicago

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It’s getting worse in Germany too. Wales is always bad when I visit home, but seems to be happening more and more as people get angrier and lazier.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/04/2025

A lot of mediocre middlemen who only care about numbers have long insisted on their necessity as gatekeepers between art and commerce, but the real truth of it all is that smart creative people who just want to make cool shit also happen to be very good at making cool shit that people want to buy.

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Oscar Zeta Gundam @lmfsilva.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A lot of the problems in the world can be traced back to numbers people slowly replacing people skilled and experienced in their area of business at the decision level because line going up became the product, not what they *actually* do, and you see some guys with really weird corporate histories.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Well that’s just jumped to the top of my hype list. Congrats!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/04/2025

getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

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jamsheed @jamsheed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

a nice side effect of No Other Land winning an oscar is that the worst people on earth are incredibly mad about it.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Predictions for tonight’s Oscars in blue. My preferences in pink, where appropriate.

Letterboxd Oscar prediction sheet filled out.

Actor: Adrien Brody in The Brutalist (Colman Domingo in Sing Sing)
Actress: Demi Moore in The Substance (Mikey Madison in Anora)
Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain (Yura Borisov in Anora)
Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldana in Emilia Perez (Ariana Grande in Wicked)
Animated Feature: Flow (The Wild Robot)
Animated Short Film: Magic Candies
Cinematography: The Brutalist (should be Nickel Boys really, but Nosferatu of the nominees)
Costume Design: Wicked (Nosferatu)
Directing: Sean Baker (Anora)
Documentary: Porcelain War (No Other Land)
Documentary Short: I Am Ready, Warden
Film Editing: Conclave (not nominated, again, Nickel Boys or Sing Sing)
International Feature: I’m Still Here (The Seed of the Sacred Fig)
Makeup: The Substance (Nosferatu)
Original Score: The Brutalist (The Wild Robot)
Original Song: El Mal - Emilia Perez (no clue on this honestly)
Production Design: Wicked (Dune: Part Two)
Short Film: Anuja
Sound: Dune: Part Two (Wicked)
Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two
Adapted Screenplay: Conclave (Sing Sing)
Original Screnplay: A Real Pain
Best Picture: Anora (The Substance or Nickel Boys; Sing Sing should have been nominated!)

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It has come to my attention that not nearly enough of you know about Bernd das Brot, the German children's program about a clinically depressed loaf of bread who enjoys studying his wallpaper and eating gruel and whose catchphrases include "my life is hell" and "I would like to leave this show."

An anthropomorphic loaf of bread with bulging eyeballs and hands that grow directly out of his body, next to his mouth, and look oddly human except that there are only four fingers. The photo is good but I must implore you to check out the video.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What will actually help – everywhere – is making people’s lives meaningfully better to take away their power. People who feel isolated spiral further. Make their lives better. Then they wouldn’t be able to use their blame games to empower their bullshit.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Seeing Sky News say this legitimises AfD shows they never learn. AfD do well on grassroots campaigning, pretending to be someone you can have a beer with, while being truly elite and heinous. Tugging at emotions of the people they will burn for a Euro.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Bitteschön, Deutschland, don’t do this. Not again. I don’t want to leave.

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I was late to them too. They were a highlight at a festival a couple of years ago. Incredibly funny on stage, including collapsing during press-ups in the middle of Sports and just groaning into the mic for the rest of the song. Recommend seeing them if you get a chance!

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Peter Avellino @peterapeel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

At least we have this photo of David Lynch and Billy Wilder.

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