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Repost/reskeet other people's funny, pro comedians' jokes, and sometimes my own tat. Regular new stuff every day. Also support outstanding investigative journalists and their work. #jokes #comedy #funny #laughs #satire #humour #pottymouth #serious

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · Jul 3

An apology from me to ALT text users.

I usually add descriptions which include humour to pics I upload, but I got some basics wrong:

It should NOT include:

"picture of"
"image of"

Screen readers announce an image as an image. “Image of a cat” would be read aloud as “image, Image of a cat”.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 10h

Cartoons probably mean lots of different things to different people in different ways, and I love that. I can't do the one I loved the most when I was little 'cause Fred Quimby was forced to stand on a rake. But I also cried my eyes out in a good way at this one.

Also Battle of the Planets.

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 10h

In a democracy, everyone is s'posed to have the right to vote where we never have to reveal what we actually voted for, right?

Libertarians are just hedging their... erm... bets, maybe?

Ach, you'll deliver it better.

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 10h

Never let satire get in the way of good comedy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWg...

Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

Now that *is* funny.

Also this, I think? But I don't know if it's universal and I need help with that, JG. It's shiny new, and can be taken many ways. Which is what I love the most about art.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWg...
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

From what angle?

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever your position on the matter and those involved, I feel you must know this, and you should know it now. Click through. Be happier than you were before.

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, that is amazing.

Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 15h

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you, Dara. You nudged this into my limited field of vision. Can you imagine how I could've felt if I didn't know this existed?

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

It is though.

Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, that is amazing.

Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 15h

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

Even though only just this week I've talked about how something in this means a lot to me, this is an instant masterpiece.

Whatever you're drinking, whatever you're doing, add this to your being happy in the moment.

Jeremy Limb, you have done something spectacular. Thank you.

Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 15h

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb

youtu.be

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

Even though I only just talked about how something in this means a lot to me, this is a masterpiece.

Jeremy Limb, you have done something spectacular. Thank you.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

There are two glorious statues. That one at the airport, and another one where his [a bit you rarely use in football unless you're called Vinnie Jones] is a more brassy golden colour than the rest of him. Who knows what's going on there.

You may or may not like this. My local is called Moynihan's.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 11h

That either makes what I said worse, or is totally innocent.

So...

And that's it.

Okay, maybe poncha?

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

Fair play. Did his best.

The reason I ask is we live in Cristiano Ronaldo's birthplace.
And by that I don't mean his mother's canal.

*does panicked crossy thingy hand gestures sort of near chest, but still fails to make saying that okay in any country*

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

"Fuck the triffids. It's the day of the shitting fir trees zapping us with their laser eyes from the other side of the river," said Huckleberry to a non-present Tom who was off in the bushes having his 14th wank of the day.

- Mark Twain

Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 16h

Ok, not gonna lie, they had me at "version of Huck Finn where they've got plasma rifles"…

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

Karl Marx was not right about everything. The beard. But everything else, yes.

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

Easiest game of only got rope solo bedsit Cluedo ever.

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

pack open, muesli everywhere

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

Did Ronaldo play? Asking for a friend.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

(it's not Mark Twain. The giveaway is that the master craftsman of the written word would've written non-present weller)

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

The luggage you can ride thing put this headline in my mind:

Stand-up comedian first to prove she's just as funny sitting down

Out of context - and I do so very much like out of context posting - this has no natural home anywhere else on the planet.

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 12h

It's way too soon, but if don't post this now, I never will.

Matt, this Pringles post is timestamped in history forever. And in a way you could never have possibly imagined. We hope.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty close for me too.

In my feed, I've just got Matt Green vomiting over Santa's Secret Flavour Pringles in between.

Lowbrow Castleman @ikapoz.bsky.social · 17h

My feed RN.

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 13h

Tron is a documentary about the time I was 7 and spilled rich mix Vimto on my Acorn Electron.

[might've overniched that to some extent]

Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 13h

You do with me, but you never get to hear 'em.

Sorry about that. Must try louder.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 13h

If you said that at an Australian gig, you'd get the biggest laugh of the night.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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