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Pete Lawson

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Professional pedant. Likes television. #LFC #AEW #WhateverIFindAmusing https://linktr.ee/peteyjlawson

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 4d

After talking about it the other day so was able to find the Chief Supt Brownlow / American Werewolf in London meme!

A split 2 panel meme. The top panel shows actor Peter Ellis as a police officer in the movie An American Werewolf in London. The caption read: “1981: Fails to stop deadly foreign werewolf attack in central London, despite the werewolf attempting to surrender to him beforehand”

The bottom panel shows actor Peter Ellis as Chief Superintended Charles Brownlow in the TV series The Bill. The caption reads: “ 1984: Promoted to Chief Superintendent at Sun Hill police station. Share if you think this is a disgrace”

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Little Greenis @durtmchurtt.bsky.social · 2d

Heavens to Betsy
Betsy to Heavens
Heavens BACK to Betsy
Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 2d

Friday! Lunchtime! The usual selection of EXCELLENT, FRESHLY-BAKED LINKS, cracking music and improving longreads, all cobbled together with the same slapdash, phoned-in prose which continues to repel the majority of right-thinking readers. Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 5d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 5d

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 7d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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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The Turbo Times @turbotimes.bsky.social · 9d

friday night

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 9d

Friday! Lunchtime! Words written by a man so fatigued he has just realised that he is actually crying with tired as he types this! REAP THE FRUITS OF MY POINTLESS MASOCHISM AND CLICK MY LINKS! Web Curios! Share, enjoy, please let me sleep now! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-10...

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 9d

This is what the internet is for

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 11d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 11d

A crisp £5 note to the first journalist to ask Kemi Badenoch if she has a humiliation kink

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Pete Lawson @peteyjlawson.bsky.social · 11d

This one? Yeah, that's Threads. Apparently the software they use doesn't recognise Bluesky yet.

Pete Lawson @peteyjlawson.bsky.social · 11d

a man wearing a top hat says stop don 't come back .

ALT: a man wearing a top hat says stop don 't come back .

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 13d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13d

"INSPIRE"

My husband has cheated on me at least three times, but he earns so much I won’t ever leave him
Daily Mail 6 Oct 2025

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Pete Lawson @peteyjlawson.bsky.social · 15d

Get fucked, ICE #AEW #AEWCollision

Pete Lawson @peteyjlawson.bsky.social · 15d

Hangman got the complaints line for TNT as well? #AEW #AEWCollision

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 15d

Genius TikTok account

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 16d

Friday! Lunchtime! Clicking links won't make anything better but it probably won't make anything worse, so, er, get clicking! Web Curios! SO MANY INTERESTING THINGS IN ONE PLACE! Share, enjoy, distract, cope! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03...