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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 10h

God I love the French

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Prowls Ghost...but ghostier OOoooOoo 👻 @prowlsghost.bsky.social · 11h

That's the last time I let Trunks watch The Blair Witch Project.

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 23h

At a video game show last year, I demoed my 1990s-office-themed video game After Work with floppy disk handouts instead of cards. They all said “Disk 2 of 6” on them and 100% of the Gen Xs that took one groaned and made a pained face as it triggered something deep inside.

A floppy disk with a sticker proclaiming it to be disk two of six for the office productivity suite “After Work”, in a 1990s software font like it’s Photoshop 3.0 or Word 6.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 12h

Because I never got round to reading Skybound I have no idea what the fuck it's all about, except for being something that looks a bit shit.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 13h

My son has his heart on his sleeve and every emotion he experiences on his face, completely unblockable. My daughter, however, has an incredible penchant for the bullshit and a striking poker face that is going to cause no end of trouble, presumably for everyone else rather than her.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 13h

This is a fascinating thread.

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 14h

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 14h

This is my hole! It was made for me!

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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E.J. Su @ejsu28.bsky.social · 18h

A little something different on Monster October Day 10: ALIEN sketch cover.

I wanted to do white on black for a while. Having turned in all my pages for Pacific Rim gave rare moments of downtime to experiment.

#art #ink #sketchcover #whitePaint #Alien #Xenomorph #creature #monster #Halloween

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 20h

Pob lwc Eleanor, thinking about you.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 21h

"Skinless" Val

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 21h

🔼🔼 THIS 🔼🔼

I think a lot of the time, when it comes to fan moaning about whatever in alternate modes when they're not quite perfect, is that fans are mad at toy designers when they should more accurately be mad at the laws of physics.

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NecroFrancer 🦇🐍™️ @danceyfrancy.bsky.social · 23h

"Pobody's nerfect" I say as I lose a super majority to Reform and then blame the Greens

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 27

teashoesandhair on tumblr:

"Stellar conversation on BBC Wales today"

Caller: I live in America now, since the '80s, but I'm visiting family in Wales this week, and I thought I'd ring in.
Host: Why did you move from Wales to America?
Caller: I actually moved because of a woman.
Host: Who's the lucky lady?
Caller: Margaret Thatcher.

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Fit Check For My Barb O. Saur Era 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @brentosaur.bsky.social · 1d

These dudes joined the gestapo hoping it would boost their fragile little egos and they’re being humiliated by someone in a frog suit pretending to have magic.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

Bean: Earth, where his larval form is implanted via a facehugger before erupting from a victim's chest.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 1d

I hate how inevitable it is that within a few years, the people in this article will be MPs and/or opinion columnists and there will be literally no escape anywhere from their mad opinions & their obnoxious and contrived oddness.

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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James Marsh @jamesotron.bsky.social · 1d

Use it to replace CEOs and Execs first, see how much it's here to stay then.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

*stares in Celt*

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

Is this one of those English placenames where I find out it's actually pronounced "Slart"

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

So good, I love it to bits. "I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations. Terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls. And then there's unrequited love. And tyranny. And cruelty."

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

I would have preordered the platinum-tier early access release with the commemorative statue showing a former Confederate getting a blade-tipped pole-arm shoved right up his undercrackage

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