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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · Jan 27

Me: Now Princess, are you going to be a good girl for Daffy?

Her: Yes Da- Wait. Don't you mean "Daddy"?

Me, hiding plastic orange bill and white collar behind my back: ...yeth

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 2d

‘You can learn a lot by losing’: meet Don Manuel, the 104-year-old chess player www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘You can learn a lot by losing’: meet Don Manuel, the 104-year-old chess player

Manuel Álvarez Escudero, from Spain, describes how the board game has provided him with a lifetime of fun and friendship

www.theguardian.com

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 12d

Christina Martin did a review. Glorious.

The Wit & Wisdom of Paul Daniels

If you were to say to me “so, read any good books lately?” the answer would be a definite “no” But who wants to read a good book when you ...

christinalouisemartin.blogspot.com

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 12d

What celebrity autobiographies do you recommend, not for being good, but for being unintentionally and hilariously revealing of the author's trivial mind?

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 12d

I rise from my sickbed to see that this has arrived. Opened to a random page and immediately read a “naturally I had the last laugh” story, so things are boding well.

Paul Daniels - Under No Illusion, his autobiography

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 12d

The trumped up little green grocer seems to forget his victims. How convenient.

David the Kamado 🚙💨 @kamadodavid.bsky.social · 12d

This guy.

He has the self-awareness of a brick.

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

Gregg Wallace: Former MasterChef presenter claims BBC caused him 'distress and harassment'

The former MasterChef presenter is seeking up to £10,000 in damages from the BBC, court documents show.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 12d

This is actually a really good point. bsky.app/profile/this...

Rick @thisloudisfire.bsky.social · 12d

To be fair they use radiant beans of light in laser lithography to make the microchips in the spy watch that tracks your wanks.

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Chrono @chronomancer94.bsky.social · 14d

(thought of a better one immediately, sorry)
"Stop, they're innocent!"
"Then join them."

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 17d

As would be expected in a population anyway

Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 17d

But the actual growth rate (%) has been pretty steady for the last 15 years. Nothing unusual to worry about.

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 17d

Ignore the £1.6B, you know they'll find that and slip it all to their friends and funders.

Where do you find 150k people a year to deport, how do you assess and select that, where do you send them, and how long do you keep that up. The answers to all of those questions will be terrifying.

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 17d

While Labour our busy shuffling further and further right to appease racist Reform voters, the Tories pull these numbers out of their asses in an attempt to sound even more unhinged

Conservatives to pledge £1.6 billion ‘Removals Force’ to deport 150,000 a year
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Conservatives to pledge £1.6 billion ‘Removals Force’ to deport 150,000 a year

The Removals Force will aim to deport 150,000 people every year

www.independent.co.uk

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 17d

A trip to Skopje (North Macedonia), the "maddest brutalist metropolis on earth"
FT but currently not paywalled
www.ft.com/content/ffea...

A trip to Skopje, the maddest brutalist metropolis on earth

North Macedonia’s capital is an extraordinary testament to the lost optimism of a bygone age

www.ft.com

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 18d

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of Palestine Action
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Responding to Keir Starmer’s suggestion that the action should not go ahead, Defend Our Juries supporter Zoe Cohen, who was arrested at the August action and is Jewish, said: “Those who have used the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester to call for today’s vigil to be cancelled, are wrongly conflating the actions of the Israeli state with all Jews. Jewish people around the world are not responsible for Israel’s crimes and there are many Jewish people who do not support the actions of the Israeli state. Cancelling today’s vigil would have perpetuated this dangerous narrative which fuels antisemitism.”

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 20d

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 20d

It's hilarious that Spencer Elden appears not to grasp the irony that, having been photographed as a baby grasping for a dollar bill, he has spent years shamelessly trying to profit from it: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nirvana's Nevermind: Spencer Elden loses legal case over baby photo on album cover

The man who was photographed as a baby on the LP cover sued the band for distributing child pornography.

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 20d

A cult doombient classic reissued on Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ and providing a leyline-powered and Coil-inspired British counterpart to Sunn O))) and Sleep's choked-out sludge - recorded a week after Jhonn Balance's death in 2004

boomkat.com/products/the...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20d

Here's Farage saying that he would 'pick up a rifle' - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 20d

Solidarity with all our Jewish brothers and sisters in Manchester, across the UK and indeed around the world, following the events in Manchester today.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Gusset @dangusset.bsky.social · 20d

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments
youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 22d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!