Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At the Wylam Brewery to see Bill Callahan. It’s a cut above my usual haunts. 020
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comSKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the futureSwedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI 9705206
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s my birthday next month, so if anyone was looking to get me a present… www.lyonandturnbull.com/auctions/dar...lyonandturnbull.comJohn Byrne R.s.a. (Scottish 1940-2023) the BeatlesAuction from 'Darkness & Light', 30 September 2026 from 10:00 BST. Lot 49. Signed ‘Patrick’ lower left, oil on canvas 100
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car 020
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fair play to the farmer for being suspicious and calling the police, but getting the vibe she’s rather enjoying the attention. 000
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillLeonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's Movie Monday on the blog. There are many people - some of them claiming to be Coen brothers fans - who dislike 2016's HAIL, CAESAR!, to date the last big-screen feature they've made as a duo. I am not one of those people.immortalscience.pika.pageServing Up These Lollipops - IMMORTAL SCIENCEAs often as the Coen brothers are referred to as pastiche artists, their films tend to be pretty thematically consistent, with the genre-bending taking place more on the level of... 1103
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry was born on this day 1945 in Washington, County Durham. 58517
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Man/Woman/Chainsaw quite wonderful even without bubbles. 010
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillStevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Can barely put into words what a joy it was to write this piece about the making of perhaps my favourite music movie, and definitely my favourite UK hitmakers. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.com‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classicFrom a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music mov... 12212
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Autocorrect wanted to change Rhiannon Giddens to Rhiannon Goddess and was very tempted to leave it unchanged. 030
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Pleasing synergy on my timeline. Shame album wasn’t called ‘Poop Is The Thing With Feathers.’ 000
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is. 7270811519
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 14/09/2026🌍 54 million historical weather observations from 95 countries have been unlocked & made freely available online. 📚 With records dating back to 1837, the project enabled the discovery of an HMS Terror logbook & an international weather station network Read ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/ho...metoffice.gov.ukHow 54 million historical weather records are being made globally accessibleFor more than a century, the Met Office's National Meteorological Archive has held a treasure trove of historical weather data, some of it dating back to 1837. Now, thanks to a major project, tens of ... 28542
Reposted by Aka Brompton Willcineoutsider.bsky.social @cineoutsider.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Oh man, Thomas was a film lover's producer – Bad Timing, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Eureka, The Hit, The Last Emperor, Naked Lunch, Crash (the Cronenberg one, of course), Sexy Beast, High Rise, and many, many more. RIP. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comJeremy Thomas, British producer of The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, dies aged 77Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Bertolucci and David Cronenberg 12510
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I mentioned this back in the summer when the film ‘Pressure’ was released in the US but I had some small involvement in it as an extra. Now it’s out in the UK thought I’d share some of the images from the few days I spent with it. 112
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Driving north by Doncaster, I saw a car with the registration D13 GAY. It got me wondering if it’s someone who’s out and proud and is staying that way until they die or a less than subtle threat? 010
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillRoland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNo cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in ScotlandA study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective". 6360692263
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Came up trumps at charity shops in Berwick. £4 the lot. Some rare digital Albini. 040
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Circle mosh pits nearly always go counter clockwise. 062
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillBilly Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Can't believe Farage has been secretly filmed being in Clacton. 2136250
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillChairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Problem with Cleverly announcing his run at the mayor this early is that he has to say mad things so the party makes him a candidate but London voters can still hear him say them. 062
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy. 26035401066
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It’s kind of mind boggling that Prefab Sprout and Cliff Richard are on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto VI. Can’t help thinking they should have used Cliff’s ‘What Car’ instead of ‘Devil Woman’. 210
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Don’t expect Justin Baldoni to be skinny dipping in this body of water. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/... 010
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillHelen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Will no one give TikTokkers the respect they so clearly deserve? 072
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillTrades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 27/08/2026Tim Curry's Home Alone 2 is about a concierge who's assaulted by two ever-neglectful parents for trying to stop their child's credit card fraud. 3568126
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash. 2455791500
Reposted by Aka Brompton Will(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar 21113432633
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The pair of albums Dolly Parton recorded at the turn of the century are as crucial to her story as the American recordings are to Johnny Cash. 000
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026[Exit Queen.] 2063894711014
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillThat Juliet @superjules84.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you’re going to live your life by one person’s teachings, do make it Dolly Parton. RIP to the most wonderful of humans ❤️ 1469
Reposted by Aka Brompton Will__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oh no No no no, not Dolly 😪😪😪😪😪 7452
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026You now have permission to forget about Dre 14672141
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Sold a CD on Discogs for £3, going to Italy. Go on Royal Mail, on top of postage cost there’s a £4.61 customs fee and £1 handling fee. Total £9.31. Needless to say cancelled the order and have stopped shipping to EU. Thanks, Brexit. The gift which keeps giving. 011
Reposted by Aka Brompton Willchris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026does it even need to be said that the new Lambchop album is amazing, funny and weird and sparse and lush, still finding ways to do things they've never done before, still sounding like no one else 021
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillRachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I’ve been steadily acquiring items from a huge local jazz collection. The main interest being transcription discs that the previous owner made bespoke sleeves for. Here are 9 more. These sleeves are not prints. The last four have collage elements, but the Jelly Roll’s are entirely hand painted. 86911
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Recommended this earlier in the week. Got around to rewatching it tonight and it’s even better than I remember. Jon Lord (RIP) is quite the raconteur, his assessment of Tony Ashton had me howling. As did Ian Gillan remembering his stint in Black Sabbath. youtu.be/ebuyuCbXbbYyoutu.beFamily Rock Trees - Deep PurpleYouTube video by UnkleJohn84 010
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New albums today from Sir Anthony Hopkins and William Shatner. Decisions, decisions, decisions… 121
Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Did terrible on maptap today. On plus side got a PB for catfishing.net - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐟🐈🐈🐈catfishing.netcatfishing - the Wikipedia guessing gameGuess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day. 010
Reposted by Aka Brompton Willspooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026what the hell 0162
Reposted by Aka Brompton WillSam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The ADHD conspiracy and the gender critical movement and the Prof Arday story and the crackdown on disability support are all the same story. There is a default ideal human: a cishet non-disabled white male. The further you deviate from that ideal, the more suspect you become. 131035376
