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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 4h

Simpsons screencap. Krusty the Clown, smoking and leaning back nonchalantly, while talking to Jay Sherman at the Springfield Film Festival. Caption: "Let's just say the festival's ideals moved me..."

Simpsons screencap. Krusty now on his feet, yelling in delight. Caption: "... to a bigger house!"

Simpsons screencap. Krusty, now chastened and seated, looking around nervously. Caption: "Oops! I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet."

Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 14h

NIXON: And they're committed to 'Turtle Power,' you say?
HALDEMAN: Apparently so, sir.
NIXON: Is this some kind radical outfit? Hoover's been dead five minutes and these goddamn weirdos are taking over the sewers.
HALDEMAN: [Inaudible]
NIXON: It's vital infrastructure, you know.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 14h

Richard Nixon knew about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

An elderly Richard Nixon on Halloween surrounded by trick or treating children in costume, including two in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles outfits.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

"The last time I checked, the turtle was standing on the elephants."

Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't been this baffled by a public figure's cultural preferences since I found out Donald Trump's favourite movie was Citizen Kane.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

An inspiration to everyone in higher education.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

"New York is the Tirana of America."

New York Post @nypost.com · 2d

Eric Adams jets off to Albania after dropping out of NYC mayor’s race — and he’s not flying Turkish Airlines

This lame duck still flies, but not with Turkey’s help. Mayor Eric Adams jetted off to Albania for a four-day trip on Big Apple taxpayers’ dime, shortly after he dropped his re-election bid, officials said Monday. The Albania excursion — first reported by NBC4 — isn’t a personal trip for the infamously travel perk-happy Adams,...

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

"Ghislaine Maxwell?"

*Takes long pull on straw in Diet Coke can*

"I haven't heard that name in years."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

Ta-Nehisi Coates being interviewed on MSNBC: "Wow, that was really racist."

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 2d

Also, I'm sorry, but "Sébastien Lecornu" was obviously a French politician name generated by ChatGPT and Macron just got found out.

Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I only ever learn the name of the French prime minister when they resign.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 3d

When you find yourself typing the sentence, "senior officials of the military and police met to implement race communism across the government," you need to put the phone down and go for a nice walk in the fresh air.

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d

Just the US correspondent of GB News

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 3d

Matthew Syed to Kemi Badenoch:

a man in a white shirt waves his hand in the air

Alt: Man of Steel GIF. Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) stands in the centre of a tornado, holding his hand up and shaking his head.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe this is 4D chess and the plan is to help the Conservatives win back the centre ground by repudiating *him* as a fringe lunatic.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 3d

Undeniably good bit to give a speech this bonkers just *one week* after writing a column saying you wanted to help the Conservatives "reclaim the sane centre."

Times column from Matthew Syed.
"I've joined the Conservatives. No, it's not a joke - let me explain. A sharp leftward turn in politics has put us in debt crisis. One party has a chance to reclaim the sane centre."

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 3d

Roadside sign for karate classes spelling out "KARATE" as an acrostic.

Kids
Adults
Real
Anti-Abduction
T (a silhouette image of a man in a karate outfit delivering a flying kick)
Everyone.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 4d

This concern for "reputational damage" is even funnier when you remember that Palantir's UK CEO is Oswald Mosley's grandson.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 4d

Not my area, but sounds very plausible. In fairness, J Edgar Hoover definitely wanted "big, beefy" FBI agents.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 4d

"They're questions that could be asked of any of the wallet inspectors I have encountered. Which agency do they report to? What exactly are they inspecting my wallet for? Why have none of them returned my wallet? | Analysis."

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts: Was he telling the truth before? Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier? Is he just trolling all of us? | Analysis

Analysis: Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 | CNN Politics

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts:

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 4d

Screenshot of tweets from Patrick Cosmos (@very important lawyer):

'working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now.'

'"I'm strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy.'

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 6d

The actual Pope, bishop of Rome, vicar of Christ, supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church: "God is love."

Deranged American evangelical *spluttering*: "Actually, in fact, Mr Pope Leo, sir, if indeed that is your real name, what you have failed to comprehend is that in Galatians..."

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 6d

"Mr Pope"

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 6d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social · 6d

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press

The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

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