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sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 9d
I have a friend who is a dab hand at carpentry and he built himself a stereo cabinet shaped like this robot. The bottom part of the robot held some of his records.
Bruce dern in a space suit touching a robot
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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rogerquimbly.bsky.social
Trump, seen here getting tips on how to deal with journalists.
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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contentapologist.bsky.social
OTD 1968, John and Yoko started their two-week Bed-In at the Amsterdam Hilton for World Peace.
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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adrianchills.bsky.social
#33: Speechless
The headline to a Guardian Adrian Chiles column. It reads 'To the cashier who left me absolutely speechless - I salute you.' It’s just before closing when I walk into the DestiTech Optimart on the side of the ring road. I don’t have money and I don’t have a plan. All I know is that Janey and the girls need food and I need to do anything I can to get it for them. The scanner at the door has already registered that I’m creditless, but I go ahead and grab a basket anyway, and load it up with some packets of rice and tins of beans. Just the basics. We gave up on the notion of treats a while ago, after the last of my acting jobs dried up, but it still stings to walk past the rows of sweet things near the counter. As I put the basket down, the CAIshier—an oval vidscreen for a face, attached to two spindly, elongating arms (one of the older models, firstgen I think)—tells me that unfortunately, due to your lack of credit, you cannot be served at this time. I was right—firstgen, with the default voice they all used to have (based on some Northern comedian who jumped onto the licensing train early), the voice everyone mimics when they’re being most scathing about our new ‘helpers’. Please, I say, using every ounce of my training, imbuing my voice with all the heart and humanity and pleading that I can muster, isn’t there a way? At the sound of my voice I see the face on the vidscreen flicker. Say that again, it says. I repeat my plea. A smile comes onto the vidscreen. It’s the most human I’ve ever seen one of these things act. There may be, it says. When I leave a few hours later, it’s with everything I need. The CAIshier says Goodbye! in the rich voice I gave to it in exchange. All I can do is raise a hand in salute. The price of my goods was not just my voice’s sound, but it’s uniqueness. I pull my scarf tight around my neck, still sore from the severing of my vocal cords, and hurry back to the house, wishing that I’d bartered for perhaps just one bar of chocolate, as a treat.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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horrorposterguy1.bsky.social horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 25d
When seafood bites back. A triumph of imagination over budget, Corman once again proves that films don't have to be good to be great. 1957.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam #horror
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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burtondiaries.bsky.social
5 Nov 75 Booze.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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thenewsatglenn.bsky.social
The signature of Guy Fawkes before and after purchasing the Etsy calligraphy gift set
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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balderdash.bsky.social
Happy Halloween.
The Rees-Moggs standing under a faux Gothic arch: him in a dark suit, her in a scarlet dress looking like a couple of depressed Victorian ghosts
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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adrianchills.bsky.social
#31: Zips
A screenshot of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads: 'I know I should stop writing about zips. But I've just suffered another outrage.' It’s become intolerable, it really has. Each day brings a new disgrace, a new humiliation, a new indignity to add to the carnival of degradations which follow me around like a parade of bloated ghouls. I know that I should stand up for myself, that I should push back against his lies, refuse to take part in his shameful displays, but his will is strong and mine is weak, and when push comes to shove I always back down, for fear of provoking his terrible wrath. I’m trapped here in this relationship and will remain so until either I die, or he does. He, of course, is zips. I made zips ten years ago with my own two hands and the scraps I found in mother’s old sewing box. A pink, bulbous felt head and black stringy body. Red buttons for eyes, a pair of dark sequins as nostrils and for a mouth, a short, thick-toothed zipper —a jagged metal smile. At first we worked well as a team. Our act—with me as the straight man and zips as the cheeky little chappie on my arm—wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was solid enough, and we made a good living on the vent circuit. But when mother died and left us all alone, something changed in zips. His ripostes to me began to take on a more cutting, even cruel tone, criticising my intellect, my looks, my personality, ridiculing me for any and every minor flaw. Slowly, over the years, this has progressed to outright hostility. Now zips forces me to debase myself every night in the worst ways possible. The audience, naturally, delights in this. Tonight was the worst. zips watching on, cackling, his button eyes glinting with delight while I cavorted naked in my own filth, mewling like a sickly calf begging for its mother’s teat. I know that I can’t take much more, that I need to fight back, that I need to tell him that enough is enough… But I know too that zips will never set me free. It is my fate to be forever his puppet, to feel the press of his tiny hand against my spine as he propels me, gleefully, towards yet another outrage.
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Having met George, I can confirm that he is one of the good guys…
September 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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thebowlerhatman.bsky.social
Some Fabulous hats in the park today...
Sunday Best!!
August 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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larryandpaul.bsky.social
⛔️ DANGER: UK Terror Threat Level Raised.

👇🏻 Please tag in anyone you think NEEDS to see this latest #BrokenNews.

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UK Terror Threat Level RAISED - #BrokenNews
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August 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Turkey recorded its highest temperature on record on Friday with 50.5°C recorded in Silopi ⚠️📈

This exceeds the previous record of 49.5°C recorded on 15th August 2023 🌡️

This extreme heat is bringing serious health impacts and giving a very high risk of wildfires 🔥
A map showing temperatures across Turkey, Saudi Arabia and northeast Africa on Friday 25th July 2025. Silopi, Şırnak, Turkey is marked on the map and a temperature of 50.5 Celsius is also marked. This is a new temperature record for Turkey.
July 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Crickey
July 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you
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July 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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kurt-vonnegut.bsky.social
“. . . Every bit of land on the islands was owned by only about forty people, and, in the story, Trout had those people decide to exercise their property rights to the full. They put up no trespassing signs on everything.
This created terrible problems for the million other people on the islands.”
June 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Flood waters pour into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in rare spectacle ‘supercharged by climate change’
Flood waters pour into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in rare spectacle ‘supercharged by climate change’
Sacred site of the Arabana people could get its most significant top-up in a generation as floods spread across the outback * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here A pulse of flood water has surged into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in what could be the most significant top-up in a generation. The sacred site of the Arabana people is home to rivers and creeks that drain towards the second largest salt lake in the world. Its surrounding basin sprawls across 1.2m sq km , or just under one-sixth of Australia’s landmass. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
PAM HAS JUST FAINTED SHE IS BEING CARRIED OUT FEET FIRST. I'M JEALOUS.
April 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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tonyhancock.bsky.social
Doesn't time drag? Ooh I do hate Sundays. I'll be glad when it's over. It drives me up the wall just sitting here looking at you lot. Every Sunday is the same. Nowhere to go, nothing to do, just sit waiting here for the next lot of grub to come up!
April 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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mitchbenn.bsky.social
Languishing in the “Rest Of The World” passport queue in a European airport is one of the most embarrassing post-Brexit degradations.
Would propose an additional “UK citizens who voted Remain” lane were it not for the fact that the morons who voted Leave never leave the fucking country anyway.
April 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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mjowen174.bsky.social
“Is Donald Trump playing three dimensional chess?” I’m not sure he’s capable of playing one dimensional snap.
April 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
rjquinlan.bsky.social
Seem many tariffs in the drive here…

#giraffes
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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cardwell4u.bsky.social
They want to erase the heroic deeds of Black Americans, women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals.
March 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM