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Stu Mac

@boiledfrog.bsky.social

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Old Techie. Works for big British Telecom co. SciFi, Books, Comics, TV and Films. 2000AD every time! Travel. Electric unicycles are cool! Stream of consciousness. May include cats. And opinions.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 5h

From the outside (as a Brit) it appears that the US administration is dismantling public programmes in the belief that their exteme wealth will protect them. There are lots of reasons this is nuts - how frightened are their advisors to speak truth to power?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a bit jealous. I no longer have the shelfspace for quite so much of anything, let alone #2000ad!

Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 7h

@greatdismal.bsky.social typewriter vibes!

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 10h

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 8h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 8h

Mr Gum came to see what all the fuss was about. #cat #caturday #mrgum

Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 8h

Billy William and I are having an evening relax in front of the TV and cosy fire. #cat #caturday #billywilliam

Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 1d

First time tonight on the refreshed #subway in #glasgow. Much improved over the 80s vintage!

Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Gum checking out whether the tap at the vets is as leaky as the one at home. Just a checkup, but at 16, he's an old man! #cat #mrgum

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d

What follows Enshittification is Enstupification.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 1d

I like the word, but clearly I’m too thick to know if that should be applied to us, the consumers, or whether that refers to the increasingly reductive narratives in the press. Maybe thats too clever and it’s both.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 2d

Chill after lunch with some #funkiporcini #nowplaying music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Modern Hymns for Modern Things

A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 2d

Sam did a mini West Highland Way with his buddy last week. It may have been damp, but they enjoyed themselves! #scotland #whw #driech youtu.be/4lJ5Bym8lkU...

Mini West Highland Way 2025

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 3d

Hole-eo-fuck, we're doomed. #slop

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 3d

AI is a runaway train and I’d like to get off at the nearest station.

I’ll jump off and roll down a hill like they do in the movies if I have to.

Video: @varunmayya.bsky.social

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 4d

Reform's brilliant DOGE team at Kent council found zero savings and now want to raise council tax. It's almost as if they were lying and haven't got a clue what they're doing.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 3d

That's some weird-ass shit. And commitment, buckets of it.

One has to wonder *why* the algorithm chose to gift this you you..?!

Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 3d

It's the first signs of "proper" autumn that I've noticed today, with central heating flue venting telling me it's "brr" outside at 1100. #autumn #brr #chilly #glasgow

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Mitsubishop @mitsubishop.bsky.social · 5d

I’m still baffled by an argument that suggests “seeing how dependent we are on imported energy means we need to move away from taking up renewables”.

It’s just madness.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 5d

No shit, Shirley! It’s always ‘easy’ on the outside!

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 6d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 6d

a galactic mic drop from Jane

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Stu Mac @boiledfrog.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a chipchip here and a chipchip there. Slowly, inexorably, eroding the underlying sense of what’s right, sliding the Overton window, mm by mm. From the outside, its pretty frightening - from the inside..?

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 6d

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