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Mikes Mobile Home @mikemarriage.bsky.social · 58m

These guys are digging out the skateboards as we speak.

The title card for the TV series The Red Hand Gang.
The handwritten text is in the foreground over a photo of the the five members of the gang walking towards the camera.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 17h

C'est le mauvais pantalon, Gromit!
Et ils ont mal tourné !

Feathers McGraw ascending the Louvre pyramid on an unconscious Wallace wearing the Wrong Trousers

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17h

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Mikes Mobile Home @mikemarriage.bsky.social · 17h

Without downloading new pics where are you mentally right now?

Sometimes when one door closes in life, another one opens.

A line drawing of two doors. One closed and one ajar.
The sign on the closed door says “SHIT” and on the ajar door the sign reads “DIFFERENT SHIT”

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Pete 🟥🟦 @sarf-london.bsky.social · 1d

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Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! That’s Gwendoline fucking Christie on a Sleaford Mods’ track. Dropping like your Mum’s nightie next week.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning! It’s Saturday October 18th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Dated this very day in 1980, just 45 years ago, 2000AD #182, with its all-time classic cover by the great Brian Bolland featuring Judge Dredd.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 2d

If you own an iPhone or iPad and have any interest whatsoever in retro art, this is a steal. Buy a copy.

Retrospecs @retrospecs.bsky.social · 2d

You can now unlock the full version of Retrospecs for £1.99/€1.99/$1.99

In addition to the full suite of system and mode presets, the full version contains custom emulation, font and palette editors as well as additional features such as the emulation mutator.

Find out more at 8bitartwork.co.uk

An image of Peter Finch as the newscaster Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network. It depicts a man in his late middle age standing in front of multiple clocks with his hands in the air, shouting in frustration.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 2d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way.
Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto-

Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen.
Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic?

Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all.
Extremely realistic Green: Of course.

Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion.
Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag?
Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

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Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods.bsky.social · 2d

This is no laughing matter… We’ve something bigger than your energy bill coming next week.

#TheGoodLife #TomAndBarbra #MargoAndJerry

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 2d

Half-moon

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

here you go. you can do them manually to keep control of moderation yourself or just subscribe to the list and do it all in one go.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 3d

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp... This is an excellent and frightening piece - the AI bubble may be built on accounting fraud that the Trump admin is actively encouraging

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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fiveankles.bsky.social @fiveankles.bsky.social · 3d

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 3d

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Dive into the thrilling worlds of 2000 AD -- anytime and anywhere -- with digital downloads you get to keep forever! When you buy digital comics from 2000 AD you can download and keep your files, with no ‘DRM‘ software or restrictions. Unlike other serv...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 3d

Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/

Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 3d

I'm Off to bed, if you're looking for some nighttime reading, my free scifi webcomic has 8 pages online and is released weekly, a dead spaceship, a weird machine ... and The Ghosts of War...

www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?...

Welcome Welcome! | PJ Holden

Get more from PJ Holden on Patreon

www.pauljholden.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

NEW - UPDATE POST

Did the CPS make a fundamental mistake with the charging decision in the Chinese spying case?

How the CPS may have asked the wrong legal question and so made a wrong charging decision

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/did-the-cp...

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 4d

The war on drugs clearly isn’t working. We need an urgent review of the 50 year old Misuse of Drugs Act, & to start treating drug addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal one, & get drugs out of the hands of criminal gangs #Newsnight

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

hello consider this a reminder, in case people missed it last week, that I've launched a new quarterly night in London called the Outsiders Arts Club where people will be able to buy great affordable art and ask dumb questions to an art professional: outsidersartsclub.com

thanks, bye

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 4d

🚨ICYMI🚨

Our first ever three-part story. @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Listen to Part One: Revolution now 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#Socialism #Lenin #Stalin #Trotsky

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

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