David O’Toole

David O’Toole

@thespectacle.bsky.social

Arsenal fan, south Londoner. I really don’t like Thatcher, still. Machine gun socialist. I demand champagne. The profile is me and my good chums the Ambiguous Dance Company. Larger picture is what socialism gets you.

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I intended on ex-Twitter to do a thread of my favourite YouTube creators, but it felt a bit pretentious over there, I don’t know why. So I’m doing one now, and will constantly update when I remember each channel. When these people release videos I watch them, always. In no particular order:

Don’t want to present sour grapes but there should be extra time and we would have destroyed them. It’s too abrupt. Feels off. Well done Fleetwood. #Arsenal #COYG #Fleetwood

I think we knew what to eat and not to eat when we weren’t conscious as today, like all animals, and maintained that knowledge and then started talking about it. Not in the same afternoon though.

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Fungal Misadventure: a short short story I wrote, which I've decided to tell here in the form a thread, using eleven photos I've taken of excellent fungi on my walks, and one I took of quite a fancy chicken...

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Ahmed's✉️ Hello everyone, after my family and I left Palmyra completely and moved into the tents,and after we no longer have any food to eat,I decided to create a donation link, but I sent it to many without benefit.I need any donation,please help my family,we want to eat😔 chuffed.org/project/1696...

Given the sheer volume of taxi drivers in London no one should use a driverless cab unless for some medical reason. Why would Londoners take money from the pocket of fellow Londoners and give it to American vulture capitalists?

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Lord Jim O’Neill! Demands bravery. Straight to the triple lock. Bold stuff. Tory, Goldman Sachs. Can Labour raise taxes? He’s got a lot to say but essentially cutting is the way forward. Tell me why he’s on the radio this morning please BBC? Particularly today.

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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

That meme about words doing heavy lifting? ‘Set’ here means ‘possibly in 5 billion years’ and ‘collide’ means waft across each other like the smoke from two cigarettes at opposite ends of the bar.

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The Telegraph has deleted, without fanfare, the word ‘living’ from the headline of Stephen Daisley's article on Professor Arday. Today, it just reads “Jason Arday is proof that you reap what you sow.”

First minutes of this video, pub-owner discusses the history he keeps alive. In a pub he gutted, renamed & redesigned as ‘Disney Irish’. The balls on the fella. He found a working class pub, wiped it out, inserted a fiction instead and wants a pat on the back. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

theguardian.com‘We bring the craic’: how spice bags became an Irish-Chinese takeaway hitRestaurant critic and award-winning author Jimi Famurewa travels through London, Belfast and Birmingham getting messy with the fusion treat of spicy chicken, chips and curry sauce. Should you dip or p...

Ask yourself: do you want to tax billionaires out of existence? Because that’s what will happen if a proper wealth tax is instigated. There’s no other way to do it so let’s go!

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Hi, you "liked" a post regarding Pret A Manger frankenchicken. Pret won't keep their promise. Have people forgotten how Pret ignored TWO customer deaths & multiple injuries before it got public? Not to mention £800K fine after staff in freezer for over 2.5 hours. expret.org/2026/06/15/p...

expret.orgOf course Pret A Manger BREAK their Promises!Dah! Pret “doing the right thing naturally” again, by making promises, then breaking them, and then moving the deadline 5 years further down the road, in hopes people forget. … “it&#821…

Cat videos now “It was difficult to gain his trust” (cat spits, eats raw chicken, hisses before licking a cat-treat) “We built a rapport” (cat goes for eyes, growls with mouth full of whole chicken leg, attacks toddler) “We are so lucky” (cat allows one scratch, cat asleep on pillow mountain)

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Correct. “I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.”