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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5h

Bugger off, depression, and leave Andrew alone.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5h

What does LBGT stand for? (wrong answers only)

Lime Green Belly Tape

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 5h

What does LGBT stand for? (wrong answers only)

Len Ganley's Big Trousers

🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 7h

What does LGBT stand for? (wrong answers only)

Let's Grow Big Tomatoes

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 8h

Misheard "bring your daughter to work" as "bring your dirty twerk". Could happen to anyone, as I told the tribunal.

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it's not as immediate as their other masterpieces and I do think Livesey is a bit of an odd choice for the role but once you get past that, it's great.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

So, yeah, I performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but I protested by not being funny.

Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 1d

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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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

I seem to remember having one of these, and it being just a cardboard skeleton, about a foot tall, with riveted joints. If there was an associated illusion I suspect it would involve low light and hidden thread, rather than Pepper's Ghost, which would be hard to pull off in a domestic setting.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Marinated in the Coach and Horses, more like.

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

A rite of passage was when you first went into a specialist shop. For me, that was going to Daddy Kool and buying King Tubby meets the Upsetter at the Grass Roots of Dub, which John Peel had played a track from. Real JA records were mysterious, with strange typos and other arcana.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Wait till he posts the AI generated video of him collecting the medal

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Counting down until someone claims that this proves that psychiatric conditions can affect the blood...

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 3d

Radium baths and monkey balls never did me any harm. Look at all these children I fathered! What's a few extra heads, anyway?

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

A damn shame Liam Gavin hasn't made a follow up, it was a cracking debut...

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

Woman facing a doorway with arcane symbols with title A Dark Song and accolades including Outstanding abd An Utterly Unique Film.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

oh thank you lord and baby jesus

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

Time to start a grift as a fake doctor who diagnoses celebs as "money addicts".

"It's ableist to criticise me, I've got an illness."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

You can sing "honey monster genitalia" to the tune of "deutschland uber alles" should you so wish.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

A man of your qualities? Surely not! Place an advertisement in the personal columns. I suggest "Carbon-based lifeform seeks similar. Vertebrates preferred."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

But I had just returned from visiting my then girlfriend in Paris, so possibly there's a clue.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

It's a mystery.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

My Mum once found a used one in my bag ...

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4d

Years ago, as a youth coming home after a party, I put my used clothes in the laundry basket. Later, in my room, I found the "just in case" condom I had had in my pocket with a note "Found this in the washer. Suggest you bin it as it was on a hot cycle. Love Mum".

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

Paying taxes would kill the rackets, says Al Capone.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

I would, but they keep going up.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4d

You could at least have mentioned her comic strip in Radio Fun.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5d

*headache

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5d

Ha, the version by Aldo Ciccolini is only a minute and a half. Feel he cheated.

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