Ben Shimmin

Arbiter elegantiarum.

[Ben Shimmin @bas_again]

“Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?”
“No, have you?”

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How the little piggies will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered.

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I was doing my best to be indifferent to the goings-on at Twitter, but Tweetbot stopping working probably will be the final straw for me (I joined in 2006). And I can't be bothered with Mastodon, so I guess that's that.

(Perhaps it's just an outage!)

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“Knives Out 2” carries on the rich tradition of “Ocean’s Twelve” (etc), where a strong and interesting first film is Hollywoodified into a bloated, self-indulgent, self-aggrandising borefest.

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“Smile” is basically “Fallen” (1998, with Denzel) again, which is not really a bad thing, but it needed to be a tight 95 minutes, not nearly two hours.

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At least in central Bath, Five Guys appears to be doing free peanuts again. This is a Good Thing.

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I thought Monica Galetti would be a really tough act to follow on “MasterChef: The Professionals”, but it turns out Anna Haugh is great, especially when she’s talking about panna cotta and she says “wobble” (“wahble”). I’m a sucker for a soft Irish accent.

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What the hell https://t.co/WwVQTzly5j

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It’s that time of the year where I usually post something scathing about the John Lewis Christmas advert (normally without having watched it), but this year I have watched it and I just really liked it. So there.

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I wrote my first piece of Crystal (https://t.co/leoD3tGPUX) yesterday. It was a very good experience.

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Such a relief to see Suella Braverman back as Home Secretary - like a good fungal toenail infection, politicians of her calibre never really go away.

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At least she managed to say “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati” yesterday. I bet she’ll remember that fondly.

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It will be sad to see Suella Braverman return to the backbenches - Priti Patel was always going to be a tough act to follow, but Suella managed to match and sometimes even surpass her predecessor’s monstrous lack of compassion or basic humanity.

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If this is a “mini” budget, I’d be fascinated to see what’s in a full budget…

Happy Friday to all the contractors who went perm after the changes to the IR35 rules, which are now being un-changed!

[Ben Shimmin @bas_again]

“the most important event the world will ever see”

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@Fariska And Figma. I knew there was a third thing.

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This has been a rotten week. First Jean-Luc Godard, now Federer’s retirement. I need a beer.

[Juan M. del Potro @delpotrojuan]

💔😢. I LOVE YOU, Roger. Thank you for everything you’ve done in tennis and with myself. Tennis world will never be the same without you.

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“La photographie, c'est la vérité, et le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.” RIP, Jean-Luc.

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This country has gone to the dogs. https://t.co/19KylGNQjN

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I really enjoyed “The Rings of Power”, though I can understand why it might not be to everyone’s taste (and the IMDb review deleting thing is obviously gross). If you’re on the fence, give it a go.