Alan B
@gallonofalan.bsky.social
(Bloke\chap)
Irk the purists, it's a right good laugh.
Irk the purists, it's a right good laugh.
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Alan B
@gallonofalan.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Oddities And One Hit Wonders Of The UK Top 40
open.spotify.com
open.spotify.com/playlist/1w6...
88 hrs of hits from 1970 up until about 1999. Novelty songs, strange one-offs, instrumentals, football songs, military bands, TV themes, Christmas songs, collaborations. If it's not there chances are it's not on Spotify. No Jonathan King or Rolf Harris 😬 #totp
88 hrs of hits from 1970 up until about 1999. Novelty songs, strange one-offs, instrumentals, football songs, military bands, TV themes, Christmas songs, collaborations. If it's not there chances are it's not on Spotify. No Jonathan King or Rolf Harris 😬 #totp
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Hearing a lot about Gorton & Denton recently, they really were responsible for some of the best British comedy writing of the 70s.
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Hearing a lot about Gorton & Denton recently, they really were responsible for some of the best British comedy writing of the 70s.
Sounds like the optimum penis configuration for casual sex encounters.
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«Be Perky! Plump! Protected!»
«Be Perky! Plump! Protected!»
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Sounds like the optimum penis configuration for casual sex encounters.
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Got a photo of a fox on my way home. Accidentally also got a photo of a man with one leg fighting a woman for trying to steal his wheelchair.
Redcar.
Redcar.
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Got a photo of a fox on my way home. Accidentally also got a photo of a man with one leg fighting a woman for trying to steal his wheelchair.
Redcar.
Redcar.
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#Planetoftheapes premiered on February 8, 1968, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
Fuck's sake...
@barneyfarmer.bsky.social
Fuck's sake...
@barneyfarmer.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 12:24 AM
#Planetoftheapes premiered on February 8, 1968, at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
Fuck's sake...
@barneyfarmer.bsky.social
Fuck's sake...
@barneyfarmer.bsky.social
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I’m generally against parents using their children for content on social media but I have decided I will make exactly one exception
February 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I’m generally against parents using their children for content on social media but I have decided I will make exactly one exception
Introduce yourself with 5 songs:
Forty Six & 2 by Tool
A Day In The Life by The Beatles
Three Days by Jane's Addiction
The Real Thing by Faith No More
As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea by Cardiacs
Forty Six & 2 by Tool
A Day In The Life by The Beatles
Three Days by Jane's Addiction
The Real Thing by Faith No More
As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea by Cardiacs
Introduce yourself with 5 songs:
Dirty Work by Halestorm
The Sexy Data Tango by Aurelio Voltaire
Hooks In You by Iron Maiden
Just The One by The Levellers
Little by Little by Alice Cooper
Dirty Work by Halestorm
The Sexy Data Tango by Aurelio Voltaire
Hooks In You by Iron Maiden
Just The One by The Levellers
Little by Little by Alice Cooper
Introduce yourself with 5 songs:
* Pico and Sepúlveda, Felix Figueroa
* The Creator Has a Master Plan, Pharaoh Sanders
* Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family, David Bowie
* I Got the…, Labi Siffre
* Up Up Up, O Positive
* Pico and Sepúlveda, Felix Figueroa
* The Creator Has a Master Plan, Pharaoh Sanders
* Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family, David Bowie
* I Got the…, Labi Siffre
* Up Up Up, O Positive
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 songs:
Forty Six & 2 by Tool
A Day In The Life by The Beatles
Three Days by Jane's Addiction
The Real Thing by Faith No More
As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea by Cardiacs
Forty Six & 2 by Tool
A Day In The Life by The Beatles
Three Days by Jane's Addiction
The Real Thing by Faith No More
As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea by Cardiacs
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ahh.... womens ski jump. so pure, untainted by textile chicanery or penis enlargement tactics
February 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
ahh.... womens ski jump. so pure, untainted by textile chicanery or penis enlargement tactics
Opening a trouser shop called The Pantry
February 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Opening a trouser shop called The Pantry
There are actual arcade machines as bizarre as this.
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 AM
There are actual arcade machines as bizarre as this.
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic
The Old Man And The Pea
The Old Man And The Pea
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic
The Devil Wears Nada 😈
The Devil Wears Nada 😈
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic
To Thrill a Mockingbird
To Thrill a Mockingbird
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Rhyme a word, ruin a classic
The Old Man And The Pea
The Old Man And The Pea
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Saying "Lincoln was a Republican" is like saying “Kevin Spacey won an Oscar.” Technically it’s true, but a lot of shit has happened since then
December 2, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Saying "Lincoln was a Republican" is like saying “Kevin Spacey won an Oscar.” Technically it’s true, but a lot of shit has happened since then
I'm betting on black 🔥#totp
February 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I'm betting on black 🔥#totp
Ragga MC Bevmaster Bev
Did somebody say beveragino?
February 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Ragga MC Bevmaster Bev
Winter Olympix then. Looking forward to the Biathlon, best sport ever, and extremely useful training for having to ski trek a hundred miles across Norway to blow up a Nazi deuterium plant.
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Winter Olympix then. Looking forward to the Biathlon, best sport ever, and extremely useful training for having to ski trek a hundred miles across Norway to blow up a Nazi deuterium plant.
February 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Seeing chatter about moving the UK parliament since the HOP is falling apart.
They should take a cue from 2000AD and have a floating HOP at Upminster.
They should take a cue from 2000AD and have a floating HOP at Upminster.
February 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Seeing chatter about moving the UK parliament since the HOP is falling apart.
They should take a cue from 2000AD and have a floating HOP at Upminster.
They should take a cue from 2000AD and have a floating HOP at Upminster.
Waiting until your opponent has started their cue forwards while taking a shot on the pub pool table and saying "I've seen these missed" loudly.
What "core British values" has "the left" not defended? Can someone ask this sentient fucking saucepan what he means?
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Waiting until your opponent has started their cue forwards while taking a shot on the pub pool table and saying "I've seen these missed" loudly.