Groucho Merckx
@grouchomerckx.bsky.social
Mostly cat pictures. 🇵🇸 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He/him
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If HS2 was a motorway, it would have been built by now! But because new rail projects are minutely analysed with this "value for the taxpayer" nonsense. If road building was held to the same level of scrutiny, a sizable amount of the road network would still be cart tracks.
December 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If HS2 was a motorway, it would have been built by now! But because new rail projects are minutely analysed with this "value for the taxpayer" nonsense. If road building was held to the same level of scrutiny, a sizable amount of the road network would still be cart tracks.
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It's also infamously known as a cursed painting, during exams it is covered up because of an urban legend that a student killed themselves after looking at it.
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It's also infamously known as a cursed painting, during exams it is covered up because of an urban legend that a student killed themselves after looking at it.
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Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) Sir Edwin Landseer
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) Sir Edwin Landseer
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I would like to apply for this gig, please 🥰
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I would like to apply for this gig, please 🥰
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LOL this is all the data I think, and as nicely visualised as I can. Now I just need to annotate... 🤣
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
LOL this is all the data I think, and as nicely visualised as I can. Now I just need to annotate... 🤣
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
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I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me
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Wes Streeting talks about 'the collapse of the NHS' the same way a vulture would talk about a maimed deer.
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Wes Streeting talks about 'the collapse of the NHS' the same way a vulture would talk about a maimed deer.
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If your social media posts don't get you — and your immediate family — banned from visiting America you’ve not been doing it right.
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If your social media posts don't get you — and your immediate family — banned from visiting America you’ve not been doing it right.
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The royal rapist was allowed onto the set of a show where the majority of the cast are children. The queen of "protecting women and girls" is the executive producer.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The royal rapist was allowed onto the set of a show where the majority of the cast are children. The queen of "protecting women and girls" is the executive producer.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
You won't see any of the "protecting women and girls" columnists columnists challenging that, tho.
John Carpenter's The Thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
Sabrina Carpenter's The Thing
December 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
John Carpenter's The Thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
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I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises
December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises
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'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
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Out of curiosity went looking and found this.
An amazing article about that time my Great Auntie Jo accidentally told the East coast of America about D-Day 3 days earlier.
(her older sister, my grandmother found it hilarious. Auntie Jo was mortified at the time!)
An amazing article about that time my Great Auntie Jo accidentally told the East coast of America about D-Day 3 days earlier.
(her older sister, my grandmother found it hilarious. Auntie Jo was mortified at the time!)
At 53:11, an update on Joan Ellis, the British teletype operator who got a few days of notoriety by accidentally sending a practice invasion bulletin over the AP feed on June 3rd. #DDay #DDay80
ww2ondeadline.com/2020/06/03/d...
ww2ondeadline.com/2020/06/03/d...
D-Day: Joan Ellis and the AP’s accidental invasion report
The flash hit the Associated Press wire at 4:39 p.m. Eastern War Time on Saturday, June 3, 1944: FLASH LONDON EISENHOWER'S HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCED ALLIED LANDINGS IN FRANCE U.S. broadcast news operatio...
ww2ondeadline.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Out of curiosity went looking and found this.
An amazing article about that time my Great Auntie Jo accidentally told the East coast of America about D-Day 3 days earlier.
(her older sister, my grandmother found it hilarious. Auntie Jo was mortified at the time!)
An amazing article about that time my Great Auntie Jo accidentally told the East coast of America about D-Day 3 days earlier.
(her older sister, my grandmother found it hilarious. Auntie Jo was mortified at the time!)
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absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
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"You boy, have you seen Alistair Sim?"
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"You boy, have you seen Alistair Sim?"
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lads lads lads
Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
lads lads lads
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Barker: no humans or animals would live with JK Rowling
Barker: so the mean and evil old terf queen had to have artificial ones made out of iron
Barker: so the mean and evil old terf queen had to have artificial ones made out of iron
December 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Barker: no humans or animals would live with JK Rowling
Barker: so the mean and evil old terf queen had to have artificial ones made out of iron
Barker: so the mean and evil old terf queen had to have artificial ones made out of iron
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This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
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December 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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FLOWER [flou•r] sb. The floor (always pronounced thus).
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
FLOWER [flou•r] sb. The floor (always pronounced thus).
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Chuck it on the teetering pile of absurd insults to the public
I note that Shama Tatler has been nominated for a peerage. you may remember her as the Labour right winger handed Faiza Shaheen's PPC position in Chingford and Wood Green in a factional attack, where she was then rejected by the electorate.
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Chuck it on the teetering pile of absurd insults to the public