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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 54m

“You can’t expect politicians to perfectly tick every box before you vote for them, you’ll just have to hold your nose and vote for the people with good policies instead of demanding exactly the right sort of genocidal bigot.”

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1h

I played so many awful SNES platformers based on movies that also suck. Every one was worse than 90% of suggestions here.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 2h

In the event that something statistically aberrant occurs within my geographically localised community, to whom should I direct my telephonic enquiries?

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 3h

There’s that one that’s going around at the moment that is supposed to be “a woman comes to your door at 3am and asks to come in” and what it actually shows is about ten different women at doors or windows or just standing around outside at various times of day. Yep, let’s put that in the movie.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 4h

“Trying to win elections is student politics” - sensible centrists.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 5h

Are those people in Toronto speaking French?

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 6h

“Screwdriver” is just the Gallifreyan name for a general-purpose portable computer thing, just like how our general-purpose portable computer things are called phones despite that only being a pretty minor part of their usage.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 6h

The Curse of Fatal Death is extremely canon.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 6h

Seems reasonable, it’s only slightly simpliced.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 7h

Why am I being told to verify my age on an Xbox Live account I’ve had since the early days of the Xbox 360?

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 14h

NASA employee: oh hey u guys are back early
Gen Z: Nature’s Labubu
NASA employee: what?
Gen Z: *loading a pistol and unboxing a conker* Nature’s Labubu.

Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Nerf Jeff.

Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

And it doesn’t change the fact that Biden (or Trump) could have forced a ceasefire any time they wanted by refusing to send weaponry.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t snitch on skeletons.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

And of course even if it was only getting things wrong 10% of the time, that’s still too often for anything even vaguely important, so you have to do the work you’re supposedly saving every time anyway.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

This is like the terrible Metaverse thing they threatened that mixes the worst parts of online and offline shopping. youtu.be/ngbCV1PapdA?...

Walmart VR shopping in the #metaverse

YouTube video by Ria Davies

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

You mean people who aren’t me are a type of people? This is crazy talk!

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

By special Guardian correspondent, Man In Hotdog Suit.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

They will increase in to $60.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

I will continue calling it Netflix.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

The header image looks like they’re trying to hide her face behind the Guardian logo.

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

What exactly determines whether a person held without charge by a regime known to use torture is a “hostage” or a “detainee”? Is it skin tone? It’s skin tone isn’t it?

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Andrew “Treehouse of Horror Name” McGrae @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

So are you going to do something about all the transphobes in your party who support the alarming erosion of civil liberties and freedoms?

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

The whitewashing begins, I actually think a big driver for this ‘peace’ deal was to protect Israel from total ostracisation on the global stage, they should still be punished and made to account for their genocide

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

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