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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 4h

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 5h

One thing comics gets right.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 5h

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

British.

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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 7h

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

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Son of Raum @sonofraucous.bsky.social · 7h

This made me laugh way more than I probably should have.

A flooded toby carvery show from the outside. The water looks very brown.
The caption reads, tell me when to stop with the gravy.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 8h

Disney trying to start a Tron franchise once every 15-30 years

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7h

You see a faded sign at the side of the road that says fifteen miles to the

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 24d

boardwalk nut hut store, wildwood, new jersey, 1978

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 8h

When I am accused of having several dead cats in my bag, I distract from the issue by throwing a dead cat on the table. Now no-one is talking about my many dead cats

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 7h

As awful as the idea of a live action Jetsons movie is in 2025... can I say Jim Carrey is really good casting for George Jetson?

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 11h

My mother's birthday was the other week and my uncle - who took up whittling over lockdown - gave her this brilliant guy. I love it so much

A whittled wooden bear on a kitchen shelf, standing straight and tall and with a brilliant vague and bland sort of expression

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11h

Over the years I've posted numerous cartoons based around Venn diagrams, and occasionally I will get mathematically minded people telling me that they're not actually Venn diagrams.

They are correct, of course. They're not Venn diagrams, they're cartoons. They have completely different functions.

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Scotty @whocolour.bsky.social · 1d

When you have a family member with Alzheimer's who is completely unable to turn the TV over, these retro channels have been a lifeline. Full of old-school faces and thought provoking memories from a golden age of TV. Especially, Great! Action

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 1d

for those asking why people are suddenly leaving twitter and moving over here, here's the tl;dr

will smith slapped chris rock at the oscars

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

personally I would simply not engage in bad faith apologetics in defense of a genocide but I suppose I am built different

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

Please note I will not enter into discussions about how I should love Red Dwarf VII for "what it was".

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three spooks pam 🎃 @threesteakspam.bsky.social · 1d

vaxxed?

Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · Nov 15

A Roman solider who was killed during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BC).

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

Portland Frog gets it

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 5d

Very tired of writers who are considered "quintessential" always being, y'know, white guys. Tired of the archetypal idea of what a writer looks and sounds like, what personality type they have, how they write, what they write about, all being centered around white guys.

It's so f*cking alienating.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 2d

Thought I was fucking losing it then. Turned over to ITV1 and they're showing The Dark Knight again, the second time in three nights. It's a great film but come on, play the game. No wonder broadcast television's on its arse.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many responses savaging the looks of these men. It's taking the easy way out. There are plenty of people who look like those men and are not racist sacks of human refuse. Something is deficient in their souls. In their minds. In the manner in which they were raised.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Scotty @whocolour.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to watch Black Mirror's excellent Beyond the Sea without thinking about the chap being called David Ross which is surely a Doctor Who joke, is quite a challenge lol

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 4d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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