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Sheldon
@brokenstarfish.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Pinning this to my profile in case:
If you don’t see me...
I don’t HAVE to post.
Nobody has a responsibility to stay online against their own best interests just so people you really don’t know very well won’t worry about you.
That’s a fucked up way to live.
If you don’t see me...
I don’t HAVE to post.
Nobody has a responsibility to stay online against their own best interests just so people you really don’t know very well won’t worry about you.
That’s a fucked up way to live.
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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I have not felt this seen by a meme in a very long time
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November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have not felt this seen by a meme in a very long time
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When your entire timeline is totally overwhelmed with posts and pics and news of one person's passing, it's kinda easy to point and say "there goes a titan."
“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
✊
“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
✊
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
When your entire timeline is totally overwhelmed with posts and pics and news of one person's passing, it's kinda easy to point and say "there goes a titan."
“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
✊
“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
✊
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Another $50 saved.
I might need to invest in some clippers. I can’t keep using a beard trimmer. 🤦♂️🤣
I might need to invest in some clippers. I can’t keep using a beard trimmer. 🤦♂️🤣
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Another $50 saved.
I might need to invest in some clippers. I can’t keep using a beard trimmer. 🤦♂️🤣
I might need to invest in some clippers. I can’t keep using a beard trimmer. 🤦♂️🤣
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only makes it taste better
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
only makes it taste better
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
• Ruru
• Grey Squirrel
• Hedgehog
• Kea
* Little Blue Penguin
• Ruru
• Grey Squirrel
• Hedgehog
• Kea
* Little Blue Penguin
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
• Kiwi
• Fur seal
• Southern royal albatross
• Red deer
• Bogan
• Kiwi
• Fur seal
• Southern royal albatross
• Red deer
• Bogan
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
- Tuatara
- Takahē
- Squirrels
- California sea lions
- Snowy egrets
- Tuatara
- Takahē
- Squirrels
- California sea lions
- Snowy egrets
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
• Ruru
• Grey Squirrel
• Hedgehog
• Kea
* Little Blue Penguin
• Ruru
• Grey Squirrel
• Hedgehog
• Kea
* Little Blue Penguin
Well that was a bad choice. I don’t like these “duck wraps” at all
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Well that was a bad choice. I don’t like these “duck wraps” at all
I ran into two of my cousins today.
I haven’t seen either of them for probably close to a decade.
For reference…
I haven’t seen either of them for probably close to a decade.
For reference…
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I ran into two of my cousins today.
I haven’t seen either of them for probably close to a decade.
For reference…
I haven’t seen either of them for probably close to a decade.
For reference…
A disturbing trend: disabled kid, maybe 5, balling their eyes out, as a parent makes them get a walker up onto a footpath on their own.
Just saw a kid with his mum, same scenario. Exhausted, bawling, wants to stop
Don’t do this to your disabled children, you sick fucks and certainly don’t film it
Just saw a kid with his mum, same scenario. Exhausted, bawling, wants to stop
Don’t do this to your disabled children, you sick fucks and certainly don’t film it
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A disturbing trend: disabled kid, maybe 5, balling their eyes out, as a parent makes them get a walker up onto a footpath on their own.
Just saw a kid with his mum, same scenario. Exhausted, bawling, wants to stop
Don’t do this to your disabled children, you sick fucks and certainly don’t film it
Just saw a kid with his mum, same scenario. Exhausted, bawling, wants to stop
Don’t do this to your disabled children, you sick fucks and certainly don’t film it
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It’s why I found “key worker” such a condescending term. Suddenly those of us on minimum wage working in supermarkets, care homes, warehouses, restaurants, etc were valuable members of society, yet we were still seen as disposable as the powers that be were desperate returning to normalcy
Related to my other post, I remember when politicians freaked out about people not working during the pandemic because the precious economy is actually the value workers generate. Memory holed now, we're right back to squeezing people out of their jobs and rifling through their pockets for change.
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It’s why I found “key worker” such a condescending term. Suddenly those of us on minimum wage working in supermarkets, care homes, warehouses, restaurants, etc were valuable members of society, yet we were still seen as disposable as the powers that be were desperate returning to normalcy
Just listened to David Crosby’s, “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” for the first time… twice.
Difficult to make sense of it all immediately but I do like it a lot.
Difficult to make sense of it all immediately but I do like it a lot.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Just listened to David Crosby’s, “If I Could Only Remember My Name,” for the first time… twice.
