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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 25m

Ah yes the past when you didnt need money to go to the cinema.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 9h

This song won't stop being relevant anytime soon
youtu.be/gqH_0LPVoho?...

The Specials - Racist Friend (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO

youtu.be

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

It's not just UNRWA, every organization has received a record amount of donations they haven't been able to give to Palestinians in Gaza
www.reuters.com/world/us/pal...

Palestinian Americans fundraise for Gaza, as aid groups receive record donations

Palestinian Americans and aid groups in the United States are raising funds for Gaza, which faces a deepening humanitarian crisis as the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth week - but they have as yet limited ability to get supplies into the besieged enclave.

www.reuters.com

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16h

This is GREAT (thanks for the excellent find @ncdominie.bsky.social )

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus points for saying "not a swimming pool"

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 1d

Change a letter, ruin a song
It Started With a Piss

Russell Hillman (but said in a spooky voice) @allhellismrsun.bsky.social · 1d

Change a letter, ruin a song.

Breaking The Lav

hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 1d

Change a letter, ruin a song

Slop In the Name of Love

Russell Hillman (but said in a spooky voice) @allhellismrsun.bsky.social · 1d

Change a letter, ruin a song.

Breaking The Lav

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottis...

Scottish book sculptures - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 3d

Leather gloves are usually inadequate for the temperatures that tear gas grenades burn at.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 2d

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

"We're all living in a period of time."

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2d

An important precedent set which I hope is wielded broadly

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

Presumably the restaurant Woody's at needed AI to tell them to install an awning.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Cottage cheese. I think this was the only foodstuff I refused to try as a kid.

Keeping with the Aronofsky hate: 'Mother!'.

Low hanging fruit, but 'Beautiful' by James Blunt

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d

Doing this to keep the chain of Requiem For A Dream hate going

Cauliflower (makes me feel ill for some reason)

Requiem For A Dream (a hilariously bad, pompous film)

Heavyweight Champion Of The World by Reverend & The Makers

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Octopus (that’s like eating a dolphin!)

also Requiem For A Dream (a rotten, rotten film)

Rude by Magic (embarrassed that this even exists)

hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 2d

Shites Templar

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Nov 1

Misheard lyrics (true story)

Four panel comic of Nicolas Cage dressed as Castor Troy in priest costume from the film Face/Off. The text reads “And if I only could, I’d make a deal with God, and get Him to SWAP OUR FACES.”

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 4d

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb

youtu.be

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being so heinous that Garfield gets out of bed to protest you.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 4d

Holy shit, no way, this is a guy who knows exactly who Nathan Gill is!

Farage tweet

The National Trust has put vegan tampons in men's toilets. God help us.

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 3d

Balderdash and Piffle. (That was the name of the programme, not me doubting the veracity of your post, btw).

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hypotheticalgrog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 3d

Some absolutely delightful replies to this.

Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 3d

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 4d

This is Graham Linehan, who UKLabour, WesStreeting and every columnist in the country rushed to defend when he was arrested by police, after inciting online violence and smashed a trans girl’s phone. They are even changing the law specifically to protect him. “Just a joke” @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 3d

This is another form of censorship and book banning to my mind: you force an ersatz simplification on young readers while making the original harder & harder to obtain, then tell them the ersatz is better than the real thing (bc it is programmed propaganda pablum).

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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