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Strapps
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Self-employed cheese slicer, available for sandwiches to cheese on toast to pizza (Italian cheese on toast).
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Billionaires. What's stopping you from making your AI robots look like this?
A silver robot named Kamelion from the TV show Doctor Who, a new companion for the Doctor that disappeared in the TARDIS when people realised it was rubbish.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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What next for James Bond?
Will 007 emerge from the rubble of No Time to Die?
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November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The leader of the Green Party desiring an end to nuclear arms is about as surprising as a French teenager having an individual sense of style.
kevinschofied.bsky.social Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 17d
Zack Polanski: "I want to see everyone denuclearise, including Vladimir Putin."
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Explain a film plot badly: vroom, screech, bang, bang, family.
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Explain a film plot badly: gremlins
renrut-mas.bsky.social Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 19d
Explain a film plot badly: Local government official mishandles coastal safety concerns. Inveterate alcoholic doesn't help much.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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kathyburke.bsky.social
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Spelling Bee is wrong again.
Screenshot of the NY Time daily game, Spelling Bee, where a selection of letters is presented and the player must construct words using only those letters. The letters are arranged in a circle with another in the middle, the middle letter must be present in order to for the word to be considered valid. In this case the centre letter is 'B' and the additional letters (going clockwise from the 12 o'clock position) are 'L', 'H', 'S', 'C', 'O', and 'K'. The word "BOLLOCKS" has been constructed and the game has responded with the message "Not in word list", which is bollocks, thus demonstrating the validity of the entry.
September 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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detectiveken.bsky.social
Hello! I've been one of the lucky few on the BIA these last few years, and in light of the uncertainty of its future and potential for public support, I decided to write out this comic with the help of BIA compatriot @ianfay.bsky.social to share our stories. 1/3

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Ken: Hey, I'm Ken. Ian: And I'm Ian. We're both in receipt of the B.I.A. (Basic Income For the Arts) Ken: Our last payment is in February 2026. The future of the scheme is uncertain, but we're here to talk about the past and what we've accomplished these past three years. Ian: Thanks to the B.I.A, I have expanded my skill set and learned 3D sculpting. I bought a 3D printer to make hand painted toys of my own designs. Ian: I can afford to repair it and spent thousands in the local economy continuing to grow and create. Ken: As for me, I've been self-publishing small books for a while, but I now have the means to release larger books, which also gave me the confidence to run two different crowdfunding campaigns. Ken: Without it, and after failing to return to animation, I was going to start a career in I.T. I was in a bad place with no hope for the future, but almost overnight, the B.I.A made my long struggling passion into a real livelihood. Nowadays, I can travel for events, sustain car expenses and socialise without managing my spending. In darker times, I was about to pay all the vet bills for my dying cat.
August 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
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June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Show your writing process in a GIF
May 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"To lose one F/A-18 Super Hornet may be regarded as a misfortune ..."
Dame Judy Dench as Lady Bracknell in the 2002 production of The Importance of Paying Attention when reading this play as part of your English O-level as there will be questions about it in the final exam and you will feel like an arse as you stumble about in the dustier corners of your memory because you didn't revise very well.
May 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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garius.bsky.social
So MUCH of this comes down to anti-trans groups trying to cast toilets as sexual places.

And when anyone, as a reasonable person, steps back and considers that based on our legit personal experience, it just needs to be accepted as DEEPLY dubious, weird and fucking brain worms insane.
April 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Drop a fight scene you love.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Imagine you're being summoned. What GIF represents that?
March 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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gleanniucha.bsky.social
Ooh..

The “new” ITV retro YouTube channel is starting to add “Sapphire & Steel”.

First up.

Adventure One: Escape Through a Crack in Time.

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Sapphire and Steel - YouTube
The time-hopping adventures of two agents with super-human powers.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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matthighton.bsky.social
The showdown of all showdowns as two of the galaxies deadliest creatures go head to head. It’s Ewoks vs Predator:
March 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema.
Jessica Lange being cuddled by a friendly ape (who totally doesn't want to do anything but cuddle) in King Kong (1976) and no, Google AI, it wasn't released with a 12A certificate because that didn't exist at the time, it was a PG and my Dad felt it'd be fine and I wouldn't have nightmares. He didn't say anything about me wanting to run away with Jessica Lange or fuck a gorilla later in life, however. One simply didn't consider that sort of thing back then.
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I'm used to (resigned to) turning off or uninstalling all the cruft that comes with each update yet Windows still decides to change my taskbar auto-hide setting whenever it feels like it. They're trying to foist this AI crap on us at every opportunity but can't store a single flag correctly.
February 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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EE/Google phone ad on twitch, Kevin Bacon telling excited potential buyers about all the things Google Gemini can help them with then it ends with a standard disclaimer voice stating, "check responses for accuracy". Which begs the question, WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT OF IT, GOOGLE?
January 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"Now tell him that you'll sue if he ever repeats that you crashed the economy."
Ant & Dec (or possibly Dec & Ant, no one knows for sure) are laughing as they give instructions to a hapless stooge over a concealed earpiece in a segment for their Saturday night show called Get Me Out Of Ear or something equally hilarious. Liz Truss (left) is bowing in front of what might be a waxwork of Keir Starmer as a Beefeater passes by.
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"And then she said, 'Hi pumpkin, Ding dong, it’s Alluring Pauline 1379' and I knew she was the one for me."
Image taken from the funeral services for President Jimmy Carter (1924-2024 RIP) where Donald Trump is talking to Barrack Obama. Trump appears to be telling a ribald anecdote and Obama is humouring him by laughing along. Melania Trump is also in the image with a face on her like a wet weekend during off season in Great Yarmouth.
January 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Still image of Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor Who taken from the serial Terror Of The Autons, a scene where the Doctor is attacked by a telephone controlled by the Autons, as they can control living plastic. Mr Pertwee is focusing all his facial acting muscles to convey his surprise and terror at this occurrence.
January 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Wasn't expecting Rik Mayall guesting in Midsomer Murders, perfectly cast as big, loud and (spoiler) done in the first half-hour. Marvellous stuff.
January 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM