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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1h

Following someone but shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with them

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 1d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3h

He looks like someone you'd cast as a young Brendan Gleeson

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ForcefemStalin69 @chasershibari.com · 1d

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 15h

Look how they massacred my boy etc. etc.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 15h

Suddenly thought about reading a Tom Holt novel and we need to go back to hiring cover designers again

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 15h

Am I meant to read that first line in the same rhythm as "if you're happy and you know it clap your hands"?

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 1d

A haunted house but it’s just someone saying “Let’s go around the room and share one fun fact about ourselves.”

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · Oct 21

Imagine you’re an 18th century captain seeking a way through the ice to the North Pole and you encounter the exhausted figure of Victor Frankenstein in pursuit of a distant, superhuman form, and you bring him aboard and eagerly ask for his story and he opens with “It all began when I was 5”

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking about the end of history again

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 22h

there needs to be a standardized scale of how bad thinsg are for you. its so confusing right now. like is it "eating plutonium" bad for you or is it "not going for a daily walk" bad for you

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely not

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 23h

The battle for the soul of the Full English was lost when hash browns replaced the fried slice

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 23h

Obligatory www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSC...

Slightly less than two drinks (cut from That Mitchell and Webb Look S04E04)

YouTube video by vytenis

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 23h

I think she honestly has read all of them, and that Pratchett really is her favourite author, because I can't imagine why, if she was lying, she'd come up with that lie specifically, not when there's any number of conservative authors she could have picked

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

George Miller, 80, easily able to coast out the rest of his life and affirm his legacy as an old school filmmaker who stayed relevant and made shit that lasted in and compelled the culture for the better part of 50 years, absolute optimal goals for any artist, is getting into the slop game