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John MacLeod
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God’s own third wheel. Human wreckage. Abandon hope all ye who enter.

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This basically means I’m gonna start calling out AI shit when I see it.
I have not very often asked for things, but I feel like it's becoming unavoidable... We seem to be hitting a point in time when videos online are becoming horrifically difficult to prove as real/fake. It's time for all of us to try and be super discerning over what we share as real, and what's AI, because the amount of misinformation/shite that abounds with generative AI could be proper dangerous, innit. So please try to verify/examine what you wanna share, in case it's bollocks. This is going to be a challenge...
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Yes. I feel like this merits a shout-out.
“If you suffered in life and want other people to suffer as you did because you ‘turned out fine’, you did not in fact turn out fine.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
The crew of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, TOP ROW: Lt. Cmdr. Worf; Dr Julian Bashir; Lt. Cmdr, Jadzia Dax; MIDDLE ROW: Quark; Jake Sisko; Chief Miles O’Brien; BOTTOM ROW: Major Kira Nerys; Captain Benjamin Sisko; Constable Odo.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"No Officer, I'm as surprised as you are. There was a dead body in here when I closed the boot!"
The back of a black car. The boot is open. Six grinning Pomeranian dogs are inside, looking delightful.
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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My friend just showed me this during a serious-ish conversation. Ruined.
The caption “raising money for children in knees” over a picture of someone’s legs, where the knees look like they have children’s faces in them.
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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@stephknee.bsky.social Found it!
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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By contrast, a friend punted this remembrance cock’n’balls in my direction over the weekend.
Picture of councillors in Telford putting two wreaths at the base of a stone monument.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Current vibes.
I’m sitting at the front of the double decker bus top deck, you can see pedestrians from on high, and a lovely cloudy sky. 11 year old me is piloting it like the Enterprise-D.
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Still, it’s not all bad news.
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Oh fuck OFF, man.
A guardian headline that reads: “‘Nature’s Labubi’: why are gen Z ‘unboxing’ conkers?”
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Imagine wearing those out in public on purpose and crowing to everyone else about “significant cognitive disadvantage”.
Screengrab from a CNN post, showing arch fuckwit Mark Zuckerberg in a big stupid pair of his big stupid glasses. The post reads: “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be a lt a “significant cognitive disadvantage” compared to those who do use the tech. I would like to add my own note to this statement, which reads: “Mark Zuckerberg can kiss my puckering blowhole if he thinks I’m going to intentionally don a pair of his Magic Dunce Identifiers, the absolute chump-quivering pus-manure twat.”
September 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Former human rights lawyer leads tributes to man who claimed the Civil Rights Act was “a huge mistake”, and that women should submit to their husbands. I dunno mate, I’d maybe just not say anything, no matter how much I wanted to try and beat Farridge at his own game. #StopCourtingReform
Headline image from The Independent, which reads “Sir Keir Starmer leads UK tributes to Trump ally and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk”. I mean what’s going on now, really? I don’t know. I know this headline’s about three days old, but we’ve just had a day of thugs fighting the police in the name of “are freedom” and not a word’s been said about it, as far as I can see. Far-right thuggery seems to be something this human rights lawyer doesn’t want to take a stand on in case it upsets all the Reform headbangers and they might not want to vote for him in four years. Spoiler: they’re never going to, and now nobody else will because you’ve utterly ruined your credibility by desperately not saying anything controversial like “racism’s pretty nasty, you guys,” or “Ethnic cleansing is a bad thing that we probably shouldn’t be financially backing!” Interesting that you’ll lead tributes to a guy who’s voiced some of the worse opinions this side of the ozone layer though! Nice one lad, well done!
September 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Dress for the job you want.
Captain Benjamin Sisko, sitting in the command chair of the USS Defiant.
September 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I am holding a packet of Hula Hoops. To my left and right, there is a pug each, forlornly watching the packet of Hula Hoops as if there was something they could within’t.
September 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I got advertised a Temu electric bike just now, and I have duly given it a little touch-up.
Advert for a Temu electric bike: 7-speed transmission! 500W brushless motor! 48V 14AH removable battery! 20”x4.0 fat tire! And underneath all this, I have added the words: “You’ll Die!”
August 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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August 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“Nova class, which ship’s that?”
This one.
A Nova-class Federation starship, specifically the USS Equinox. Or at least a model of one, sitting on my desk.
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Playing ALL the hits, including ‘Sit Down’, ‘Laid’, and ‘Getting Away With It’, all in the style of Sean Connery!
A poster for a gig at The Nag’s Head in Macclesfield, Friday August 15th. The poster features The Jam’s signature bullseye motif, and spray-painted across the bullseye is the word ‘Jamish’.
August 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Yes, because it’ll keep you awake if either you’re doing it or someone else is.
Photo of a man wearing a headband & blue shirt, blowing into a conch shell, along with the Guardian headline which reads: “Conch blowing could help to alleviate sleep apnoea, study suggests.”
August 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I would rather pipe hot piss up my nostrils than refer to myself as an “AI vegan”, despite that being the general position I have taken. Also “brave new world” my arse.
A screenshot of a Guardian Opinions headline entitled “The ‘AI vegans’ are here”. “Not everyone is keen on participating in the brave new world of artificial intelligence expounded by people like Mark Zuckerberg. "Al vegans" are people who have chosen to abstain from using Al for environmental, ethical and personal wellness reasons. Maybe they have a point, says Arwa Mahdawi”
August 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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TV’s Mike Wozniak, sitting behind a microphone & popshield and, having heard something quite quite foul and stupid, lifting his face to the sky, closing his eyes and calling out the words “OH COME ON, MATE…”
August 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Look at the haunted expression on this simpering roll of turkey ham with glasses on, pandering to a convicted sex offender and having an internal existential Error 404 about it.
To the left (HAHAHAHAHA) sits Keir Starmer, looking like Virgin Media Ron at his own funeral, like a lost dog tumbling stoically into a woodchipper, like a faintly distressed windsock draped over a sapling. To the right sits Trump, talking bollocks at someone and pointing. “How did it come to this? How did I find myself cosying up to a proven liar & criminal? How am I unable to unequivocally condemn the ethnic cleansing of a people OR do something meaningful about it? I’m cooked as a human being, aren’t I? Aren’t I?! AREN’T I?! Cooked? I am, aren’t I? Am I?”
July 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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A lovely little universal reaction meme. @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social
A picture of TV’s Mike Wozniak,collapsed behind his microphone in disgust, almost howling the words “Oh come on, mate…” in response to the revolting end of a revolting story delivered to both him and Ben Partridge by Henry Paker. He raises his face to the heavens and prays for some higher power to smite him down in his despair, for he can never un-know the knowledge that has been crammed forcefully into his earbuds.* *this last bit is just interpreting his body language, as no such prayer was delivered aloud (or at least none that made it into the edit of this week’s episode of Three Bean Salad, entitled ‘Hiking’).
July 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ozzy Osbourne: raises £190mil for charity, absolutely storms his last-ever gigs, re-imprints himself in the public consciousness admirably, passes away with dignity.
Hulk Hogan: goes MAGA.

Truly this is an age of polar opposites.

Also I’m cracking up at the image my local newspaper has gone with.
In reporting the death of Hulk Hogan, my local newspaper has, for the headline image, gone with a photo of him wearing a Trump/Vance vest, doing his silly little pose, and pulling a face that resembles a small child attempting to hold an oversized packing wotsit under their nose, in a display of pure uncut heroi… er, dignity.
July 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Yep, this week has been shite.
Me in Jan: “This will be my year” (picture of a unicorn with rainbows emitting from its horn) Me in July now: (picture of knackered old horse with a chimney belching smoke where the horn should be)
July 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM