Orange Monkey
@orangemonkey.bsky.social
Horror films, records, cats, witchy things.
While I totally understand why you would buy and own a self-driving car. (You don't want to drive). I have zero understanding of the benefits to the user of getting a driverless taxi beyond novelty. I understand why the people owning the cars want you to, but that's not how business works.
Oh did you get a noisy text? Tell me more about how it hurt you.
The most impressive thing about the England Football Team is that supporters, who supposedly know a lot about football, forget everything about how football works the second they walk on the pitch.
Controversial view - you're in an air-conditioned office in Manchester. You don't need to wear shorts.
There’s nothing like a swim in hot weather and I am a girl who loves to swim 🏊 - here’s a new essay from me on Liverpool Almanac about the politics of access to pools open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
Pool Times
Access to public pools is part of our social and political history in Liverpool. We should celebrate our aquatic legacy
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A potential, if not complete, solution is that your phone sends an anonymous token to the app/site that says "this person is 16/18" using passkeys. But that would be too sensible and joined up so we'll have a million debates about digital ID until my bones turn to dust.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake — theonion.com/i-work-very-...
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Obsession (2026) Cinematography by Taylor Clemons Directed by Curry Barker
Obsession is a flawed film but I jumped in the air and screamed "Jesus Fucking Christ" at one point so that's a thumbs up from me.
Screening tonight @ picturehouse @factliverpool.bsky.social, Soviet era folk horror, Viy, based on the Nikolai Gogol novella of the same name. A tale of the grotesque, it weaves together witchcraft, fear and forbidden desire to great effect.
A new post on Liverpool Almanac by me And a new series having short sharp chats with people in the middle of things going on. Because sometimes little things happen, and you don't know if it's going to become something bigger open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
Does Liverpool risk evicting its own identity?
Little things happen in a city all the time. And you never know if they're going to turn into something bigger. A gallery and arts complex closes, but is it part of something wider?
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I Saw The TV Glow but it's Andy Burnham watching Newsnight
This graphic isn't telling you that growth will drop by 0.8%.
Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/
What's the etiquette when somebody is quite clearly recording you on their phone on a train? I'm siding with just play on my Switch while giving the stink eye.
I'll workshop this so I get two or three reposts.
Orange Monkey@orangemonkey.bsky.social · 6mo agoI do a lot of "stuff" - work and life and creative stuff. You know the type of thing. But, and hear me out here, maybe I should just watch a load of baseball. I mean, if I'm just going to run around and get nowhere the Red Sox are available to do that for me. I'll even get a quiet October.
I do a lot of "stuff" - work and life and creative stuff. You know the type of thing. But, and hear me out here, maybe I should just watch a load of baseball. I mean, if I'm just going to run around and get nowhere the Red Sox are available to do that for me. I'll even get a quiet October.
Our evening film is a slow burning British horror thriller with #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow 📽️ THE APPOINTMENT (1981) 9:10pm with #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd horror #TPTVsubtitles
The liberals yearn for a bubble. Show me where the bubble is?
Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 7mo agothese people seem like idiots
To be fair to the Titanic it did change course quite quickly
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 8mo agoVance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
