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November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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So much of that performatic toxic masculinity bullshit is just deep insecurities.

Sure bro, whatever you need to tell you to justify not being able to give your wife an orgasm.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Bitza Pizza walkers Advert 1986 (OLD Adverts)
YouTube video by 2ombieboy's VHS Vault
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November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The same evening as this episode of #TOTP, an East German government minister called Günther Schabowski held a boring, routine press conference...
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The same evening, an East German government minister called Günther Schabowski held a boring, routine press conference...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Lest we forget Tom Robinson's brother Matthew directed Colin Baker's Dalek and Cyberman stories, then exec produced Byker Grove. #totp
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
You know, I think I'm going to stop following the #totp hashtag of a Friday. It's just so relentlessly "this is shit, that's shit, they're all shit". It's mostly not even enjoyably creative snark, just relentless whinging.
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Today's James Bond discourse has reminded me of the excellent work done by @graham.loadingreadyrun.com and @wiggins.bsky.social on the "From Rewatch With Love" podcast/YT series a few years back. They had *opinions* about continuity in Bond too...

youtu.be/0RrpbF6xc6w?...
Dr. No (1962) || From Rewatch with Love Ep01
YouTube video by LoadingReadyRun
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November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this.

He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.

"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."

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November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Right. Here's my big pitch:

Muppet James Bond

James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye

Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ

The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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So anyway, Rosalind Franklin
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This one genuinely made me laugh out loud.
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I wouldn't particularly claim my life was a success, but so far I've navigated male middle age without either sending photos of my cock to random women or developing an obsessive public hatred against a marginalised group. It's not exactly a high bar, but clearly not everyone manages it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Actually that's a fair point - trivial in the digital age brt how *do* you do the Pleasantville effect with film? #totp
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
And of course Tanita Tikaram's brother Ramon is fairly well known too
a man in a suit and tie talking to a woman with ramon-tikaram-love written on the bottom
ALT: a man in a suit and tie talking to a woman with ramon-tikaram-love written on the bottom
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November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Share to scream about your illness without actually screaming
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Bluey (1910 – 1939) was a female Australian Cattle Dog owned by Les and Rosalie Hall of Rochester, Victoria. She holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest verified dog to have ever lived."

"the whole town was deeply affected by her death"
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November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you tolerate Next, then your children will be this #totp (h/t @geospacedman.bsky.social)
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ah, the Corrs. Plain as a sack of spanners the lot of them, but they've done well for all that #totp
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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No one has ever become a better parent by listening to what other people tell them on the internet.
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The propaganda images published by the US Department of Labor...I'm starting to nice a pattern.
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Me an international Art Police officer grabbing a thief surrounded by his spoils. "I have you at last! Jail for you! For ten thousand years!"

Art Thief "But I'm using it to train my AI."

Me. "Me, oh, sorry, be about your business. I'll close the door on my way out."
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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AWS outages are interesting because each time it affects more and more disparate things, each is a snapshot scan of the metastatic cancer infecting the internet.
October 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Only really know Tusk off The Dance live show, so I forget how much slower the original album version is. #toto
October 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM