Thom
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Thom
@thwphipps.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Moving my extra difficult cryptic crossword thread to here. Twitter no longer deserves it
What do you mean, by a coin that “won’t get tossed”?
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
What do you mean, by a coin that “won’t get tossed”?
Aerial roots. Don’t like em
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Aerial roots. Don’t like em
The house in Man On The Inside is sooo nice
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The house in Man On The Inside is sooo nice
We’re approaching Blacklist-levels of “lost interest in the initial premise but don’t have an awful lot to replace it with”
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We’re approaching Blacklist-levels of “lost interest in the initial premise but don’t have an awful lot to replace it with”
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q: when the guy in the hot dog suit says we’re all trying to find out who crashed the hot dog car into the store, isn’t he the most likely suspect? he’s wearing a hot dog suit for crying out loud
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
q: when the guy in the hot dog suit says we’re all trying to find out who crashed the hot dog car into the store, isn’t he the most likely suspect? he’s wearing a hot dog suit for crying out loud
Annoying pop-up concept: a place that only does fish finger sandwiches, named FFS
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Annoying pop-up concept: a place that only does fish finger sandwiches, named FFS
I love Pluribus so much
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I love Pluribus so much
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Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Every scene of season five looks like this now. Large groups of people wandering from place to place
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Every scene of season five looks like this now. Large groups of people wandering from place to place
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
terrific
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
terrific
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i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd
Really very good. Much better than the second one. Had what I love out of a whodunnit - multiple crime scenes all ripe for speculation
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Really very good. Much better than the second one. Had what I love out of a whodunnit - multiple crime scenes all ripe for speculation
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RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
A decade ago they’d have pumped David Harbour full of tren and bleached his skin and he’d be playing Kratos right now
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A decade ago they’d have pumped David Harbour full of tren and bleached his skin and he’d be playing Kratos right now
Ok we’re cracking into new stranger things. Tried to rewatch the previous season but every episode is four hours long so I assume I’ll remember what’s going on
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ok we’re cracking into new stranger things. Tried to rewatch the previous season but every episode is four hours long so I assume I’ll remember what’s going on
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Great premise - Native American INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE based around the 1870 Marias Massacre - interesting executed: narrated using Blackfoot language/slang as assumed knowledge. Cool imagery, loads of imagination, sly sense of humour, genuinely chilling horror. And yet. And yet. Quite boring.
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This was VERY ODD! In a good way! I’d thought it was just a folk horror novel but it’s more like a series of very loosely connected short stories, all set in the same town, each one leaping forward through time. Like a literary Royston Vasey, kinda...
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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V entertaining: escalating battle of wits between an elderly widow & a horrid little boy in a Covid-denuded Egyptian hotel. Also a series of background mysteries that play out more or less satisfactorily. The author said it was originally a short story that grew out of control, which makes sense...
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Another of these BL short story collections; a characteristically entertaining romp through circus-themed weird fiction of the 20th century...
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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