Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 18mIn Shenzhen a few years ago I popped into a Walmart to see what it was like, and found a whole shelf of Asda pasta shapes 000
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I also felt this way about the b-plot at that point but stick with it 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(horror also another candidate for this - a lot of the Twilight Zone doesn't land these days and I bet the same goes for Black Mirror in a few decades) 000
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My hot take on this is that comedies, out and out ones that is, shouldn't be on lists like this. Comedies tend to date very quickly and what can capture a moment in say 2001 looks tired and dull buy 2026 100
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Genuine lawlessness. What's the point of anything if we can't stop genuine criminality like this? 150
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yeah I wonder if we've reached a point of no return with towns like this. Actual anarchy while the authorities are so terrified of any sort of confrontation or condemnation 150
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Honestly the image here has fantastic potential as a BlueSky diss 020
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is just a modern twist on an old joke isn't it? "I don't know who he is, but his IT support guy's the Pope!" 062
Reposted by Chris ApplegateGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.” 675781287
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Michael Palin's 1980 "Great Railway Journeys of the World" from London to Kyle of Lochalsh on BBC4 tonight, an absolute treat 000
Reposted by Chris ApplegateDr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Excited to announce "Adam Smith's Glasgow: Empire, Trade and the Objects Left Behind" a collaboration between @glasgow.ac.uk and Glasgow Museums. Sign up for guided tours of objects from Glasgow's imperial history, and a lecture on what they mean today: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adam-smith...eventbrite.co.ukAdam Smith's Glasgow: Empire, Trade and the Objects Left BehindA public evening with curators from Glasgow Museums and the University of Glasgow 063
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The thumbnail cut off who the author was and so my first guess was one of the Tate brothers 040
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Other weird thing I remember about him was that Thriller flashmob he organised when Michael Jackson died? At Liverpool Street station for some reason? Just an all round strange guy 110
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My one was at 93 Feet East, outside (so difficult to classify as a pub) 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I witnessed him getting decked but it wasn't in a pub, I didn't realise there were multiple deckings (but not surprised) 100
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Fucking hell, a day to be turning off autoplay video on this app 020
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is a good secondary reason! Google is much easier to understand when you realise it's a sea of competing fiefdoms with KPIs to meet rather than a singular organisation 000
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026My low-key conspiracy theory is that the LLM in Google's search results is deliberately underpowered to make LLMs as a whole look bad and to set expectations lower, as well as make competitors look bad by association (yes I know the actual reason is cost & speed) 231
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don't doubt they are snivelling little freaks for one second, but isn't the whole reason they call themselves "race realists" not just a euphemism, but so you reply "what's a race realist?" and they get a chance to do their bit? 020
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Remind me to tell you mine and @tom-phillips.com wholesome Andy Burnham anecdote some time ago 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The problem with this kind of person is they are unparodyable, their narcissism and eagerness to provoke means they can never be outdone 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A bit gutted that Pervis Estupiñán is no longer a Premier League player, because if you're going for Bond puns, it's hard to beat On Her Majesty's Secret Pervis 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Although I decided to stick with the Bond theme and am quite pleased with this one 100
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 20/08/2026FPL team name time and it turns out, I am incapable of an original thought 140
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In fact unless you fancy long flights to South Africa, Australia or Alaska the only eclipse relatively close to the UK in the next decade is 2034's in Egypt and the Middle East 000
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If yesterday's eclipse enthralled you and you want to see 100% totality - the next total eclipse is August 2nd, 2027, passing through Spain and North Africa. After that one, there won't be another in Europe until 2053, so if you want to see one soon without too much travel start planning! 110
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Doesn't matter quite capture the colours or contrast but still - worth the trip to Zaragoza 190
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Actually surprised there hasn't been a big dumb heist movie where the only opportunity for when the theft can be made is during totality of a solar eclipse 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Self-facilitating, isn't it? I've used the same expression myself, totally Mexico 030
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Meanwhile on Reddit things are getting increasingly unhinged 020
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Extremely amused to see there is a 6K-strong London WhatsApp group of people trying to find eclipse glasses for tomorrow, like an astronomy nerd version of the 2021 Wembley Jib 120
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Funnily enough the padlock I saw was also a combo one, I had the same thought! 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Plus very shaky footage of totality from a plane above the clouds using a handheld camera 030
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Having just returned from a holiday & a climb of Ben Nevis, the sight of the summit radicalised me - graffiti and stickers everywhere, even a padlock on the trig point - all twee shit like this should be classed for what it is which is just posh littering 813119
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Cameron will (rightly) be the PM who got blamed for Brexit but his ruinous cuts under the guise (scam) of remoulding the Uk into a "Big Society" was just as damaging 161
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026But on the plus side we got a Big Society out of it *finger to earpiece* Wait I'm just getting word that... 131
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Actually we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave" is an insane statement 062
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026One seems to be bad luck/poor decisions but the other two seem to be... they just want a nicer house than they can afford? Think it's underrated that not everyone of that era profited from the houseprice boom and now feel like they deserve something (and someone else is going to pay for it) 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026May be just a coincidence but lately have seen an uptick of posts of what perhaps should be called "reverse bank of mum and dad" - adult children being asked to bail out their parents by buying property for them to live in (while also having to manage their own housing costs) 110
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm on holiday geezer cant be bothered with the discourse. Nothing personal xx 010
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Palantir literally assisting in building a network of nationwide prison camps and somehow it's the road cameras that are the vanguard of totalitarianism 110
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Hysterical to me that the biggest bogeyman in America right now, what gets even the most milquetoast liberals manning the barricades and calling for direct action, is... a company that makes ANPR cameras. Absolutely car-brained to death 2141
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I guess there could have been some sort of libel action and it's taken this long 000
