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Theo Riches
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Anglo-Irish German. Former medievalist. Film adorer. Übernerd.
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Kiel heute.
Bei einer Demo, ein Plakat mit der Aufschrift, "Papa, was hast Du 1933 gemacht?", wobei 1933 durchgestrichen und mit 2025 ersetzt ist.
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I like how BlueSky's formatting will sometimes work like those puzzles where you have to get from one word to another by changing one letter at each step.
Screenshot of a BlueSky post about how companies are replacing drunken Christmas parties with activities, with a later reply about the Tokyo Round of trade negotiations. The intervening thread is hidden and the connection therefore unclear.
December 1, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Wishing everyone a very happy Screaming Skelton Day. Seems appropriate somehow.
A comic panel from the Watchmen graphic novel. In the foreground, drawn in purple with white highlights, is the top two thirds of a partially muscled human skeleton, throwing its head back in a scream. In the background there's a perimeter fence with buildings behind it, drawn in green. A sign on the fence indicates it is a base. Before the fence are two soldiers in brown. One is on all fours, apparently in pain. The other carries a long gun. The caption reads: "November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams thirty seconds before vanishing…"
November 14, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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NI's eye-wateringly strong prawn cocktail was my favourite back in the day. I was unfortunately long gone before they tried this bit of wtf.
A packet of lightly salted, hand-cooked crisps made by the Northern Ireland Tayto company. The packet is off-white with blue lettering. A sepia image depicts an ocean liner, under which there's the word TITANIC in large letters. It's a special commemorative crisp edition. Near the bottom of the packet, there's the slogan, "A first class crisp".
November 14, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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Happy Ambulatory Circulatory System Day to all who celebrate!
A panel from the Watchman graphic novel by Alan Moore (writer), Dave Gibbons (art) and John Higgins (colour). In the foreground from behind we see a glowing human circulatory system (veins, organs, brain), coloured blue, walking through a kitchen, coloured green. The kitchen workers in the background of the picture react in horror. The caption reads: "It's November 10th now. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen…".
November 10, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Seems fun. I like a lot of movies.
Black text on white background: "Get to know my favourite movies. For every like, I will post one movie I love."
October 21, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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You mean like a badger sett?
Picture of an information bullet point, reading: "The Lindisfarne Gospels weighs 8.7kg (19.3lb) or as much as an adult badger."
October 16, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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Within the first 20%. If Bluesky were the Premier League, this would make me Aston Villa.
Image 'celebrating' the fact that this account was the 1,634,034th to join Bluesky.
September 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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Shot. Chaser. Antifa v Fa, Brighton yesterday.
Photo from above of thousands of counterdemonstrators surrounding a police cordon protecting anti-immigration protesters in Brighton, 7 August 2024. A grand total of five anti-immigration protesters being protected by police from thousands of antiracist counterprotesters in Brighton, 7 August 2024.
August 8, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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For early medieval manuscripts:
Durham Tourism explains that the Lindisfarne Gospels weigh as much as an adult badger, i.e. 8.7kg.
June 4, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Image from Terrible Maps Facebook group. Map of Europe with title "Potato vs Tomato Europe circa 1492". Legend assigns yellow to potato regions and red to tomato ones. Map is entirely grey.
May 22, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Brilliantly satirised by Beyond the Fringe:
Excerpt from Beyond the Fringe sketch, So That's the Way You Like It, satirising Shakespeare's history plays. Spoken by Jonathan Miller: "Get thee to Gloucester, Essex. Do thee to Wessex, Exeter. Fair Albany to Somerset must eke his route. And Scroop, do you to Westmoreland, where shall bold York Enrouted now for Lancaster, with forces of our Uncle Rutland, Enjoin his standard with sweet Norfolk's host. Fair Sussex, get thee to Warwicksbourne, And there, with frowning purpose, tell our plan To Bedford's tilted ear, that he shall press With most insensate speed And join his warlike effort to bold Dorset's side. I most royally shall now to bed, To sleep off all the nonsense I've just said."
March 15, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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It did give us a good joke, though.
Photo of a skeleton with a stone block buried into the ground where the skull should be. Beside this, an excerpt from an Asterix comic depicting Obelix throwing a menhir onto a Roman soldier. Caption: "When the field archaeology confirms the written sources."
February 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Pulp-o-Mizer pulp magazine cover for Cannibal Women in the Avocado Bishopric of Death.
February 8, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Picture of straight white hipster couple in bed. He says, "My vote is imbued with the spirits of magic, honesty, loyalty, laughter, kindness and generosity. I can't just give it away to someone who doesn't make me feel special. " She looks on adoringly.
December 19, 2023 at 6:06 PM
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Happy Circulatory System Day to all who celebrate!
Panel from the Watchmen comic, depicting a circulatory system walking through a kitchen.
November 10, 2023 at 12:04 PM