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Stu West @stuwest.com · 30/09/2026

Guy who has only seen Naomi Wolf interviews: Getting a lot of ‘Death recorded’ vibes from this…

Stu West @stuwest.com · 28/09/2026

The archetypal experience of a potential Manics enjoyer encountering them for the first time is generally "that's quite pleasant, wonder what he's on about"

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 28/09/2026

Not meant as a takedown of the Manics, which is a band I quite enjoy in places, but they don't have any undeniable bangers like Panic or This Charming Man or Bigmouth Strikes again, or even tracks like Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now where the lyrics and vocal delivery give you everything you need

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 28/09/2026

Saw someone on here say there's no UK band with a big fanbase that has as little US cultural footprint as the Manic Street Preachers and after thinking about it my explanation is they're sort of like "what if The Smiths but you had to do homework before you could enjoy them"

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 28/09/2026

The BKV/Marcos Martin Dr Strange mini just scrapes past the 100 page mark, I think (and is brill)

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 27/09/2026

First thing we do, let’s kill all the motherfucking lawyers

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 27/09/2026

I stopoed to fill the tank somewhere Trumpy and heard this song with a "sitting here, drinking beer, talking God a-men" chorus that I still think was a prank

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 26/09/2026

I’m looking forward to Rashid Khalidi’s book about parallels between British involvement in Israel and Ulster

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mad-swilliams.bsky.social @mad-swilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very anxious about posting this, but I feel strongly compelled to share. I know it’s a lot to take in for a Saturday morning and I appreciate anyone for taking the time to read it.

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 26/09/2026

tbh I went to Disneyland last month and there was the shuttle bus to the park, Space Mountain, the Indiana Jones ride, Star Tours, every bathroom visit.. no shortage of times I was indoors and surrounded by people

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 23/09/2026

But when he was on he was on

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 23/09/2026

James is underrated, I think because he was too fond of the drink and spent his last decade farming out his script assignments to his students

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 23/09/2026

I don’t know if you recognise the guy playing Friar Tuck but he was a famous UK tv comedy guy best known for tongue-twisting wordplay and puns, very strange to see him acting with Sean Connery

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 23/09/2026

It’s great! Some classic grunting old men swordfighting action

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 21/09/2026

Need a "get in losers, we’re bringing back Strathclyde Regional Council" meme

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 21/09/2026

Just two years after her grandad won an Oscar for playing the Godfather

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 19/09/2026

1. Because last night I dreamt I went to Batmanderley again 2. The one where Bane does the Bane voice 3. Blades, Blind Justice 4. Most of them, love Catwoman 5. Brian Bolland

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 16/09/2026

They’re obviously playing the long game by making the character into Tom King, guaranteeing that Tom King won’t be able to resist writing them a 12-issue Miracleman maxi-series whenever he’s out of contract with DC

David Colton was born a frail, asthmatic and short kid. After he witnessed the September 11th attack, David went enlist to the Army. Constantly bullied by the other recruits, his fate changed after a brutal beating by his sergeant, he was chosen to undergo the Super-Soldier Serum process.[4] New and fresh, Colton was dubbed "Captain America" and was deployed to both Afghanistan[3] and Iraq,[5] marking the beginning of his descent into cynicism.

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

"Are you ready to make some noise for… Kevin Smith" also the premise of every comic featuring Onomatopoeia

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

I think the Hitchhikers books have a very dry humour, and whenever I look at things that are supposedly inspired by it they almost never do

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

I feel like I can criticise criticise these books from a place of great familiarity and affection. On the other hand, according to wikipedia there’s also a sixth book in the series not written by Adams and I’m not going to bother having an opinion about that

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

Book 5: An extremely sour and unpleasant book. I read it many times on its original release, partly because I’d spent a lot of pocket money to buy the hardcover and partly because at that age I also tended to pick at scabs

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

Book 4: Quite an interesting novel about Arthur Dent having a mid-life crisis. As an ostensible sf comedy, very confusing to me when I read it aged 12

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

Book 3: Includes some great bits. The part about Arthur Dent’s nemesis being foiled from killing him by a time paradox is very good. Sadly, the main plot is about cricket-playing aliens and had been rejected from Doctor Who due to the combination of cricket and science fiction being inadvisable

