Mirthless Laughter
@mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social
Translator. Editor. Copywriter. Occasional voiceover bloke. Planning to return to cartooning after a brief 35-year hiatus. Posts in français and svenska may occur.
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Motherfucking. I’m sure the word “motherfucking” is supposed to go in there somewhere.
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“who broke Britain?”, let’s be clear and unequivocal. The four horsemen of Britain’s apocalypse are deindustrialisation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Manchesterism' is building a better politics and a strong economy. The whole country should be inspired | Andy Burnham
We are the fastest-growing city-region economy in the UK, proof that it is possible to use public funds effectively while reducing crisis spending, says Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:34 AM
“who broke Britain?”, let’s be clear and unequivocal. The four horsemen of Britain’s apocalypse are deindustrialisation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Captain Dan’s laundry bunker is back in operation today. Longtime followers know what that means.
January 25, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Captain Dan’s laundry bunker is back in operation today. Longtime followers know what that means.
Singing the words “Hasta la vista, baby” to the tune of “Shave and a haircut, two bits”
January 23, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Singing the words “Hasta la vista, baby” to the tune of “Shave and a haircut, two bits”
I went to a coffee shop and asked for a Machado and they gave me somebody else’s order
January 22, 2026 at 9:21 AM
I went to a coffee shop and asked for a Machado and they gave me somebody else’s order
The BBC’s Christian Fraser assesses Trump’s Davos speech: “some of it will need to be fact-checked”.
January 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The BBC’s Christian Fraser assesses Trump’s Davos speech: “some of it will need to be fact-checked”.
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Kortdokumentär: Arg gubbe
Har någon sett den arga gubben, sverigedemokraten och kapitalisten, som skrek vänsterbög? Daniel ägnar 3 år åt att hitta honom
www.svtplay.se/video/ja4gEA...
Har någon sett den arga gubben, sverigedemokraten och kapitalisten, som skrek vänsterbög? Daniel ägnar 3 år åt att hitta honom
www.svtplay.se/video/ja4gEA...
Arg gubbe
Daniel möter en arg gubbe på gatan som anklagar honom för att ha kastat sten i stan. Han lämnas med en gnagande tanke om varför det offentliga samtalet blivit så hårt. Mötet blir startskottet för Dani...
www.svtplay.se
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Kortdokumentär: Arg gubbe
Har någon sett den arga gubben, sverigedemokraten och kapitalisten, som skrek vänsterbög? Daniel ägnar 3 år åt att hitta honom
www.svtplay.se/video/ja4gEA...
Har någon sett den arga gubben, sverigedemokraten och kapitalisten, som skrek vänsterbög? Daniel ägnar 3 år åt att hitta honom
www.svtplay.se/video/ja4gEA...
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weird thing I've noticed, living here in the laughingstock of the world, is that most of the time (all of the time), meaningful dissent happens offline, apart from the internet-leftist fear of contamination
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 AM
weird thing I've noticed, living here in the laughingstock of the world, is that most of the time (all of the time), meaningful dissent happens offline, apart from the internet-leftist fear of contamination
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Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
Serguei (Sergio Goizauskas) 1954-2026
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Serguei (Sergio Goizauskas) 1954-2026
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Min pappa dog och begravdes i Iran bara fåtalet veckor innan denna revolutionära protestvåg och masslakt av mina landsmän. Han torterades i iranskt fängelse och satt fängslad på obestämd tid i ett par år kring 2015. De jävlarna försökte döda honom i hela mitt liv. Han gjorde motstånd intill slutet.
January 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Min pappa dog och begravdes i Iran bara fåtalet veckor innan denna revolutionära protestvåg och masslakt av mina landsmän. Han torterades i iranskt fängelse och satt fängslad på obestämd tid i ett par år kring 2015. De jävlarna försökte döda honom i hela mitt liv. Han gjorde motstånd intill slutet.
