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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 14m

Cover to a 1971 US printing of James MItchell's "A Red File For Callan" aka "A Magnum For Schneider", the first Callan novel. Published by Simon and Schuster. While it doesn't much resemble the b/w Armchair Theatre antics of the original, it's a *fantastic* cover.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Dec 15

The top row of the Peanuts Sunday strip was called the 'throw-away panel'. If there wasn't enough space in the comic section that syndicated it, the top row could be removed and the rest of the comic would still make sense without it. Schulz often used the throw-away panel for private/obscure jokes.

Peanuts On This Day @peanuts60yrsago.bsky.social · Dec 15

December 15, 1963

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 6h

Good news everyone! Gozer is here!

Giant marshmallow man spotted in West Derby

Why there is a giant marshmallow man on a residential street

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 6h

Conversely I haven't used London's black cabs in decades, partly because most drivers droned on about how the city's full of "f***ing ethnics" who should be sent back where they came from.
That and every one of them "accidentally" missed the turn into my street so they could add a bit to the fare.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 19h

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 21h

Poor Tommy Robinson. What possible reason could the border police have had for stopping a known criminal who is being investigated by HMRC from taking £13,000 in cash abroad while driving a Bentley that wasn’t his and refusing to answer their questions? It’s an outrage!

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 17h

CUTE JOKE ALERT!

A good name for a frog could be Rosie the Ribbiter.

CUTE JOKE OVER!

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 16h

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has not yet tired of licking Trump's little feet. That gutless leech will do whatever the Marmalade Manbaby tells him.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

Uh... so he's openly trying to rig a foreign election for a friend of his and a friend of his top donor—Musk—by saying that Argentinians will only get $20 billion dollars in American aid if they vote for Milei?

So this money Trump is stealing from US taxpayers is not to help Argentina, but his pal?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17h

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses on.ft.com/3L8Y0Wi

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 17h

Two Tier Outrage!

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 19h

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 19h

Glue a couple of bird's eye chillies to the forehead of a Willem Dafoe figurine and you'd be quite close...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 19h

Have you ever modelled Tim Curry in his role as Darkness from the movie 'Legend'? It is a very sculptural and atmospheric character.

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 20h

Marvellously apt, as Tim Curry's autobiography 'Vagabond' was published today.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 1d

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...

Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's maps go on display at the Architectural Association

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 21h

I bet Miliband treated himself to a new parker pen for this one. Then posted it as a gift to Andrea Jenkyns. With a bow.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 21h

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. RIP King Harold, wiv de Angles now.

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KarrieS @kspink.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t get me started my mum who had Alzheimer’s was in a care home during that time …. Nightmare heartbreaking nightmare for staff and vulnerable people I have my thoughts but would be banned off here if I expressed them but I hear you !

20 warnings to stop Covid slaughter in care homes

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Daniel Emerson @doktorfuttocks.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine the results if you gave the same English tests to the purple-faced no-necks vandalising roundabouts and/or protesting outside migrant hostels?

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 22h

US Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones appeal in Sandy Hook shooting case

The right-wing conspiracy theorist has not yet paid any of the more than $1b in damages he owes Sandy Hook families.

www.bbc.com

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 22h

RIP Drew Struzan. His posters are a huge part of my childhood. Iconic images and what a range! From Black Sabbath to the Muppets. I really recommend the Art of Drew Struzan book. The anecdotes about the creation of each poster are fascinating.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 2d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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