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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 7h

A gym can be a strange place

The seat of a pec fly machine with what is clearly teeth marks on it

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Somebody in the gym was reading this book and the cover looked cool so I looked it up. I love YA

After the events of the previous book, Rowan Damisch has taken on the job of killing and burning scythes that he feels are a disgrace to the scythedom

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

VisionQuest anytime it cuts to "Tommy"

Whenever James Spader's not on screen,all the other characters should be asking,
"Where's James Spader?"

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow. One hundred and fifty billion euros of wine

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A successful movie, in that it convinced me that baseball is interesting. Lots of inexplicably compelling scenes of men on the phone. Mostly about what happens when you reduce men into numbers, with some bolted on scenes of the main guy with his boring kid. The ending feels mean spirited. I liked it

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Poirot’s “working man” disguise is killing me

He’s just wearing a beret and his moustache is a bit crumpled

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My 'watch every recent Guy Ritchie film while cooking roast dinners' streak continues. I just think maybe I fundamentally don't understand what any of these films actually are. the tone is just so strange. this is a kind of spy comedy I guess? with a hollywood satire twist? Hugh Grant is in it?

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has some of the most Guy Ritchie dialogue I have ever heard. Krasinki just had to deliver the lines “don’t you tell me your primal curiosities are not piqued by the great mysteries!” and “that is the exotic aroma of danger” with a straight face

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Incredibly strange film. There’s no second act!

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Living an extremely good life at the moment

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

picture is making me laugh. it's like they're rushing to get back in

prisoners freed early are returnign to jail at rapid rate, governors tell bbc

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🧙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

STONE AND SKY

Another one of these ones. And “another one of these” is a pretty accurate review of it. I’m not being mean but do we really think that the lemon of this particular universe has any more juice left to squeeze out? This one was “all nine hundred recurring characters go on holiday to Scotland, and they meet some Scottish folklore characters, and some stuff happens, the end”. Like it’s diverting enough but I’m really hitting a whatsthepointitis here. Palpably neither the writer nor any of the characters really seems to be that arsed any more.

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i got this because the premise appealed to me

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They're calling it the most ChatGPT amazon review of all time

Some books remind you exactly why you fell in love with epic fantasy in the first place—and The Will of the Many is absolutely one of them.

From its astonishing world-building to its relentlessly gripping narrative, this book is designed to be devoured. The setting is richly imagined and distinctive, drawing heavily on ancient influences and weaving them seamlessly with a fascinating magic system that feels both powerful and earned. Every layer of the world feels intentional, immersive, and alive.

What truly sets this story apart is its narrative structure and character work. The perspective shifts are handled with remarkable confidence, creating constant momentum and tension. Each transition left me desperate to keep reading, often feeling like a cliffhanger had been dropped right in my lap. It’s rare to find a book that can juggle complexity while remaining this compelling, but Islington makes it feel effortless.

The cast is expansive yet engaging, and the central character’s journey is utterly absorbing. There’s a sense of scale and ambition here that never overshadows the emotional pull of the story—it enhances it.

It’s been a long time since a book kept me this invested, this excited, and this eager to turn the next page. The Will of the Many is epic fantasy firing on all cylinders, and I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who loves immersive worlds, high stakes, and stories that refuse to let you go.

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of those annoying ones with no numbers that mean you have to cold-solve 90% of it before you can put any in. Anyway, extra letters tell us to highlight NAME OF COMPANY PRODUCING THE FIVE DRINKS, the drinks (our unclued entires) being products of OAKHAM ALES, hidden diagonally in the grid

getting walloped by kruger

clues are iven in alphabetical order of their answers which must be entered where they will fit, although seven thematic entries (involving two pairs) are uncled. each clue contains an extra word of at least four letters tha tmsut gbe removed to enable solving. the position of the word within the clue indicates the position of the required letter within taht word that collectively, in normal clue order, iddentify what must be highlighted in the completd grid

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

how come only Buckethead gets the 'Oxford graduate' label here. May and Oliver are also both Oxbridge alumni. You gotta be consistent surely

The man inside the bin is the comedian Jon Harvey, an Oxford graduate who has specialised in satire, writing scripts for BBC comedy shows The Thick of It and Have I Got News For You.

He first donned a bin on his head to stand for election in 2017, when he challenged the then Prime Minister Theresa May in her Maidenhead constituency, although back then he was known as Lord Buckethead, a character inspired by a Star Wars parody film.

He won 249 votes and viral fame, leading to an appearance on John Oliver's HBO show Last Week Tonight - as well as a legal dispute with another Lord Buckethead he described at the time as "an unpleasant battle on the planet Copyright".

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

First 45 minutes of this were absolutely cracking. Then it kept going and going and going and I kinda felt like I’d seen the resolution of the main plot a dozen times before. Basically good overall

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

He just has a way with words that baffles me. I should be inured to it by now but "especially of certain types" has done me in

"The U.S. has massive amounts of 'munitions,' especially of certain types," Trump posted on Thursday morning.

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

what in the name of christington fuck

Holiday by Ifor
Silvered rows contain answers to non-standard clues. In each of these the first clue comprises a definition of a short word to which a letter-string must be inserted or added to form the real-word entry given by wordplay. The second comprises wordplay to a longer word from which a letter-string has been removed to form the defined entry.
Enumerations refer to wordplay outcomes; all strings are different.
A five-word phrase suggesting these changes must be written under the grid.
Remaining clues each contain an extra word; these words appear in clue order in the source of the

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A motion picture that dares ask the question: can you build an entire movie out of cantina scene?

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is v funny. It's basically Punisher does John Wick 2, also he's tormented by all the ghosts of his past, so it's about a man being crushed by guilt & accumulated emotional trauma, but also we all know this time next week we're all gonna see him hanging out crackin' wise with his pal Spider-Man

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A++++++ from the Bojack Pilot

a horse hospital named 'st elmer's medical center'

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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Extra down words gave CLOSE EVERY DOOR & ANY DREAM WILL DO, songs from Joseph’s Technicolour Dreamcoat; extra words in across clues corresponded to colours in “The Colour Song” (that took me ages) and there’s Joseph in his coat in the middle. Not too bad. A bit fiddly

Undercover Interpreterby eXternal
First and last letters in extra words in fourteen down clues give two works! Words from a related work are identified by extra words to be removed from twenty across clues, in the order they appear in the work but with nine omissions. The omitted nine are identified by unclued entries; solvers should use each one of these (approximately) to portray the subject of the work, appropriately positioned around a key figure, in the final grid.

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