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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bought a new not-overly-cheap Samsung TV in June, it had a dead pixel within a month. Bought a Samsung soundbar to go with it, and that's just gone faulty as well - like outright refuses to connect now, out of nowhere. Do Samsung just make shite now?

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A small heads up to the very few people who might follow me on here but maybe not elsewhere, I'm deactivating this account in about a week from now. Instagram will be about the last bastion I'm at ✌️

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's also funny (depressing) seeing a country like the UK now largely irrelevant to a conversation that involves Canada, Australia, the US, and 95% of the European continent. All of our most natural and cultural allies. Brexit really was a hubris-driven own goal of stupidity.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@cineworld.bsky.social unveiling their "smoother booking experience" - A 1 step booking for a group of 4 is now 8 steps (4 seperate bookings, 4 seat changes) - Sitting together is now not guaranteed - Carers and disabled customers are screwed over Something about a pissup in a brewery.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You have to be a special kind of spineless to deliver music as mid as Sheeran does, and then prioritise your millions over your industry friends and basic morals as well.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Say what you will about the endless franchise slop, but 2026 really has been a stellar year for original cinema. There are so many brilliant films out this year that have earned praise on their own terms, rather than relying on a bunch of existing films to sell themselves.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

went with the bf to see some refurbished Victorian dinosaurs today 🦖

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other." I'm no monarchist, but Harald always came across as a person before a king, and he's not the head of state people would have wanted added to the long list of obituaries from this week.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Another day, another '2026 can fuck off' post... seriously.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2026 can get fucked, seriously.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you like animation, or live-action-meets-animation. If you grew up on Looney Tunes. If you like some substance with your slapstick. If you like some originality or heart, or sticking it to corporations... There's so many reasons to see this brilliant film in a cinema. boxd.it/fZnLtp

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A ★★★★ review of Coyote vs. Acme (2026)

A creative success story bettered only by the story of how it even exists "ACME is releasing this film for accounting purposes only". Go see this in the cinema. If you like animation, or live-action-m...

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

went and became a gym boy 🙃

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yet another gone-too-soon loss in 2026, Hayden was one of those actresses who seemed to just rock up through my childhood and teens in a bunch of things I loved watching, and who should've had a bright future still ahead in front of them

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Caught the eclipse yesterday whilst in Whitby 🌙

An eclipse shortly after totality, as viewed through the Whalebone Arch in Whitby, North Yorkshire

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You know I love Europe, I really do. But plug sockets on the continent really are just shite 😅

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been lucky enough to spend the last five days working at the Pompeii Ampitheatre for concerts by Marillion and Savatage 🎸 🇮🇹 🌋

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Another great lost this year. Bill Oddie was a staple of Springwatch and Autumnwatch when I was young. Much like Attenborough, he inspired my love for wildlife - especially in London. Another name for the list of greats we've lost in 2026.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Since Labour took power there has been a 77% rise in illegal migrant raids, and an 83% rise in illegal working arrests. In Lewisham, it's non-stop. Enforcement vans are a near-permanent feature on the street. It's disgusting. Respect to the Greens if they fight it. www.itv.com/news/london/...

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

To the random lovely woman in a wheelchair who came up to my camera platform at work and asked how my day was going before showtime at Edinburgh Castle the other day, you've stuck with me and I think your brief little interaction made my weekend 🥹

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

old smoky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

What's the point of train lines offering specifically forward-facing seat selection if it doesn't work? Four hours stuck with motion sickness because of a backwards facing seat, fucking over my health for the whole day, when it's such an easy fix.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Seriously, who tf hurt 2026? 😪

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sony are having a really deservedly shit week, but if they could stop making it my problem that would be great.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The more I think about this, the more I'm certain it means I'm leaving Sony and Playstation here. They're playing a gamble that people won't flock to PC, but what's the perk any more when the manufacturer of more limited console hardware has a monopoly on what they charge for console software now?

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sony announces it's ditching physical media in the same week it closes the PS Store on the PS3 and when it's removed 550 movies that customers have paid for. This feels like the death knell for console gaming. Greed has utterly screwed it. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles

In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Looking forward to autumn more than summer for the first time. Shitty weather, a plethora of games to get through... plenty of reason to hide away and unlike in summer I can just stop pretending a proper social life is ever going to happen again whilst in this industry.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

No you can't have the energy and wit of the original movie again. Yes you can have something that's quite sweet, relevant, and prioritises a new audience of kids more than it does the nostalgia crowd. Toy Story 5 justifies itself more than the fourth. boxd.it/eXwQyB

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A ★★★★ review of Toy Story 5 (2026)

Fifth time's the charm for a film low on trademark wit but big in heart "This is flying... with style" It was always a little bit of revisionism that Toy Story needed to be a neat and untouchable tril...

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's time we started scaring our family and friends by reminding them that every hot summer they complain about might actually be the coldest summer they ever witness again.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

- Enabled genocide in Palestine - Backed transphobic health policy - Cut welfare for people with mental health conditions - Authoratarian online ID laws that harm kids - Capitulated to Reform - Wasted his large Parliamentary majority

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Puss in Boots 2 showed how you can adopt a new art style within an existing series and make it work brilliantly. Shrek 5 shows you how exactly not to do it.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I think what's stuck with and bothered me most since watching this, is how interchangeable it thinks different bigotries are. It follows a cis gay man for five hours, baits a brutally tragic ending for him, but the catalyst for his fate is ultimately transphobia.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The first shot and the last shot of RTD's second run of Doctor Who wound up being a massive pat on the back to his job well done in 2006.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It seems fitting the morning of RTD stepping down from Dr Who that I should've just binged this. A tired, crass drama from a man who's angry at the state of the world, but is content just yelling about it rather than understanding any of it or offering anything insightful. boxd.it/eJk7Ih

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A ★★ review of Tip Toe (2026)

RTD's sauce wanes further in this unfocused, problematic, cynical drama "I used to walk into a room and just go 'Ta-da!'. Now I tiptoe, just in case." SPOILERS - SPOILERS - SPOILERS Make no mistake, t...

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"We know this has harmed the country, and despite being in power and having the opportunity to course correct on these specific things that nobody actually ever voted on at all, we just don't give a toss" Labour are the most useless fuckers, I stg.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Weather is something else right now. Forecast of 'sunny' for today as recently as last night, now a thunderstorm. Forecast for next week has changed from 33°C heatwave, to struggling to reach 20°C. Shit June is shit.

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Someone decided 2026 was going to be a hella good gaming era

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What's your favourite movie from each decade of your life? 90s: Jurassic Park (1993) 00s: Children of Men (2006) 10s: Jojo Rabbit (2019) 20s: 28 Years Later (2025)

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Praise where it's due, Taylor Swift has doubled the number of songs of hers I like to two 😅 🤠

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My little singing songbird got little love on the 'gram, so here's hoping for better from the 'sky

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Josh @joshalexcairo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The Reality War aired a year ago now. By the time another episode airs at Christmas, this one will have been 'the most recent episode of Doctor Who' for longer than any other in 21 years. I couldn't think of a worse episode to leave things on for such a long time tbh. Just awful.

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