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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 28/09/2026

And was told off for being late. Another passenger and I evacuated the bus, because the driver refused to believe there was a problem. 30 seconds before this, passengers were grouped around the back of the bus while he looked at the engine, insisting it was fine.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 24/09/2026

Yes, @allgoodbookshop.co.uk always looks this sexy. You should come check it out.

A perfectly pink, purple and yellow sunset, settling into houses and cars heading to the vanishing point, with the bookshop on the left of the picture.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 22/09/2026

Well, I think they landed that plane as well as they could. Emotional and beautiful in places. The story of human lives.

The poster for 70 Up, showing the cast at 7 and 70.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 19/09/2026

40 years later. Still hits like a truck.

Me outside the Prince Charles Cinema, which has a banner for Transformers 1986 Apology Tour.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 06/09/2026

Leviticus is really fucking good. Queer horror, basically about Christian conversion therapy, which makes you care enough about the characters to care more about the horror. Very It Follows, but more intimate.

Poster for Leviticus. Illustration of two young men kissing, while one holds a lighter, which is casting a red light in between them.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 03/09/2026

My brain keeps parsing this as Colin Baker's Doctor at the front.

The poster for The Incomer. Domhnall Gleesoj is front and centre, wearing a red jacket with yellow highlights.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 31/08/2026

Well, that was a hell of a night. Got to finally see a proper Kenny Omega main event, topping off a great show overall. The New Day/Level debuting was a highlight, as was the Young Bucks/Cope and Christian match.

Wembley Stadium at night, with a ring in the middle, screens, lights and fireworks going off for Kenny Omega's entrance.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 28/08/2026

I know it's spider season, but even so, the size of this absolute unit. Like, it's difficult to get over just how big it is, but I think the fence helps.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 25/08/2026

I know it's the Mail, but still, it seems like you have to work hard for the story to be 'pills are bad' and not 'Jesus fucking tapdancin Christ, 1 in 7 are finding life in this country so difficult, they need medication to get through'.

The Daily Mail front page, with the headline 'Record 1 in 7 on antidepressants as pill use rockets' and 'Concerns grow as prescriptions surge 21% in five years'

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 19/08/2026

Got this ad on Facebook earlier. And two things about it. 1 - Meta seems fine with porn (from a JOI page) as long as it's AI. Which is weird but tracks. 2 - AI is so weird, it's added some strange... growths along her neck and collarbone? Like massive welts. This all seems very meta.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 15/08/2026

Saw this on Facebook and the Spectator should frankly be shut down.

A collection of Spectator headlines about Jason Arday. All opinion and all being vultures.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 13/08/2026

My favourite picture from yesterday, although shows how badly the drought has affected the park as well.

Parched grass at the bottom, before the frame of the lenses, then the top half is darkness with an orange sun, partially eclipsed by the moon.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/08/2026

The fuck, @bsky.app? The election hasn't happened yet.

The Trending topic says 'Farage wins Clacton seat'

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/08/2026

If these trends from July-August continue, the sky's the limit. You should definitely invest in eclipse sunglasses. Ayyyy.

Disco Stu pointing at a graph going up, with 'Disco records' replaced with 'Eclipse glasses'

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 11/08/2026

Trump keeps trying to pull the big man act while hiding in a catering truck like Snarf in an episode of Thundercats. He was probably hiding in a catering trolley with a sheet over it, with the entire trolley shaking like a shitting dog.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 10/08/2026

Someone may have done this already, but I'm still happy with it.

The 'NOW That's what I Call Music' album cover meme, with the text reading 'NOW this is a story all about how... prince of a town called Bel-Air'.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 09/08/2026

"You're blocking out the music of humanity"

The Irritating gentleman painting by Berthold Woltze, with a woman in a victorian train, being annoyed by a man leaning over the seat behind her, except she's now wearing headphones.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 09/08/2026

"You're blocking out the music of humanity"

The irritating gentleman by Berthold Woltze, with a Victorian woman enduring a man leaning over the seat behind her to talk, but she's wearing headphones

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 05/08/2026

This is something I haven't seen locally before - a but of shrubbery or something absolutely covered in spiderwebs. It's at least six foot high.

