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It’s Torgersen Island fat baby penguin time.
Some penguins on a rocky coastline. Some are lying down and some are preening themselves. The fat baby penguins are not in evidence, as yet.
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Where else are you going to see Charles Darwin in drag as a clownfish, explaining his studies into the queer animal Queendom?
The Whitworth, Manchester.
Yuki Kihara, Darwin in Paradise Camp.
Charles Darwin in drag as a pink skunk clownfish on a screen in an art gallery.
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Oh, Molluscs
A fortune cookie, it says, “you will perform well at work today”
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Emperor Ming the Merciless in a feather hat
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Go max or go home. I know it’s not December yet, purist scolds, but I’m not at my mum‘s again until near Christmas and it’ll be too late to decorate, plus I wanted to cheer things up a bit.
Go max or go home Christmas tree from outside my mum’s - covered in lights, tinsel and baubles to the maximum extent. Toy hedgehog with trans colours glittery spines (don’t tell me mum)
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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FFS

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Tam giving someone the Vs in Still Game
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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A dark street, all you can see is the illuminated bus stop across the road, with something spray painted on it, but you can’t make out what. You go across the road to investigate, and someone has sprayed the words, ‘Nigel Farage is a’ followed by a crude depiction of a cock and balls, all in neon yellow paint. You love to see it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Charming and many-layered
Darwin in Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara at Whitworth Gallery.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only (clearly this the right, and only right answer)
All the characters from Scooby Doo
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Yup skateboarding down stairs in heels
a skateboard pretending to be a stairlift, what could possibly go wrong
October 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Connections
Puzzle #860
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Tam from Still Game slinging the Vs to a horrible man
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Best use of a beach ball in film
The alien from Dark Star. It looks like a beach ball with claws.
October 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Picture of the album cover of Joe Henderson and Alice Coltrane The Elements Virgin Land by Airto Moreira album cover Album cover of Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock Album cover of Master Sessions volume one by Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez
October 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I’d prefer the freezer, but whatevs
BBC Food exhortation to ‘keep these quick dinners in your back pocket”.
October 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Connections
Puzzle #845
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Screenshot of Still Game, where Tam is giving the two finger salute to a horrible replacement barman who can’t see him because he’s drunk dodgy homemade booze.
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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If you see this, post a bridge
Detail from Yahuguagua by Santiago Yahuarcani. Shows some pink dolphins steering a boat and a boozing alligator.
September 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Here’s another - an Amazonian river pink dolphin transforming into a man, probably off to a party.
An enchanted pink dolphin wearing a hat and smoking a pipe. He has fish shoes and a fish beard and is carrying a bottle and a staff with a fish on the bottom of it. Also he has fancy trousers and a big wristwatch, with a crab bracelet on the other arm.
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Two weird little guys from the Santiago Yahuarcani exhibition at the Whitworth, Manchester. The first is the guardian spirit of ginger, second is something to do with some sort of Amazonian ritual drug. You can see them up until end of December.
Painting of the guardian spirit of ginger, which has the head of a leopard if it was Wallace from Wallace and Gromit (but red), moth antenna, a fluffy feathered body and three chicken legs, a flame coming out of its hand and a stick in the other hand. Painting of what looks like a cross between a ghost, a loris and an owl, with rays coming out of its big eyes.
September 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Coelacanths assemble
Screenshot of BBC documentary Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth. Shows 6-8 coelacanths in a small deep ocean cavern, as if they’re waiting for a showdown. To be fair, they’ve been constantly followed by a deep sea rover and are righteously miffed, by the look of things.
September 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Ok anyone know a botanist? I can’t tell if this plant is a common or a southern polypody. It’s growing on a wall in Manchester. The leaves are slightly serrated so I think it’s southern polypody but honestly? No idea.
Underside of polypody plant Close up of a polypody plant A polypody plant growing on a wall. Is it a southern or a common polypody? Only a botanist can tell.
September 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal album cover showing him playing a flute.
September 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana or Pearl Jam
Cover of Nuyorican Soul, a 90s album produced by M.A.W.
September 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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An excerpt from Home, by Warsan Shire.

link to the whole thing.

www.best-poems.net/warsan-shire...
Excerpt from Home by Warsan Shire you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land no one burns their palms under trains beneath carriages no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled means something more than journey. no one crawls under fences no one wants to be beaten pitied
August 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I saw Alice Kettle’s triptych ‘Thread Bearing Witness’ at the Whitworth - this one showing people struggling in the sea having fallen from their boat - someone in their wisdom thought it was appropriate to do swimming actions in front of it for a selfie.
One of Alice Kettle’s triptych ‘Thread Bearing Witness’ showing people in the sea, having fallen from their boat. It’s about how people risk everything to escape dire situations at home.
August 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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If you see this, quote post with your cat art.
Drawing of a black cat with a pink nose and white front, curled up, it’s saying rrr rrrr
August 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM