Mick
@killiemesoftly.bsky.social
I’m a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of edam.
Love Telly, Film, Comics and Music (not necessarily in that order)
Love Telly, Film, Comics and Music (not necessarily in that order)
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 35% full.
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 35% full.
Comedy is a young person’s game Chapter 1357
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Comedy is a young person’s game Chapter 1357
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It would have been Bernard Cribbins' 97th birthday today.
My class made a video to go with his 'Right, Said Fred' and I gave him a copy.
He asked for the names of every child involved.
A couple.of weeks later, the school received a box of goodies and handwritten notes for every child.
A legend.
My class made a video to go with his 'Right, Said Fred' and I gave him a copy.
He asked for the names of every child involved.
A couple.of weeks later, the school received a box of goodies and handwritten notes for every child.
A legend.
December 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It would have been Bernard Cribbins' 97th birthday today.
My class made a video to go with his 'Right, Said Fred' and I gave him a copy.
He asked for the names of every child involved.
A couple.of weeks later, the school received a box of goodies and handwritten notes for every child.
A legend.
My class made a video to go with his 'Right, Said Fred' and I gave him a copy.
He asked for the names of every child involved.
A couple.of weeks later, the school received a box of goodies and handwritten notes for every child.
A legend.
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Remembering Bob Monkhouse who passed away on this date in 2003 😇🙏
December 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Remembering Bob Monkhouse who passed away on this date in 2003 😇🙏
I am listening to the new reissue of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night. What a gloriously beautiful album. It pretends it’s shabby but it’s genuinely flawless.
December 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I am listening to the new reissue of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night. What a gloriously beautiful album. It pretends it’s shabby but it’s genuinely flawless.
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Forgot Alex Chilton's birthday yesterday. 1970, Chelsea Hotel stairwell, holding a copy of The Byrds' (Untitled).
📷 Michael O'Brien
📷 Michael O'Brien
December 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Forgot Alex Chilton's birthday yesterday. 1970, Chelsea Hotel stairwell, holding a copy of The Byrds' (Untitled).
📷 Michael O'Brien
📷 Michael O'Brien
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Very good. I would add on “8)” - people going “it was a long time ago” are contributing to the same problem of “citizenship is conditional” that they are trying to oppose. He could have sent those tweets today and he would still be a British citizen.
Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.
December 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Very good. I would add on “8)” - people going “it was a long time ago” are contributing to the same problem of “citizenship is conditional” that they are trying to oppose. He could have sent those tweets today and he would still be a British citizen.
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28 Dec 1978, Rolling Stone mag voted 'Some Girls' Album of the Year. The cover featured The Rolling Stones in drag alongside female celebs & lingerie ads. The cover ran into trouble when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli, Raquel Welch & Marilyn Monroe's estate all threatened legal action.
December 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
28 Dec 1978, Rolling Stone mag voted 'Some Girls' Album of the Year. The cover featured The Rolling Stones in drag alongside female celebs & lingerie ads. The cover ran into trouble when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli, Raquel Welch & Marilyn Monroe's estate all threatened legal action.
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This is one of those rare days when Jacob Rees-Mogg, writing in the Spectator, said it best
(Yes, I'm taking any excuse to repost this one partly because it's really well-written but also because I enjoy how much it breaks people's brains On Here)
(Yes, I'm taking any excuse to repost this one partly because it's really well-written but also because I enjoy how much it breaks people's brains On Here)
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is one of those rare days when Jacob Rees-Mogg, writing in the Spectator, said it best
(Yes, I'm taking any excuse to repost this one partly because it's really well-written but also because I enjoy how much it breaks people's brains On Here)
(Yes, I'm taking any excuse to repost this one partly because it's really well-written but also because I enjoy how much it breaks people's brains On Here)
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Reminded, by something else, of the peak opening biographical paragraph on Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_...
December 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reminded, by something else, of the peak opening biographical paragraph on Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_...
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“Chancery Lane New Station - Opens June 25”, by Charles W. Baker, 1934.
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Chancery Lane New Station - Opens June 25”, by Charles W. Baker, 1934.
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Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
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Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
Brigadune
DUNE III: THE DUNE ABIDES
DUNESTRUCK
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Brigadune
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Me: that's it. I've moved past detail. I'm going to be a cool artist with simple, efficient lines
The next day:
The next day:
December 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Me: that's it. I've moved past detail. I'm going to be a cool artist with simple, efficient lines
The next day:
The next day:
Jesus wept
Dipped into ep.4 of the Liz Truss Show for no more than a minute (using mirror site that does not boost numbers or revenue yewtu.be/channel/UCpI...). Quite aside from the INSANITY of what she says, camera is focussed on background, not her, THROUGHOUT. And what's up with the candy cane on the books?
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Jesus wept
Now to catch up on some reading.
December 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Now to catch up on some reading.
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Trump tells the press as he meets with Zelenskyy, "I think you could sit outside and have some food. Would you like to have food or do you consider that a bribe, and therefore you cannot write honestly? ... Margo, take them outside and tell the chef to serve them good lunch."
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump tells the press as he meets with Zelenskyy, "I think you could sit outside and have some food. Would you like to have food or do you consider that a bribe, and therefore you cannot write honestly? ... Margo, take them outside and tell the chef to serve them good lunch."
As a documentary maker I live forever in the shadow of this masterwork.
Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece
December 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As a documentary maker I live forever in the shadow of this masterwork.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
#Nowlistening One of the best live albums ever!
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#Nowlistening One of the best live albums ever!
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Wisdom from the old man
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Wisdom from the old man