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Ando

@nice-chap.bsky.social
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Just a man in a little bubble on a little island. Mostly bad but well punctuated observations about the movies, games, and books in my life.

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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Double-bill cinema day today. Coyote vs Acme is a delight, albeit one in which I was aware that the loudest laughs were coming from me and all the dads in the crowd. Pressure is very, very much Sunday afternoon cinema - but Andrew Scott is good, as usual. I won't remember it, but it was fine.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Channel 4 News have produced this news report where Reform UK is offered illegal funding by undercover reporters posing as wealthy US donors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 31/08/2026
Reform politicians need an urgent intervention. They have become tragically addicted to ChatGPT. Their habit has become a problem, and here are some of the worst examples…
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Refs "letting the game flow" when one team only has interest in fouling is basically the trickle-down economics of football.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I thought The Odyssey was really, really good. Is it the best movie I've seen this month? Hmm, that could be The Invite. ...but I didn't come out of The Invite wanting to go straight back in for a re-watch. That final act of The Odyssey just really, REALLY got into me.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An absolute tactical disaster. 🙁
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Tiktok: my astronomer told me to avoid the Milky Way cos it causes cancer so here's 5 healthy alternatives...
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Must have read 50,000+ words on how to 'beat the heat' this heatwave & so little has any applicability to my situation or flat (which never got below 28° last night). I'm just gonna cook and then sleep in the pub.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Mandalorian & Grogu: a cynical cash-grab that doesn't try to say anything, but does it competently. Disclosure Day: obvious love-letter that tries to say a lot, but does it pretty poorly. Meanwhile, Obsession and Backrooms sneak in and steal everyone's lunch.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This World Cup must already have exceeded its flag quota.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Well, duh... E = mc²
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Spotify: You've listened to 24,000 songs since 2009. Me: Wow, thanks, my music taste must be more varied than I thought to reach that figure. Spotify: Sure, you want a playlist of the top 100? **Playlist is almost totally by two artists**
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Turning Rage Against the Machine up to 11 and striding to the polling station like a boss to vote for the candidate who seems most au fait with local planning issues...
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The stress in 2026 of telling a <30yrs colleague that I'm watching Twin Peaks and them asking is it good and what is it about like that's a question I can answer.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New argument in the old 'physical book vs e-reader' debate just dropped. None of the paperbacks on my shelf have suddenly been forced into retirement...
Screenshot of email from Amazon, text as follows:

"Dear Customer,

Thank you for being a longtime Kindle customer. We're glad our devices have served you well for as long as they have. Starting May 20, 2026 — 14 to 18 years after their initial launches — we are discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier. Here's what this means for you:

