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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 12h

A couple stopping, having an argument, then walking on but about ten meters apart, both silently fuming, both wearing a pair of novelty shrek ears

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In honour of Richard O'Sullivan here is the Album Of The Tele-Stars I found in a Seville junkshop which devotes considerably more space to him than it does to the likes of spiderman or superman or Harrison Ford

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Presumably because of some undiagnosed brain injury I have made the mistake of trying to visit the Edinburgh festival using British train infrastructure and it is going about as well as you would expect

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What if I had been hiding behind a rock or a big pipe whilst a squat, mean-faced bad guy hunted for me? What if I had been doing a surgery on a great concert pianist's delicate hands?

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You've all gone straight for threads because you're basic but I've now got Mark Owen's four minute warning stuck in my head

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Based on the big studio presentations I've seen here is my Annecy inside scoop on some of the exciting future projects you can expect

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Was so surprised to meet another writer in Annecy (which features zero talks about writing, unless you count G*rvais and his cats thing) that I tried to help them network at a 'party', forgetting that I have no ability to network and don't even understand what networking is, terrible scenes etc

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Police van parked up near my usually lethal pedestrian crossing and weirdly all the cyclists aren't bombing through the red light, what gives wimps? I thought you were bold lycra road warriors who cared nought for the laws of men

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Christ Almighty what is wrong with you losers just use Claudia to summarize the top 100 books so you have more time for business deals and the gym

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

happy to announce I've found a new ephemera collecting niche for 2026

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Ludicrous security pat-down at the RFH, is something happening on the southbank or is this your standard Everyone Has A Two Day Flap After An Incident a Hundred Miles Away

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Alternatively for the more committed/self employed there's Midnight Sumo's full 8 hour-a-day Livestream on twitch & YouTube

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Aside from everything else in this I enjoy how the endlessly looping ringtone makes it sound exactly like the evil corporate video from Michael Clayton

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Maybe we need to sit all the tech journalists down in front of The Arrival Of A Train At La Ciotat Station and see if they start screaming

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

On a train. Train manager did an announcement on the pa system. Then, when he walked through afterwards, a man near me politely informed him the announcement was unintelligible in this carriage. The manager apologized, explained the train is very old. All smiles. Pleasant interaction. EXCEPT:

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Remembering that Peter Serafinowicz story about Terence Stamp agreeing to do star wars because he was told George Lucas gave amazing gifts to the cast and it turning out to be a phantom menace rub down transfer set, RIP Terence

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

PSA: the very good Vengeance is on Film4 (so also 4player I guess) right now. PSA part 2: for once people are not lying and Weapons is good, shouldn't work but does

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I've phoned three washing machine repair guys and all three are on holiday and now I want to know if washing machine repair guys all go on holiday together to an exclusive washing machine repair guy resort

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Oh god Nero's seems to have added something from the Palm Springs soundtrack to their playlist, this is not going to help my general uneasy feeling of being stuck in a time loop

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'm worried the waxy billionaire man won't be allowed to use bluesky anymore because he's so youthful

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

PSA: if you're into either Tom McCarthy's book Remainder or the Nathan Fielder Rehearsal show I really recommend the Do Ho Su exhibition at the Tate Modern, exactly the same vibe

A detail of a plug socket replicated in some kind of pink gauze material from one of Do Ho Su's immersive artworks

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Failing to notice that I'm cool, not some nerd who reads books, especially not telefantasy tie-in books, my girlfriend got me a ticket to go a Dr Who Target Books Day this weekend, and i don't know how these things work, am I obliged to dress up as a big rubber snake or a WH Allen logo or what

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Grudgingly impressed by the new seat cooling tech on the Vicky line until I got up a few stops later and realised that no, that was just a sopping wet seat and now I am very much hoping someone spilt a bottle of water fucking hell

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My timeline is one half people waving a pitchfork and saying "WeTransfer is bad, burn it!" and one half people doing the Stewart Lee face and saying "aaaaah, actually it's very normal T&C's" and seeing as I have no idea which camp is right I'm just going to eat a load of crisps

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I get that the mech-hitler stuff is the headline, but I feel like not enough attention is being paid to the incredibly embarrassing mecha-poochie "hey daddio just dropping some truth bombs" writing style Grok has developed

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Local Waterstones blithely carrying on regardless. If you finish that jigsaw it's not even the picture on the box it's just a photo of a grinning Arthur Daley

A Waterstones window display featuring the works of Raynor Winn, and a "Salt Path" jigsaw

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

20 years ago today I was walking through central London on my way to my publisher to go through pictures of bean weevil penises and then the bombs went off but we still spent the day looking through pictures of bean weevil penises because it was hard to know what the appropriate response should be

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Just turned on "Sweeney!", the film version of The Sweeney, and this is happening

I don't know. There's some extreme 70s wallpaper. Dennis Waterman is sat on a toilet. John thaw has no trousers.

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - alright Gandhi in that case explain how come this guy lives like Miss Piggy and the UK remains a moral trainwreck

A small white dog reclines on several pillows. His expression seems to say "being me another croissant, you pleb"

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Bit of croissant just fell off my face a full four hours and three social interactions after I ate a croissant :/

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Mentioned that fountain of youth waxy billionaire man to a friend last night and he had never heard of the waxy billionaire man and I am both amazed that it is possible to have avoided the million+ articles about the waxy billionaire man and also incredibly jealous of his having done so

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

@disappointment.bsky.social hello, here is the plate in the flesh and also with a babybel on it for scale. Please note: a babybel, not a mini babybel.

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Impressive that if you search "Adam Curtis" on iPlayer it totally fails to bring up the new Adam Curtis thing, how do I get myself a fancy online seo job

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Just had my fave Carrying My Dog About In A Sling perk: when a builder (or in this case a stall holder geezer) blurts out "I wish it was me in that sling" (meaning "I'm knackered, that looks like an easy time"), instantly realises how it sounds and has to frown in a gruff and very heterosexual way

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Having not rated anything Star Wars adjacent for 40 years I am only just now watching Andor (because people I know kept banging on about it plus I liked Michael Clayton) and yeah it's good but it would be better if Stellan Skarsgard's antique shop had a rival next door run by Donald Sinden

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Think Mike Reid saying "the only reason the fine young cannibals want Johnny to come home is so they can eat him" might be the one recorded example of Mike Reid doing a funny link #totp

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Sam Altman thinks AI will have 'novel insights' next year, Rodney"

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This whole thing with the "how to dress" man you're all weirdly into has at least made me realise that for about a year I've been wrongly conflating him with whoever this "manners" guy is that keeps cropping up on stuff

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Gideon Defoe @gideondefoe.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A quick high agency male before you all mute the phrase high agency male

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