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I’m ashamed to have laughed at the second candidate here, but if you’re a certain age your brain just goes there immediately 😳

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When I were a lass, the richest man in the world was supposedly the Sultan of Brunei. I'm sure the people of Brunei have some tales to tell, but as far as the rest of us were concerned he at least had the common sense to be QUIET about it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

As someone who is immunocompromised, in the the end, I will remember not the anti-masking efforts of enemies but the refusal to mask by friends.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

not finding much funny at the moment but I made an exception for this theonion.com/trump-unable...

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"Whence and Whither" Linocut by Cyril Power, circa 1930 Ref 1953/2/167, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This should get the Tom Holland rule of Re posting. Chumbawamba The day the Nazis died. #Chumbawamba are an amazing radical folk group. youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

But surely the restructuring of Hooters constitutes gender-reaffirming treatment?

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I've had similar thoughts about my own ancestors for a) leaving Africa in the first place and b) having done that and reached the south of France, looked around and thought "no, this is much too warm and sunny, let's keep going north".

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"The Mob," New Jersey, 1961 Walter Chandoha was called the Richard Avedon of Cat Photography. Over the course of his decades-long career he created over 90,000 images of cats. They appeared in magazines, on the cans of cat food, in calendars & his books. "The Mob" is one of his most famous photos.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Even a right wing imperialist clock is right twice a day

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I’ve been interested for a while in the thread of neo-monarchism sometimes visible in the international far-right, but I’ll admit I didn’t expect Trump to declare himself king within a month of his inauguration. Presumably he’ll be an emperor before the summer.

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Lobster and Cat by Pablo Picasso, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137441

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A French way of saying something is tip-top, especially a fine wine, is c’est le petit Jésus en culotte de velours. It means “it’s the baby Jesus in velvet underpants.”

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

If you ran a Duane Reade the way trump and Elon are running the uh country, a customer would have died by now

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Random thought I had today: flash mobs have completely disappeared as a thing, haven’t they? I presume they were killed off by Covid and just haven’t returned.

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The Sony TPS-L2 "Walkman" Cassette Player by Masaru Ibuka (1979)

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When I was a student one of my lecturers used to refer to “library angels”, the contingent process by which you find something slightly different to what you were originally looking for, and that leads you off on a new path that may well turn out to be more important.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

It all suddenly makes so much sense when someone finally explains to you that the drinks trolley and cutesy-retro uniforms are a distraction intended to disguise the cabin crew’s real job - which is flight safety and emergency procedures.

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Also, back in the 90s I knew the Head of a university English Dept who for the 1st year orientation session got the entire lecture theatre to sing this as an ice-breaking exercise while he walked up and down the middle aisle, conducting them while also belting it out. Have never tried this myself 🤔

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I don’t think you could get the Oscars audience to do this 😁

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Any 'Dracula' sleuths out there? A member of the public has brought in what appear to be uncut printer's proofs of an early edition of Bram Stoker's most famous book. But which one is it? Might be fun to compare with pages in early editions.....

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments