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Calum Waddell

@brassupnorth.bsky.social
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Academic and former Twitter user. Views my own.

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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 8h
*second para. Sorry.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 8h
Don't let Benjamin Lee review horror films Gruaniad, don't do it, he has zero genre knowledge. Oh fuck. First paragraph in and he reveals he doesn't know Halloween Resurrection exists. Fuck me. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦⚰️🎃🕸🖤 @afizgig.bsky.social · 16h
Happy birthday to the beautiful actress Lynn Lowry #BOTD 🥳🍾🥂
A blurry photo of me and tge actress Lynn Lowry.A cropped photo of my arm and hand around Lynn Lowry's neck.A photo of Lynn Lowry from the movie Shivers signed by her to me.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 10h
Read a book.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 12h
Now TV still owe me £200 and I fucking hate the fact I'll need to give them my cash to watch Crystal Lake.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 22h
I really love horror films but those who lie on the extremes of that genre (hello Shawn Fedorchuk), their fans or participants, and those who look for real death footage always seemed like psychopaths-in-hiding to me. So seriously, fuck you if you need to see a guy being eaten alive by a tiger.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We all know Reform are awful, please do watch this
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remembering ROBBIE COLTRANE — who left us 4yrs ago today, aged 72.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hear me out - of course Connery was the best Bond, but Moore had the Bond films I return to the most.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Think I've had this new Covid strain since Sat. Utterly fatigued.
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Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk · 13/10/2026
The Beyond by Lucio Fulci
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Apparently I met Russell Brand when he was on the cusp of becoming big shit. The fact I don't remember this says everything you need to know.
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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 13/10/2026
It's the same as how they posit the extra checks at airports for Brits going in their hols to the Med as the EU being "awkward" and "troublesome" on purpose. No, it's our fault for leaving the EU, requiring us to need the extra checks visas, etc. Us, not them. Us.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
‘Oven ready’ deal
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I also feel this film starts off so freaking well and then just goes "meh" (I know Tobe was directing under duress, while also probably funding the entire Colombian narcotics industry, but even so...)
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We are heading towards a cashless society anyway.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk · 12/10/2026
The House by the Cemetery by Lucio Fulci
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Marriage is reserved by faith, and no different from other majority religious countries (Qatar, UAE, Egypt) - I'm against it, but I am not religious, don't single out one country. 93% of land is most certainly not set aside for Jews, that's Tik Tok BS.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm muting you now as I actually have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1) I am not American 2) lmfao that you are sharing memes
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Frank Dikötter's new book, Red Dawn Over China, is so far absolutely brilliant + up to his excellent standards. I love this aside in the introduction, as China Studies has, and I've said it before, allowed white cosplaying revolutionaries to produce fan fiction. The discipline needs this man so much
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hamas governed Gaza in 2005 because of the right to self determination. Dipshit.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hamas is just Mandela innit?
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Greens want to argue that Corbynite left populism is working for them, it's your party. But if your Leader can't win a low turnout by-election in Camden and you've embraced anti-Semitism in the same week, then there may be warning signals worth paying attention to.....
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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I really hope the ordinary American knows what the world thinks of their country currently. Might motivate them to do something www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What if Mike Flanagan said the LEPRECHAUN franchise is ripe for revisiting
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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 09/10/2026
Utterly vile. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.
Trump admin wants to televise an execution
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You are going to shit yourself when you find out how many Black soldiers fought in Angola for the South African apartheid regime.
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Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.com · 09/10/2026
Alternatives? The same as they had before ChatGPT was a thing. This person, who claims a degree in Physics, seems incapable of independent thought and can't see anything beyond using a famously unreliable LLM to find "facts". Google. Wikipedia. A local sodding library!
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'll let you figure it out.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What's your favourite Skrewdriver song?
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There's loads of this in academia. They don't care where the Jews go, they just don't want Jews to have a state.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm appalled you are allowed in a classroom.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm blocking
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The UN resolution was led by racists in Moscow, a number of dictatorships, the likes of Suharto, Mao and Idi fucking Amin. If that's your moral posse, then have fun. That motion and this one is very racist. Imagine a similar vote condemning, I dunno, Qatar being a sunni majority country.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm not religious so have no stake in this either. Good to see civilised debate and hopefully we all agree the Greens have done a very very silly and racist thing.
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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Aged like milk
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Paul Champ @paulchamplaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is disturbing to read that some are planning pro-Palestine protests today, on October 7. The Oct 7th atrocities by Hamas were evil and antisemitic, with the obvious goal of provoking disproportionate attacks on Palestinians. Today should only be about mourning Jewish lives.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A nice, respectful post. Predict the replies. Go on.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We know that you are not about to mourn the events of three years ago so probably best you stay quiet instead.
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Bill DeMayo @bdemayo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
There's no excuse for what Netanyahu is doing. There's no excuse for also helping Netanyahu carry this out.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Of course you don't. One look at your feed makes that obvious.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He's a good interviewer and a smart guy, I find it really disappointing when I'm reminded of his frequently illiberal views (which he does do well to hide).
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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look at this foul Qatari lapdog.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so sorry. I remember three years ago the protests and justification already starting. And what did any of them think a maniac like Netanyahu would do in response? They were ironically cheering on what was to come. Shameful.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He's a turgid antisemite. My party (the SNP) sadly has more than it probably cares to admit.
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Calum Waddell @brassupnorth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Take my country's flag from your profile. My family fought against fascists, driven by antisemitism, in World War 2. Fuck you. Vile slither of hate.
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