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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 1d

It really is -- just look at him! #hot

A screenshot of the Spectrum 128k version of Rasputin's intro.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 1d

Went to see The Smashing Machine tonight; still can’t stop myself mentally adding “Gromit” to the end of the title

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Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · Sep 17

On an evening bus out of Worcester. A stoned passenger is sitting on the back seat, playing a flute. The driver just audibly muttered "When the fuck is Tom Bombadil getting off my bus".

We journey on, into the darkness. With musical accompaniment.

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AUTOEXEC.BUN @davidxnewton.bsky.social · 1d

SIMON NOOOOOO

A card for a game with the caption “Side step to the left”, and a drawing demonstrating the same

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 1d

A Simpsons screengrab of Troy McClure in an educational film talking to a child. He is saying: “If a printer ever got the chance it’d eat you and everyone you care about.”

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 1d

Same goes for Russia’s greatest love machine

The box art for the 1986 Firebird game Rasputin. The branding that shows it’s part of the label’s HOT range is just above the game name, so it effectively reads “HOT Rasputin”.

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 1d

yes… ha ha ha… YES

The “sick foreigner” option amended to read “sick o”.

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshots from the film Pacific Rim with the captions lightly edited to be about Starlink reentries instead of Kaiju. Scientist Hermann Gottlieb (played by Burn Gorman) points at formulae on a chalkboard and says:

“In the beginning the Starlink reentries were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. The last one in Sydney was a week. In 4 days we could be seeing a reentry every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days.”

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 2d

that escalated quickly

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Haha. I would have loved to hear MFDoom do this for real

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Hire him you cowards

Naked, smelly and bleeding, all I wanted from the world was some hot water. But the shower had other ideas
Adrian Chiles

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 3d

I like to play video games to experience magical points of view ill never get in real life

You are well rested iconic from Fallout 4

Below is a wojack gaming in the dark wrapped in a blanket.

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 3d

heading down to the Soho theatre to protest the immoral culture of dynamic ticket pricing

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 20d

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 4d

lol

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 4d

Pointedly turning off the seatbelt light to push the passengers into giving a standing o

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 4d

My mind blown to smithereens as I look through the entire catalogue of Ubu Productions and realise that I can only ever have seen this endcard and slogan, one of the most memorable TV stings of my entire childhood, on those eight occasions I watched an episode of Spin City to the end.

Cory Robert @the3rdcory.bsky.social · 5d

Sit! Ubu, sit! Good dog.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 4d

Here's that photo of Bez playing Cool Boarders 3 you were asking for.

Bez, of Happy Mondays fame, on a snowboard in his front room playing Cool Boarders 3.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5d

This is beta mindset, Gareth. Your spouse is your co-worker. Your parents are your boss. Your kids are employees. The only relationship you should get "emotionally attached to" is the one you have with that AI chatbot who loves you because of the new branch of physics you've invented together.

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 5d

You're supposed to be emotionally attached in a relationship. That's what a relationship is.

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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 6d

AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 6d

Sound on for The Railway Children (1970). It looks like a folk horror film, so I added scary noises to the trailer. Listen to me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social for more: linktr.ee/readthat

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 6d

a spokesman for BrewDog said 'this is the one thing we didn't want to happen'

an excerpt from the National article reading 'the National reported in April this year that in a bid to help keep tree saplings alive by keeping deer out BrewDog erected a perimeter fence, but instead actually trapped the animals inside'

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 9d

academy award contending tiktok

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7d

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".

Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 7d

Forgotten how good Crocodile Magritte is. "That's not a pipe. This is a pipe”

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