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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 15h

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16h

What do we want?
Motorbike noises.
When do we want it?
Nnnyyyyyowwww.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 17h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 17h

It’s World Octopus Day. There were 4,200 Lego octopuses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. We found our first Lego octopus soon afterwards but didn’t discover another for 18 years. #WorldOctopusDay #oceanplastic

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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 16h

Been reading about the mathematician on Scott's Antarctic mission. Horrible man, apparently. Very cold and calculating

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Phil Cheesman @daddycheese.bsky.social · 9h

Must dig out my copy of this… it was indeed hilarious!

🎼 𝕊𝕋𝔼𝕍𝔼™ @stevomusicman.bsky.social · 17h

Got a fab book, partly as @quantick.bsky.social linked it.
Haven't stopped laughing at some of it

@punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social @singingconductor.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social @rnrbook-club.bsky.social

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 14h

My mum once caught me with a dumbell weight tied with string to my willy, in a naive, dangerous and fruitless attempt to lengthen it. I've never heard her laugh so hard for so long, and I still cringe whenever I remember it 30 years later. I hope she never told anyone.

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Justin Edwards @bigedwards.bsky.social · 14h

#beermatoftheday

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 13h

🤷‍♂️ - That's my reaction to Yungblud's reaction to Justin Hawkins' reaction to his brother's reaction to Yungblud.

A screenshot of some so-called news article on Facebook with the utterly ridiculous headline 'Yungblud reacts to Justin Hawkins' reaction to his brother's reaction to Yungblud'.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 12h

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12h

Protect Viz at all costs.

Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12h

Subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

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Phil Cheesman @daddycheese.bsky.social · 9h

I recommend signing up to STV free and watching all of Moonlighting… :o)

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 21h

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 23h

Special Gig Announcement. Particularly for those of you who might be Brighton-adjacent.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 23h

A set of extremely unusual circumstances admittedly but Winston Churchill could conceivably have been present at both Custers Last Stand and Stone Cold Steve Austin’s birth.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 21h

British PE equipment as postwar political economy:

The Apparatus - peak Thatcherism, shiny and new, novelty soon wore off

The Horse - solid postwar settlement with impending sense of danger

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 22h

Love this thread. The Apparatus!

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 23h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Phil Cheesman @daddycheese.bsky.social · 16h

In which case I lament their passing and will observe a moment’s silence - long may their successors continue to bring us such Comedy Bangers!

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Phil Cheesman @daddycheese.bsky.social · 17h

“Anyone who had a Hat” - you are an absolute comedy genius, Allison!

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

New comic: "Outer space?" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Outer space? - Bad Machinery

Another flashback to 1962, and an opportunity to use my now seldom-employed robot-drawing toolset. Seldom-employed for a reason eh John you say. I will have none of this. I had drawn hundreds of robot...

badmachinery.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Phil Cheesman @daddycheese.bsky.social · 1d

Misread this slightly as being written (not reposted) by @justinedwards.bsky.social - and my first thought was - what a surreal and interesting #beermatoftheday

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 1d

Filles de Kilimanjaro III (Miles Davis) by Kazuya Sakai (1976)

This acrylic on canvas is part of Sakai's Ondulaciones (Undulations) series.
The title is a homage to the 1968 Miles Davis album of the same name. Multicolored swirls on a green background.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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