Reposted by Sam EspensenForbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 29/05/2025WARNING. FORBIDDEN WORLDS COMPROMISED. POSSIBLE XENOMORPH INFESTATION OF @samespensen.bsky.social SEND COLONIAL MARINES. 1104
Reposted by Sam EspensenCharlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025🎬 Yay! don't miss our Psycho Biddy & Hagsploitation Double Bill at Bristol Megascreen on 4 May, in collab with @20thcflicks.bsky.social ! 🎟️ Hurry, buy tickets now! 🍹 Cocktails by @samespensen.bsky.social. #FilmEvent #Bristol #HorrorMovies #ScreenResearchUWE go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill 165
Reposted by Sam EspensenChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes. 414020812
Reposted by Sam EspensenCinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025“For the arthouse sector, perhaps the most encouraging revelation is Cosgrove’s assertion that "film's past is its future" - a sentiment being validated by younger audiences who are discovering cinema history through new platforms but choosing to experience it in the traditional theatrical setting“ 121
Reposted by Sam EspensenMarie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Just read a review of Glengarry Glen Ross that describes Kieran Culkin as “well into middle age”. He is 42. 13402
Reposted by Sam Espensen🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025He didn't care if his last running mate lived or died. And he doesn't care if you live or die. is something that should have probably been said a lot more last year. 663209551
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Very much looking forward to thinking up some unhinged names for drinks! 020
Reposted by Sam EspensenPope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Since caramelized onions always take longer than you think they will, this post just set the new baseline to at least 2 hours. But don’t go in thinking it will take 2 hours, or else they’ll take 3. 1111
Reposted by Sam EspensenRecovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025“The significant rise in the number of people being diagnosed with a mental illness in recent years has been driven by real issues that affect us all, such as increases in poverty, housing and food insecurity, as well as loneliness and isolation. ” www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...rcpsych.ac.uk“Rise in people with mental illness being driven by real societal challenges and lack of available treatment” says RCPsych PresidentRCPsych President Dr Lade Smith CBE responds to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's comments about the overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. 03628
Reposted by Sam EspensenFilm Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Encounters Film Festival is looking for Volunteer Pre-Selectors to help review submissions for the 2025 edition of the festival! Please fill in the below application form to be considered for the role. buff.ly/3EHl9vP The closing date for this position is 24/02/2025 at 17:00 064
Reposted by Sam EspensenBex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 20/02/2025It's not"comedy on prescription". It's an intervention from a charity that could be 1 option for someone receiving social prescribing support. It's not NHS - social prescribing systems are partnerships across health, LA, & voluntary sectors. No-one commenting has any idea what they're talking about 1322074
Reposted by Sam Espensen~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025umm it's called having hobbies 45911
Reposted by Sam Espensenhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Gift link: "At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms."wapo.stLong lines and canceled rentals: Firings bring chaos to national parksTrump’s purge of federal employees is already harming the visitor experience at national parks across the country. 7248124
Reposted by Sam EspensenMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/02/2025oh wow the future has arrived, move over Pauline Kael 15702109
Reposted by Sam EspensenHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Ed Miliband, the secretary of state, has written a strongly worded letter to the regulator asking them for help. You are the secretary of state. You are the government. Why not just nationalise the greedy parasites? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...theguardian.comMiliband urges energy watchdog to act as typical bill could rise by more than £100 a yearExclusive: Whitehall source expects bills in England, Scotland and Wales to rise by about £9 a month over the next three months 1619887
Reposted by Sam EspensenJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’ 46876178
Reposted by Sam EspensenDan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 15/02/2025It's weird as a biologist to say "ignore the science part" but here we are Science: Vaccines don't cause autism. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society. 271143258
Reposted by Sam EspensenLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you could find a way to generate electricity from Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave you'd be able to power the Eastern Seaboard right now. 391036133
Reposted by Sam EspensenAlanna @southlondongirl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Bet father bought the bloody thing tho. 092
Reposted by Sam EspensenAdam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Massive thank you to @popcornchat.bsky.social and @hardiewrites.bsky.social for giving The Haunted Mansion screening's @wshed.bsky.social a shoutout on Episode 6 of Popcorn Chat, very excited for @slapstickfest.bsky.social coming up soon, 12 - 16th Feb! 📽️💫💜 www.slapstick.org.ukslapstick.org.ukSlapstick Festival | Silent Film & Visual Comedy FestivalSlapstick Festival returns to Bristol to celebrate its 20th anniversary edition! 174
