Jombucha
@mangetout.bsky.social
Fraud-fighter and wannabe philanthropic entrepreneur. Help me?
Inclined to making terrible jokes.
https://twitter.com/mangetout and basically anywhere else I could get the handle.
Inclined to making terrible jokes.
https://twitter.com/mangetout and basically anywhere else I could get the handle.
You pays your money, you takes your choice.
There's a lot of discussion about British bands that never translated across the pond, and the elephant in the room is Status Quo, with around 50 top 40 singles in the UK over 40 years. They have no column for charting US singles because there were none. Only Camper van Beethoven saves them.
Status Quo discography - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
You pays your money, you takes your choice.
So sodding angry with work that I'm tempted to crawl back to a previous job.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
So sodding angry with work that I'm tempted to crawl back to a previous job.
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do you know any Canadians who got boiled to death at work? I bet you don't, because we've all seen this PSA about 400 times
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2...
WSIB - Top Chef (2007, Canada)
YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
do you know any Canadians who got boiled to death at work? I bet you don't, because we've all seen this PSA about 400 times
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2...
Always funny double-take when a length-limited data field cuts Manurewa off at 6 characters.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Always funny double-take when a length-limited data field cuts Manurewa off at 6 characters.
No bank, ever, will ask you to write down your PIN.
And they won't ask you to leave your card in your letterbox with said PIN for collection by staff.
This is not a thing.
Please don't.
And they won't ask you to leave your card in your letterbox with said PIN for collection by staff.
This is not a thing.
Please don't.
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
No bank, ever, will ask you to write down your PIN.
And they won't ask you to leave your card in your letterbox with said PIN for collection by staff.
This is not a thing.
Please don't.
And they won't ask you to leave your card in your letterbox with said PIN for collection by staff.
This is not a thing.
Please don't.
Shelley was also excited by internet technology, which is why he subtitled the book The Modem Prometheus
#kerninghumour
#kerninghumour
Meanwhile, on twitter, did you know that Mary Shelley never could have written Frankenstein (which is about magnets as you know) because her boyfriend was really into magnets?
In fact, when you think about it, that's why women in general don't write great literature (chicks aren't into magnets).
In fact, when you think about it, that's why women in general don't write great literature (chicks aren't into magnets).
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Shelley was also excited by internet technology, which is why he subtitled the book The Modem Prometheus
#kerninghumour
#kerninghumour
So he paid ICE with the money?
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
So he paid ICE with the money?
My personal Bond dream is 5 diverse WannaBonds are competing for the 00 badge, and they all win, making future escapade movies for their own audiences.
You want your white hetero homogeneBond? You got it! And you don't have to watch the others.
You want your white hetero homogeneBond? You got it! And you don't have to watch the others.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My personal Bond dream is 5 diverse WannaBonds are competing for the 00 badge, and they all win, making future escapade movies for their own audiences.
You want your white hetero homogeneBond? You got it! And you don't have to watch the others.
You want your white hetero homogeneBond? You got it! And you don't have to watch the others.
Oh crikey. So one reason that awful Zuck is somehow right that people want videos is because people can't actually read new things?
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Oh crikey. So one reason that awful Zuck is somehow right that people want videos is because people can't actually read new things?
So a guy I know is a single issue voter. And that issue is that AoNZ should be a country with a single set of rights regardless as to race.
So he votes ACT.
Disagrees on tax, guns, etc, but this one issue is enough.
Seymour, and the money sources that made him, is such a curse.
So he votes ACT.
Disagrees on tax, guns, etc, but this one issue is enough.
Seymour, and the money sources that made him, is such a curse.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So a guy I know is a single issue voter. And that issue is that AoNZ should be a country with a single set of rights regardless as to race.
So he votes ACT.
Disagrees on tax, guns, etc, but this one issue is enough.
Seymour, and the money sources that made him, is such a curse.
So he votes ACT.
Disagrees on tax, guns, etc, but this one issue is enough.
Seymour, and the money sources that made him, is such a curse.
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
It's no longer extreme weather. It's weather.
Torrential rainfall in the Brazilian city of Belem flooded pavements outside the venue for the #COP30 climate talks. Scientists say climate change is making extreme weather events more common.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It's no longer extreme weather. It's weather.
Mme Mangetout has taken to watching Great British Bake-Off, which I'd never watched.
A reasonable percentage appears to be people of various accents laughing at the word "buns", so it's surprising I haven't seen it before.
A reasonable percentage appears to be people of various accents laughing at the word "buns", so it's surprising I haven't seen it before.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Mme Mangetout has taken to watching Great British Bake-Off, which I'd never watched.
A reasonable percentage appears to be people of various accents laughing at the word "buns", so it's surprising I haven't seen it before.
A reasonable percentage appears to be people of various accents laughing at the word "buns", so it's surprising I haven't seen it before.
I dunno.
You run a bank well, and everyone complains.
You run a bank badly, and everyone complains.
Yes, obscene profits are obscene, but we don't want any of the banks to actually fail, do we?
You run a bank well, and everyone complains.
You run a bank badly, and everyone complains.
Yes, obscene profits are obscene, but we don't want any of the banks to actually fail, do we?
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I dunno.
You run a bank well, and everyone complains.
You run a bank badly, and everyone complains.
Yes, obscene profits are obscene, but we don't want any of the banks to actually fail, do we?
You run a bank well, and everyone complains.
You run a bank badly, and everyone complains.
Yes, obscene profits are obscene, but we don't want any of the banks to actually fail, do we?
Big truth in many contexts.
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Big truth in many contexts.
One part of me wants them to run on this because it is, objectively, a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas have won too many elections.
But terrible ideas have won too many elections.
National to mull asset sales as part of next election, Christopher Luxon says
National to mull asset sales as part of next election, Christopher Luxon says
But the prime minister has ruled out asset sales this term.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
One part of me wants them to run on this because it is, objectively, a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas have won too many elections.
But terrible ideas have won too many elections.
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Humbled to have been elected a lifetime fellow of Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand (GFANZ) in recognition of my public education efforts around the facts of so-called de-extinction. Other fellows include the fantastic @siouxsiew.bsky.social genomics.nz/gfanz-fellows/ 1/2
GFANZ Fellows - Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand
Fellows of GFANZ These are the Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand Fellows. To be elected to Fellowship of the Society, one has to have made an outstanding contribution to the Society, or to the field o...
genomics.nz
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Humbled to have been elected a lifetime fellow of Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand (GFANZ) in recognition of my public education efforts around the facts of so-called de-extinction. Other fellows include the fantastic @siouxsiew.bsky.social genomics.nz/gfanz-fellows/ 1/2
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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Republicans, Democrats, Greens
Corporate dollars pumping into all three
Corporate dollars pumping into all three
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Republicans, Democrats, Greens
Corporate dollars pumping into all three
Corporate dollars pumping into all three
I wonder what the average GoFundme gets per person on bsky compared to Truth Social?
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I wonder what the average GoFundme gets per person on bsky compared to Truth Social?
I suppose we should be grateful. Captain Kirk would've tried to sleep with it.
For science, obv.
For science, obv.
I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I suppose we should be grateful. Captain Kirk would've tried to sleep with it.
For science, obv.
For science, obv.
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Love is in the Air was cowritten by a man who had two far more famous musical brothers.
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Love is in the Air was cowritten by a man who had two far more famous musical brothers.