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Michael Penhale
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sarcastic, mildly irritating, sports obsessed halfwit who tends to get in trouble for speaking before thinking! 😀
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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jamesrball.com
The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?

Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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callumparrish.bsky.social
Can't remember BBC covering prisoner releases every day under the Tories.
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
penhale.bsky.social
#SCOvUSA is rapidly turning into a game of Jonah Lomu Rugby on the old PS1! 😬
#RugbyUnion #QuilterNationSeries
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
this will save lives
a dialog box called "Send reply?". the text reads: 14 other users made the same joke. The two buttons are "Send" and "Do Better," with "Do Better" as the default button.
November 9, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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fxmc1957.bsky.social
It’s a Halloween must have. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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the-ronin.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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codfather.bsky.social
😂🤦‍♂️
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
penhale.bsky.social
Would love to see refs in the #GallagherPrem explain that the ‘mark’ for a pen is where you take the kick from NOT where you start your run up. Both 10’s are taking the piss stepping 3 or 4 paces off the mark before the kick! #Rugby
October 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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garydelaney.bsky.social
A story in three parts
A story in the parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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mattgreencomedy.com
A.I. generated videos are like dreams - you find your own fascinating and no one else gives a shit about them
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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bitterscriptreader.bsky.social
Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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kathyburke.bsky.social
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
penhale.bsky.social
@daraobriain.bsky.social the show tonight in Swansea was phenomenal, nearly had an asthma attack from laughing so much! Superb show and, who knew, Dara is a Welshman!! 👍🏻
October 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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ianvisits.co.uk
In memoriam...
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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anonopin.bsky.social
After 200 years can we admit that The Luddites were right all along. Automation leads to fewer jobs, lower wages, devalues skilled labour and leads to exploitation by the rich company owners.
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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effinbirds.com
A painting of a bird beside the text "motherfucker it's only tuesday"
September 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
Sums up this most dismal moment.
jasonv.bsky.social JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · Sep 30
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
September 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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brianmoore666.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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angusmain.bsky.social
“The Riyadh Comedy Festival” should be a Comic Strips Presents… episode about a group of edgy comedians staying at the same luxury hotel for the festival, all trying to out ‘edge’ each other and terrified of appearing woke, while also panicking as members of their group start disappearing.
September 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM