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Nick Stone

@typejunky.bsky.social

Can’t we just fast forward to the bit in the bunker with the cyanide capsules and the pistol.

January 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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Old UK Print Ads

@oldukprintads.bsky.social

Jan 1965: Ad for Dr Who

«GIVE YOUR CHILD a REAL DALEK!»

The advertisement promotes a 4'6" T.V. Dalek toy that a child can walk inside and control the lights and probes. It claims that the toy is safe, suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, waterproof, and non-flammable, with good vision. The toy is brightly coloured for visibility and is easily stored neatly into a box.

GIVE YOUR CHILD a REAL DALEK!

What a thrill! A real working
4' 6" T.V. Dalek to walk inside
and control the lights and
probes. The Dalek is safe,
both for inside and outdoor, is
waterproof, non-inflammable,
with good vision. Brightly
coloured, easily seen by road users. Stores neatly into box.
Guaranteed
£8.10.0 each (incl. P.T.) Carriage paid.
Send cash with order or write for leaflet to
Dept. D.T., GREEN BROS. LTD.,
Brackley, Northants.

January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM

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Viz Comic

@vizcomic.bsky.social

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BEFORE phoning the police
to tell them you have a
Kangaroo in your garden,
check it's not the next door
neighbours' greyhound taking
a dump.
Andy Pandy, e-mail

January 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM

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Nick Stone

@typejunky.bsky.social

Just remember: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

Although comparatively speaking I think I’d prefer it at the moment.

January 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM

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Jay Rayner

@jayrayner1.bsky.social

I would like to live in precedented times. You know, where the things that keep happening aren’t weird, gobsmacking and terrifying.

January 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM

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Jay Hulme

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

December 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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Prof Frank McDonough

@fxmc1957.bsky.social

Whatever happened to….

December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

@seamas.bsky.social

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.

"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".

December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM

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Coates is Odd This Day

@oddthisday.bsky.social

Just been reminded of this heartwarming picture of a rabbit and an eagle. Morning all

Small animal tracks extend across otherwise untouched snow and abruptly stop. Either side of the point where they stop, there are marks from a bird’s wings

December 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM

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Moose Allain

@mooseallain.bsky.social

I crossed a bloodhound with a sausage dog and ended up with a litter of black puddings.

December 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM

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Brian Bilston

@brianbilston.bsky.social

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

The Good Old Days

Pity the poor children
of today, with their calendars
stuffed with chocolates,

never to know the thrill
of opening a small cardboard door
and discovering behind it

a picture of a bell.

Brian Bilston

December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM

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Coates is Odd This Day

@oddthisday.bsky.social

So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”

November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM

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Quite Interesting

@qi.com

Chinese slang for a combover is ‘The local authorities provide support for the central government’. (📷: Nesnad)

November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM

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Viz Comic

@vizcomic.bsky.social

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When adjusting our clocks for British Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time, we are always reminded by the saying "Spring forward, fall back." However, my mate Alberto is an acrobat in a circus and during his performance he sometimes springs back sometimes forward and sometimes falls forward, sometimes back. Over the years the clocks in his caravan have got so out of synch that he has a roaring fire in July and wears shorts and flip flops in January.
Horlicks the clown, Somewhere-on-the-road

October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM

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Will Wiles

@willwiles.bsky.social

Andy Serkis has titled his forthcoming memoir "My Pressures" which puts him streets ahead of the competition for "dad joke of the year" if nothing else. Wonderful.

October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM

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Gary Delaney Comedian

@garydelaney.bsky.social

A story in three parts

October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM

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Gary Brannan

@garybrannan.bsky.social

From the diary of Samuel Pepys today in 1665

So I to bed, and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again.

September 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Saskia Daniel

@saskiadanielceramics.com

I bought quite a few books from Jonathan through knowing him on Twitter, even though the shop's the other side of London. I hope they manage to keep going. You can support them here too.