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Grant White

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Humanitarian Brit, occasional journalist and hopeful progressive. Completed therapy, happily medicated. Cis hetero, he/him. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️ #BlackLivesMatter

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Spider-Father @spider-father.bsky.social · 2h

Oppulance!

#Transformers

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Pringus McDingus @pringusmcdingus.bsky.social · 1d

After 2 years, the second season of Community, but Sonic is finally here! Thank you for your patience, love and support! Watch it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUkX...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 2h

hahah wtf

Trying to remember the name of the pleasant spice I've been trying to track down ever since Old El Paso removed it from their delicious burrito recipe to replace it with a boring chilli con carne version, I have googled "food that delivers to mala dale st" - because there is a place on Dale St in Manchester called Mala that provides tables for you to sit at and order in food. Last time I was there, one of the foods you could get was a funny sort of burger, funny in that it was called "[name-of-Spice] Burger," and I tried it, and it was exactly the flavour of those old burritos and I loved it. I want to buy some of that spice, and try to reverse-engineer the lost burrito.

But Google has responded to my query of "food that delivers to mala dale st" with the wikipedia entry for Heroin! The drug!

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 13h

Gundam Reconguista in G (2014)
Episode 22 - Reunions in the Earth Sphere
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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 13h

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995)
Episode 14 - The Order to Destroy 01
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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 12h

Mobile Suit Gundam-san (2014)
Episode 10 - Lalah Moves Out
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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 9h

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015)
Episode 32 - My Friend
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Grant White @grantwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Kid me when adults asked what Ecco on Mega Drive was about.

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After War Gundam X (1996)
Episode 17 - Find Out for Yourself
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After War Gundam X (1996)
Episode 17 - Find Out for Yourself
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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 3h

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011)
Episode 19 - Asemu's Departure
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lilmommaprods @lilmommaprods.bsky.social · 1d

I vicariously enjoy Toby's ascendancy still because every early aughts indie circle jerk participant who shit on Japanese games to some extent would fucking kill to be in this picture. Who would've thought the guy that openly loves his inspirations would be the successful one? Go fig.

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 1d

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 5h

excited to start drawing Nancy again, here’s a strip I drew in Paris last year

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Transformer Dad @transformerdad.bsky.social · 4h

📷 Transformers Legacy Infernac Universe Calcitron

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Grant White @grantwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Might want to move yourself away from population hotspots.

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a cartoon of a police officer holding a bag of money with the words oh good my laundry is done

ALT: a cartoon of a police officer holding a bag of money with the words oh good my laundry is done

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 4h

Certainly a surprising argument being made on the side of JK “I’m going go make it my mission to ensure we don’t have to figure out how to live with trans people” Rowling

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4h

right … which is .. what so many of us are asking for as trans people ???

Kiera Knightley sounds like a BlueSky moderator

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Keira Knightley said that before joining the voice cast of Audible's "Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio
Editions,
" she was "not aware" of the fan boycott
of all things "Harry Potter" over J.K. Rowling's statements about the transgender community:
"You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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yasaikakiage @yasaikakiage.bsky.social · Apr 3

#zero #megamanX

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Grant White @grantwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Giving up on CrossWorlds Minecraft Festival at 745 points. I've got all the stuff worth getting and players keep choosing the Minecraft course.

two anime girls are sitting on a roller coaster and one has her hand on her chin

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 5h

My favorite line

largo621 @largo621.bsky.social · 5h

This big lug:

An unmasked Bane walks down a hallway while making a joke about bench pressing Batman

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 5h

When I see voice actors posting how they wanna work on the supposed Duolingo anime despite that app being openly in bed with AI

An old tweet by Reby Hardy that says “and fuck that owl.”

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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