Difficult to make sense of it all immediately but I do like it a lot.
Difficult to make sense of it all immediately but I do like it a lot.
I think I’m having a panic attack (*hyperbole). I just watched a science video about ice and realised I don’t fully remember how to differentiate between chemicals, minerals, organic matter and organic compounds.
I don’t want to know how far my knowledge has slipped. LET ME STAY IGNORANT.
I don’t want to know how far my knowledge has slipped. LET ME STAY IGNORANT.
a cartoon drawing of a cat standing in a field
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a cat standing in a field
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November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I think I’m having a panic attack (*hyperbole). I just watched a science video about ice and realised I don’t fully remember how to differentiate between chemicals, minerals, organic matter and organic compounds.
I don’t want to know how far my knowledge has slipped. LET ME STAY IGNORANT.
I don’t want to know how far my knowledge has slipped. LET ME STAY IGNORANT.
Nobody told me before I got a cat that I would mainly be looking at her arsehole all day
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nobody told me before I got a cat that I would mainly be looking at her arsehole all day
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Well… I’ll live but I’ll be in dangerously bad shape
Well… I’ll live but I’ll be in dangerously bad shape
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Well… I’ll live but I’ll be in dangerously bad shape
Well… I’ll live but I’ll be in dangerously bad shape
Just saw a clip from Bohemian Rhapsody that reminded me just how terrible it was. MAN that movie was bad.
I think I’ve seen it three times. I like Queen THAT much. 🤣
I think I’ve seen it three times. I like Queen THAT much. 🤣
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Rise of a Rock Legend #FreddieMercury #Queen #RockBiopic #MusicDrama
YouTube video by reelbit
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November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Just saw a clip from Bohemian Rhapsody that reminded me just how terrible it was. MAN that movie was bad.
I think I’ve seen it three times. I like Queen THAT much. 🤣
I think I’ve seen it three times. I like Queen THAT much. 🤣
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Jimmy has crossed his final river
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Jimmy has crossed his final river
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Come down from the fridge, Dusty. I want to go to bed.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Come down from the fridge, Dusty. I want to go to bed.
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, Charlie Brown
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
I did it 35 minutes ago, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, Charlie Brown
Not a bad way to finish off leftover beef and bean chilli
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Not a bad way to finish off leftover beef and bean chilli
I wish I could edit this to say IN NEW ZEALAND. 🇳🇿
Anyone would think we’re talking about 1000s of children being prevented from going through puberty forever with the use of puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers were prescribed to 113 people in 2023.
Come on now. Let doctors and other medical professionals do their damned job.
Puberty blockers were prescribed to 113 people in 2023.
Come on now. Let doctors and other medical professionals do their damned job.
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I wish I could edit this to say IN NEW ZEALAND. 🇳🇿
Take me down to the Vatican City
Where the grass is green and the caps are bitty
Where the grass is green and the caps are bitty
Ya ya ya ya ya
Ya ya ya ya
Ya ya ya ya ya
Ya ya ya ya
Drink yourself more bliss
Forget about the last one
Get yourself another
Drink yourself more bliss
Forget about the last one
Get yourself another
Ya ya ya ya
Ya ya ya ya ya
Ya ya ya ya
Drink yourself more bliss
Forget about the last one
Get yourself another
Drink yourself more bliss
Forget about the last one
Get yourself another
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Take me down to the Vatican City
Where the grass is green and the caps are bitty
Where the grass is green and the caps are bitty
I wore skirts and makeup at various times in my life, albeit for short periods.
So did David Bowie. 🤷♂️
So did David Bowie. 🤷♂️
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I wore skirts and makeup at various times in my life, albeit for short periods.
So did David Bowie. 🤷♂️
So did David Bowie. 🤷♂️
From: Joel Uili, The Career archetypes.
Not sure exactly where or when he said it. Looks like he has a Substack and a podcast.
Not sure exactly where or when he said it. Looks like he has a Substack and a podcast.
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
From: Joel Uili, The Career archetypes.
Not sure exactly where or when he said it. Looks like he has a Substack and a podcast.
Not sure exactly where or when he said it. Looks like he has a Substack and a podcast.
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It's all academic 🤪👍👍 youtube.com/watch?v=cKyG...
Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinée (Video)
YouTube video by franzferdinandVEVO
youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It's all academic 🤪👍👍 youtube.com/watch?v=cKyG...