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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 2h

A damn shame Liam Gavin hasn't made a follow up, it was a cracking debut...

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

Woman facing a doorway with arcane symbols with title A Dark Song and accolades including Outstanding abd An Utterly Unique Film.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

oh thank you lord and baby jesus

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 3h

Time to start a grift as a fake doctor who diagnoses celebs as "money addicts".

"It's ableist to criticise me, I've got an illness."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 4h

You can sing "honey monster genitalia" to the tune of "deutschland uber alles" should you so wish.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5h

A man of your qualities? Surely not! Place an advertisement in the personal columns. I suggest "Carbon-based lifeform seeks similar. Vertebrates preferred."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5h

But I had just returned from visiting my then girlfriend in Paris, so possibly there's a clue.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5h

It's a mystery.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5h

My Mum once found a used one in my bag ...

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 5h

Years ago, as a youth coming home after a party, I put my used clothes in the laundry basket. Later, in my room, I found the "just in case" condom I had had in my pocket with a note "Found this in the washer. Suggest you bin it as it was on a hot cycle. Love Mum".

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 6h

Paying taxes would kill the rackets, says Al Capone.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 7h

I would, but they keep going up.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 11h

You could at least have mentioned her comic strip in Radio Fun.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

*headache

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, the version by Aldo Ciccolini is only a minute and a half. Feel he cheated.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

L'expression artistique.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Alternatively, only date people of the same (preferably very common) name.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

He may have solved murders but he hasn't got a clue about the Travelling Salesman problem

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

People said my name was funny for a country singer, and I said what's wrong with Keith.

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah! This and Rasputin being posted on the same day, it's a wonderful world.

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Neil Perryman @neilperryman.bsky.social · 2d

Please celebrate my birthday today by watching my latest podcast. It would the best present ever. youtu.be/nmEqFSk2qzU?...

World of Telly Episode 12: The Strange World of Gurney Slade

YouTube video by World of Telly

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, there isn’t really an answer, which is a pity, because it’s not like there’s any shortage of fundamentally dishonest, empty, delusional people in public life today, into whose inner lives we could all use some insight, but I can recommend this book. This thread barely touches the surface

The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln, by Bernard Wasserstein, featuring several photos of Trebitsch in various guises, a banner saying it won the 1988 golden dagger award for non-fiction, and a quote from historian Richard Cobb: “A brilliant account of one of the most remarkable adventurers of the 20th century”

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 3d

My brother used to work in probate. Once he had to clear out the effects of an elderly gent who'd been in the NAAFI during the war. In a drawer he found a stock of hundreds of army-issue condoms, still waiting to be called into action.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

As a middle-aged man I am not sure there is anything more depressing than realising your stock of blue pills is out of date.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 3d

The Bollocks from the Black Lagoon

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 5d

"If Joe the Fish shows up late again, you know what you have to do. Make him disappear. Yeah, permanent. Just a minute, I have to check out The Very Hungry Caterpillar again. Yeah, she won't read anything else, cute, yeah. Oh, don't forget to give Big Sal his cut, he was bending my ear about it."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 9d

*James Joyce has entered the chat*

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 9d

"These bloody a-rabs, they have a right old time of it, don't they? Forty wives apiece and they live in a tent. Sand up your arse all the time and getting your ear bent for not taking out the bins. No thanks!"