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025First commute of 2025 in almost daylight, Imbolc doing its thing 030
Reposted by Sam EspensenMichael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Everything but a hurrah for the brownshirts front page 053
Reposted by Sam EspensenJane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Just saving this for posterity, like someone grabbing the family photos before fleeing a house fire. 327437
Reposted by Sam EspensenJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/02/2025In four years time, the papers will still be writing shit about benefits and the small boats will still be coming and Britain's economic need for neither immigrants nor Europe will have changed, and these voters will blame the government and you'll have wasted your chance to actually fix anything. 418039
Reposted by Sam EspensenJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/02/2025And it *doesn't mean they're heroes*. Your job as a government is not to elevate the prejudices of a particular group of swing voter - against foreigners, benefit claimants, Brussels - into iron laws of politics. Your job is to improve the country enough to show them they were wrong. 820335
Reposted by Sam EspensenChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I keep seeing well meaning people telling americans that they can move to the UK easily because of their British spouses. they may be well meaning, but they're also handing out irresponsible and wrong advice. please do not bet the farm on team UK offering anything but high fees and bad vibes 917735
Reposted by Sam EspensenMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025'Rookwood Operations...has launched a product that enables phosphates to be extracted from problem areas and then reused on farmland. This week one of the company’s founders, Jane Pearce, will be awarded a £75,000 Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for her role in setting up the project.'theguardian.comUK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops 0256
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I adore Barbarella. Saw it far too young and it gave me unrealistic idea about what my sex life would be like 2170
Reposted by Sam EspensenClarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 01/02/2025sad to hear gary fisher has died, the greatest of celebrity dogs 08312
Reposted by Sam EspensenDora Somerville @doraexploring.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Honey wake up, new Breakfast Room meme just dropped #TheTraitors 03115
Reposted by Sam EspensenSelina Conroy @neverenoughshoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Our smart husband doesn't believe her #TheTraitors 0134
Reposted by Sam EspensenScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Claudia deserves a BAFTA for this moment alone #TheTraitors 121135180
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025#thetraitors I am so worried Jake and Leanne are going to walk away with this 020
Reposted by Sam EspensenStevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Want to see a photo of Charlotte when she's at home? #TheTraitors #Traitors 131
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Mine changed well to we’ll every single time and it’s probably going g to be the reason I go postal 000
Reposted by Sam EspensenJulian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The exec who said "women over 50 are not a valid audience" should lose their job instantly, for being too stupid even for British television.theguardian.com‘Are you kidding me?’: TV writer says she was asked to make female lead 20 years youngerKatja Meier says she was told women over 50 were not seen as a ‘valid audience’, so decided to make the pilot herself 38925
Reposted by Sam EspensenTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Pssst want to spend your Friday night listening to a playlist and filling in a google form? You bet you do! 294
Reposted by Sam EspensenDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Such a weird way for a species to slowly die out 3588
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Nothing like the animosity of two cats who 98% of the time hate each other but occasionally decide to have a snuggle. 010
Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Excuse the screenshot but here is our vampy menu for Saturday! 031
Reposted by Sam EspensenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/01/2025For the, “they’re taking our jobs” crowd. Here’s your chance—$16.50 an hour, no benefits, and no time off. Let’s see how fast the patriotic job-seekers line up for the grind they’ve been so mad about losing. 627200926095
Reposted by Sam EspensenSouth West Silents @swsilents.bsky.social · 12/01/2025There’s plenty of merch to buy from @samespensen.bsky.social and @helleborezine.bsky.social next Saturday at our double bill of #Nosferatu (1922) and The Lost Boys (1987)… so much, you might need a large box for it all… Tickets still available: ti.to/film-noir-uk...media.tenor.coma black and white photo of a building with a tree in front of it .ALT: a black and white photo of a building with a tree in front of it . 1113
Reposted by Sam EspensenBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I want less Silicon Valley companies and more companies like Tabasco where everything is just put into big oak barrels and once in awhile an aging Cajun man walks in and goes “how them babies doin” 565821662
Reposted by Sam EspensenRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires. 4367191610
Reposted by Sam EspensenTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I think Reeves is going to leave the reversing Brexit stone unturned. That qualifies as a stone I think. 1217532