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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

a black and white photo of a man singing into a microphone with the words this is the water .

Alt: a black and white gif of the woodsman from Twin Peaks: The Return, speaking into a radio microphone the words “This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.”

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

Gotta light?

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 22h

All my comics have happy endings!

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s all just die, that’ll show ‘em.

Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 20h

BBC decided to cancel a podcast on heat pumps deeming the topic "controversial" because it presented that the technology could contribute to net zero reducing carbon emmissions.

In 2025 an anti-science posture is not only valid, but required in any debate to be considered "balanced" 😬

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 21h

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

This episode of Sesame St was brought to you by the question “What are any of us doing, really?”

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I make a bad decision, I sit down in front of the mirror, and tell myself “at least you aren’t a massive daft bastard who told the world that being circumcised probably means you have autism” x

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Another Angry Woman @stavvers.bsky.social · 1d

Whomst could have possibly foreseen that the online safety act would create massive security risks? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

What, like some sort of alarmed woodland animal?

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 5d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 1d

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

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Cal Young 🦖 @callie99.bsky.social · 2d

@martian-observer.art

David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 2d

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Deploying ellipsis in 3, 2, 1…

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

‘How Firm Was My Pasta?’
by Alan Dente.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

(It must feel like I’m being “Yes, but…” to everything you’re saying, although I hope not. I’m just following similar paths to your creative block and haven’t quite vaulted over it yet!)

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

I *think* I want to make something kinda podcasty, but I need to figure out how I want that to work, ‘cause I want it to be a decent original idea, so do I want to script it or be a bit looser. I keep feeling on the cusp of an idea that bursts the dam but not quite.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

Thankfully my news input is right down to minimal - I’m aware of things without it taking over, and I’m managing not to scroll much. I’m just sitting down to see what comes out, and… nowt. It’s been a pigfucker of a year tbh & I’m a bit burnt out. Inspiration’s been struggling since about 2018/20. 😬

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

I need to figure some sort of fresh enterprise out, for sure - it’s been very much on my mind to do that. The only difficulty I’m having is building the bridge from here to whatever it could be, as I’m drawing blanks. 😆😖

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

…my main dilemma is which wall should I stare at before going to bed?

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

You’d think it’d be easy to enjoy life free of the ol’ socials, but when you live on your own, shops have been done in due to online shopping, everybody’s steaming busy, and you’re suffering the most heinous creative drought so CBA to even pick up a guitar…

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

Online life is getting absolutely unbearable - constant shit ads, bot farm bellendery, multiple platforms owned by genocide-supporters, constant streams of generative AI.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 3d

I'm getting tremony at remony at the library vibes here

Cup O' Coffey @ammathor.bsky.social · 3d

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a little black spot on the sun today
(That’s my soul up there)