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submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

The lights were due to get dusted. If Gerald the spider got killed me and K will get very peeved.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

A quick post to say that all the articles about Miriam Margolyes’s poor health stem from a piece of utter tosh invented by The Mirror. Miriam’s in fine fettle, working flat out and looking forward to her show in Edinburgh and her subsequent book tour. She asks you to spread the (non-fake) news!

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

#TodayInQueerHistory June 3 (2001) 🎶KEEP IT GAY🎶 Today in theatre history, The Producers opens on Broadway. This production starred Nathan Lane, who won the Best Actor Tony award for his role. The 2001 production holds the record for most Tony wins, with a total of 12 wins!

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

PSA: do not lean in to drink from a public water fountain without pressing the button at least once to test its particular quirks... 💦😂🤣

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DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek: "In large part due to protests like this, our ICE officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults while carrying out arrests." hmm...... What exactly does THAT tell you???

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Train ticket enforcement must be fair and proportionate, watchdog warns

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NDAs should be banned to curb music industry ‘culture of misogyny’, says new government report

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

trying to remind self that the £70 bill from new look is because you had to order two sizes of each item and they may not even fit. also : please do not describe one skirt as 'midi' and one 'maxi' when there's about 5cm difference in length.

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browsing summer skirts. squinted at one described as 'sarong'. My java-born arse : why is it knotted? googles how to wear sarong gets angry every time I see the first instruction as 'knot round the waist' FFS. wrap tightly, then roll. It's not difficult.

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broke: bring back national service in the uk woke: bring back mandatory sunday longbow training

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

SHE COULD JUST MAKE HERSELF A THEME PARK. SHE COULD BANKROLL ENTIRE BRANCHES OF SCIENCE. SHE COULD COMMISSION SO MUCH ART. SHE COULD DIVE INTO A VAULT FULL OF GOLD LIKE SCROOGE MCDUCK. AND SHE CHOOSES TO BE THE BAD KIND OF WEIRDO

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

“It’s quite an unusual situation, having to risk assess a buzzard. We tried our nearer playground areas thinking they would be safe, but soon discovered that Brenda was quite attracted to children playing outside." www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The military cosplay also comes with the military roleplay of treating the people in your own community as enemy combatants.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Happy Pride Month / Wrath Month Sadly haven’t had chance to do a new little mari this year, so last years is here!

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Goodnight from Jeff Tabor, noticing the uneasiness that always sits upon his grandfather’s old chair is much more active when Thatcher the Iron Witch is on the TV news. Goodnight from Tom Woodford, attempting wine exorcism on memories of Hoarse Hag sighting. Goodnight from Hookland.

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me : pozst random shit on bluesky for a few years. of course it's a picture of an adorable cat that gets the most likes, this is Bast's internet.

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Many thanks Ken for the tape. I've not had time to listen to it yet.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

I'm in Scotland, you're not, suits me.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

"If they have to do it, they should do it in private." "Yeah!" "It's not right, doing it in the open where kids can see." "Yeah! It's not like they have to, it's something they choose to do." "True. Hate is a lifestyle choice." "Absol- Hate?" "Yeah. What did you think we were talking about?"

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

A Point of Pride Via TextsFromSuperheroes.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The world met Conner4real on this day in 2016 😎

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

countries that weren't ever part of the Roman Empire : did you get taught Roman history at school? (we randomly got a chunk Ancient Greek naval warfare but most of what I remember were the strategy diagrams)

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

um. it's bad when a cast all looks lively and chrismatic and the lead has a very bad case of unexpressive charisma vacuum. also : modern eyebrows on the women, hi.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Pst. Hey! Hey you, yes, you! If anyone tells you that in the Middle Ages no-one translated the Bible remind them that the Vulgate is a translation into Latin. P.S. And there were also numerous other translations into vernacular.

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

I've used Stoicism as a tool to deal with a lot of shit, but scrolling through a Google AI "summary" of an email thread that was longer then the actual thread this morning just to get to the thread, I'd like to think Marcus Aurelius would've sewn techbros into a bag and tossed them into the Tiber.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

“The attack scuppers a vital Russian logistics route into the occupied Ukrainian peninsula.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

"wait stop moving I'm trying to read the punchline"

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a GROUNDBREAKING new treatment for aggressive breast cancer with a 100% SURVIVAL RATE. By combining chemotherapy with Olaparib (Lynparza) BEFORE surgery, EVERY patient who received the protocol survived the CRITICAL three-year post-treatment period. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 11 hours ago • 70 comments

If you’re going to quote Cecil Rhodes’s Confession of Faith & 1877 will, I think you should probably acknowledge that they comprise not a selfless vision for humanity but an explicitly racist call for Anglo-Saxon global domination via a secret society. Read here: pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Rhod...

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

The EHRC is not only trying to take away your freedom and future, but they're trying to stop you even protesting about it. Fortunately, today at least, sanity won

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment