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Ian @theadmiral.bsky.social · Aug 31
I'm being blackmailed by Wes Anderson again :(
A graphic made in the style of Wes Anderson movie title cards, with a soft pink background and yellow text in Futura font. The text reads 'Send me £500,000 or your family gets it'. The 'Your Family' bit is large and centered in the frame. It is 'letterboxed' like a film, with black bars at the top and bottom.
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lauralexx.bsky.social
Is this MP sponsored by papa johns?
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Big thanks to Reform for helping us keep out Reform in Gorton & Denton.
Lee Anderson has been torn apart after it emerged he was campaigning in the wrong constituency.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
January 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
new super mario movie's youtube preview image is 108 kb which is over 2.5x the size of the entire 41 kb NES game
super mario galaxy movie thumbnail image shows luigi and mario by yoshi talking to toar, in party light area outdoors.
January 26, 2026 at 3:36 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Papa John’s Pizza
‘cos better ingredients
Make better pizza

~ a haiku ~
January 25, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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brainmage.bsky.social
Don't know who needs to hear this, but

Unclench your jaw

Let your shoulders drop

Liquefy all your connective tissue for the nutrients

Slither bonelessly off your chair

Wick yourself up the walls through capillary action

Envelop the room

Become a new god

Become a new god
October 18, 2023 at 11:04 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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mrsdrsyd.bsky.social
Delicious to me
Headline from PC Gamer, from the writer Tyler Wilde: Microsoft CEO warns that we must "do something useful" with AI or they'll lose "social permission" to burn electricity on it. Works should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
An email starting with “for your consideration: Nuremberg”
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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jackbern.bsky.social
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose

BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember The Dilbert Hole (and the attendant cease-and-desist)
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Grok is Epstein-as-a-Service
January 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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hidde.blog
If you work somewhere that still communicates via X, this week is a good one to petition comms folks to stop using it

(generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Say what you like about Starmer but he’s excellent at holding the bully’s coat
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25d
Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.

It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.

This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
January 4, 2026 at 11:31 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Pluribus?! But she only just met us!
December 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Compo
December 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Are Jaffa Cakes a Christmas movie?
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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officialtimwood.bsky.social
What a find in @sainsburys.bsky.social this morning - a great price for a whole Jamie Oliver. Should feed most of the family for Christmas I reckon
A freezer in Sainsbury's with the words jamie oliver branded over and around it. But in the freezer has been photoshopped Jamie Oliver himself frozen in a block of ice
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Sometimes I worry you’re only around because I’m the sunshine of your life
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Can anyone tell me whether it’s Black Friday?
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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theadmiral.bsky.social
Black Friday is great for unsubscribing from marketing lists, because they all email you at the same time.
November 29, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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theadmiral.bsky.social
Honestly sometimes I wish I could *forget* I’m a womble
February 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM