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Flying Squid

@flyingsquid.bsky.social

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A squid that flies. Interested in comedy and archaeology, doesn't shy away from left-wing politics, recent American emigre to the UK. Occasionally says something funny, but people rarely notice.

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 7h

It's just not worth spending this much time on a single sudoku.

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 9h

What if I gave you some of this delicious cheesecake?

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 11h

Can I interest you in some lotus?

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 11h

Second note: No, we're not telling you the reasons right now, cheapskate. Go buy the other book. We're a business, not a public service. What do you want next, full summaries of what you missed in every new issue?

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 11h

Some fool near her put several flags high up on lampposts, but the only large flag with a Union Jack they had was for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, so it's got her portrait on it in the middle, taking up most of the space.

Also, let these bigots know that St. George was a Greek from Turkey.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 11h

"We prefer vertical video."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, well you should have thought of that when you pissed off Jimmy Fallon when you guest-hosted SNL in 2003.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 15h

But wasn't mass printing happening at a massive scale in Asia? The Koreans were printing books. The Chinese were printing money. They were doing it at scale. So I'm a little confused as to what the claim is here.

Yes, it changed things massively. In Europe.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not sure how Korean metal typesetting wasn't mechanisation...

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Lost Continent
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Being from Another Planet
Time of the Apes

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Is it right calling it a 15th century invention when the Koreans had metal type printing in the 13th century and the Chinese had ceramic movable type in the 11th century?

It feels way too Eurocentric a claim to me.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

A moment inside the head of Donnie Osmond.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Babs' Adult Videos and Novelties was never the same again.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

"What was that? We don't ALL have super-hearing, Clark."

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

"THAT'S A PARTY SUB, DIANA! THAT WAS FOR EVERYBODY!"

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, the Trump administration just cancelled a massive solar farm. So what is the point of this?

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

And what do they know that we don't?!

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 1d

The chances that Farage and Epstein were not intimately acquainted is slim to none.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

And so ends another successful Rainbow Gathering.

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

"Nothing. Anyway, seen any whales yet?"

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

I'm glad someone has finally gotten to the bottom of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged existence.

(Watch this 20 minute documentary. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.)

The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

I think Van Halen would be better...

Ah, might as well jump (jump!)
Might as well jump
Go ahead and jump (jump!)
Go ahead and jump

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

Or possibly the bombing of Norway. And what the hell, Venezuela too while he's at it.

Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel committee to Trump...

The late musician Johnny Cash giving the finger.

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Flying Squid @flyingsquid.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, that's why I liked the patchwork suits. These are people barely scraping by, just trying to survive and hopefully one day strike it rich. But in the meantime, they have to put their survival suits together from whatever pieces they can forage. And possibly kill for.