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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we asking Louis CK his moral view on anything? Has anyone checked whether Harvey Weinstein feels OK about eating battery farmed chicken?*

*I'm not drawing an equivalence between human rights and animal rights, nor between Louis CK's crimes and Weinstein's - though both destroyed careers.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d

does anyone know if we have america tomorrow

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 4d

No idea what the message of the ad is supposed to be but it makes me think of DV for some reason

Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 6d

The Onion are so good at these satirical headli... Hang on

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 6d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 10d

You could say that, or just withhold Dreamies / walkies - either works

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 10d

Why do T Rex make bad pets?
Because they keep playing Get It On while you're trying to sleep

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 12d

But this bland posting style doesn't allow me to make a genius joke about a PTA (Paul Thomas Anderson) film being about as much fun as a PTA (parent teacher association) meeting.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 14d

I'm autistic and also bubbly 'cause my mum took effervescent paracetamol

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

Er... isn't drug testing incredibly rigorous now precisely because of what happened with thalidomide?

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 15d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

I can think of at least two people I'd buy it for as a present

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

I won't catch it, because as a level 1 autistic I use masking.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

Also you know it can get you pregnant don't you?

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

Or if you're in horrendous pain and you mistakenly think you shouldn't take paracetamol/acetaminophen, you might reach for an alternative, like opioids. Now let me think, what kind of history does the US have with opioids?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16d

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

They could have nicknamed it (90s rave voice) "aceeeeet!"

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 15d

This was on the Radio 4 news reports. I haven't seen TV yet but BBC online is worded slightly better imho: "Trump makes unproven link..."

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 16d

In the age of misinformation I wonder if scientific authorities need to use different terminology. Though "there is no evidence" is technically correct, "doesn't cause autism" would be clearer to people.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16d

Farage: "All over the world, you apply for a work visa - that visa is for you. Not to bring your family... That is how a normal work visa works."

Entirely untrue.

Most work visas allow dependents, including in countries that the UK competes with for labour - US, Canada, Australia and 27 EU states.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 16d

Who's going to break it to Ed that you also can't make Fawlty Towers these days?

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 16d

Dammit, I just started making Father Ted this morning. What, I'll just tell all these actors to go home then? Anyone else in this situation?

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 17d

Fun fact: the album ITV Studios was originally going to be called Granada Media, and then ITV Productions

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 19d

Sure it's cute and all, but it's a GHOST crab so what it's doing with that phone is failing to text someone back

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 20d

To be clear, this is one of the made-up ones. But he did live until 1987

Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 20d

Fred Astaire was a fan of Neighbours, though sadly he didn't live to see Scott and Charlene's wedding

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Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 21d

Harper Collinsworth sounds like an open mic comedian

Izzy Mant 🔹 @izzymant.bsky.social · 22d

I saw this yesterday. I genuinely can't quite work out what it's trying to say. Of course there should be sympathy for the family of anyone murdered - but the religiosity and implied partisanship seems... I wonder if an American did this

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