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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · Aug 28

Moving my thread over from The Other Place ... coming to the end of the Capaldi era in my Pilgrimage.

Monk trilogy was better than I remembered. Really like all three episodes.

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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 1h

Ahmed Best is making his comic writing debut with a new comic that features his two characters Jar Jar Binks and Kelleran Beq teaming up.

Read about the new comic and every other new #NYCC announcement here: theholofiles.com/2025/10/11/n...

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1h

a cartoon of a man standing in front of a fireplace

ALT: a cartoon of a man standing in front of a fireplace

media.tenor.com

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Far Out Magazine @faroutmagazine.co.uk · 2h

Ian Watkins, Lostprophets singer and convicted paedophile, murdered in prison

The attack occurred in Wakefield prison. The post Ian Watkins, Lostprophets singer and convicted paedophile, murdered in prison first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1h

OK, are we allowed to be happy about this one?

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 2h

The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 6h

I like Bluesky because on Twitter I was the really earnest left-wing person but on here I’m a kind of exciting edgelord because I think that, say, replacing the police with a board comprised of 16-year-old musical theatre students could have its problems

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 6h

Professional contrarian in “has stupid opinion” shock

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 7h

But of course he does

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sharkastic.bsky.social @sharkastic.bsky.social · 21h

Moe throwing Barney out of the bar in the Simpsons

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 22h

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 23h

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Both, hopefully.

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see the spirit of Mary Whitehouse lives on.

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Gives me Brass Eye vibes and I’m here for more of that.

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Pat Burke 🇺🇦 @patburke.bsky.social · 1d

The land acknowledgment made me chuckle: “We are currently residing and performing upon the sacred ancestral grounds of the …,” he says, rifling through his pockets for a cheat sheet that never materializes, “Okay, well, whoever they are, they were here first, and we are here now, and shame on us.”

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh yes.

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh, no

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a satire of things like Hamilton and I’d honestly pay to see it. Feels very Brass Eye.

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually a piss-take of leftist re-imaginings of history like Hamilton and I’d honestly pay to see it.

Hannah @teaforpterosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually conceived as a piss-take of leftist reimaginings of history. Hamilton meets The Producers. Inspired by a tweet earnestly stating that Ann Frank had “white privilege.” Could be a riot.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Never change, BlueSky 😂

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Despite speculation, Donald Trump has not been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. And 69% of Britons say he should not be awarded it in future

He should: 14%
He should not: 69%

yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

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Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cymry.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye nails it

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Well he’s definitely finished with this clown supporting him.