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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 7h

ha ha ha

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I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 9h

The absolute righteous command of her. The anger of her. She's beyond.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Blocked.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 9h

PROVERB:

Beware of ruthless arseholes in sad dog's clothing.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 9h

what is this elledgeupmanship OK then I've bought his dog

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 9h

Love this, there should be more joy-spreading on this fucking social-media Guantanamo Bay. I did a deed too. Here's to deeds, bosh!x

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 10h

Doing a sadmin panel next week and am having fun making slides.

Clippy from ye olde microsoft days with a speech bubble saying 'it looks like you're going to die would you like help?'

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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The Real Kim Shady @kimmysunshine.bsky.social · 10h

this fresh hell tastes store bought

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 11h

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Really really good one this week, kids.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11h

Banged newsletter out a couple of hours early because I'm busy all afternoon and don't want to be overtaken by Events.

This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

…but with a whimper

This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

jonn.substack.com

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 12h

Save the East Midlands Parkway cooling towers!

Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.

👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...

cooling towers bathed in golden sunshine next to the platform at east midlands parkway train station

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 12h

she is a fucking liability. I don't know whether I want jenrick in to split the arsehole vote or whether he's going to team up with farage, which might double the arsehole vote.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 13h

God Almighty, really?

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 13h

Oh BRAVO. xx

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Ragged Robin @carolineirwin3.bsky.social · 15h

#WallsOnWednesday from Sarehole Mill, Birmingham.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe that’s what killed him.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 15h

No not yet. Heard good things?

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 17h

Or at least until tomorrow when there’ll be something worse.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

It does just feel like there's something Jenrick is trying to say.
thecritic.co.uk/rob-...

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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 · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Starring Terry Scott as bluff rural modernist poet Harry Fell.

Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1d

I guess so. but the pattern would be set out, you had to colour it with poetry. strangled-at-birth treatment for thing about a blameless Cumbrian farmer who becomes famous as a Poet by Numbers star and hangs out with the Beatles and all those 60s poet cats. doesn't sound that mad now to be honest.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's entirely fictional.

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