A large, dead plant in front of a tree enmeshed in railings and absolutely thickly covered in spiderwebs.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 04/08/2026

8 - First book you remember reading yourself. Transformers: Decepticon Hideout. Notable for a rare toy version of Galvatron used for illustration. Main thing I remember is Hot Rod wanting chrome wheel trims.

Transformers Decepticon Hideout, featuring Galvatron being hit by a wrecking ball of some kind.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 03/08/2026

Thoughts are with Kemi Badenoch at this difficult time.

Kemi Badenoch tweets:
Just heartbreaking to hear the news about Rod Liddle.
I don’t have the words to express how sad this is. For journalism, for his readers and most of all his friends and family. Had missed his column and hearing his voice on the radio. Thought he was on a break.
Rest in peace, Rod. You will be very much missed.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 03/08/2026

Oh man, Rod Liddle has passed. I think it's best to remember him using his own words and sentiments, like "...the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids."

Text reads:

Rod Liddle
A teenage girl, a maths teacher and a righteous tabloid fury
From magazine issue:
29 Sep 2012

I seriously contemplated being a teacher once upon a time, when I was lot younger. It seemed to me an agreeable doss, and one didn’t have to be too bright or too ambitious, or possess any great quantity of knowledge. I sometimes wondered what sort of teacher I’d prefer to be; one of those ingratiating young men who plays meaningful pop songs on his guitar to the class and affects an air of faux rebelliousness, the kind of teacher whom as schoolchildren we all despised, or the other kind — sarcastic, stentorian and occasionally brutal, the kind we all feared. It was one or the other; there is no middle way.

I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I’d be right in there, on day one. We’re talking secondary school level here, by the way — and even then I don’t think I’d have dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive school a few teachers were known to be schtupping the pupils; one of them, a female teacher who was extremely foxy in a Pot Noodle scuzzy kind of way — she copped off with some fifth-form lad, and another teacher (a man with a guitar and a faux rebellious attitude) gained the affections of an extremely attractive fourth-form girl. As pupils, we didn’t remotely mind about this and both teachers were very popular. But I knew, when I was considering my career options, that this sort of behaviour was definitely frowned upon by the authorities and that I would not last the week in my new job. Frowned upon, although not much more, I ought to say — certainly not the deranged howling that is kicked up these days, the fury and the righteous anger."

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 03/08/2026

"Well, of course that makes it perfectly acceptable, doesn't it?"

Melchett from Blackadder II (upon hearing Blackadder saying about 'Bob' 'But when I fell in love with her, I thought she was a boy'.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 02/08/2026

My Warhammer starter kit looked badass once I painted it.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 30/07/2026

LinkedIn after pushing 'rewrite with AI' on everyone:

A baby Godfather with a caption 'Nice thought leadership you got here. Be a shame if someone added a 'seems like AI slop' button'.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 30/07/2026

The BBC Dracula from 1977 really liked using zoom shots. So I collected them all and set them to music. For no good reason other than that I found them amusing.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 27/07/2026

This type of messaging just gets my back up. Sainsbury's using facial recognition is one thing - making the starting point 'Your safety is our priority' is obviously bullshit. It's clearly about shoplifting and 'your safety' is a huge stretch.

A poster on the entrance to the Wood Green Sainsbury's. Text reads 'Your safety is our priority. We're using facial recognition technology to protect colleagues and customers in this store. Your privacy is protected. Don't worry, the technology is designed to only recognise known offenders who have committed acts of violence, aggression or theft. For everyone else, any data generated by the software is deleted instantly.' - then there's a QR code.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 22/07/2026

Say you had a run-in with Van Helsing.

Winona Ryder with a burn on her forehead in Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 14/07/2026

But mainly, what's smart about Moriarty The Patriot is how well it works with the original Holmes premise and stories - enriching some of them, and giving them a wider point. The enemy in this series is privilege, and that gives it a lot of energy - and allows for some really smart interweaving.

From the title sequence, Moriarty holding a gun to his head.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 14/07/2026

On some levels, Moriarty The Patriot bravely poses the question 'What if everyone in a Sherlock Holmes story was hot?' - and the answer is just enormously fun.

