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Darren Ewing
@sadknob.bsky.social
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writer. telly director. earned a few shiny things. scotland is home. i own a pub in ireland. working on a project in chicago. science. history. athiest. he/him/his. ALT: me holding a pencil & a blue butterfly. BNR: bogart & malone in "the big sleep" 1946.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · Nov 16
"okay! i've got all the sheep! hallo?! boss?? I HAVE ALL THE SHEEP!"
photograph of a black kelpie in tasmania called "izzie" who is entirely surrounded by sheep (charlie mackinnon)
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 44m
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 1h
cool...

apnews.com/article/rome...
Once-secret Emperor Commodus' passage to Rome Colosseum opens to public for the first time
For the first time in nearly 2,000 years, visitors to Rome’s Colosseum can walk through a hidden imperial passage.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 5h
Man, I am going to continue to refer to Apple TV as Apple TV+ because I am a rebel and I straight-up don’t give a fuck.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 5h
14 October 1943 | At 15.30 prisoners of the German extermination center at #Sobibor began a revolt. Most of the SS guards were killed. Around 300 prisoners managed to escape, some 50 of them survived the war.

Learn more: https://t.co/YxFnsWN4lI
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 6h
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 7h
anyone else remember when the television used to say goodnight to us?

youtu.be/sro3TGqAorU
BBC1 Sign Off Early 1980s
YouTube video by Hazel The Hare
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 10h
Join us this Saturday
www.nokings.org#map
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 12h
dunno. she's killed three husbands and taken their money though.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 12h
🤣 take my money.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 12h
since i'm visiting her (and posting some of our conversations) here's me old mum. born august 1st 1934 in manchester and married the first gigantic scot she met.😐

this was on her birthday in august.
lovely 91 year old english lass at dinner on her birthday.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 12h
love this so much, mate.❤️ tim always looks like he's trying to sell condo time shares.🤣
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 12h
Looks like I’m the new drummer for OKGO

(Anybody wanna let Dan know?)
Me and the guys from OKGO. Tim Nordwind, Damian Kulash and Andy Ross
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 12h
91yr old mum: (watching "outlander")

how's the show?

"lovely. it's about highlanders."

there can be only one.

"no. there's lots of them."

any spaniards with an edinburgh accent?

"they're very handsome—like your father. you look more english."

like james bond?

"go away and stop coming back."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h
Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/
Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 13h
same.
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Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 13h
One day this country will have a President who is Indigenous/Native American and I hope I am around to see it.
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 16h
If you're looking for a weird little holiday gift, or a treat for yourself, hit me up.
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 5d
🧵Small works. Prices, titles & descriptions in alt-text. 1/3 #art #sciart (note: delivery for sales of these works will be delayed until after the resolution of the Canada Post strike. Union strong.)
"¿me amas?", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $125(Cdn). A small painting of the bottom half of a torn & crushed Pepsi can, black, white, blue & silver, with only the letters "SI" of Pepsi showing. Above the can is a Plecia nearctica, a love bug. "RED (scare)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150 (Cdn). A painting of a crushed red, silver & white Red Bull RED watermelon energy drink. Above the can is a wandering red and black spider. "botbot", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A small painting of a boxy green toy robot with a square coppery head. Beside it to the right is a bot fly. "Monster (crush)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A painting of a crushed black, green & white Monster energy drink can with a crab crawling on it from the top.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 16h
91yr old mum: "i was watching 'outlander' and tennis came on."

"was it andy murray?"

"no—tennis, the game, where they whack a ball back and forth."

"aye, mum. i was making a bad joke."

"i can't even fathom you've not heard of tennis."

"where they whack the ball back and forth?"

"yes. go away."
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17h
post you from a different era...

directing bill atherton audio book read of "flappers and philosophers" for penguin. this was right after "die hard" was released in 1988- i was 23.
actor william atherton and a git.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 17h
We're just going to keep posting this until we get a National Frank Sinatra and/or Al Pacino Day. youtu.be/eKEwL-10s7E
Columbus Day - How Is This Still A Thing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17h
What the fuck do you take us for, Improv Everywhere
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 17h
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19h
Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks
Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h
I’ve just started reading Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil, which Random House published in 1976, and am highly pleased to see that it was designed by my former colleague Carole Lowenstein, who designed Dreyer’s English.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h
Big media outlets are rejecting the new Pentagon press restrictions imposed by TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

So far: The Guardian, WaPo, CNN, The Atlantic and NYT.
Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline — The Washington Post
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
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