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Champie
@champierth.bsky.social
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Videogame developer and occasional bass player.

Follow me for "Daft social media bollocks"

Warning: may contain traces of sarcasm, bad takes on current events, poor attempts at humour, British spellings, and Oxford commas.
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Doctor Tony Newman and Doctor Doug Phillips (science doctors, not medical ones) from the 60's US TV show The Time Tunnel, seen here stood in front of the eponymous tunnel ,waving their arms in the air and looking slightly distressed.
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Orange album cover
The album cover of XTC's Oranges and Lemons LP, featuring a painting of the trio in a vaguely Beatles Yellow Submarine style playing surreal instruments.
February 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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And your little neighbourhood
Another screenshot from the Bluesky map thingy, this time a closeup on @wokenojokeworrior showing about a dozen closest people.
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Possibly not a surprise?
Screenshot for the Bluesky map thinginy doing the rounds showing @wokenojokeworrior right next to "Canadian Progressive Democrats"
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Having popped onto Farsebook and seeing a sea of AI generate posters of caricatures of people based on what AI knows about them, here's a caricature done by a human using what he knew about me (admittedly back in the days when I had hair).
close up from a line drawing of a rather chubby person with long hair, wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled and black trousers, and sat at a computer desk ready to type at a keyboard with a monitor just poking into view.
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Who's your nearest neighbour? Mine is apparently @thewombats.co.uk
Screenshot for that "map of Bluesky" that's doing the rounds, zoomed in really close on @champierth and showing @thewombats.co.uk close by, plus someone ending ..dnews that got cutoff.
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Dr. Who”, or “Transformers.”
The Iron Chicken from the children’s TV show The Clangers, seen here on a moon like surface with a black sky background.
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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From the thumbnail I was hoping it was going to be of him staring up at the eclipse.
screenshot of new large Trump statue with his head and right arm just off the top of the screen, so we're not sure what pose it might be making.
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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I apologise to the victims of Poke People In The Eye Stick™️ for believing the lies of their CEO. Whilst I was aware that some people were poked in the eye in the past, I had no idea of the depth of that poking.
PM Sir Keir Starmer stood behind a lectern with some sort of emblem on it, in front of a red backdrop that looks like it might have a quarter of a Union Jack faintly on it, plus something that looks like a street sign that used to say "Pride In Place" but has been crudely (in both senses of the word) altered to say "Prick In Place". There's some small writing below that again used to "led by you - Backed by the UK Government" but now, just about, reads "Misled by US - Fucked by the UK Government". Such biting political satire which much surely put the likes of Private Eye and Have I Got News For You to shame.
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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To be fair, I'm not sure the Billionaires are doing any better than the rest of us...
what looks to be a slightly blurry screenshot from the Google Play app, though there's not much to give that away, of a "sponsored - suggested for you" for the TEMU App, with a title "Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire" and the tags Shopping and Online marketplace. Still it seems to get 4.6 stars, presumably out of 5, so if you do need to shop on Temu then this is obviously the app to use.
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Never say you don't get variety on Bluesky.
screenshot of trending box with the topics 1. ICE Protest, 2. Nintendo Direct, 3. Mandelson Scandal, 4. James Harden, 5. Bugs Bunny. Depending on your interests you may not know who some of those are (I'm personally not aware of James Harden, and I'm not sure if I want to find out who he is.
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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screenshot of Google Translate with the original text "Ah Vienna" which has been auto detected as "Ultravox" and translated into English as "Nothing", done by someone who clearly has more skills at editing HTML on the fly than they do at coming up with funny ways to utilise that skill.
February 4, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Bluesky is trying a new beta service, click below to see if you are susceptible to misinformation;
A blue button on a white background, with the words "Check now" in white. Of course, if you use Bluesky in dark mode, the obviously fake button will look even more fake, but then I'm not really expecting anyone to be fooled, unlike posting an image that looks like a paused video hoping people will try and click on the play button.
February 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Read it and weep suckers, I'm one of the Guardian's top readers worldwide. Signed autographs are available at a price.
Screenshot from the Guardian website with the text... What, you expect me to have to type all that in? Well, OK then, there's a bit about Emma Beddington being a Guardian columnist, a bit saying I'm one of the top readers globally having read 58 articles this year, the the start of some blurb trying to built trip me into subscribing to the Guardian.
February 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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#IToldYouICantDraw
an extremely crudely drawn cartoon of a head on a pair of eyes (geddit?) with the head saying "Lets get wasted" and some title text at the top saying "Irresposible hedonise". As if he was in some way proud of this, the "artist" has signed Champie in the bottom right.
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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It doesn't seem to read out the [ square brackets ] so if you're interested in emphasising something so that screen readers will know about it, you'd need to do something else I think. (Hopefully the audio comes through, I can't hear anything as I'm previewing this message, may re-upload if not.)
January 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Most of my posts today have been about Mr & Mrs Tᴙump, so as a bit of a timeline cleanse, here's a random photo of the Premier Inn in Weston-super-Mare taken from a ferris wheel.
a random photo of the Premier Inn in Weston-Super-Mare taken from a ferris wheel. OK, you could have just read the post text for that, so to try and reward you for reading this anyway, it's shot looking somewhat down on a 5 story whitish building and you can see the shadow of the ferris wheel it was taken from projected onto the front of the building. There's also a view of the road below where you can see some cars and and Ambulance.
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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"Hexagon of aims" being a pentagon...
Chef's kiss emoji, basically a emoji person kissing closed fingers whilst wearing a chef's hat, which you could probably have guessed from the first three words, thus rendering everything I've written subsequently as completely and utterly redundant. Oh and there's a little heart floating off, there it was worth hanging in until the end,
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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"As soon as the cameras are off I'm deporting you."
Trump leaning over to Nicki Minaj as if to whisper something, with Minaj looking at the camera, vaguely bemused.
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sausage
White writing on a green background saying: Ruin a movie by replacing one word in the title with “Sausage”.
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Thank you for your attention to this matte.
a matte (geddit?) painting used in the warehouse scene of the first Indiana Jones movie. This image was retrieved from the Wikipedia page for Matte Painting, though licensing means it's only available for "fair use". In the unlikely event that making a stupid pun doesn't qualify as fair use, I will remove this post (in which case how are you reading this) or allow the copyright holder (which by the time they find out will probably be some offshore investment company) to claim 100% of the income this post has made for me and to monetise all future income from it.
January 29, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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#ImGoodAtMakingPlansBut not as good Colin
still from "Making Plans for Nigel" music video with some person in the foreground, presumably playing Nigel, in a white tiled room with a video frame on the wall where Colin Moulding can be seen open mouthed, singing the song.
January 27, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Bez from The Tales of the Arabian Nights, as shown on the Saturday morning kids TV show The Banana Splits. If I have to explain the joke it's not for you.
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Of course it all went wrong after he jokingly said “Size of a Mancunian maraca player”.
cartoon of an Arabian looking gentleman looking up and holding his hands as if holding an invisible basketball. If you've come here to find out who this is, first off congratulations on being under 60, secondly it's the character Bez from the cartoon series Tales of the Arabian Nights, as featured on The Banana Splits TV show. If you don't know who the other Bez is, then congratulations on being under 30.
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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He's not making it easy to dismiss conspiracy theories...
Trump from Davos in a blue suit, with a closeup section of both his ear and his hand and text pointing to each saying "Hit by a bullet" and "Poked with a needle".
January 22, 2026 at 4:41 PM