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Orange Monkey

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Horror films, records, cats, witchy things.

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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 10h
Actually I don't think many books could be replaced by ai, because most books have a significant amount of humanity about them. AI is shite because they pretend to have humanity in them but are just an algorithmic shit-shoot of words. Bad books are always better than boring maths
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huge vote for Jane Schoenbrun over Ed Sheeran in Wavertree graffiti news
There Is Still Time graffiti in Wavertree as a reference to I Saw The TV GlowGraffiti saying "To REAL MEN EVERY CHILD IS OUR CHILD, NOT JUST THE WHITE ONES"  "ED SHEERAN : 0 HUMANITY : 1"  "ALL MEN R BROTHERS"
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
While I totally understand why you would buy and own a self-driving car. (You don't want to drive). I have zero understanding of the benefits to the user of getting a driverless taxi beyond novelty. I understand why the people owning the cars want you to, but that's not how business works.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh did you get a noisy text? Tell me more about how it hurt you.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The most impressive thing about the England Football Team is that supporters, who supposedly know a lot about football, forget everything about how football works the second they walk on the pitch.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Controversial view - you're in an air-conditioned office in Manchester. You don't need to wear shorts.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Epic handshake meme between arts festivals, drug dealers and AI slop flyers.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...
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Andrew's fundraiser for Huntington's Disease Association
Help Andrew Hill raise money to support Huntington's Disease Association
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
😬 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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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There’s nothing like a swim in hot weather and I am a girl who loves to swim 🏊 - here’s a new essay from me on Liverpool Almanac about the politics of access to pools open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
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Pool Times
Access to public pools is part of our social and political history in Liverpool. We should celebrate our aquatic legacy
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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 19/06/2026
Where’s Andy Burnham going?
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A potential, if not complete, solution is that your phone sends an anonymous token to the app/site that says "this person is 16/18" using passkeys. But that would be too sensible and joined up so we'll have a million debates about digital ID until my bones turn to dust.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake — theonion.com/i-work-very-...
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Obsession (2026) Cinematography by Taylor Clemons Directed by Curry Barker
My cat screaming
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What the hell are we doing?
Gemini search answering what the Pope's name is with "The current head of the Catholic Church is Pope Francis."
​Before he was elected Pope in 2013, his name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He chose the regnal name Francis in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Now sack the guy who designed the new kit
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Obsession is a flawed film but I jumped in the air and screamed "Jesus Fucking Christ" at one point so that's a thumbs up from me.
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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 18/05/2026
Screening tonight @ picturehouse @factliverpool.bsky.social, Soviet era folk horror, Viy, based on the Nikolai Gogol novella of the same name. A tale of the grotesque, it weaves together witchcraft, fear and forbidden desire to great effect.
A film still from Soviet era folk horror, Viy. Here, we find a young man in fear of his mortal soul, stalked by a doomed revenant woman.
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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A new post on Liverpool Almanac by me And a new series having short sharp chats with people in the middle of things going on. Because sometimes little things happen, and you don't know if it's going to become something bigger open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
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Does Liverpool risk evicting its own identity?
Little things happen in a city all the time. And you never know if they're going to turn into something bigger. A gallery and arts complex closes, but is it part of something wider?
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I Saw The TV Glow but it's Andy Burnham watching Newsnight
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This graphic isn't telling you that growth will drop by 0.8%.
O.8% and downward arrow on BBC news
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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What's the etiquette when somebody is quite clearly recording you on their phone on a train? I'm siding with just play on my Switch while giving the stink eye.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'll workshop this so I get two or three reposts.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I do a lot of "stuff" - work and life and creative stuff. You know the type of thing. But, and hear me out here, maybe I should just watch a load of baseball. I mean, if I'm just going to run around and get nowhere the Red Sox are available to do that for me. I'll even get a quiet October.
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Our evening film is a slow burning British horror thriller with #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow 📽️ THE APPOINTMENT (1981) 9:10pm with #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd horror #TPTVsubtitles
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
mr xi my people cry out for chibi urban golf carts
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Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Found this compelling. harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The liberals yearn for a bubble. Show me where the bubble is?
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Flawless
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
To be fair to the Titanic it did change course quite quickly
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Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Idea

Man is chained to the Cilla statue on Mathew St every day. Has liver pecked out by seagulls. Punished over and over for eternity. 

This a thing?

Phil Redmond?
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Modern grieving is getting an email from the local paper of their daily news mailer with a picture of your recently deceased father as one of the stories. The piece being a death obituary listicle. Super fun.
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
And from this day in 2014.
A two panel image. The top panel shows the scene from 'The Wicker Man ' (1973) where Sgt. Howie first glimpses what's waiting for him as he crests the ridge of the hill he's being led up, but Howie is now the red-headed kid from 'The Snowman' (1982). The bottom panel shows the islanders standing around the wicker man, but there's snow on the ground, they're all wearing bobble hats and scarves and the wicker man is now the snowman from 'The Snowman'.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I absolutely adore this book about magic use in England over the centuries. I highly recommend it for this time of year. Very witty and deeply thoughtful www.penguin.co.uk/books/451800...
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Cunning Folk
Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve life’s day-to-day problems – as well as some of deadly importance. ‘A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour’ MALCOLM GASKILL, a...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The entirety of last night's Netflix boxing was poor. It sums up their entire content strategy that they are paying through the nose for a flashy, but hollow, product. Why the Caroline Dubois fight was relegated to YouTube amazes me. Huge mismatches across the card and the men's fights were terrible
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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
For those who are interested in panto, I spent a very happy few days reading some old books including 'The Annals of Liverpool Theatre' from 1908 and 'Recollections of Old Liverpool' from the late 19th century about Victorian panto in Liverpool open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
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A very Victorian panto
If you're heading to a panto this Christmas in Liverpool, know that you're taking part in one of the city's strongest festive traditions
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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Trainline, there’s too much snow on the app
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
People putting in meetings for the afternoon of my last working day of the year
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a brown puppy with a funny face is being held by someone
Alt: a brown puppy with a funny face is being held by someone
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
BLOG POST: Another batch of spooky stories, mostly made for TV, that I think capture something of the vibe of the Lawrence Gordon Clark era of BBC ghost stories for Christmas. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/11/a...
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Another collection of vintage ghost stories for Christmas
If you’ve seen all of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, and want more of the same, I’ve got good news for you. Last year I put together a list of films, short films and TV episodes that seemed t…
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Andrej @tepid.meme · 29/11/2025
Any takers for the Greens? We're one short of a full set
A political compass with Ayoub Khan in the top left, Michael Heseltine in the top right, Jeremy Thorpe in the bottom right, and a blank space in the bottom left
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
An update on this. Roughly half the people who got through to a screening interview clearly didn't have the skills to do the job.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Plan for Foo Fighters next year. In early for Otoboke Beaver then straight to the bar until the Foos come on.
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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 23/10/2025
Suggestion: Make yourself a homonculus for #Halloween - @johnreppion.bsky.social with the lowdown on how its been done, from medieval times to modern. www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/how-...
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How to Make a Homunculus
That the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit [a pumpkin-like gourd] for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse’s womb, or at least so long that it comes t...
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Absolutely gutted reading this. Both her books are beautiful and incredibly honest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35
The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a million copies worldwide
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I AM BEGGING YOU. Don't use LLMs for your job application. They all read exactly the same.
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Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Sky Sports News not broadcasting on a Saturday morning is my three minute warning
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