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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 05/10/2026

We're so lucky to have a lifetime of completely hand crafted pieces of human expression no matter how dire things get

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is going to be the exact moment somebody will walk in on me playing this game.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These are two different movies releasing nine days apart.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Related: I really hate the trend of people referring to movies/books/games/TV/etc collectively as "media" instead of "art".

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This video is vastly underperforming our usual standards in most metrics, but it's also the only video we've ever made that's led to a mass influx of people following me on Letterboxd, so in a way it's the most successful we've ever made.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Sounds exactly like what someone who would put me in a bucket would say.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

There's a kid on my train playing a game at absolute max, obnoxiously loud, bothering everybody volume, except from the sound effects I can tell he's playing Pikmin 4 so instead of storming over I kinda just want to congratulate him on his taste.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Crispin Blunt getting done for drug possession is the greatest political scandal since Anthony Weiner lost his job for sending out dick pics

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Joe Barton @joebarton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The Oscars is the only time one billion people will tune into see a middle-aged Kiwi woman cry and then forget everything she was going to say and that makes me glad it exists

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Incredible scenes as for the first time ever ITV seem to have booked some people who don't hate movies for their Oscars live stream

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

They have a big sign up on the door of the screen I just walked into at the cinema saying confetti canons are banned. I'm seeing Hamnet.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I was going to do an additional shorter list of the funniest films of 2025 but one movie is so far and away ahead of the others it felt pointless

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

It's that time of year again! I saw 194 movies released in 2025, and these are my twenty favourites-

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Year Twelve. Movies are great.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My main accomplishment in 2025 was that I got very tired.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

They should make up a holiday just so people watch Singin in the Rain like how they made up Christmas just so people watch It's a Wonderful Life

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Professional sports is the only profession where if you get good enough at your job, you will become a playable character in a video game.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

What if the movie was called Glad Boys and Will Smith and Martin Lawrence played men who were very grateful. That’s what I’m thinking abou.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Good time to add Google Docs constantly suggesting ways to make your writing more boring like it's pointing out spelling mistakes has been driving me to the brink.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I don’t think I can understand a world without Diane Keaton in it.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 19/09/2025

Genuinely think this is one of my favourite video essays, and I don't just say that because I love rugby/I'm friendly with @squidgygoat.bsky.social. The way it details both the sports drama and political tension does such a good job at illustrating how almost every activity is inherently political.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

He's gonna make some insane tweets about this, I can't wait

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Josh O’Connor as an unhinged priest in a Knives Out movie is the fourth best thing that’s ever happened to me

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We have another two weeks of being able to call Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping the funniest film of the last decade

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

So ummm Weapons is the funniest film of the year

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Genuinely what do they want to achieve with this

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I remain astonished by 28 Years Later. Dozens of artists firing on all cylinders, producing distinct work, yet Boyle somehow pulling all these disparate chunks into a whole that feels complete, cohesive, crackling on a scale you probably can't accomplish if it's just one person's vision.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 22/07/2025

I always love chatting with @squidgygoat.bsky.social about video games and occassionally throwing in an obscure rugby reference really confuse poor @kellymerka.bsky.social.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Casting two English actors as Link & Zelda implies when Shigeru Miyamoto was cutting about in woods outside Kyoto as a kid he imagined everybody had British accents

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’ve now come out of Sinners, 28 Years Later and Superman this summer invigorated by a feeling that somehow, miraculously, in the alchemy of making a big movie on that scale, art won out over commerce.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

As someone who bought a Switch 2 and wants to read/listen/watch stuff about the games I've played, the fact such an enormous percentage of the work out there is speculation on the future or frame rate/tech analysis rather than examination & reflection on the art itself continues to frustrate me.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Alternative suggestion: Listen to me.

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Brad Pitt's "deftness in removing the specter of violence from his own narrative is a reminder of the ways violence against women is normalized. It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care."

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Brad Pitt Is Fooling You

The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 22/06/2025

Americans would love crumpets

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A new Half Man Half Biscuit album releasing the exact day I turn 30 is such a perfect bit of universe kismet I'm surprised it doesn't happen for everyone.

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Now to get used to turning on this thing every day for the next eight years

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Quentin Tarantino found dead in a ditch

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Robbie Owen @squidgygoat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Woah, they look just like in the old one

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