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

Books 1 and 2: The HHGttG series starts with an excellent novel. Unfortunately, because Douglas Adams ran up against a deadline, it was split in half and published as two ~200 page volumes

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

At school, my best friend and I used to have entire conversations by exchanging Hitchhikers quotes. It wasn’t obvious to us that only half of the five books were good, partly because there were only four books at that time

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/09/2026

Some discussion lately about how The Kids are not into Douglas Adams. As a massive Douglas Adams fan I want to suggest it’s because his best-known series is five books long, they tend to be sold in an omnibus or a boxed set, and only about half of them are good

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 09/09/2026

I assume that’s political framing to prevent pro-Brexit politicians (Reform, current Tories, etc) from claiming the government has ceded sovereignty to an external court

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 06/09/2026

Season two a bit of a low point, I spent most of it missing the supporting cast dynamic from season one

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 05/09/2026

When someone unironically references Roko’s basilisk that’s how you know they’re [noticing sniper’s red dot centering on my heart, from the future] absolutely normal and correct

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 04/09/2026

Why did the director of Reservoir Dogs not release a camping-themed movie during the pandemic under the name Tentin Quarantino

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 23/08/2026

Published Everything and More, a book about maths that mathematicians have told me is laughably bad

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 22/08/2026

What if the AI boom is a bubble but doesn’t cause a recession when it ends? Nathan Tankus compared it to the fracking boom

$What it can do, and is already doing, is causing significant damage to the physical and social environment near these data centers. The proper comparison for this boom, it appears to me, is not the Great Financial Crisis but the 2010s fracking boom. Many fracking companies ultimately failed and many more never approached profitability in the 2010s and saw their stock valuations crater. But fracking never caused any widespread financial damage or even a mild recession. It simply was not a macrofinancial threat.$

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 19/08/2026

I had seen a couple of references to his diaper nurse but hadn’t committed her name to memory before the current thing

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 18/08/2026

Brick. If I somehow ever feel the desire to watch Bugsy Malone I'll put on the original

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 17/08/2026

My best known work is Top 10 w writer #AlanMoore & layout artist @zandercannon.bsky.social. It’s been translated and reprinted around the world and is loved by comic geeks, screenwriters, and by a lot of cops. I once asked Alan if he ever did a “ride along.” He replied, “Never in the front seat…”

The cover to the Absolute Edition of Top Ten, front and back.

Page 2 from Top 10 #7, The Overview. Inks of a winged superhero woman cop flying over the city below her.

Page 2 from Top 10 #7, The Overview. Colored and lettered print page, of a winged superhero woman cop flying over the city below her.

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

Hardcore lab leak truther

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

Everyone's memories of the Fall incident will be different, but what I saw at the time was people who had lived through the Sad Puppies saying "we can't allow regressive fiction to gain a toehold." I think that qualifies! With Neon Yang the harassers were just being racist

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

I think any lightly-moderated platform designed to maximise engagement will turn into a harassment engine by default, it doesn’t really need any specific mindset

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

Yeah but those people have decided to opt in, there was a point where if you had a career in the arts it felt like you couldn’t afford not to be on twitter and that’s all gone

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

We need to defund the Mean Girls

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

But also, the Trumpist backlash isn't really what ended it, it ended after Elon killed Twitter as a cultural force

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/08/2026

Excesses of Woke 1, including l'affaire Isabel Fall, are imo best seen as a minor theatre of the online harassment that was all over Peak Twitter. It did have a nasty effect on group dynamics on the left because harassment became so normalised, and I think that's what some people are remembering

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 05/03/2026

NEURODIVERGENT DIRTY HARRY: Autism is a spectrum and buddy, today you've found yourself on the wrong end of it (blasts them away with his gun)

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Mr Too Damn Bueno 🎉 @bergoesbueno.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“charlie brown had homes.” no he didn’t. that isn’t true.

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 09/08/2026

Reading about Middle Eastern history and finding out lots of things about Michel Aflaq, founder of the Ba'ath movement. Ideally every time I see the name Aflaq my brain wouldn't immediately go

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 08/08/2026

Had to give this a bit of thought but I’m going to go for: Halo Jones V for Vendetta Captain Britain Top 10 Watchmen The Bojeffries Saga From Hell Swamp Thing Brought to Light Skizz

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