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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Skateboard

xkcd.com/3152/

4-panel comic. (1) [person in the sky unpacks skateboard from parachute bag] I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags. (2) [person looking down at skateboard as they fall] (3) [person falling wile holding skateboard in one hand and phone making “beep beep” sound in the other] (4) (person still falling with skateboard, now talking on phone] Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I’d like to place an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

24 Preludes and Fugues (Bach) 10/10
24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich) 10/10

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

Betty Boo was in the charts and you are showing Technotronic and Michael Bolton ? #totp

a cartoon of homer simpson screaming with the words booo written below him

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson screaming with the words booo written below him

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disaac83.bsky.social @disaac83.bsky.social · 11h

"Gentleman I hereby convene the meeting of our diversity committee"

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bryce.lol @bryce.lol · 11h

toughest game of Guess Who? ever

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 10h

@matt-levine.bsky.social and @kgreifeld.bsky.social also say so

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

a man in a suit and a man in a red robe are standing next to each other

ALT: a man in a suit and a man in a red robe are standing next to each other

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

Ouroboros really is word of the week huh 🐍🤖

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 17h

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

I'd like to know how much a partner at Weil billed for writing that two line email

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 19h

Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss.

#worldmentalhealthday

The Bridge of Sighs with blue sky and autumnal trees reflected in the river.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 19h

"Yes, she's Venezuelan. Yes, 'she'."

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 19h

Bad news there for tankies and Trump enthusiasts.

Not that they're not the same fucking people.

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Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 19h

So, with luck and determination, we could get to relive the 2007/8 credit crisis and the 2000 dotcom bust at the same time. Don't let the naysayers tell you we can no longer do stuff.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Steroids innit

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

Going to need this again
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Ternfortheworse @ternfortheworse.bsky.social · 3d

Ah. I’m a bit of an internet expert and I can see what’s happened here. Let me break it down so we can all calm down a bit:

The American has noisily shat himself in front of everyone else and is now complaining about the smell.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Aug 19

Leftfield Nobel Peace Prize idea: award it to Ghislaine Maxwell, for being the catalyst in encouraging Trump to reignite his interest in a Russia/Ukraine peace deal, if for no other reason than to move the news agenda on…

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 22h

"If we've learnt anything in our thousand mile retreat it's that Soviet farming is in dire need of mechanisation" <- a line which only two Cambridge graduates could put into a comedy sketch

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 23h

It's been a long time since I watched the whole sketch, rather than the 2 second meme, but it's very well written
youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY?...

Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The secret of good comedy is timing 🙃
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

www.bbc.com

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

This is very good

The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social · 4d

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

In the 1960s, rising anger over immigration left many people disillusioned with established political leaders, whose careful rhetoric increasingly didn’t chime with the rising passions the issue conjured up. Enter Enoch Powell.

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Peter Teffer @peterteffer.bsky.social · 1d

Isnt’t it funny that the same Europe that wants to ban “veggie burgers” because the name is “confusing”, simultaneously has a Council of the EU, a European Council and a Council of Europe?

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