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Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 1h

I wish! My friends parents did and are overwhelmed by beans so I have been gifted it

Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 1h

It’s bought me so much joy

Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 1h

So giant!!

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 1h

So giant!

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 1h

None!

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 1h

These are excellent beans

Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Colombia is the first of our LOOK AT MY TITS contestants, but very much not the last. He looks slightly annoyed, but I cannot fault the combination of the maximum amount of skin on show but also the maximum amount of costume.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 10h

It’s just so good!

Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 11h

Yes I have pinned this, I think more people should see this giant bean

Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 11h

Look at this giant bean

Me standing in a kitchen wearing a long sleeves black and white teeshirt, I am holding up a rubber bean pod approximately 30cms long and looking delighted about it, I am wielding it like a short sword

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Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 11h

Agatha Christie was an avid surfer. Loved it. My parents went to a lecture about her recently, and it came up. There is no joke here. I just wanted you to have it to think about this afternoon.

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 11h

Look at this giant bean

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 15h

God love Kew, this is incredible

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Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 17h

MEAL DEAL

Sandwich: unstabilised all-day breakfast
Drink: regional pop
Snack: the most resistible option

£4.50 with Clubcard

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Misha is: a gift box full of owls @howliet.bsky.social · 11h

H from steps can finally breathe a sigh of relief

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Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 6d

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

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Ghosts by Emily K 🐸🐸 @posts.by.emilyk.art · 2d

"Frog! Frog! Frog! Frog!"

"FROGS TOGETHER STRONG" (and how cute are the two little frogs holding hands)

Guys I just fucking love this so much

I love frogs, and I love these frogs in particular.

screenshot from The Oregonian's video report on the Portland ICE facility protest. Two guys are in frog costumes, with a sign that says "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG" and has two frogs holding hands.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 2d

Posting this shit like I wouldn't immediately read it.

Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 2d

Ahab-Whale friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 I don’t know why the right of British commentariat thinks it’s funny to attack motability for mental health or neurodiversity

I have autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and quite bad social anxiety

Public transport is often overwhelming for me, my car is a lifeline

I can afford one, many can’t

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Reposted by Misha is: a gift box full of owls

Kenza @kenzamaka.sheath.church · 28d

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Em (slutty Halloween costume edition) @irradiatedmouse.bsky.social · 3d

Me when that one work colleague I hate does literally anything #celebritytraitors

Tom Daley giving Kate Garraway *major* side-eye

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