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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 36m

Vanity.
Vanity.
All is vanity.

All is vanity at someone else's expense.

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 2h

Pink paint.

An ending worthy of Buster Keaton - and that's a compliment

Gatimo @gatimo.bsky.social · 23h

Slow Horses 🐌🐴 | tv #SlowHorses

Take it to the paint

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 2h

Not to be confused with Another Country (1984)

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 2h

Some of the worst people I bumped into at student parties:

- read Tolkien
- liked Pink Floyd
- were in the Federation of Conservative Students (in its racist, classist days)
- had beards
- smoked dope

I read LoTR at junior school and realised it was time to put away childish things

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 3h

The many libraries in Wolverhampton taught me to read.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 4h

SBC was good as Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).

That worked as it wasn't a vehicle for SBC.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 4h

Is that Shakespeare book finally underway?

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 14h

Too far fetched

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine a timeline in which the Portland inflatables are Trump's cabinet letting off steam.

Instead of ingratiating themselves, and losing all self-respect, they've decided to make a stand

Fly out to Portland. Don an inflatable animal suit. Give a big F U to Donnie

And keep your job

Nope.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 14h

Benioff: I'm melting

wicked witch from the wizard of oz is melting in a cave

Alt: wicked witch from the wizard of oz is melting in a cave

media.tenor.com

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 14h

It's all because no-one paid attention to Kurt Gödel.

In 1947 Gödel showed how the USA could, legally, be turned into a dictatorship

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia share.google/5xBBKOyGS6DH...

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

share.google

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 14h

It's the ear.

Trump does not like this picture.

𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 18h

Great analysis from a photographers point of view on the Time magazine cover photo. Thanks to dairyfreecatlady on TikTok for breaking this down!

Spoiler alert: it’s all about the ear

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 14h

There is NO COMMON GROUND

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 14h

How many Republicans have to out themselves as nazis before you believe them?

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 18h

Are we quorate?

I ate before I got here, thanks for asking.

Have we got the bear necessities?

Don't you mean bare necessities?

No, that was the Portland naked bike ride.

And, whoosh, like that, he was gone

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 19h

Where's the plaque commemorating the service of Capitol Police on 2021-01-06?

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Reposted by Neil

🎸 SHRED 🎸 @tshred.bsky.social · 19h

www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-...

Jan. 6 Officers File Suit Over GOP Refusal To Install Honorary Plaque

A plaque commemorating police who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 is missing in action four years later.

www.huffpost.com

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 23h

Media: there's a coup in Madagascar

Me: no there isn't

Media: there's a coup in Madagascar

Me: no there isn't. I've seen it 5 times and there's no military coup in the film

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

Motivation comes in many guises

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 1d

They sent this man death threats by mail because he was on the cusp of breaking a white man's home run record. He used their hate mail for inspiration to go on and break that record.

It was Hank Aaron's big "f**k you" to all of those racists.🖕🏾😝

🔥☕️

people.com/sports/hank-...

Hank Aaron Used Record-Setting Hate Mail for Inspiration Before Breaking Babe Ruth Record

“If I was white, all America would be proud of me,” the baseball legend said before passing the record in 1974

people.com

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

Hyman Kaplan, in 1937, declining the verb to fail - "fail, failed, bankrupt".

Hyman Kaplan jr, in 2025, declining the verb to fail - "fail, failed, bankrupt, Trump".

Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 6'0".

I'm not against people reclining for some of a long flight. It's more when a whole row reclines at the earliest opportunity and stays that way.

Sometimes they rise for food service and then recline while the person sat behind is still eating.

No awareness of what's happening behind

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

A coconut, once split in two and hollowed out, is a perfect acoustic weapon to convince people there's a horse on the plane.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

He has no reflection. Or is it Stephen Miller who has no reflection?

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is good at:

bankrupting casinos

cheating at golf

creeping around adolescents

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is not seeing so many things, I suggest he needs to visit an ophthalmologist and optician