writer. actor. shadow home secretary. cofounder of @griffonstheatre. bad opinions are mine.

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Joined November 2017
Paul Giamatti piloting a Gundam
Paul Giamatti, Nico Parker and Sam Nicola to star in ‘Godzilla Minus One’ director Takashi Yamazaki's first-ever English language film ‘GRANDGEAR’ The film includes 2 mechs battling each other. (deadline.com/2026/10/sam-niv…)
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average river cartwright field operation
I might be an idiot
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Rare W for the UK release schedule. Checked out Never After Dark and apparently it came out shortly after the birth of Christ.
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Counter-take: The logic of international solidarity - that what happens in Brazil (from Amazon protection to viral pandemics) matters for what happens in the United States - has never in history been more plainly important.
Earnest take: I think it’s probably not healthy for the practice of democratic self-government that so many people have developed strong rooting interests in elections in countries they don’t live in.
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Replying to @staticbluebat
people who are too young to remember a world before letterboxd really don't understand. it's been the most significant positive force for cinephilia of the century. for all its faults, it has completely changed film culture for the better
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WHAT?! It hasn't turned into a sun dappled paradise with completely new architecture and unseasonal flowers within one day in November? Resign Sadiq Khan!
The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street. What we thought it would look like and what it actually looks like 🙁 #oxfordstreet #london
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"hardcore porn" implies the existence of "post-porn", "ska-porn", and "anarcho-porn", among others
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“The CIA must intervene immediately to restore democracy”
The Supreme Court of Brazil is stealing this election for Lula. The @CIA must intervene immediately to restore democracy to the hemisphere.
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Don’t let this story die. Outrageous levels of treasonous corruption.
Jared Kushner exposed for taking bribes from Saudi and UAE
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This is Labour Politician Lord Tom Watson being paid to be a salesman for Palantir, a highly controversial tech company that has Government contracts. This is a sign of a democracy in decline.
Nobody wants to buy a service they can’t walk away from. Palantir’s critics have long claimed we ‘lock in’ our customers. We don’t. This short film explains why. It’s the first in a series on the gap between the rhetoric about Palantir and the work we actually do.
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“Journalist” believes you should uncritically accept something before actually reading it — naturally.
If your knee jerk response to a report saying children are being bullied for their religion/ethnicity is to try to find any means to discredit the report, you are part of the problem and not the good person you think you are.
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It's fucking crazy that an investigation exposing how Jared Kushner laundered billions if dollars through Azerbaijan, including payments to a warlord, a mercenary, and a hitman, isn't getting more attention.
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pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail
Fuck Lula it’s time we give him the Maduro treatment!
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This is the strategy everywhere from now on. Try your hardest to suppress the vote, propagandize, or otherwise disenfranchise the opposition. If you lose, call the results into question, wage lawfare, and coup monger your way back into power by any means necessary if you can.
JUST IN: 🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro officially rejects results of presidential election against Lula da Silva. "It is impossible to recognize the election results… we will use our legal team, we will request the annulment of these elections."
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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My phone blinking like a Xmas tree with messages from around the world. Thank you friends ♥️🇧🇷. Brazil has just told bolsonarismo, today’s grotesque voter suppression, election meddling from US big techs, Brazilian legacy media and Trumpism a huge FUCK OFF. What we have accomplished is historic. Lula, 80 years old, elected 4 times democratically, by the people. What a giant.
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Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff
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Under Lula leadership in Brazil, Amazon deforestation has just dropped by a record 41.8% Lula has been an excellent leader for our planet
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Don’t become numb to this. It’s disgusting and dangerous racism and if Rogers wins next month it’ll only escalate. Sick, sick stuff.
Trump: El-Sayed would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector
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