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do you know how hard it is to get a legacy comic strip pulled from the newspaper? they run Peanuts daily and it's been in repeats for a quarter century. Beetle Bailey signed up for the Army before the Korean War. Blondie is about a fucking flapper.
January 13, 2026 at 5:34 PM
do you know how hard it is to get a legacy comic strip pulled from the newspaper? they run Peanuts daily and it's been in repeats for a quarter century. Beetle Bailey signed up for the Army before the Korean War. Blondie is about a fucking flapper.
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Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.
January 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.
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Bill Crawford on the far-right, Bircher attempts to capture the GOP, October 1965.
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Bill Crawford on the far-right, Bircher attempts to capture the GOP, October 1965.
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Of the plums thou didst buy to break thy fast
And laid in ice until the morrow
I presently have made repast,
I must confess with sorrow.
I beg of thee thy wrath to stay;
Forgive me for my boldness.
Good were they, and sweet were they,
And stung my teeth with coldness.
And laid in ice until the morrow
I presently have made repast,
I must confess with sorrow.
I beg of thee thy wrath to stay;
Forgive me for my boldness.
Good were they, and sweet were they,
And stung my teeth with coldness.
June 15, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Of the plums thou didst buy to break thy fast
And laid in ice until the morrow
I presently have made repast,
I must confess with sorrow.
I beg of thee thy wrath to stay;
Forgive me for my boldness.
Good were they, and sweet were they,
And stung my teeth with coldness.
And laid in ice until the morrow
I presently have made repast,
I must confess with sorrow.
I beg of thee thy wrath to stay;
Forgive me for my boldness.
Good were they, and sweet were they,
And stung my teeth with coldness.
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We went through multiple versions of art for the cover of last year’s version of THERE’S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT before we settled, last minute, on what was used.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We went through multiple versions of art for the cover of last year’s version of THERE’S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT before we settled, last minute, on what was used.
There’s a whole bunch of songs from the 80s rattling around in my head that seem incomplete without brief introductions by DJ Kjell Alinge, who presented the Swedish radio programme Eldorado for years and years
I hated it until I found one of those cassettes years later and the DJs voices and station identifiers (for KYYX in Seattle) were like Proust's madeleine.
January 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM
There’s a whole bunch of songs from the 80s rattling around in my head that seem incomplete without brief introductions by DJ Kjell Alinge, who presented the Swedish radio programme Eldorado for years and years
There must be a way to find the direct number for the Oval Office
Sa ju det! Livsfarligt att svara på okända nummer
January 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM
There must be a way to find the direct number for the Oval Office
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Svenskpatriotisk AI-musik slår igenom på Spotify och Tiktok, till extremhögerns förtjusning. Dagens ETC har mött radhuspappan och bärgaren bakom två av de nya nationalistiska AI-banden.
Extremhögerns revansch – genom AI-musik
”Bullerbyn är borta” och ”Vi reser oss för Sverige” • Nationalistiska AI-artister intar Spotify – som undersöker hur de ska tjäna på fejkartisterna.
www.etc.se
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Svenskpatriotisk AI-musik slår igenom på Spotify och Tiktok, till extremhögerns förtjusning. Dagens ETC har mött radhuspappan och bärgaren bakom två av de nya nationalistiska AI-banden.
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does anyone have that video
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 PM
does anyone have that video
Zeitgeist Captured by Subeditor
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Zeitgeist Captured by Subeditor
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Every EU citizen still active on X is now at risk of downloading illegal content right into their phones. This includes legislators, ministers, senior officials, most journos. Start asking them tough questions about their intentions wrt this risk.
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Every EU citizen still active on X is now at risk of downloading illegal content right into their phones. This includes legislators, ministers, senior officials, most journos. Start asking them tough questions about their intentions wrt this risk.
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8. The world’s two nuclear superpowers are now headed by irrational decisionmakers.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
8. The world’s two nuclear superpowers are now headed by irrational decisionmakers.