@tomaustin.bsky.social

Deeply unimportant NHS-working, non-wingnut, left-ish, film-obsessed, Brit-Kiwi IT guy, based in London. Anti-Brexit, anti-hate, anti-stupid; so very probably "liberal", "leftist", "woke" or something. Who knows.

1,384 Followers 245 Following 1,518 Posts Joined Aug 2023
23 hours ago

Ditto. And then I somehow/slowly grew into his kind of melancholy.

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It’s so good.

And, unusually, so much better than the director’s cut.

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1 day ago

If it’s the same thing that hit me down for two weeks in London, a few months ago, then it’s not Covid but probably the worst hot-sweats / shivering-cold “cold” I’ve ever had.

Sympathies to Mr S. It does go away eventually.

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Perhaps we could ease their worries and pains by playing softly soothing music with our incredibly tiny violins.

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1 day ago

Neither is Farage

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2 days ago
Fuck I don’t even have a meme for this
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2 days ago

One Cut is also, at the end, one of the most heart-warming of flicks I’ve seen.

Complete reverse of a horror.

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2 days ago

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

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2 days ago

Idly wondering when, if ever, they'll make the connection.

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2 days ago

Phew: like everyone else, I was wondering what could be causing the hold-up.

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Literally back-to-back on my feed -- this is spooky, John...

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2 days ago

Well, the bias has been increasingly off the charts for a while now, it's borderline unlistenable.

To think I used to wake up to it for 20-odd years, but you did it, guys: finally stopped over 2 years ago.

Big thanks to Nick Robinson and team; great work, people.

I never want to hear you again.

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2 days ago

Hoping that the powder "mix" they give/gave you is less vile-tasting as the stuff they gave me.

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3 days ago

If only there’d been some way of absolutely knowing this was going to happen in exactly this way

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3 days ago

I've been going bald since my 20s. Starmer.

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3 days ago
Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026

I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is
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4 days ago
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In a talk to young writers last night I showed this viral tweet as an e.g. of public engagement

I was gobsmacked when a number of people came up & said they had already seen it loose on the internet (w/o my name, obviously)

Clearly drunk cat is my true & most enduring legacy, & I wish him well 😽

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4 days ago

It’s … all they have, really, isn’t it?

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4 days ago

Literally came on here to post this, but you beat me to it.

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I still think about this a lot.

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6 days ago

They’ve already attacked trans children this morning, beyond that it’s hard to see what Labour could do during this crisis.

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5 days ago

Christ-alive, has he got a face you'd struggle to stop slapping.

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5 days ago
Preview
Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Oh, but this is good. If infuriating.

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5 days ago
The best thing about living in central London?

Guaranteed instant obliteration in the first moments of a nuclear war.

Whenever I feel bad about living here.

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6 days ago

I still have a sneaking regard for Revolver. Not sure why. Perhaps because he did that King Arthur thing afterwards.

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