I know they're not for everyone, but I got a water meter. My bill this time last year was £342. This year, it's £10.
"A prominent figure in the Sparks fandom" Here we go. TWO THREE FOUR.
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I know they're not for everyone, but I got a water meter. My bill this time last year was £342. This year, it's £10.
It has to be. And yet...
Remember in 2006, when Stephen Colbert said at a White House Correspondents Dinner, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias”? The salience of the line lingers for a reason.
I think I've lost the ability to recognise when something is real or fake. The bar of unreality has been set far too high.
Ah yes, a clip from episode S04E11, "Turn Left. No, seriously, TURN LEFT."
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
It would be fitting for Angela Rayner to start a new party freed from the desperate Reform-chasing policy advisors that have taken over Labour.
The Bay City Rollers - the band Sparks could've been in 1974!
Reform and X are not Britain, as John Curtice shows, though this loud minority voice thinks it is Migration bad for economy? 32% of public - but 73% of Reform Bad for our culture? 31% of public - 81% of Reform Rights for ethnic minorities have gone too far? 18% of public - but 49% of Reform
The official DOJ Twitter account posting the equivalent of a screenshotted Notes app apology from a phone on 30% battery after the acting director got honeypotted on Hinge and confirmed plans of an Epstein/Maxwell coverup.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
For 58€ a month I can ride on almost any public transport anywhere in Germany. Within a 15 minute walk from my house I can access 4 S Bahn lines, 3 UBahn lines, regional trains (I honestly don’t even know how many of those), 3 tram lines and at least 4 city bus lines (probably more).
If you want a colored sketch and have the means 🙏
What has he done this time?
Hopefully it's just a blip.
Now I know these people are not that stupid. They know what a battery is. But they think their voters ARE that stupid.
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Paging @strangeanima1.bsky.social
The 60s Fantômas trilogy with Jean Marais, Louis De Funès & Mylène Demongeot coming in November from Eureka. I'm interviewed on one of the discs! (And I recommend turning off auto dubbing while watching this trailer). youtu.be/jzxHGWih8QI?...
Has the Boston show been removed from the Sparks website?
It seems to have sold more since the last time I looked, but yeah, still nowhere near enough.
There's no better time than now to revisit @aiannucci.bsky.social’s masterful political satire The Death of Stalin, now streaming on Hulu. From @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/mzs/30-minut...
Europe appreciates them more!
The scarf looks like it belongs at a football match.
North American MAD! Tour merch❗️ The tour starts TOMORROW in Atlanta, GA! allsparks.com
Tottenham really are a bemusing club.
I'm also interviewed on this release! Fantomas Returns! | Eureka share.google/v3PWv5Gb3oEQ...
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
Eli by the end of the tour if this catches on.
Russell commandeered that one for himself.
I hope they do! It won't be the same without them. Might be joined by the Labubu.
I love that we didn't intend for this to happen at all, they just got welcomed into the family!
I love it! This will mean something to approximately 8 people around the world. Niche.
A trans woman won Big Brother in the UK in 2004. There is a vast difference between how an individual person is treated and how a 'group' is perceived. Same with immigrants, really.
And so we face the question: is it more dystopian for the US govt to fake a video of the military assassination of civilians in international waters to make POTUS feel good, or to actually carry out the military assassination of civilians in international waters to make POTUS feel good?
Something that has delighted me: After stopping using Twitter/X I’ve completely forgotten about Owen Jones, Aaron Bastani, most of the UKIP sorts and increasingly indifferent to the moronic posting of many politicians. Truly: Twitter is a curse you inflict on yourself
What is it with Sparks collaborations and songs about dictators?
I love that Ron seems to be sharing Russell's dream and is not happy about it. Or maybe he just wanted a different outfit...
Called "The Happy Dictator"!
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Timeline cleanse
And he'd label his eclairs!
And thus begins something of a silly, silly arc. #Sparkstember
That's worrying. Do we know what the sales were like?
I'm interviewed on one of the extras on Shout Factory's upcoming 4K UHD of John Woo's Hard Boiled. Hard Boiled [Deluxe Edition] + Exclusive Poster – Shout! Factory share.google/dcniwj26NQ0k...
Did something get cancelled?
*logs on* ... *logs off again*
You want them to be happy at daycare, but not THAT happy...
I do enjoy a dog that can hold a grudge.
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
The dog I had before the last one, he wasn't allowed on the good sofa either. But we kept finding cushions on the floor and not understanding why. Then he got old, a bit deaf, and didn't wake up in time to get off and feign innocence when we returned home.
See, my dog never did this! He'd sulk that we'd dared abandon him for a few hours. Or days. Or weeks. Even though he was always with family in his home. SULK.
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Labourites seem to have gone from "ha ha hypnotits" to "oh fuck Polanski will make Farage PM, is that what you want???" very quickly. But lads, if you want people's votes, win them. You're the government ffs.
Happy birthday indeed!
@stevedoherty.bsky.social Happy birthday, you lovely man. xxx
Incredible, CNN finally catches up with an approach of 'show the contradictory clips' that has been the staple of @thedailyshow.com for decades. Roll 212!
It's incredible that Project 2025 was a written, published manifesto for so many months before the election, yet there are still no organised counter-measures even now. They literally told you the whole plan and you are still unprepared!
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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
I feared The Roses would try to make the characters too likeable and they really did. Ironically for a film with two very British characters, the approach to the subject was so much more American than the original War of the Roses movie.
This was oddly prescient!
#Sparkstember Retrospective: Day 2, 2021
It's weird finally seeing parodies in their original form.
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I saw many bits of films with my mother. Got used to having plot explained quickly.
But Halloween is awesome!
TYRANNY
Going to see Jaws at the cinema. I'm fairly confident I have never seen all of Jaws all the way through. I am also fairly confident I've seen the end of Jaws, and some of the middle.
I always found it painfully sweet and artificial, it just doesn't work with coffee. And now it's in EVERYTHING.
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Oh no, it's Autumn and we enter the tyranny of Pumpkin Spice season.
As if I couldn’t love him more, Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena to his American co-star is the joy we all need in the world today. You’re welcome.
It explains so much. I never really got into horror that took itself seriously.
I think I just saw it after so many parodies, it became an exercise in 'oh that's where that came from!'
Everyone Paris Paloma has a new song coming out and the intro is my loser headline and it’s spoken by EMMA THOMPSON 🚨🚨🚨 and she knows who I am
Happy Day 1 of #Sparkstember everyone! (with no offense intended toward the English)
Out with the kiddies, sloshing a pint of Stella all over the shop. MAKES YOU PROUD TO BE BRITISH.
It's rare I am genuinely quite proud of a joke, but in this case, I am.
"The Fash" is the "holibobs" of political discourse.
I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.
The Robesphere.
*sound of a giant paw slapping on a heavily hairsprayed head*
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NEWS TOMORROW❗️
#Sparkstember Retrospective: Day 1, 2021
Oooooh.....
