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Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social · 1h

From the Washington Post:
“(Trump) has previously bragged about acing the (cognitive) test, suggesting it involved questions about various items including giraffes, televisions and whales. Experts have noted that there is no whale in the test"

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1h

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent summation!

a man with a serious look on his face

Alt: I’m not sure if this is the appropriate GIF but it’s late and I’m tired

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like we're going to need this more & more as the Discover Twats continue to fully lose their minds

Lenny off The Simpsons puts a 0 up on a board saying 'days without an egotist off Discover reckoning if people can't cater to them personally with every post then we shouldn't be allowed on the internet'

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve just looked at the Wikipedia synopsis and an awkward grimace is perhaps more appropriate. Eesht. OK we perhaps know now why Willis was reduced to making schlock like this - money for his treatment and impending enforced retirement from acting - but it’s an ignominious end to a career.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 3h

He’s an obvious self-absorbed Yank cunt who seems to think the world revolves around him and should be dictated by his interests. Block and forget.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 4h

No, they’re in a post-G&U book.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 6h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 8h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

bitch what

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

Leaned a bit too heavily into the digital effects too, takes one out of the moment.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

Am I the only one slightly disappointed that whole routine wasn’t to MGMT’s “Time To Pretend”? #Strictly

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

Christ, YouTube, viewing ONE random “rescued baby squirrel” video does not automatically confer a desire to view them ALL.

[Though - don’t tell them - I kinda do]

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

May have rushed the gun a bit but the brushed cotton duvet cover has gone on. Still the lighter summer duvet that’ll stay on until after the clocks go back.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

But even then I think it’s safe to say most people on both sides of the pond came to The Naked Gun knowing nothing about Police Squad! I certainly didn’t. To me it was just a screwball comedy by one part of the Airplane! team starring someone from that movie. And the trailers looked good.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 7h

What makes you proud to be British? For me, this is right up there.

A one-star review from a Texan tourist visiting Liverpool:

freddytexan (16 reviews)
“My wife and I visted Liverpool for our 30th wedding anniversary from Texas. Our evening was ruined when a man dressed as an adult baby called my wife a "Mad yank slut" because she'd never heard of a band called Steps.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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Brent Brookhouse @pridefightingchampionships.com · 8h

Farmer: You do the tomato art for the new sign?

Artist: Sure did, boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Farmer: what

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 10h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve no idea! It all seemed very personal between the two of them, with S&G keeping well out of it (I think? … and depending on how you view them remaining part of NO with B despite P leaving…).

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