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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 30m

Thanks pal!

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 13h

Inshallah!

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 14h

Yep!

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 16h

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Following Inshallah United, I am chuffed to bits to announce my second book - Assalam Alaikum, Our Kid!

A story of being Muslim, Manc and mad for it in the new millennium

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 1d

Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif. Frankly embarrassing.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

Get a grip. If you can’t make your employees breathe a little deadly carbon monoxide in a Spanish hotel then woke really has won 🙄

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 3d

A Dutch parody of Keeping Up Appearances from 2010, starring Carlo Boszhard as Hyacinth

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 5d

I beg your very pardon

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 5d

Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov is clearly David Moyes in a terrible disguise

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d

What is the correct etiquette about making jokes about traitors on here? It is just a no go territory because of spoilers? Is there a statute of limitations? Can they be non-spoiler visual gags?

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d

Guardian journalist Matthew Cassel visited Tel Aviv - known as Israel's liberal capital - to ask people what they think of the suffering in Gaza. It's truly depressing. Even at an anti-war march. It just proves that propaganda really does work. Kudos to the guy at the end.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 6d

I can taste the panic these two felt doing their little stencilling. So casual with ‘own goal’ thinking they had all the space in the world. Look at the chasm between own and goal! Then sudden panic about whether there’s enough room for ‘Neville’. Eventually settling for ‘Nev’ after a crisis meeting

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 7d

Terrible puppet and you can see his lips moving. My daughter’s birthday party is ruined.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 7d

Ban politics bores from football patter

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 8d

“It’s all of us or none…”

Joe Strummer and Ray Gange discuss socialism vs capitalism

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 8d

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 8d

One day everyone will accept Netanyahu to be pure evil. It will be a mainstream consensus. At that point he will be used as a convenient sponge for all the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in his time. As if it all started and ended with him. Always remember - it was never just him

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Alice Lastname @alphonsus.bsky.social · 8d

Not having a go at all here but I feel like the use of “underfunding” in these situations is so passive and removes responsibility - the decisions are deliberate and the consequences (to the most vulnerable typically) are known well in advance. But it can now be swept up under a fiscal issue

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 9d

This is utterly heartbreaking. Too sad for words. A direct result of underfunding the NHS.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 9d

That bloody Niko!

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 9d

Fishing hotspots and top 5 books

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9d

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 9d

A person of such views working in social care is scary

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 10d

What's going on with Mac Allister? Tiredness?

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 10d

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