Sexy Miss Hudson, Sexy Sherlock, Sexy (mystery woman) and Sexy Watson

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 13/07/2026

He came out as bi in his autobiography. He now keeps having retirement matches, and now wears a rainbow mask. I was at one of his last matches in 2024 and took this:

Kendo Nagasaki, wearing a rainbow mask, holding his arms and sword out to the crowd in a wrestling ring.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/07/2026

It also has an uncredited Michael Caine's first speaking role. And, well... I guess some men just want to watch the world burn.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/07/2026

Also, Leo McKern (on the left in this picture) was, and I can not stress this enough, 41 when this was made. We're all terribly old.

Various cast, with everyone looking hot, including Leo McKern on the left, looking a lot older than 41.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/07/2026

Also, it's set in the Daily Express back when it was a newspaper. Now, you'd expect their headlines to be more like 'Immigrants cause Earth to fall into Sun'.

The Daily Express building looking admittedly cool in Black and White

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/07/2026

Watched the absolutely belting The Day The Earth Caught Fire at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk yesterday. It's all about the earth being knocked off its orbit and moving towards the sun, so throughout the film, everything gets hotter. Couple of things worth noting.

The poster for The Day The Earth Caught Fire, with 'The incredible becomes real! The impossible becomes fact! The unbelievable becomes true!'

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 12/07/2026

They should re-release the game Baby Steps as the Conor McGregor Fight Simulator.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 11/07/2026

Shortly after this, Debbie Harry was in a wrestling play with Andy Kaufman, and was trained by British wrestler Brian 'gold belt' Maxine.

Debbie Harry setting up a 'Mexican surfboard' stretch on Andy Kaufman.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 09/07/2026

Watched The Invite last night and really enjoyed it. It's an odd mix of funny, sexy and hideously stressful, and struck me as the film version of this meme. All four of the cast are great.

The meme from @nicegirlmeg of 'Hey, my girlfriend saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?"

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 03/07/2026

Also led to them recreating the photo

The embarrassing dad talking to stranger meme with everyone 20 years later and the son now grown up, still masked.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 30/06/2026

I bumped into him in the corridor after and told him I'd enjoyed his autobiography. "Yer've read it? I've had a life, me, an't I? And you know what? If abortion were legal when I were born, I wouldn't have!"

Kendo, without his mask, raising his hand on the ring

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 30/06/2026

Ha, damn, I was feeling so helpful. But here's a picture of Kendo Nagasaki from end of 2024, when he supposedly retired at 83. He came back the following year. And came out a few years earlier.

Kendo Nagasaki, wearing a rainbow mask, in a wrestling ring, holding his arms out and holding a sword while the ref and photographers are around.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 29/06/2026

I know 'X is fucked up' isn't news, but this shocked me when it turned up in my feed multiple times when I glanced in. AI-generated ads with links to scam websites... showing Nigel Farage pulling a gun on Question Time to crusade against 'the financial elite'.

Supposedly from 'Ephraim Muchanya' @emuchanya', a post with Nigel Farage hurling a glass of water over (I think) Andrew Bailey, head of the Bank of England and being held back by security. The text all over saying 'Millions fooled: Farage Exposes Bank of England's Hidden Agenda LIVE', and the busy image showing 'Live Now', 'The broadcast that shook Britain - an unbelievable scandal in the studio', with 'Breaking News, Live Studio Clash: Water thrown as tensions explode on air', 'Host and guest erupt in shocking confrontation', 'Glass of water thrown live on set', 'Security rushes in as argument escalates', 'Viewers demand answers' and 'Click to see why - what sparked the explosive on-air showdown'

From a clearly hacked account and linking to a scam site, a tweet featuring Nigel Farage pulling a gun on Question Time, threatening someone I think is meant to be Andrew Bailey (head of the Bank of England), while being held back by a very American security. The caption reads 'Britain in shock: What happened live on air?' and has the CTA: 'Read before it's deleted'

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 27/06/2026

Randy Savage wore his red and yellow Ultimate Maniacs gear for the Slam Jam music video - and I reckon that landed him the Slim Jim gig. (Slam Jam/Slim Jim causing the concept and he was in the brand colours).

Along with other wrestlers, including a grumpy looking Ultimate Warrior, Randy is in red and yellow

Also in red and yellow, Randy selling Slim Jims

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