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Chris

@chrs00.bsky.social

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Some football, some comics, some films, some music, some other stuff probably. He/Him.

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Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · Nov 16

New followers please don't be offended if I say something mean about your football club. Please be assured it's nothing worse than I've said about my own.

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3h

I've not paid a huge amount of attention to this website in the past 36 hours or so, but it seems that the current discourse is about Frogs wanting to move to Dubai?

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 4h

(Not a compliment)

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 4h

That also might be the most Dodsonesque non-Dodson art I've seen

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not sure I have the energy for this

Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 14h

New challengers are approaching DC K.O. this February...

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 21h

The Onion headline:

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

This reads to me very much like the tale of somebody who once said PRIMM-er by mistake in front of people and got the piss absolutely ripped out of them, and who after many many years of hard work and perseverance finally achieved control of the Merriam-Webster social media accounts

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 1d

Language operates and evolves according to majority consensus. If we all say a word one way, that's how it's pronounced.

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 1d

Seymour Skinner asking "am I out of touch? No it's literally every English speaker who is wrong"

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Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 1d

"No alternative to using AI" says only industry where it happens regularly

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 2d

Me: Is there something I could do differently to improve my sleep?

Doctor: I recommend not looking at your phone for at least an hour before bed.

Me: So nothing then.

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Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 2d

Flanders: I'd like to hear from Sideshow Mel

Reply guy: There are many interviews with him available online

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 2d

Connections isn't even trying to make purple difficult today?

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 2d

Young Tories are generally just following the lead of their parents and can be eliminated early through bullying and public shaming

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 2d

Finally we have created the Happiness Patrol from the serial "Don't Create the Happiness Patrol"

Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 2d

A surprisingly large number of them think the way to connect with Gen Z is "dress like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who."

A screen grab of a Times article. The photograph depicts three men and a woman - according to the caption these are Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin, Daniel Campbell and Glesni Reece.

Charles is in tweeds and a fedora, Rhys sports a combover and a question mark pullover as worn by the seventh Doctor Who. Daniel wears a blue "Make Britain Great Again" baseball cap. Glesni, unlike the others, is not wearing an outlandish costume, just a black tailored jacket over a white blouse.

Text reads:

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future
The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 3d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3d

You're in her DMs, I'm stood next to her asking who the weirdo is who's wearing her shoes

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3d

You're in her DMs, I'm in the pub explaining to her why DMs are an outmoded concept if you have a strong box-to-box midfielder and a back four with positional discipline

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3d

This might be the dumbest bodyswap episode I've ever seen. It's like they've never even met each other or realise what's happened.

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh, purple first on Connections. Happy with that.

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3d

I see people speculate against the logistical and technical aspects of why Mastodon failed as a large-scale replacement for Twitter, when all I can really tell you is that I didn't want to understand what "federated servers" meant, I just wanted somewhere to do posts.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 3d

There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

Ah but do you get pornbots like Jonn?

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Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 3d

The agony of choice

A photo of an eBay checkout screen. Options are:

- Free delivery in 2-3 days, ready for collection Friday 10th Oct

- £7.95 delivery in 2-3 days, ready for collection Friday 10th Oct

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 4d

I would also accept a budget animated reconstruction of The Highlanders

Chris @chrs00.bsky.social · 4d

Look I'm going to need some classic Doctor Who related news soon just for the culture. The discovery of a high quality print of Mission to the Unknown would do it. Being released on its own on 4K steelbook blu ray for £60 with no extras. Chef's kiss.

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