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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To celebrate my finally acquiring the DVD of the film Tonde Saitama, please enjoy its end title song, in which an entire Japanese prefecture is musically bullied for four minutes. youtu.be/dvdQC7BvKks

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[DoushiteSubs] hanawa - Saitamaken no Uta (English subtitles)

YouTube video by leofox2

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spotify appears to have used a dogshit quality speech-to-text algorithm to generate lyrics for the new Pulp live album.

The Spotify lyrics display for the live version of Common People by Pulp, which begins:

In the Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture out in mountains
Caught a touch of mine
Caught a high

Learn to fly at the bowling shop
Fix your hair and get a job
Smoke sone fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
Still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching posters climb the wall
If you caught your dad, you could stop it all, yeah

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ship at the start is too big, showing it all is a waste of the audience’s time

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pirate union rep: what would you like to see in terms of pirate rights? Pirate: more parity! Pirate union rep: [squawking] what would you like to see in terms of pirate rights?

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The new James Bond actor has been chosen and it's this guy. www.tiktok.com/@jrw21/video...

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Which makes it nine years that I've been feeling smug about the free screener copy of this set I was given for review purposes. Without packaging.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think what we've learned is, you need to pick your support acts carefully.

A magazine ad for Einstürzende Neubauten with Showaddywaddy at the National Club, Kilburn High Road, London NW6

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Popular phone app struggling to find new ways to say 'phone". @secondmentions.com

Notification message from Falstaff, the Duolingo bear: "While you're looking at your flashy rectangle, keep your 1255 day streak"

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

♬ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♬ #LFF

In the London Film Festival ticket queue, with eighteen and a half thousand people in front of me

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There was a year or so when this was the alarm sound on my phone, until I realised that nobody needs to be *that* alarmed

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Major Channel 4 news investigation reveals corruption at heart of Tatooine establishment

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Ski Sunday. In tribute, Dave Bulmer will now sing the theme song:

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Out seeing some off-season sumo today. #TheSumo

A bunch of rikishi doing some practice in a one-day-only dohyo, watched by the smallish number of people you'd expect at The Sumo at 9.20 in the morning.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was looking at this in Echigo-Tsumari just five hours ago. RIP Yayoi Kusama.

Tsumari In Bloom, one of Kusama's big spotty flower sculptures.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Boss level Monoglot Movie Club activity today: a Korean language movie with Japanese subtitles. Luckily it's a Hong Sang-soo joint, and they've all got the same plot anyway (man gets pissed on soju and embarrasses himself).

Japanese poster for the Korean film What Does That Nature Say To You: five people sat around a dining table, looking quite uncomfortable. In the bottom right hand corner, very small, we can see one of them lying on a park bench, obviously ratarsed.

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Screaming Mad George was also responsible for the jaw-droppingly twisted orgy that closes out Society (1989). IYKYK. RIP George, you magnificent weirdo

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nick Grimshaw's currently on the radio asking us to call in with questions for the author of a new biography of Slipknot. youtu.be/xWqTo-5l3nk

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Half Man Half Biscuit - Vatican Broadside [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Half Man Half Biscuit

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I saw seven John Woo films last month, which is probably more exit wounds than it's healthy to experience in so short a timeframe. But here's the review anyway. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/08/14/b...

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Bullets And Brotherhood

Like most of my formative cinema experiences, it happened at the Scala. That’s where I first saw John Woo’s The Killer back in 1992, attracted by a general interest in Hong Kong cinema …

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/6Wf...

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Last time I saw an eclipse was in Tokyo in 2012. The BBG took over 100 photos of it with a hand-held, sun-filtered camera from our hotel room window, and this is what we did with them. youtu.be/nzgz2mpSZyw

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Annular eclipse over Tokyo, May 21st 2012

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Isobel Fox @isobel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

hyperbole is the dumbest concept anyone has thought of in the history of the world

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Name a movie where the title character *isn't* the main character.

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NikkiJay is making Shards Of A God @nikkijay.games · 05/08/2026

Someone stole my toilet! I suspect this guy

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And I’ll stand o’er your grave ’til I’m sure that you’re dead

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is what the Prog Rock Prom looks like from behind.

A view of a crowded Royal Albert Hall from the choir seats.

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Piet Mondrian's work on the London Underground is exceptional.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bought tickets for this ages ago, long before they announced what they'd be playing. I'm happy with that as a programme.

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 13/07/2026

There’s a noticeable difference in emotional reactions for Sam Neill’s passing compared to other recent deaths. It’s really amazing the difference you can make to people’s lives by not being a thundering arsehole.

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Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.

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