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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brutal piss taking by the US to praise so many of our TV shows while their tech companies destroy the financial model that allowed us to make any of them

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(8 yo banging around in the bathroom) Me: What's all that banging 8 yo: there wasn't any banging Me: Of coruse there was banging, that's why I've come out to see what all the banging was. it's like parenting fucking nixon

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For reals. This world is not meant for people like me who are so embarrassed about talking themselves up that the first time their family members find out about a play is when they see a poster on the tube

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

8yo: I want to keep my bedroom door open all night but I also want the cat to not come in. Me: you are behaving like every UK political party of the last 15 years

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ah, the world of today, where everyone's last performance is Orson Welles in Transformers The Movie because pretty much everything is Transformers The Movie

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm trying to improve my cinema literacy this year by watching the movies on the Sight And Sound 250 list. Random and extremely non-definitive thoughts on all of them here.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bill Oddie wrote and performed so much stuff that I think is great. Very sad.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Great player, great shirt, great team, great man

Kevin Keegan playing for Southampton, c.80-82

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is so obviously New Order to me. Great band, so many fantastic tracks. But is even PC&L a "great" album? It's FINE.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Its 100 copies of Gangsta Granny

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Caterlink chasing 50p on the 8yo's balance. As the old saying goes, when you owe Caterlink 5p, you've got a problem. When you owe Caterlink 50p, Caterlink's got a problem

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Daughter has this from school - I assume it downplays the contribution of Paul McCartney

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fucking hell, Peter Gabriel 2's a great record. Haven't listened to it in years, stonker.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For some reason I can't quite adequately explain, it's Flesh and Blood by Roxy Music

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Can’t believe Keir Starmer has had to resign for having a beer and a curry but at the same time shows that no one can outrun the wheels of justice in the end

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Levies on all streaming/digital subscriptions to replace licence fee

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My daughter is about to see her fifty-ninth Prime Minister and she is only 284 years old

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

One of the very biggest surprises in media biz over the last couple of years is that it turns out the BBC were getting Lineker for much less than his market value

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I'm shocked that atrophying your brain will make you stupid

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

8yo: dad have you got six pounds Me: for what 8yo: (sighing with utter defeat) fine forget about it

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you find this sort of thing funny, do like, repost, subscribe, whatever. Spread the word. The frequently rude word.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our take on Starmer/Burnham, social media and Russian frigates - more more more in the latest podcast out today WHEREEVERYOUGETYOURPODCASTS

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I quite fancy watching the England match but I’m four hours into Out 1 and really enjoying it. Bet it’s the same for Shearer

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Andy Burnham is like Owen Hargreaves used to be for the England football team. Everyone’s like “if Owen Hargreaves was fit and in the 11 we’d win stuff” and you’d be like yeah but in the days when he was, we were still shit

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“We can finally do Saucy Jack. People should envy us. I envy us.”

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films Starman Aliens The Prestige The Running Man The Thing Dead Ringers Twin Peaks The Return Flow Time Bandits Idiocracy

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The apotheosis of this in my line of work was when Sarah Silverman played the Apollo, all the journos on freebies gave it 3-4 stars and the actual punters nearly rioted

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Maybe they asked the AI if 0.02 was a small number.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I mean, I don’t work for Sainsbury’s or have access to their data, but when I hear 0.02% of everyone who crosses their threshold in a week, I don’t think “oh, that’s a trivially small number.”

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

You Never Give Me Your Money - Beatles Simply Thrilled Honey - Orange Juice Nite Flights - Scott Walker Glittering Prize - Simple Minds Party Fears Two - The Associates The Narcissist - Blur Wild Is The Wind - Bowie Oh Yeah - Roxy Music Accidents - Peter Hammill The Invisible Man - Elvis Costello

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Andy Burnham’s older than you think

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Then you read a review and everyone’s all “of all these movies this one really had something profound to say”

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Fully aware I’m a snob but I must have seen 4 or 5 of those superhero films over the years and and they always have at some point someone saying “you’ve got to be kidding me” then someone turns up you haven’t heard of but it’s treated like it’s important and then some things get smashed up a bit

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

You don’t need a British library locker if you’re just going to sit in the atrium guys. Ridiculous. (Photo of victor meldrew scowling)

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Loads of TNG could qualify for this but they’re generally still enjoyable, other than Code of Honor

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Yeah that’s not going to work. You are still going to need jizz.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Violets are blue, roses are red

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Botanist, schoolteacher, naval engineer, wren. Feels very bipartisan

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Jesus h Christ would you ever look at these sad wankers

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

People say AI is really good but whenever I ask it to “create an image of Robert jenrick going about his daily routine” it gives me a picture of him rimming a goat, why is this

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

They released this like this Why would anyone ever drive a car by people who do not Look At MEASUREMENTS

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Rain don’t stop Camborne Wednesdays

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Williams designing their air intake to look like a Duracell battery comes from exactly the same thought process that leads a toddler to put a bean up its nose because it looks like it’s the right shape to do so.

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

JFC the idea that some people live in a space where that guy did a good job

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