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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 6h

I quit all socials for all a month and then proceeded to absolutely ruin the inbox of about 30 friends with a deluge of warmed-over takes and memes

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 7h

It’s an honour. You are a load-bearing human

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 7h

I must presume that whoever thought of applications launching upon startup was not a parent. The idea that we want ANYTHING to happen - first thing - before we’re good and ready could only have been thought of by someone who actually fucking sleeps,

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 7h

My favourite of these was my winky flat in Deptford.

Not only were there constant wall-scrabblings but also distinctly separate squeaks and chitters.

It turned out that the rats in the walls were actively fighting a turf war against an incursion of squirrels for the back half of the flat.

andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 21h

Just heard scampering noises between floors and I'm thrilled and terrified. What will it be? Will it fall through the ceiling into my lap? Will we be best friends or will I get rabies?

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 7h

Totally. It’s weird because, for some, there’s this creed that ‘clarity is king’ and that behavioural normalcy comes second to establishing facts and stakes.

But…just have them both
talk about a parent as ‘mum’ or ‘dad’. Then we get the shared relationship AND bonus info about their background

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 8h

Somewhere, out there, is the one person who actually calls their sister ‘sis’ and they are single-handedly supporting the fragile verisimilitude of a thousand terrible scripts.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Good people working on this

The Holmwood Foundation @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social · 1d

We’re off for the night but we’re at £2,772 funded! 🔥

Would love to get to 5k ASAP so we can announce one of our new members of the cast if you can help!

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The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two

Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, it feels as though the damaged immune system of western culture simply can’t deal with the constantly mutating threat these microscopically small men routinely pose.

Occasionally, though, our white blood cells knuckle-up and go to work.

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GOOD! Alex Jones, loser extraordinaire, loses again.

Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

Lawyers for conspiracy theorist loser warned his website and assets will end up in the hands of his ‘nemesis’ and be ‘destroyed’ unless the justices get involved

go.stonking.com

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I think, as always, it began as a joke.

Performative over-reaction to some foible, e.g. the ‘backwards’ toilet paper thing. But the subject of that ‘joke’ is the presumed observer and their over-powering neurosis RE: this foible.

This wanton self-assertion has, now, been accidentally normalised.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

People being performatively outraged/neurotic/judgmental about things other people do that don't affect them in any way has got out of hand in the social media era, I think.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

My work here is done

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly wish I could articulate the sense of calm and control over my environment that this undertaking has brought about.

17 Tupperware containers of chromatically sorted LEGO

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly wish I could articulate the sense of calm and control over my environment that this undertaking has brought about.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

*taps head

Up here for dancin’ mate. Xx

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

That makes sense. I find this method easier, though, for the task of recompiling these various sets because the pieces are inventoried chromatically at the back:

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

So I inherited this collection in its entirety from a friend. It came with a tonne of manuals for the many disparate sets (star wars, LOTR etc) that’s is composed of.

Said manuals inventory their pieces, at the back, chromatically. So, this method makes the task of recompiling the sets easier.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

SPECIAL:

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

By way of example:

STANDARD:

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I have attempted an ‘old money’ vs ‘new school’ divide.

‘Standard’ = any multi-studded piece* with only 1 positive and 1 negative surface. Think ‘pre-1990’ LEGO. All perpendicular or true diagonal geometry.

‘Special’ = anything that does comply to that

*single studs have a separate container.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

SPECIAL:

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

By way of example:

STANDARD:

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I have attempted an ‘old money’ vs ‘new school’ divide.

‘Standard’ = any multi-studded piece* with only 1 positive and 1 negative surface. Think ‘pre-1990’ LEGO. All perpendicular or true diagonal geometry.

‘Special’ = anything that does comply to that

*single studs have a separate container.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Would you have me start A THIRD TUB!!!???

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Mental illness: ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

Eight labelled Tupperware containers of LEGO. There are two of each containing black, dark grey, light grey and white - which each colour being sub-divided into ‘standard’ and ‘special’

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

I heard a semi-reputable rumour to that effect

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