Tom Beasley

@tomjbeasley.bsky.social

Stationary words about moving pictures. Freelance film critic/journo. London Critics member. Editor @ https://www.voicemag.uk/. Host of a Waterloo Road podcast. 'Beta nerd' apparently. (he/him) Portfolio: http://tomjbeasley.wordpress.com/

It has been absolutely fascinating to watch supporters of both Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage spend the last few days weaponising the fact that nobody in legacy media actually seems to understand how Instagram works.

I've always been a dog person over a cat person, but owning a home has fully radicalised me. I have to clean up the shit left by other people's pets all the time, and I just spent part of my morning sweeping up 40-50% of a brutalised pigeon.

I watch gross, brutal horror movies all the time. But I'm not sure that I have ever seen anything as terrifying and stomach-turning as the last 10 minutes of #TipToe. Russell T Davies has again given us an absolutely unforgettable TV show.

So the Clacton by-election is going to be a run-off between a clown solely interested in media attention via cheap stunts who plays a cartoon villain for social media idiots without the slightest interest in representing Clacton or doing the work of a parliamentarian... and Count Binface?

Very much enjoying the BBC newsroom trying to work out which snippet of this nonsense to put on the ticker at the bottom of the screen. "I dunno, something something security, something something mayoral elections, something something crypto gift."

Sami Zayn after becoming Undisputed WWE Champion for the FIRST TIME EVER: "10 years. 10 years in WWE I’ve been challenging for this championship. "They said I would never do it. They said I would never win it. Well here it is. "RIDE OR DIE!"

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