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Rob Manuel

@robmanuelyeah.bsky.social

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · Apr 28

Look I've got shows on sale ok? Hawking them is embarrassing.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 55m

I reckon throwing a jar of pesto into tomato soup is going to be fine - given it's just a load of basil and cheese and pine nuts. (I just like the idea of using these things like lego.)

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 59m

can everyone shut up about trump

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1h

never take up food photography

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1h

Nah it's not poor student creativity as the soup and the sauce are fancy brands. It's something else, it's using sauce and soup like Lego.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1h

i know the war went from 1939 to 1945 but how did so many people die in six minutes?

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1h

Last night I bought tomato soup and a jar of bolognese sauce and threw them into the same pan and created a beefy tomato soup and it was pretty good.

Chilli powder and crackers too coz I like Columbo.

Anyway, pasta sauce + soup combo is my new concept cooking. Wonder what other ones might work?

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2h

It wouldn't make much difference. There are people who police who other people follow and will DM, and add people to block lists etc and they'd do it regardless of a type of follow, as the point is to diminish the power of the person they have ideological beef with by making interaction unacceptable

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 13h

I just think it's the only way to get a message through if you don't have a massive marketing budget on your side. You can choose to be persistent.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 13h

I'm less than halfway through. 2,000 then I can retire if I want.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 13h

How the @b3ta.com newsletter works:

1. You make something
2. Tell us via the 'mail us' form
3. If the magic donkey says yay, it appears in the B3ta newsletter & is seen by thousands

Here's the form. Use it --> b3ta.com/mailus

Subscribe --> b3ta.com/subscribe

Issue 964, out this Friday. Be in it.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 14h

What the answer is, is that I've occasionally shared the URL of the (old) google sheet, and this person has clicked it and forgotten they've clicked it, probably coz it was ages ago and they weren't paying that much attention, and it's ended up in their google drive/history.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 14h

Yep, nose at it if you want. I don’t care - it does demonstrate I don’t make this shit up. People submit it in their thousands.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 14h

I can’t ID anything I have no IP addresses or emails. And you can check this yourself by setting up a Google form and seeing what information it gives you.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 16h

I wouldn't ever edit these things to add a joke but it certainly went through my head to add a final pay off like "Also the blowies are great."

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 19h

"God looked down on his creation and thought, I can't be fucked trying to adjudicate everyone's petty squabbles, and what we need here is federated moderation system where it's not my problem and actually waffles"

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 20h

I think many of us are indifferent but also we're an old country, and it's like having an old code base in software, it would a lot of effort to rip it all out to replace it with something modern, and who knows what you'd also break by doing it.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 20h

The more I've learned about the Beatles through the years, the more I think part of their greatness was doing simple things right. Like recording an actual full band take and then maybe adding some overdubs, rather than building everything up in layers like me mucking around in Logic at home.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 22h

David Swift - from the 1976 cop drama Boogie And Dog
Cutty John - cockney murderer loved by Loaded magazine
Vladimir Nelson - french philosopher paedophilia advocate
Jazzy Crickets - C4 dog racing commentator know for his ripe views

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 22h

Quite what Rod is doing with his hand up his arse, at least, leads to a quite dark denouement.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 22h

It's a format I find hard. I could write it as short story OK but trying to write cartoons makes my brain melt, and there's no obvious place in the world for weird/comic short stories, no one really publishes them or wants them.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 23h

Another great opening line for a Katie Melua song

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 23h

How about the ‘no ball peas prize’ where we give an award to the boffin who invents the squarest vegetable, to prevent rollage and accidental plate escape? Yes, excellent joke, I’ll send this.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 23h

My one is feeling annoyed when I ask for a tea and they say which one? And I have to say English breakfast tea, but it’s not English breakfast tea it’s just fucking tea okay? Vote UKIP.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 23h

When Phil appeared on Tom’s Manosphere live podcast, Bluesky mocked him with that dril tweet about turning into a corn cob, and now he’s taken to waving one around to say “I’m in on the joke, you can’t hurt me” but he isn’t in on the joke and he’s very hurt.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d

At 2:30am I woke up thinking I must write a cartoon called "Art Garfunkel's Fart Carbuncle" and submit it to Viz and of course I'm never going to. But yeah, Art has built this carbuncle and filled it with farts, and is trying to lure Paul Simon as punishment for erasing him from the 83 reunion LP.

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