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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · Jun 19

This is about Hot Chocolate’s UFO song but also about how conspiracy theories have made us all a bit weird and paranoid.

Hot Chocolate, ‘No Doubt About It’: Britain’s UFO flap year

Britain’s favourite funk band spent 1980 talking about UFOs. So did everyone else.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 44m

I just discovered that his books have been adapted into films… by my least favourite director, Bela Tarr. That’s a no from me!

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 48m

Actually the one time I tried reading someone because of the Nobel, I ended up reading Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, which is now one of my favourite books. I guess they know what they’re doing!

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 51m

Delighted that the Nobel prize for literature has, once again, gone to someone I’ve definitely heard of and whose works I will definitely read.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 53m

Big Hungarian head on him

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2h

The 2028 US Presidential election

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2h

Amazing

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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 3h

This can't be real can it

The headline and stand first from a Times article about young Tories; below, pictures of the Fellow Kids meme, William Hague in a baseball cap, and Mr Burns with a fake moustache

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3h

Which Irish party would lean heaviest towards Getting The Shift? I reckon SocDems.

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 6d

I have updated i will strangle a horse!

It now has DEATH TRACKING! So you can see which ones you've missed in the Stats page! A Secret Thing that shows on your stats for when you get the Good ending! Nothing added to the infinite door knocking loop! But soon!

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i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE

A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3h

This is a normal thing to do. Many people who have done this are very intelligent and also quite attractive.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3h

The right complain British culture is unrecognisable now but I’m sure I was laughing at the same Young Tories in 1988

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3h

The photographer for this feature definitely didn’t feel like challenging the stereotype

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3h

There’s been some (fair) pushback recently against the idea that being evil makes you look old and ugly. Jesus Christ though.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3h

At a fringe event in Manchester one member sought to bring some hope, boasting that Keele University Conservative Society now had its biggest membership in a decade. "We now have ll members," he said.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3h

I miss the innocent days when I thought this boy’s opinions were merely “racism is good”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 14h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 10h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 11h

Tolkien was a horse girl:

1. All the horses in LotR have names
2. Some have elaborate backstories
3. The wizard has a ⋆˖⁺‧₊ magical ₊‧⁺˖⋆ horse
4. If we meet a horse in book one, you better believe we’re getting an update on their wellbeing in book 3

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 4h

He’s using a fake name to hide from CMAT

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 4h

Never forget

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 5h

These things only exist to enrage people. I’ve been listening to the playlist though and it’s really fun. Forgot how much I love Oops (Oh My).

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 15h

You couldn’t make Wolfenstein today

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 16h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 15h

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