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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

IT FINALLY HAPPENED I AM ON A PLANE WITH A BABY WHO SAYS “HI” TO EVERYONE AS HE GOES DOWN THE AISLE

December 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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kate bush’s husband

@airbagged.bsky.social

Why would you admit this

Ive been secretly using Al to make myself a better person and my anti Al wife is really liking the results
Seriously, just a conversational sounding board that gives better insights than anyone online, and years of therapy with no progress

December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM

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rich traditions

@helldude.bsky.social

what did they steal from us? when was this

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12d

I’m exhausted

Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.
The illegitimate Maduro Regime is using Oil from these stolen Oil Fields to finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping. For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Therefore, today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela. The Illegal Aliens and Criminals that the Maduro Regime has sent into the United States during the weak and inept Biden Administration, are being returned to Venezuela at a rapid pace. America will not allow Criminals, Terrorists, or other Countries, to rob, threaten, or harm our Nation and, likewise, will not allow a Hostile Regime to take our Oil, Land, or any other Assets, all of which must be returned to the United States, IMMEDIATELY. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

December 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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bakoon

@bakoon.bsky.social

December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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mia 🦴

@useless.pet

i could really go for some quality time together right about now

an image of tacos biria with soup to dip it in and some hot sauce nexst to the tacos. there's 3 jarritos of various flavors behind the plate and there's text on top of everything that says "this and some," "raw sex(scratched out)," and "quality time together" underneath.

December 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM

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Slow Ominous "Auld Lang Syne" Cover

@gonebabygone.bsky.social

(Pitching an op-ed) It's about my friend who betrayed me

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 17d

Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

The Telegraph
Graham Linehan
My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu
I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls

I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism.
"I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational.
When I read that, I phoned him immediately.
When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper.
At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you."

I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all.
Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole".
David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane.
Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by.
And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another
"he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them

December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM

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Liquid

@liquidparasyte.bsky.social

Andy Serkis, respectfully: what the fuck?

December 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Supergiant Games

@supergiantgames.bsky.social

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.

Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Get well A$AP, A$AP

@apurbachakraborty.bsky.social

December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Return of the Cmonmacques

@cmonmaque.bsky.social

Chrissy in the sopranos looking at a screen that says

Beautiful girl: thank you!!!

Chip: I must be loyle to my capo

December 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM

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☁️TORI.PNG☁️🔜 MAGFEST

@toripng.com

🌐

#art

clippy drawing that reads "have you considered using your brain instead of asking chatgpt?"

November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

Remotes for smart TVs are a real snapshot in time where you’ll be looking at a dedicated button that takes you directly to Redbox or Chicken Soup for the Soul Originals and you’ll realize how hard running a business must be

December 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?”
Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh”

Panel 2:
Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this”

Panel 3:
Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break.

Panel 4:
Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.

December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Kyle Whittingham Support Account

@antifamanchin.bsky.social

Dawg no fucking way

December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM

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Xavier needs a job, oh my god.

@xavierck.com

Private equityyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Best Indie Games @clemmygames.bsky.social · 29d

November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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dan solomon

@dansolomon.com

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29d

Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother

November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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farner

@farnerb0cken.bsky.social

can’t stand the mona lisa. I hate it when women smile. What’s so funny? My tiny penis?

November 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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mr. cannoli

@boner.ink

sending my penis in the mail to one lucky fan, second place gets my balls

November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Nathan Goldwag

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 29d

Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough

November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Michael Hobbes

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating

“I wish I could have gotten the message across that there isn’t a distinction between “they/them” and “you.” The pronoun that matters is “we.”

November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

Jail

Tully 👽Undead👽 @tullyundead.bsky.social · Nov 25

Tell him you deserve the Kirbussy slippers

November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 21

Trump says more nice things about Mamdani and they shake hands

November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

Nothing to see here

Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Nov 17

Softbank sold all it's Nvidia stock (www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/s...)

Michael Burry of The Big Short fame's stock portfolio is now ONLY short positions in Nvidia & Palantir (www.ft.com/content/7fe1...)

Peter Thiel sold all his Nvidia stock (& 76% of his Tesla, but that's just deliciously petty) (👇🏾)