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matthew du plessis
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Vis-à-vis the bear situation

www.reuters.com/world/roar-t...
The roar that haunts him: Japanese bear attack survivor calls for ruthless response By Tim Kelly and Tom Bateman. Picture of old J-dude in a garage showing off either a dead bear or just its pelt.
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Chapter 2:
Itsaragrisil apologised in a press conference during which he broke down and wiped away tears. “I want to apologize to everyone. I had no idea how big this issue would become,” he said.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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No, Blackpink, it is I who is in *your* area.
N Seoul Tower, seen from the Namsan cable car in Seoul, South Korea.
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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More autumn, more Seoraksan, this time with a nice little stream.
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I wanted autumn and I got autumn.
Sunlight filters through autumn leaves in the forest of Seoraksan national park, on the east coast of South Korea.
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Please enjoy this gif while listening to U Can't Touch This.
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Can I get an Amen?
Spelling Bee rejects PLAGAL
September 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Never mind the bollocks here come the S experiments
Spelling Bee rejects BOLLOCKS
September 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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You guys I just had a great idea for a birdwatcher romcom set in an M23 POW camp in Goma.

www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
Picture of a scarlet tanager - a red and black American songbird that is actually a cardinal not a tanager - on a branch. Headline reads “Birdwatchers flock to Colombia and South Africa- so why are Venezuela and DRC being left behind”
August 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The US just issued a report on human rights in South Africa. Lots of nonsense tracking the white genocide narratives Trump tried to ambush Ramaphosa with earlier this year, but what really got me cramping up from excessive side-eyeing was this bit, via News24, where the US state department says…
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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All these moments, lost in time.

Home Screen posted. Didn’t cheat.
Tokyo at night. Home Screen on my phone it’s raining on the street and a man carries a bag and an umbrella
July 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Ahem. I think you'll find that it was Enid Blyton who invented Google 14 years earlier, in 1939.
“Come on,” said Moon-Face. “Come and eat a Google Bun and see what you think of it.” Soon they were all sitting on the broad branches outside Moon-Face’s house, eating Pop Biscuits and Google Buns. The buns were most peculiar. They each had a very large currant in the middle, and this was filled with sherbet. So when you got to the currant and bit it the sherbet frothed out and filled your mouth with fine bubbles that tasted delicious. The children got a real surprise when they bit their currants, and Moon-Face almost fell off the branch with laughing.” - The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton.
July 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Yes but only in that there are lots of different kinds of condiments in my fridge
Old man in a suit and woolly jumper saying is it like a fight club
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I lolled

via minutecryptic.com
Screenshot from the MinuteCryptic app showing today’s clue: Nineties freestyle icon known for his MC work (8)
July 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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"You're terrible, Muriel." Still from the movie Muriel's Wedding showing Gabby Millgate as Joanie, sitting on a couch inside, holding a lit cigarette and acknowledging Muriel's terribleness.
July 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The plummet had already begun by the time of your trip. Look at this bullshit from Jan 1 2010:
July 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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If you see this, feel free to quote with a robot that isn’t from STAR WARS, STAR TREK, DOCTOR WHO, or TRANSFORMERS.
A man in a suit and tie with what appears to be a calculator embedded in his chest. This is Yoyo, from the 1970s TV show Holmes and Yoyo about a police detective and his robot sidekick. If I remember correctly he can take a polaroid photo by looking at something and pressing his nose. The picture then emerges from his top coat pocket, Kodak-style.
July 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Tea was spat.
Paragraph from a Businesstech.co.za reading as follows: On Wednesday, 2 July, the rand was trading at R17.60 to the dollar, R24.19 to the pound and R67.19 to the euro. Oil was trading slightly lower at $66.47 a barrel.
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Stop.
Clare Foy as Adora Belle Dearheart in the 2010 Sky TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novel, Going Postal. She's dressed RATHER severely in domme-ly attire, is glaring at the camera with pursed lips and has her hand stretched out in front of her, palm to the camera, as if bringing a surprised but ill-disciplined steam train to a sudden and unexpected halt.
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"Just throw in some placeholder text for now"
"OK"
Brickle galter, now thusted How doth the scrambly squigglesloth perglude its flangid brayer? In milded numps and verilunks, in persits or in drayers? No tremons for its undergrob, no wrigglemoths for tea, lest it slatcheth evermore, for evermore and thee.
June 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Ahahahahahaha
Meme from the scene in Star Trek Next Generation Season 2 Episode where newcomer Dr Pulaski mispronounces Data’s name and then shrugs off his correction saying what’s the difference you’re just a machine, in the process earning for herself the eternal enmity of many fans. The meme here compounds the triggering of it all by having her say “Data, look at this funny GIF” 😑
June 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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5 seconds after Geralt and Ciri arrive in town:
Inferno, painting by Hieronymous Bosch depicting either hell or a Witcher contract gone spectacularly wrong
June 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This picture from The Witcher 4 is giving Hieronymous Bosch a few seconds before all hell breaks loose
Bustling village scene from The Witcher 4 video game. Village Party, painting by Hieronymous Bosch.
June 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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In the spirit of sharing, and because I'm on a diet and all I can think about is pudding I'm not allowed to have, here is Granny's recipe for 'Pudding, delicious'

I'm not rewriting it into the alt text because that would be cheating.
Granny's handwritten recipe for 'Pudding, delicious'
May 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Bloody hell, chaps. Get a load of this miso malva pudding and red wine ice cream recipe from news24.

It’s so eastern cape. Stuck together with a rubber band and prestik yet somehow looks like it might get away with passing itself off as kinda fancy if everyone’s had enough of the leftover wine.
May 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM