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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 3m

Am I the only one slightly disappointed that whole routine wasn’t to MGMT’s “Time To Pretend”? #Strictly

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 4m

Christ, YouTube, viewing ONE random “rescued baby squirrel” video does not automatically confer a desire to view them ALL.

[Though - don’t tell them - I kinda do]

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 23h

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 10m

May have rushed the gun a bit but the brushed cotton duvet cover has gone on. Still the lighter summer duvet that’ll stay on until after the clocks go back.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 13m

But even then I think it’s safe to say most people on both sides of the pond came to The Naked Gun knowing nothing about Police Squad! I certainly didn’t. To me it was just a screwball comedy by one part of the Airplane! team starring someone from that movie. And the trailers looked good.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 54m

What makes you proud to be British? For me, this is right up there.

A one-star review from a Texan tourist visiting Liverpool:

freddytexan (16 reviews)
“My wife and I visted Liverpool for our 30th wedding anniversary from Texas. Our evening was ruined when a man dressed as an adult baby called my wife a "Mad yank slut" because she'd never heard of a band called Steps.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25m

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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Brent Brookhouse @pridefightingchampionships.com · 1h

Farmer: You do the tomato art for the new sign?

Artist: Sure did, boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Farmer: what

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 4h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 55m

I’ve no idea! It all seemed very personal between the two of them, with S&G keeping well out of it (I think? … and depending on how you view them remaining part of NO with B despite P leaving…).

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 58m

I thought sex in the city was itself the uncomfortable riposte to a beautiful day in the neighbourhood?

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 1h

I really liked Crystal, still do. One of those “remember clearly when first heard it” (on the North Circular of all places) ones. When that bass solo/riff kicks in…

Despite having read BS’s and PH’s books I’m no closer to discerning the truth behind the rift!

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 4h

Oh good not just me then!

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve never been that enthused by a lot of their post-Factory stuff (heck of a thing to say about two-thirds of the band’s near-fifty-year career, if you count Joy Division) but yes this feels like a low point of the first third…

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 4h

Gotcha. I did wonder if he Galaxy was meant to be the Titan!

Even better thus could be at the start, en route to Romulus, the Galaxy could be another ship commanded by… someone else, I dunno, Admiral Jellicoe, who says “Hey, we got this, you carry on to Betazed for the wedding. Have fun!” THE END

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 5h

Frankly, that this was down to eating Tide Pods makes for a much better after-action report than “Three members of my crew were possessed by disembodied wrong’uns from planet Spookypants.”

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 5h

I sort-of feel like I want to say I liked that one, but in truth I couldn’t possibly be certain, I genuinely haven’t listened to it in 34 years. Maybe - if I can find the bloody thing - I’ll put it in my car to listen to…

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 5h

Curious what the (alternate) storyline is here and why there’s a Galaxy present?

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 5h

Some of these latter, I like that they look the way they do but yeah he may have gone too far with it. And there are exceptions (Catch Me IYC).

But I also think nostalgia, and his “recent” (last 30yrs!) desire to tackle more-serious subjects, makes Gen-X & Millenials regard older stuff more fondly.

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

Can they not decide (or agree) on a name? Or is it to conceal that it’s not actually (despite purporting to be) based on original IP, but is an adaptation of something so popular/beloved that the sheer excitement would Break Teh Internet?

Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

Not really related, but what is it with people suddenly making films that don’t have titles yet? Spielberg’s next is untitled; so is Alejandro Iñárritu’s; and I’m sure there’s another I can’t pinpoint right now. Both two due for release next year.

John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 6h

Watching a very good video essay about why Spielberg has dropped off in the 21st century and I genuinely believe it's not the subject matters or themes, but just how ugly his films have looked for 25 years.

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 6h

Just went looking for mine, couldn’t find it, got sidetracked rationalising my Blu-Ray storage arrangements, then realised I could just look up the track listing to see which one I was thinking of… but still none the wiser!!

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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 7h

… or, actually, how much it sounds like a specific track from Electronic’s debut album: unsure which one, I have a deep-seated aversion to listening to it for personal reasons, stemming from life events at the time of its release…

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