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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · Jun 17

💙📚 COMING JAN 2026: THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH! The owner of a pro-wrestling gym died, and his ghost is convinced he was moidered. Can Weirdo medium Claire and her dead best friend solve it? What is kayfabe? Do personal issues really draw money? Pre-order to find out: www.waterstones.com/book/the-gra...

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 1h

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 17h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 15h

scene in seinfeld that's been edited heavily, which was originally about the Netherlands:

George: What is Orlok?
Jerry: What do you mean "what is it?" It's a count who is a vampire.
George: No, that's Dracula
Jerry: Orlok is Dracula
George: Then who is Nosferatu

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Pikmin’s Model @zaaack.bsky.social · 20h

now THAT’S funny

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

www.vulture.com

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Yours is SO sweet and curly! Are they a cross?

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! He’s a trad English working cocker. I got him when he was a puppy, this post was just about the jumper. As long as he gets to run around and do scent work the biggest problem is that he steals all the socks he can find

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Mary, he is! I would be quite surprised if he killed my neighbour’s chickens because working cocker spaniels are soft-mouthed retrievers, which is what I’ve trained him to be.

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere legally-not-allowed-to-call-himself a-Doctor Wakefield, cocks an ear, jumps into the nearest phone box, spins around really fast, and exits only to fall over and smash his face

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’m a sloucher, you know

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Here he is as a bebe

My dog Basher as a 10 week old puppy, under my arm and looking off to the side

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

1). THANK YOU 2). the fictional man. When he was a puppy the dog was very blond and serious so it fit. Now he is a galumphing hellion (and I love him very much)

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Basha m8

Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

thank you, he is a very good boy

Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Gone full dog mum lads

Me in a cool slate coloured jumper with an embroidered picture of my dog on it

My cool golden cocker spaniel dog Basher sitting with his tongue out in the evening light

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly has a charity called the Imagination Library that sends free books to kids until they're five - and it operates in the UK and Ireland too. It's been going 30 years! That's actual caring about children right there.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Good piece by my friend and erstwhile colleague Mark Wright on why independent bookshops simply can't discount titles in the way Amazon and the big chains can:

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 2d

I’m not the only bookseller with horror stories of emboldened customers waving a brick of a hardback in our faces, declaring they can get it for half the price in the supermarket down the road, says Mark Wright in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Osman's sums don't add up

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 2d

you're right that would make the jumper better

Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 2d

Only our foremost halls of learning can produce people so debate-pilled that they join the war against incest on the side of incest

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 2d

This is why you don't have to take people who went to Oxbridge more seriously than anyone else.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 2d

And he's proud of it. www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...

What my GB News incest row critics fail to understand

If reproductive and non-reproductive incest are so bad, why do people resort to personal attacks as opposed to moral arguments?

www.spectator.co.uk

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 2d

The Stabler from Law And Order SVU meme: she was x years old you sick fuck!

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

screenshot from The Insider - Russell Crowe's Jeffrey Wigand seen from behind in a white collared shirt and gray wig, standing slightly off-center (on the right side of the frame) in his dark hotel room. caption for Pacino's Lowell Bergman (in voiceover) reads, "I'm running out of heroes, man"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 2d

Like, seems to really goes out of its way for a drive-by on his dad

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