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"The world moves on a woman's hips/ The world moves and it bounces and hops." - The Great Curve, Talking Heads Judi Spiers by Robert Lenkiewicz -

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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1446

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"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children." - Ursula K. Le Guin (2012) [Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]

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Tina: You're simply the best. Me: What do you mean by that? Tina: Better than all the rest. Me: Oh! Thanks for the clarification.

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They don't like it when you play The Floor Is Lava on an airplane

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Stop. The. Press.

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I’m pretty sure the sensor-activated paper towel dispenser was invented by someone who had never had wet hands in their entire life

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Unquestionably this. Mr Noseybonk, the porcelain faced, dead-eyed monstrosity from the 1980s BBC children TV show Jigsaw. Absolute nightmare fuel. A grin which oozes malevolence and a nose which could be used as an improvised weapon. #Jigsaw #MrNoseybonk #NightmareFuel

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Unlike other services that want to take away your access to things you’ve bought, when you buy digital comics from 2000 AD you can download and keep them forever – with no ‘DRM‘ software or restrictions bit.ly/4h2csdj

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There is one old Tweet from the bird site I will sort of miss. It was a 2009 tweet criticising a conveyancing firm and housing group which were being used by the guys who owned our house before us. It was a bad time. It led to the move collapsing at that time.

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I have finally downloaded my Twitter archive. My account there sits abandoned. While I’ve yet to entirely close it down, I figured there’s no harm in at least having a copy of the years I invested into that place. That’s part of the betrayal really. You do invest parts of yourself into these places

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Things which are not like the Taliban: Hampstead Community Centre asking the life drawing class to reschedule (and continue to draw nudes) to avoid clashing with sessions for the kiddiewinks.

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Sadly, so true.

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If genre fiction has taught me anything, either a) our universe will merge with at least two others; b) humanity will ascend to a higher plane of material and mental reality; or c) we'll have to deal with the portal to hell opening and demons walking the earth. Hope not, I've got things to do.

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this is something that experienced devs and professionals have been getting increasingly vocal about, and i think they're right to worry

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Maddie Pryor leaving the Target parking lot "I know I forgot SOMEthing...oh well."

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“What time will you be back?” “It’s a crusade, Darlene, I don’t know.” “Pick up milk on your way home. 2%.” “Fine, I will if I live.“ “Don’t be so dramatic, Ronald.” “I’m not being-“ “Also some tampons.”

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Finally the finished MK3 commission Acrylic paint on watercolour board, 20x15 inches. Varnished and photographed.

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Fair point.

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Well… it’s an eclectic combo for a collaboration, certainly. But what the hell is going on here? Has the ‘coco’ in Coco Pops been a shorthand for cocaine all this time, and I never knew? Nobody is this excited about either cereal or novelty undercrackers without being on something.

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This is truly depressing.

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"Hi! I'm a Standard Gazel! I'm a car and I'm bloody livid about it"

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Rookie mistake by Arthur, bringing up the cheese thing.

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This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

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Never a truer word spoken.

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Timeline cleanse from the mind of @mrweebl.bsky.social

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The greatest backstory ever.

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East Ayrshire Leisure Trust are now the guardians of the late Scottish cartoonist Malky McCormick's original art, including an archive of his collaborations with comedian Billy Connolly

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I enjoyed this sentence: "It is caught in the uncanny valley between fork and comb. It’s like seeing a clam with teeth."

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Absolutely feeling this way at the moment. Sadly spent my weekend fighting off a head cold, but trying to find distractions from that which wasn’t… doom themed? Not easy, here. While not wanting to downplay the state of the world, in seeking to replace Twitter can we not lose sight in why we are?

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A 1977 Star Wars tie-in Coca-Cola Premium promotional poster starring R2-D2 and C-3PO by Del Nichols. (I’m particularly taken by his Obi-Wan Kenobi.)

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