* You can continue to read books already downloaded on these devices, but you will not be able to purchase, borrow, or download additional books on them after that date.
* If you deregister or factory reset these devices, you will not be able to re-register or use these devices in any way."
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
At least the Artemis crew are in place to get some great end of civilisation photos before returning to a barren Earth. Well timed.
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Perfect
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Inspired by the Southern American dish, shrimp and grits, Mark has made shrimp and grits." The Masterchef voiceover dude playing with the straightest bat this season.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
That final scene in It Was Just an Accident...one of the most terrifying moments put to screen. Great movie!
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/03/2026
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Oh, Spurs... :'( Sack Tudor. Beg Ange to take the last few games. He keeps us up - he gets another shot. We go down, maybe at least we go down doing something in the vicinity of swinging (flailing?). Hard time to be a fan of this club.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
One of these days, YouTube might make a change that improves user experience...but not today... The audacity to impose a "Most relevant" section on my subscriptions feed, as if I haven't the intelligence to decide all my subscriptions are relevant through the act of, y'know, subscribing to them...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Another failed Royal Mail delivery when I'm literally sat in my living room waiting for it. What do I need to do? - hang out the window with a flare up my arse, frantically semaphoring "I'm awake, alive, and present"?
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Petition for the Govt. to ensure The Muppets' Christmas Carol is available on free-to-air TV every year.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Buying a jar of horseradish sauce these days is total Russian roulette - is it mayonnaise or is it gunpowder? Zero consistency even within the same brand.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Been thinking about the way Nuremberg humanized Nazi high command more than I expected. On reflection, a well-chosen, brave decision, consistent with the idea that those atrocities of WW2 weren't committed by uniforms, but by people. Still, feel the movie under-delivered as a whole. ⭐⭐ or ⭐⭐⭐...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Grok appears to have started offering this false account about eye-witnesses by generating its view from false rumours on X. It began by saying there wasn't evidence then picked up rumour and misinformation and amplified it x.com/grok/status/...
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Just a reminder, none of this is normal:
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Only Murders in the Building has always been faintly - but enjoyably - ridiculous, but season five smacks of a show led into caricature and shark-jumping by half a decade of poorly analyzed focus grouping. Everything you liked, but now you're drowning in it. Common story for shows of 3+ seasons.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If I was of a mind to start conspiracy theories, I'd start with Pedro Pascal being the first truly AI movie star. It's the logical explanation for him being in absolutely everything.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Olivia Colman is just so, so good. Up there with the best. The Roses...not so much, but edit out all the scenes without Colman and you'll have a good time.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Breaks my heart that so many people don't realise or care how good cinema is at the moment. Really enjoyed Weapons, and Eddington is just excellent - my IRL social circle hasn't heard of either. Where is the marketing revenue going? (Rhetorical - we all know...)
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Alison B @akbea.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Just seen this charming illustration on a job advert for professional writers. Frankly, I'm a bit dubious about this woman's understanding of what 'writing' entails. Not to mention the name of the café.
A piece of AI-generated slop in which an attractive Pixar-esque woman in glasses, sitting at a table outside a café, is writing with a pen on the keyboard of a laptop computer while gazing thoughtfully into the middle distance.

The café appears to be called Cunt Blafé.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Had a pretty good time with Materialists but, whereas Past Lives (best film of 2023, IMO) won me over with how genuine & sincere it felt, Materialists has a sheen of artificiality that was at times jarring. Still, look forward to Celine Song project #3 as obviously a passionate, talented director.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
From my current experience (28 degrees in my flat at 7am today), issue exacerbated in studio flats squeezed in & that only have one outside one wall, making any chance of through-ventilation impossible. I have a single balcony door. No other windows. No vent for an A/C unit.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/08/2025
‘Do not buy these flats’: residents warn about unbearable heat inside London new-builds
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‘Do not buy these flats’: residents warn about unbearable heat inside London new-builds
Experts say many new homes being built in the UK not designed to withstand extreme summer temperatures
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Should be /illegal/ to finish a season on a cliffhanger like season two of Annika has - especially if there's not even currently a plan for a third. Devastating.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Study finds heroin more engaging than bread.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The Naked Gun reboot is possibly the third funniest Naked Gun film, and I mean that as a compliment. It comes nowhere near the original - what does? - but it's funny and obviously made by people who love the franchise. Watch it with people who laugh freely and you'll have a blast!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Everyone in that chat room.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If you ever find yourself going "I don't get why people..." and "people" is defined as "literally billions of human beings" you should at the very least consider the possibility that this is a you failure
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject. Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.
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Ando @nice-chap.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Rolled credits on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 last night. I won't over-egg its impact on my emotional state, but I woke up thinking I needed to start writing eulogies for all the people I've ever loved in my life... What a game! I was in love all through (but fuck Renoir's 'Vanish' move...)
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jacksimon.bsky.social @jacksimon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Whoops Don't ya just love live TV?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/06/2025
‘Sorry, Keir Starmer pretending to be Nigel Farage is not what I ordered’: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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‘Sorry, Keir Starmer pretending to be Nigel Farage is not what I ordered’: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Keir Starmer is heading for a Nigel Farage milkshake moment
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