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Sam Espensen

@samespensen.bsky.social
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Ex hack/flack, now booze maker, film lover, book nerd in Bristol. Espensenspirit.com

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Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
WARNING. FORBIDDEN WORLDS COMPROMISED. POSSIBLE XENOMORPH INFESTATION OF @samespensen.bsky.social SEND COLONIAL MARINES.
A woman (possibly infected by a xenomorph or throwing mad shapes in the tempe of dance) is confronted by a colonial marine cosplayer on a red carpet in front of a Forbidden Worlds step and repeat.
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Charlotte 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
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
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Cinema 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“
An image of group of festival delegates interacting at a networking event. In the background there is a  slide with the Cinema Rediscovered logo and the text Welcome thank you for joining us and an image of Alain Delon in Le Samouraï. Below the image there is the following text: Cinema Rediscovered: From Local Festival to Industry Launchpad
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Just read a review of Glengarry Glen Ross that describes Kieran Culkin as “well into middle age”. He is 42.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
He 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.
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very much looking forward to thinking up some unhinged names for drinks!
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Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Since 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.
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Recovery 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...
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“Rise in people with mental illness being driven by real societal challenges and lack of available treatment” says RCPsych President
RCPsych 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.
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Film Hub South West @filmhubsw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Encounters 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
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It'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
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
umm it's called having hobbies
Why Do We Wake Around 3am and Dwell on Our Fears?
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Gift 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."
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Long lines and canceled rentals: Firings bring chaos to national parks
Trump’s purge of federal employees is already harming the visitor experience at national parks across the country.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/02/2025
oh wow the future has arrived, move over Pauline Kael
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Ed 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...
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Miliband urges energy watchdog to act as typical bill could rise by more than £100 a year
Exclusive: Whitehall source expects bills in England, Scotland and Wales to rise by about £9 a month over the next three months
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Phone 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’
‘Hello calling from sexy literally. I’m just calling to confirm you can still attend your appointment with us tomorrow’
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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It'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.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If 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.
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Alanna @southlondongirl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Bet father bought the bloody thing tho.
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Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Massive 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.uk
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Slapstick Festival | Silent Film & Visual Comedy Festival
Slapstick Festival returns to Bristol to celebrate its 20th anniversary edition!
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
First commute of 2025 in almost daylight, Imbolc doing its thing
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Everything but a hurrah for the brownshirts front page
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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Just saving this for posterity, like someone grabbing the family photos before fleeing a house fire.
Tweet by me which reads “Liz Truss at the Coronation like an actor who appeared in one episode of Doctor Who attending Comic Cons for the rest of their life.” 5.9k retweets. 35k likes. *sigh*
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In 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.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
And 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.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I 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
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Margot 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.'
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UK 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
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I adore Barbarella. Saw it far too young and it gave me unrealistic idea about what my sex life would be like
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Stupid decision.
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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
sad to hear gary fisher has died, the greatest of celebrity dogs
gary fisher & oscar isaac looking lovingly into each other’s eyes adam driver holding gary fisher & looking perturbed
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
God tier charity shop find
A copy of the book of Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Dora Somerville @doraexploring.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Honey wake up, new Breakfast Room meme just dropped #TheTraitors
Miles entering the Traitors breakfast table and looking shocked because Diane is ‘alive’Frankie entering the Traitors breakfast room and looking shell shocked because she knows something
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Selina Conroy @neverenoughshoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our smart husband doesn't believe her #TheTraitors
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Claudia deserves a BAFTA for this moment alone #TheTraitors
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#thetraitors I am so worried Jake and Leanne are going to walk away with this
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Want to see a photo of Charlotte when she's at home? #TheTraitors #Traitors
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Mine changed well to we’ll every single time and it’s probably going g to be the reason I go postal
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Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The exec who said "women over 50 are not a valid audience" should lose their job instantly, for being too stupid even for British television.
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‘Are you kidding me?’: TV writer says she was asked to make female lead 20 years younger
Katja Meier says she was told women over 50 were not seen as a ‘valid audience’, so decided to make the pilot herself
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Pssst want to spend your Friday night listening to a playlist and filling in a google form? You bet you do!
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Such a weird way for a species to slowly die out
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Nothing like the animosity of two cats who 98% of the time hate each other but occasionally decide to have a snuggle.
Two cats lying back to back looking like they loathe each other and are completely tensed up, while also quite enjoying a snuggle
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Tangerines Satsumas
Two very similar pictures of the same woman. Picture one is a face that says, ew, no thank you. Picture two is the same face with an expresion that says, oh, okay, maybe
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excuse the screenshot but here is our vampy menu for Saturday!
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My cat doesn’t want me to get another dog
A cat on it’s hind legs grasping a toy dog upside down, and staring slightly menacingly off into the distance
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/01/2025
For 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.
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South West Silents @swsilents.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
There’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...
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a 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 .
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I 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”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The 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.
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Sam Espensen @samespensen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It’s STELLAR
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I think Reeves is going to leave the reversing Brexit stone unturned. That qualifies as a stone I think.
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