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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sure the job comes with some pressures, but really, it’s James Bond. How hard can it be? An 8 year old could tell you how to make one.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 6h

Breaking: Sébastien Lecornu has resigned again.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has named Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, reappointing him after he quit the job earlier this week. Lecornu’s immediate task will be to deliver a budget to parliament by the end of Monday. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

Alert The Buggles. Perhaps they can update the record.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK

The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

We just need to give him a tea cup and take a photo.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

Trump hearing about the Nobel Peace Prize

youtu.be/FE_DF2-H_T0

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 14h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 15h

Ahh I see. It was a young woman’s fault of course. Because of digital. Not the fault of the senior executives who absolutely did *not* spot it and did allow an egregious claim to be aired without checking.

Screen shot of article

"What was interesting is that because we now have generations of younger producers who are coming into the business - and they are digital natives - they're marinated in social media," he said on Insiders: The TV Podcast.
"Apparently, the story was put on by a freelance journalist, I won't mention her name, who put [it] on her Twitter feed. And no one questioned it.
"It's a low-level mistake but nevertheless, it is indicative. It was good to spot it, because what you wouldn't want to do is just to make some kind of egregious claim about somebody and it is defamatory."

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 16h

If they can keep dangling the Nobel carrot till 2028 maybe we’ll all survive.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 18h

Paging Alanis Morissette. This is far more ironic than the 10,000 spoons thing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 19h

The ideal of democracy is Wisdom of the Crowd. But that phenomenon only really works for quantitative questions, and even then only if the crowd don’t share their answers - which is what polling does.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

That’s true. It’s a wilful gullibility though, I assume.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t even know how they factor Doyle into the whole thing. Maybe they conveniently pretend he (and his very un-Holmesian spiritualism) doesn’t exist.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

This isn’t a gag btw.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Fry is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society, which plays ‘the game’, which is a weird version of literary criticism where you assume Sherlock Holmes was real and all the events actually took place.

AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 1d

I would immediately write down Stephen's name just because of this #CelebrityTraitors

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

The only unrealistic thing about the classic Nintendo ‘Bobson Dugnutt’ list is that it’s not rude enough.

I mean literally - they based it on real life baseball players, and Bobson Dugnutt was actually Ron Tugnutt.

www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

SLEVE MCDICHAEL

MILLIE DUSTICE
ONSON SHEEMEY

JERONT GRIDE
DARRYL ARCHIDELD

SCOTT DOUROUE
ANATOL I SMORIN

SHOWN FURCOTTE
REY MCSRIFF

DEAN WESREY
GLENALLEN MIXON

MIKE TRUK
MARIO MCALAAIN

DAIGT RORTUGAL
RAUL CHAMGERLAIN

TIM SANDRELE
KEVIN NOGILNT

KARL
DANOLETON
TONY SMEHRIK

MIKE
SERNANDEZ
BOBSON DUGNUTT

TOOD
BONZALEZ

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 20h

The only unrealistic thing about the classic Nintendo ‘Bobson Dugnutt’ list is that it’s not rude enough.

I mean literally - they based it on real life baseball players, and Bobson Dugnutt was actually Ron Tugnutt.

www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

Im desperately looking to the image for semantic relief and just becoming more confused.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve completely lost track of the Jurassic Park franchise.

Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 14d

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

I think the ability to reach into your head and pull stuff out is the magic. And it’s impossible (even more so when it involves multiple people’s heads). I can definitely see the appeal of something that can do it for you, but I’m not sure what the result would be.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

All art is that journey from the perfect version in your head to the version you can actually let other people experience. The limitations are human, and we respond to what people produce *despite* those limitations.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

Also, A24 should do a straight up modern horror remake of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

It’s shocking. Thanks for sharing it.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

You need a lawsuit for that?

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. Although at first glance I thought it was an Onion article about Tim Walz winning an arm wrestling competition, or something.

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

It’s terrifying. I guess that’s the point.

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