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✝️ 🏳️‍🌈 | 36 | Single | Geeky CO gek! Union airline worker, Green socialist, sometimes kilt wearer. Mostly SFW but still 🔞 Has a few size-related kinks. I might follow back if you interact PFP: @sushiotter.bsky.social spinarts in banner: Blue Man Group

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 15d

IDK who needs to hear this but your badge is backwards.

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 3m

Cricket and golf are ASD

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 1h

Yep

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Toon Raccoon! @cooner.art · 1h

This is perhaps the greatest news caption of ALL TIME ✊

Over video of peacock, shark, and polar bear costumes, a caption on a news report reads: “After our interview, the frogs were joined by a couple of unicorns, a polar bear, an axolotl, a raccoon and several more characters.”

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 13m

I'd love to!

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 2h

I finished the game with 68 points...tied for 2nd!

"That's My Purse" won by 1 point.

Lost the tiebreaker question "What's Poland's minimum hourly wage in złoty?"

The captain of the other team happens to be of Polish descent. She guessed 30, I guessed 42. The correct answer is 30.5

OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 3h

Drinking Harvest Moon 🎃🌙 and Apple Sauced 🍏🍎 at tonight's pub trivia!

I'm playing solo. 20/21 points in round 1, 18/21 points in round 2. Puts me in 3rd place going into round 3!

A pint of Harvest Moon hard cider sitting on a table top

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 7h

So, I'm super skinny but I can kinda #flex my #pecs now? #Pectober

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Meet The New OC, Victor @vectorvictory.bsky.social · 1d

Now, you all support Big, but if I may offer a counter argument to that:

Bigger.

The defense rests.

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Yama @wolfyama.bsky.social · 3d

He’s very generous with his body

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 8h

It may surprise you, but top

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 8h

Pack on some tons!

OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sorry that I share a country with such Yankee Doodle Dipshits

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Emi the Terror Toon @emithegoat.bsky.social · 13h

LLM? More like Lame Loser Machine.

Gottem.

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Chocodile ➡️ MFF Dealer's Den! @chocodile.net · 16h

Serious shoutout to furries for being the internet's #1 art patrons. At a time when interest in original and niche art is at an all time low and many other art spaces are gone, I appreciate you guys showing up to boost original works, buy art pieces & comms, & get vocally invested in stories & OCs.

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Blucifer @realblucifer.bsky.social · 13h

day 9 and i’m getting lonely. fewer air traffic controllers to curse

Colorado Democrats @coloradodems.bsky.social · 9d

This shutdown is on them.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

All bad videogames have names like Battlequest 8, all good videogames have names like Allegory Dynamo: The Blue Rose: Highway 281: Reforged V.2

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, everybody! It's Leif Ericsson Day! Hinga dinga durgen!

Spongebob wearing a horned Viking helmet and fake red facial hair

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Today In Hornestory @todayinhornestory.bsky.social · 23h

9 October 2003 - Some incredibly charming reporting about up-and-coming Sussex comedy king and "thoroughly nice boy" Alex Horne.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/5103025...

The great comedy experiment

The Sussex stand-up's latest show, Making Fish Laugh, is a recreation of a bizarre 1976 experiment to identify exactly what tickles us.

The mild discomfort of others, repetition and indeed tickling are on the list of hypotheses which he puts to the test in front of his audience.

The unusual show won plaudits and a Perrier Award nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. On Sunday, Brighton gets its own humour check-up.

But for Alex, 25, the road to stand-up stardom came about almost by accident. He had returned to his former school, Lancing College, to give a talk about the year he spent teaching English in China.

He said: "I was absolutely useless and awful. I didn't take the talk very seriously and afterwards one of the teachers said I should try comedy. That was it, really."

It took three years before he dared to go in front of another audience, this time at Cambridge University where he was studying.

He said: "I plucked up the courage to do the open mic night and once I'd done it I just had to do it again.

"I just did more and more and then started going to London doing pub nights, then got picked up by an agency and got bigger gigs."

Alex, from Midhurst, was a Perrier Award nominee this year and has written scripts for Craig Charles.

He has also appeared as a support act to another well-known Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn, aka Kryten the android, and his performance went down a storm.

He said: "That show was great because when I walked on stage everyone thought I was Robert, as loads of the crowd had only seen him in his mask. They soon found out I wasn't.

"I have had a few bad gigs, the worst is when people are just not interested. I try not to say anything too offensive or inflammatory."

But not everyone thought Alex, who crafts a neat line in puns one moment and confused, surreal babbling the next, would ever become a comedian.

Adrian Arnold, his former tutor at Lancing College, said: "The surprising thing is he never did any acting until his last term, when I persuaded him to act in a half-hour comedy. I think he enjoyed it but he said he didn't think he would do any more acting.

"He always had a very dry, droll sense of humour but he was also quite shy. He was very academic and I always thought he would end up being a solicitor, barrister or an accountant. Certainly not a stand-up comedian.

"But he was a thoroughly nice boy and we are surprised but delighted by what he is doing now."

Alex appears at the Pavilion Theatre in New Road, Brighton, on Sunday.

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 14h

yeah the RIGHT to remain SILENT

UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 14h

I believe in gun rights, I believe that guns should have rights

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Peameal @peameal.bsky.social · 14h

Friends! We are in a very stressful moment in time, but know it will pass. The evil we see is unsustainable and builds solidarity amongst those adversely impacted - which increasingly becomes everyone!

Do not despair. We will push through this together.

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 14h

Happy bwooooompday!

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AlienSymbol 🐊🍺💚 @aliensymbol.art · Jan 10

Commission work for @sherklone.bsky.social for his greeny friend @goodperson.bsky.social who's sharing a cute moment with another green beast, Paul, my gator OC. Seems the happy kobold is enjoying his tasty beer! 🍺

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ɯᴉpɹɐɾ ɯᴉʇ 🇿🇦 @timmehjimmeh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Okay so let's actually post some art shall we! Doubling as an attempt to see if I figured out the feedbuilder on this app 😅
First up, my sweet precious boy Basteln, my Kobold Artificer in the Waterdeep Dragon Heist game I'm in! #art #dnd

Early drawing of Basteln, a blue kobold artificer wielding a crossbow.

A scene from our first game, where Bastlen the kobold used Magical Tinkering to record a contract with Volo into a plate we promptly stole from The Yawning Portal. Bastlen is sitting on a beer keg he was fetching for his master.

Basteln the kobold artificer in the foreground, with a brass moth in the background. The artificer infusion Homunculus Servant is what powers the mechanical moth, named Copper.

Basteln digging into a bowl of mystery meat down on the docks, with his trusty Steel Defender, Scraps, at his side.

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OKTOBOLD @ianmcgecko.bsky.social · 1d

"Dehumanizing" was the word I was looking for, thanks. And that's a really beautiful explanation!

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Duncan Roo @duncanroo.bsky.social · 1d

Need to be bigger.

Big green roo on a gigantic belly. Art by Artienuki

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