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technicallyron.bsky.social
How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
February 17, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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garywhitta.bsky.social
Episode Two of SEE YOU IN HELL is live and already blowing up! ep2.seeyouinhell.tv
February 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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garywhitta.bsky.social
Shannon really should win some kind of award for this.
February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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rincewind.run
Death is one of my all time favorite fictional characters and it’s him, Vimes and Granny as my top 3 for Discworld and this book is why

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
February 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
Death stood alone, watching the wheat dance in the wind. Of course, it was only a metaphor. People were more than corn. They whirled through tiny crowded lives, driven literally by clock work, filling their days from edge to edge with the sheer effort of living. And all lives were exactly the same length. Even the very long and the very short ones. From the point of view of eternity, anyway. Somewhere, the tiny voice of Bill Door said: from the point of view of the owner, longer ones are best.
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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chazhutton.com
Downhill skiing just isn’t what it used to be…
In this comic we have have a figure watching the Olympic downhill skiing on tv while drinking a beer, and they’re proclaiming with indignation that “Pfft, this was so much more dangerous back in my day” and they’d be right, because it turns out they’re the abominable snowman from the 1991 computer game Skifree, who had now obviously retired.
February 9, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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adamgrant.bsky.social
Dear critics of Lindsey Vonn: Kindly shut up and go back to your couch.

Grit isn't defined by the result—it’s revealed by the effort. Resilience isn't seen in a fall—it’s shown in the resolve to bounce back.

Success is more than the finish. It's the distance traveled to the start.
February 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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covid19disease.bsky.social
www.qimrb.edu.au/whats-on/new...
World-first RNA discovery could lead to potential new breast cancer therapy
www.qimrb.edu.au
February 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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sharkster1701.bsky.social
Olympics. Ode to joy, along with the European Union flag projected on the Arc of Peace, transforming into the Milky Way.
Beautiful.
February 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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rikergoogling.bsky.social
ed balls
February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Snowy Lump #oldknees
Two crows march through a snowy field. They see a pile of snow on top of a fence post. "Heh, that lump of snow looks like..." starts one... Close up of the lump of snow that is revealed to be a living snowy owl. "Gasp" exhales one crow. "...a spirit!" exclaims the second.
February 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Snowed In #oldknees
Two crows are flying through a snowstorm. "I can hardly see a thing!" yells one, "We can't keep going like this!" The other one replies "Let's take a break!" They land in a snow-covered field, the snow is falling gently. "Oh!" exclaims one while looking around at the peaceful scene, "It's so beautiful when you aren't fighting against it."
February 3, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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garywhitta.bsky.social
Recently I wrote a TV comedy pilot that has very little chance of getting made so I decided to publish it just for fun. You can read the script in its bare-bones form, or annotated with my notes. Maybe someone will find it interesting.

I hope you enjoy THE HARPER IDENTITY. If you do, let me know :)
The Harper Identity
www.theharperidentity.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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xkcd.com
Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/
3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides being the best effing show ever, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large, his brow is furrowed, and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and fury. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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robertpicardo.bsky.social
It is interesting to note that ⁦‪#StarTrek ‬⁩ #Voyager, so beloved in retrospect, was thought "woke" ("politically correct" was the term way back then) at its premiere.
January 18, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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kumail.bsky.social
Real power lies in feelings. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.
January 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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garywhitta.bsky.social
why tech bros hate art:
why tech bros hate art
YouTube video by Gary Whitta
youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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chazhutton.com
Got some new ‘Jigsaw Choices’ up on the shop! You find this and lots of other stuff right here: instachaaz.shop
Ok so… there is an 8x8 piece jigsaw puzzle, it’s all yellow, and there’s some text written on it. There’s two pieces of the puzzle missing, so that whatever is written is missing two letters. Those missing letters will be a dash in the following transcription: The jigsaw slogan reads: I’m no_ gonna do that thing I’ve got to do _hen I can have fun. Below this jigsaw are the two missing pieces, one a W and the other a T. This means the slogan, depending on where you put the missing pieces can read one of two ways: Either: I’m now going to do that thing I’ve got to do then I can have fun. Or… I’m not going to do that thing I’ve got to do when I can have fun. Ok so… there is an 8x8 piece jigsaw puzzle, it’s all yellow, and there’s some text written on it. There’s two pieces of the puzzle missing, so that whatever is written is missing two letters. Those missing letters will be a dash in the following transcription: The jigsaw slogan reads: I’m no_ gonna do that thing I’ve got to do _hen I can have fun. Below this jigsaw are the two missing pieces, one a W and the other a T. This means the slogan, depending on where you put the missing pieces can read one of two ways: Either: I’m now going to do that thing I’ve got to do then I can have fun. Or… I’m not going to do that thing I’ve got to do when I can have fun.
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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chazhutton.com
So it’s taken a few weeks but I’ve finally redrawn all 182 people on this huge piece and now it’s finally available to order! Check it out in detail in the link below, there’s lots of fun to be found!
All The People
This massive piece is now finally available to order! All 182 People doing 182 different things! You'll find new hidden jokes and surprises with every viewing. It's an excellent bit of artwork to have...
instachaaz.shop
January 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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adamgrant.bsky.social
Don’t label a generation lazy because they’re not willing to make the same sacrifices you did.

Refusing to jeopardize your well-being for your boss is not an act of disrespect. It’s an expression of self-respect.
January 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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mcpli.bsky.social
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Sunset today 3.16pm.

Summer is coming. 🌞
orkneylibrary.bsky.social Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Dec 20
#Orkney. 20th December.

Sunrise 9.03am
Sunset 3.15pm

Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡
The view out the back of the library. The streetlights are on. The sun has set and the horizon is orange and pink.
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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fesshole.bsky.social
Catch Fesshole Live in Leicester, Luton and Leeds – tickets available now! We’re off to Sweden too, visiting Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm, and bringing Anon Opin to Leicester. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole
I'm an NHS dietician and 80% of my work is girls who weigh under 45 kilos thinking they are too heavy. You have literally no idea what your dieting and performative "I feel fat" - when you know full well you're not- social media posts are doing to young people. I do. Please stop. Fesshole GOLD from 25th July 2020
December 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM