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Let me have books about me that are fat.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · Nov 26
Responses beginning "So..." very commonly fail the waffle test, and this is no exception; the simplest response is to discourage the behaviour by pointing this out and muting.
Tweet from Coolee Bravo @BravoCoolee - Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about
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kenwhite.bsky.social
another favorite insult during the Prenda Saga. Prenda’s lawyer was arguing - technically - to the 9th Circuit about sanctions against them and one of the judges (Pregerson?) does this:
Pregerson: You’re a good attorney
Lawyer: thank you your honor
Pregerson: it says so right on your web site
nonfinality.com Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 1h
Most understated, proportional, & well-earned take down: A man & a woman lawyer were on the same side in the Ohio Supreme Court. When the Chief Justice called the woman to the podium, the man stood up & said that they’d divide time but she’d go first. The Chief deadpanned, “That’s why I called her.”
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 3d
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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thewritertype.bsky.social
The opportunity for a period of quiet, sober reflection between the excesses of Christmas and the revelry of New Year’s Eve can easily be avoided by continuing to drink.
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
marktech.bsky.social
"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he fucking means to."
thecallisandra.bsky.social Callisandra @thecallisandra.bsky.social · 20h
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?

"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Make a Bond film casual

The Man With The Glue Gun
peternimmo.bsky.social Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 7h
Make a bond film casual

Never Say Perhaps Again
threadinburgh.scot Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 9h
Make a bond film casual

Physician Associate No
December 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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tudorcook.bsky.social
Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough
The 4 stages of eating cheese Eating cheese Still eating cheese Ate too much cheese Bit more cheese
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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curatorian.bsky.social
Antifascism is a Nazi getting booted up the bottom by a magically animated suit of armour.
warmovietheatre.bsky.social War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.bsky.social · 1d
HAPPY WAR MOVIE THEATRE NEW EPISODE DAY! And in honour of the season, it's a Christmas Special Peace To All Men Zero Bodycount episode: Bedknobs and Broomsticks! champ.ly/hdlMUPgx
December 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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arobertswrites.com
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Xmas Lemmings (1991)
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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suss2hyphens.bsky.social
It really is about the notes you don’t play
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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alreadytaken74.bsky.social
All the best, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
marktech.bsky.social
A couple of people have posted favourite poems. Here's another.
THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL by Thomas Hardy He often would ask us That, when he died, After playing so many To their last rest, If out of us any Should here abide, And it would not task us, We would with our lutes Play over him By his grave-brim The psalm he liked best - The one whose sense suits "Mount Ephraim"- And perhaps we should seem To him, in Death's dream, Like the seraphim. As soon as I knew That his spirit was gone I thought this his due, And spoke thereupon. "I think,'" said the vicar, "A read service quicker Than viols out-of-doors In these frosts and hoars. That old-fashioned way Requires a fine day, And it seems to me It had better not be.' Hence, that afternoon, Though never knew he That his wish could not be, To get through it faster They buried the master Without any tune. But 'twas said that, when At the dead of next night The vicar looked out, There struck on his ken Thronged roundabout, Where the frost was graying The headstoned grass, A band all in white Like the saints in church-glass, Singing and playing The ancient stave By the choirmaster's grave. Such the tenor man told When he had grown old.
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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mariephillips.bsky.social
A Christmas Carol 2: Hated By Parasites
I would like to see A Christmas Carol rewritten by an Objectivist. Imagine, for example, a different story: Scrooge is an altruist, has lived just for others, has forsaken his projects and values for others, specially around Christmas season. One day, he receives the visit of series of three ghosts (Roark, Rearden, Galt) who take him to different Christmas days of his life, showing him how he has been a phony, empty man. How his apparent benevolence has been driven by hate to happy and successful men. They will show him how he has wasted years in a life of self-immolation and that now he will be buried and forgotten as the rest of men. His life was only his responsibility and happines should have been his first pursuit. At some point Scrooge would awake from his dream, and start a new life of egoism. Even when already old and physically weakened, he would start his own new projects, working out, spending his own money at his leisure, enjoying life and even finding a partner and rediscovering sex. He would start being hated by parasites around him, but he would be, at last, free and happy.
December 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1746
Paddington in Die Hard (1988)
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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bryb.bsky.social
Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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harrysword.bsky.social
Just wonderful.

Monkhouse: The Last Stand (2016).

So funny. *note perfect* - and mid section where he segways into anecdotes, not stand up per se- staggeringly astute/generous - about his contemporaries (Benny Hill, Peter Sellers etc).

A quiet - final - masterclass.

youtu.be/koFrPs_80gQ?...
Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand (2016)
YouTube video by Nonautomaton
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December 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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captainhowdy.bsky.social
From me and mine to you and yours - have yourselves a merry little Christmas.
x.

🎅
A daytime wintery scene showing people with sledges on the top of a hill. Peering over the top of the hill is a kaiju-sized black and white cat, all set to pounce.
December 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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christhebarker.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Christmas treat from #Audible today
The Christmas Eve Audible Daily Deal £3.99 Deal ends @ 11:59PM. ANNIE JACOBSEN NUCLEAR WAR A SCENARIO Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen narrated by Annie, Jacobsen
December 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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ryansimmons.bsky.social
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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tinfoil-matt.bsky.social
‘The Lancashire Hotpot Marketing Board is funding Hamas’ - Tinfoil Matt, a bot by Rob who runs Fesshole, that pairs randomly generated conspiracy theories with Matt from the Telegraph’s cartoons. The image is probably one dude talking and another dude looking ‘wtf?’
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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machinepix.bsky.social
Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.
December 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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chrisstein.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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prof-hinkley.bsky.social
*advertising that my food truck has "4 Michelins"*
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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katlaronde.bsky.social
It’s that time of year again! And by that I mean time to read this hilarious story.
richycraven.bsky.social Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · Nov 27
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM