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Sam

@spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social
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I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew. London-based. Film, television, games, politics, Charlton Athletic Football Club. He/him.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 8h
There’s a dog at our local park called Boo who always carries the biggest stick she can find (carelessly smacking into passersby if necessary). Today she decided to take things in a bold new direction.
A dog holding a baguette in its mouth.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 8h
There’s a dog at our local park called Boo who always carries the biggest stick she can find (carelessly smacking into passersby if necessary). Today she decided to take things in a bold new direction.
A dog holding a baguette in its mouth.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 18h
“Right, OK, yes, it’s weird she wants to be friends with you, she knows where you stand. Still, this could be your big break. Maybe she can help you get that book deal you always wanted. If she brings anything like that up, just change the subject. Here she comes. Hi Jo—“ “THE MOST COMMON PARAPHILIA
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An excellent newsletter as usual. I’m beginning to think the greatest pillar of the two-party system is the inability of challenger parties to not - to quote @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk - “scare the hoes”.* *I think the hoes should be scared fwiw
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whereas I’ve been radicalised by Kiehl’s discontinuing my favourite SPF moisturiser. They must be made to pay.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Woody from Toy Story with a speech bubble.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m just out of Hope and I don’t think I’ve ever gone from thinking something’s going to be my movie of the year at the ~hour mark to wanting to boo it by the end. I would genuinely recommend people see the opening forty-five minutes and then walk out at your leisure.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
English football for like the last twenty years apparently.
The third place meme but it’s second place. First place is Man City.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How it started vs. How it’s going
BBC sport headline: Guardiola’s legacy of genius will echo through all ages for years to come - Man City£1.2bn on transfers with £830m inflated in accounts - Man City’s ‘asterisk era’
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is now a bad time to mention there *is* a cane in Citizen Kane?
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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A wasted opportunity not to call this A Better Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
A Better Tomorrow Trilogy on 4K blu-ray.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should all aspire to be so good that we can take ourselves 10,000% seriously and not look ridiculous. Pac was one of the best wrestlers of his generation. His matches against Zayn and Cassidy are masterpieces. The best ambassador for British wrestling in a crowded field. Rest in peace.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Silver lining of this: my wife dropped her phone on the bus, I caught it after a mere six stops. Yes, I am training for a half marathon. No, I didn’t consider if it looked to the passengers like they were being chased down by the T-1000.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[Guy who watches ~200 films a year] Where do you all find the *time* to watch all this television? Jesus Christ.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me two weeks ago: They’ve got to come down on this guy like a ton of bricks. Me now: They can’t let him upload I Tried To Kill A MAN With A KNIFE?! Part 3 to YouTube with monetisation turned on. Me in a month: I don’t think the king should allow this but I guess he does command a majority.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty
bbc.co.uk
Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026
A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's a certain sort of abuser who figures out quickly that they can relentlessly attack other generally well-meaning leftist/punk/DIY folks, because they not only won't hit back, they'll think it's their responsibility to keep taking it. Extremely destructive to a community if left unchecked
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This reminded me of the Tolkien exhibition at The Bodleian, where I saw something that I’ve not seen before or since: If someone was caught taking pictures, they had to show their camera roll (!) to the guard, who would ensure they deleted any photos they had of the exhibition.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Arresting Jay Zedbee for stealing tinnies and posh treats from M&S will just make her a martyr. This will only strengthen her. it will just give her the spotlight. we should instead try to address and appease the legitimate concerns that lead Jay Zedbee to steal tinnies and posh treats from M&S
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The rule of law should apply to everyone regardless of whether they want it to or not.
Norman Rockwell’s Free Speech painting.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Streep levels things up. Three months remain. It’s going down to the wire.
Meryl Streep 6 films; Chow Yun-Fat 6 films
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We all contain multitudes and we’re not all going to agree on everything but Rees-Mogg is the politician I personally find most confusing. Generally I find the man insufferable if not repulsive. Occasionally (see also his comments about Shamima Begum) I think he’s very thoughtful and brave.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As someone who got married in a building flying both a British and an Indian flag, I have some suggestions about where Braverman can stick her conspicuously unevidenced claim that one can’t consider themselves English and have Asian heritage.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alright, yes, I did say that it’s pathetic to be enraged by the James Bond casting choice. However, at the time, I didn’t realise that Danny Tommo had been at RADA or the reason he hadn’t been arrested for his many crimes was because he had such an effective agent.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mr. Burnham, sir, it’s time for leadership. It’s time for definitive action. You must, this very hour, insert a pointed allusion to the blackshirts trying to kill charity workers into the speech you’re due to give to Labour Party Conference next week. A nation waits.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apparently the press were trying to reach Shabana Mahmood for comment but what they thought was Shabana Mahmood was a cartoon dust cloud that approximated her image and slowly dissipated.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why has this live-streaming serial criminal not been arrested?
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attempted murder while racist to be added to the crimes that are now legal list.
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Truest Meme
How you remember your friend from high school, with a picture of Sean Penn as Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

When you find them on Facebook, with a picture of Penn as Colonel Lockjaw in One Battle After Another
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I should probably have tagged this as a joke.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The playing of stupid games continues at pace. I can’t wait to see what the prizes will be. Good ones probably.
Per the BBC: “ "More freedom handed to new arrivals than British citizens" reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Express.
Image caption,
In an exclusive for the Daily Express, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch tells the paper "more freedom [is] given to new arrivals in Britain than British citizens." She was pictured with residents of Piddington, who have voted to leave the UK in a symbolic referendum to protest the government housing migrants nearby.”
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is YOUR teen texting like a millennial? LOL - lumbar, oh lord DIAF - dentist! Incisors are fucked! AFAIK - Asprin for aching, irritable knees YMMV - you moved my varifocals ROTFL - Really ow, this fucking lumbar
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a curmudgeonly view but as I’ve grown older, I’ve thought people’s character is much more important than their opinions per se. Particular because when the rubber meets the road, character is what dictates how people behave. I think this is true of politicians and people on the street.
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Vikki Blake (Vixx) @vixx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My husband’s g-g-g grandfather, coxswain of the Mumbles lifeboat, lost two of his own sons and most of his crew when he went out in 1883, but saved c.130 people during his time with the RNLI. These are the bravest, kindest, most selfless people on the planet. Am fuckin OUTRAGED by this.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a man sitting at a restaurant table. He is sweating. He says "Y-you have beautiful eyes".
The second panel zooms in on the man's face. He says, "I'm sorry. I'm just so nervous."
In panel three we see that a biblically accurate angel is sitting on the other side of the table.
In panel four we zoom in on the angel's face, who says "BE NOT AFRAID".
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026
"person gurning and repeatedly asking if they can stroke your arm because it would feel really really good interviewed about the objective upsides and downsides of MDMA"
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What I find striking is her linking this with previous racist movements and not pretending it’s something that’s just spawned from the ether. It’s the same ideas, often the same people, but in racing to legitimise the movement it’s a link that many - e.g. the government, the BBC - cannot make.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When you make fun of the people of Piddington, this is who you’re mocking: honest hardworking Britons.
The magician’s alliance from arrested development
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sorry, Lisa Nandy said what? I know she’s not normally up this early but come the fuck on.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So this is like... Paddington’s Waluigi?
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah, there was a girl I was interested in that couldn’t identify any political leaders. But, when pressed, she got Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah, there was a girl I was interested in that couldn’t identify any political leaders. But, when pressed, she got Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“I’m seeing double here - *four* Krusties!” is such a stupid, clever joke.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To me, that’s cinema.
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