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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋

@danielrigal.bsky.social

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I am British and grumpy. Tories, Brexit and most other things make me grumpy. I am a ridiculous blue rectangle in a silly green hat and I demand that you take me seriously! Born 1970s. Unable to age verify. danielrigal.co.uk @[email protected]

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · Nov 12

I should have a pinned skeet so that people will take me seriously. That's how this works, right?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: The desk of a late, great author

Panel 1:
A woman asks "The publisher is on my back again. Have you guys got anything left in there?"

Panel 2:
A desk, with four drawers and a friendly face on each, replies
"Nope"
"Sorry."
"Nothing."
the last one says
"I might have something..."

Panel 3:
The woman reaches into the drawer which says
"That's it...Right At the back."

Panel 4:
The woman holds some paper
"It's just a pizza menu."

Panel 5:
The drawers reply:
"Oh well"
"We've done our best"
"We have secured a great reputation for eternity!"

But another voice joins in:

Panel 6:
"Now, hold on there. I've got a few things that might Interest you..."
It is the waste-paper basket, filled with crumpled balls of discarded paper.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 23h

Aspirational clam.

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 1d

Shijimini Daichan, an aspirational clam, is a mascot for Otomo Town, Fukuoka Prefecture.

A blue clam mascot strolls through a park.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

iv NEWS
Your Area v
Categories v
EXCLUSIVE
Hundreds of children given weight-loss injections on the NHS
WEIGHT LOSS HEALTH
• Friday 31 October 2025 at 11:34am
Rebecca Barry
ITV News Health Correspondent
Almost 400 children in England have been prescribed weight loss injections on the NHS - the

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

Which is true for trans kids too.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 1d

Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

The most spectacular costume of 2025? That honor belongs to…

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

This is sad on multiple levels. You have a guy pleading for his life to a president who doesn't give a shit. You have him humiliating himself in public, his hypocrisy on full display, without a hint of understanding that the US "healthcare" system is a scam and he isn't the only victim.

Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

They are great fun to write though. I'm working on one about how Reform can win the next UK General Election if Nigel Farage sticks his dick in a mousetrap on live TV. It probably doesn't need to be more than 300 pages but I'm enjoying myself too much to stop.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1d

The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 1d

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."

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Justin @justinskolnick.bsky.social · 1d

Fred Autocorrect
@boursier

Randos: "We're fucked."

Educated friends: "Don't worry, it's illegal to become a dictator."

Very Well Educated friends: "We're fucked."

9:54 AM • 11/27/16 • Twitter for iPhone

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

Bingo!

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

They try to make railway electrification sound futuristic but the truth is that the UK trying to get back into a programme it dropped in the 1950s without admitting that it dropped the ball back then.

BBC News - 'This is the big one' - tech firms bet on electrifying rail
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Railways: Firms develop new tech to electrify trains

Railway operators have new options for electric trains including getting rid of locomotives altogether.

www.bbc.com

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is an indecisive coward. He's probably not going to do anything but, just by talking about it, he will raise tensions and get more people killed.

BBC News - Trump tells military to prepare for 'action' against Islamist militants in Nigeria
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump tells military to plan for 'action' over his claim that Nigeria allows killing of Christians

The US president says his threat is over killings of Christians - though experts say there is no evidence they are disproportionately targeted.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

Future generations will scratch their heads at how the zeitgeist spent a few years pretending to be obsessed with toilets before moving on to some other nonsense.

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Greg Chernack, CEO, Four Seasons Total Landscaping @gchernack.bsky.social · 2d

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

Also, if I was going to use the word "chivalry" an excessive number of times I hope I would be smart enough to look up what it actually meant so I didn't make a complete arse of myself. But then, given how much of their content is listicles, maybe they should look up what an encyclopaedia is first.

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

The beef with Relativity is so stupid. We know that Relativity is correct because nukes wouldn't work if it wasn't but these losers are so stuck in the 1930s that they wouldn't know about that. All they know is that Einstein was of Jewish descent and a personal bugbear of their beloved Fuhrer.

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

It didn't take them long to go from allowing discrimination to mandating it.
I wonder whether it can be circumvented by setting up women's groups as explicitly "for cis and trans women only"?

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

Even worse, mocking Silwa for what he does in his spare time only invites questions about what Cuomo does in his. I think most people would prefer a weird cat guy to a creepy sex pest.

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

They even got the face peel bit the wrong way round for their dumb claim. It should have been Silwa peeling his face to reveal Mamdani. I don't think they can blame that ineptitude on the AI.

Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 1d

It steals everybody's faces except Cuomo's, who isn't in it as he's a massive vote loser. It fails to land a punch on Mamdani and it made me feel a little bit sorry for Silwa.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

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