Paul Belmonte
@paulbelmonte.bsky.social
BSL/English interpreter, trainer, theatre lover, muppet
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Nothing like a little bit of good news to brighten up a Friday 😀😀😀😀
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nothing like a little bit of good news to brighten up a Friday 😀😀😀😀
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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I would love to see you there!
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I’m a sign language interpreter. I’ve been pondering for months the best way to sign “populism”. Asked a deaf person and they came up with the perfect visual depiction in under two seconds. A real reminder that I am privileged to work with a language that does not belong to me
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I’m a sign language interpreter. I’ve been pondering for months the best way to sign “populism”. Asked a deaf person and they came up with the perfect visual depiction in under two seconds. A real reminder that I am privileged to work with a language that does not belong to me
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At least when the Tories destroyed the country, they did it on purpose
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
At least when the Tories destroyed the country, they did it on purpose
I would laugh so hard if Trump didn’t get this one either 😂
this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
the first what now
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I would laugh so hard if Trump didn’t get this one either 😂
Got to love when the clocks go back an hour when I have an early flight. Arrived at the airport 05.15 and still managed a full 6 hours kip!
October 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Got to love when the clocks go back an hour when I have an early flight. Arrived at the airport 05.15 and still managed a full 6 hours kip!
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If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Who’s your favorite reccurring (that is not part of the regular cast but kept showing up) sitcom character?
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Who’s your favorite reccurring (that is not part of the regular cast but kept showing up) sitcom character?
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Dear Laura Kuenssberg
Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery?
You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT
WHY?
#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast
Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery?
You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT
WHY?
#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast
October 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Dear Laura Kuenssberg
Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery?
You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT
WHY?
#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast
Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery?
You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT
WHY?
#bbclaurak
#BBCBreakfast
Unsolicited dik dik pic
October 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Unsolicited dik dik pic
Dear Nobel Prize Committee, Please please please give the Peace Prize to Greta. 1. She deserves it. And 2. The rage from Washington would just be so fucking funny
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Dear Nobel Prize Committee, Please please please give the Peace Prize to Greta. 1. She deserves it. And 2. The rage from Washington would just be so fucking funny
He says it’s not about skin colour but a “preponderance” of one kind of people in a community. My area of Edinburgh has a “preponderance” of white people but I suspect Jenrick wouldn’t complain about that. Racist prick.
So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
He says it’s not about skin colour but a “preponderance” of one kind of people in a community. My area of Edinburgh has a “preponderance” of white people but I suspect Jenrick wouldn’t complain about that. Racist prick.
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RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon
October 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon
I wonder what the female fish sound like 🐟
Scientists are eavesdropping on fish to research and record the strange and subtle sounds they make underwater.
So far, they have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts.
So far, they have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts.
What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.
Scientists using new ways to eavesdrop on fish have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts in underwater recordings.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I wonder what the female fish sound like 🐟
Great to see Twickers full for #RWC final. England full back is incredible. I wish I could hear the ref properly. England will win this by 50.
September 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Great to see Twickers full for #RWC final. England full back is incredible. I wish I could hear the ref properly. England will win this by 50.
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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
Favourite 10 TV comedies in the order I think of them
Still Game
Derry Girls
Red Dwarf
Early Simpsons
This Way Up
Frasier
The Thick of It
Northern Exposure
Chewin the Fat
The Good Life
Still Game
Derry Girls
Red Dwarf
Early Simpsons
This Way Up
Frasier
The Thick of It
Northern Exposure
Chewin the Fat
The Good Life
Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Hancock's Half Hour/Hancock
Community
The Day Today
First ten years of The Simpsons
How Do You Want Me?
The League of Gentlemen
Ever Decreasing Circles
Dad's Army until James Beck dies
Big Train S1
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Hancock's Half Hour/Hancock
Community
The Day Today
First ten years of The Simpsons
How Do You Want Me?
The League of Gentlemen
Ever Decreasing Circles
Dad's Army until James Beck dies
Big Train S1
Okay fine. Favourite 10 tv comedies. In order that I think of them.
Mid Morning Matters
Father Ted
Look Around You
The Day Today
One Foot In The Grave
Human Remains
The Office (UK)
30 Rock
The Simpsons (until the mid to late 90s)
The Thick of It
Mid Morning Matters
Father Ted
Look Around You
The Day Today
One Foot In The Grave
Human Remains
The Office (UK)
30 Rock
The Simpsons (until the mid to late 90s)
The Thick of It
September 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Favourite 10 TV comedies in the order I think of them
Still Game
Derry Girls
Red Dwarf
Early Simpsons
This Way Up
Frasier
The Thick of It
Northern Exposure
Chewin the Fat
The Good Life
Still Game
Derry Girls
Red Dwarf
Early Simpsons
This Way Up
Frasier
The Thick of It
Northern Exposure
Chewin the Fat
The Good Life
I am privileged teach a session to interpreters about deaf/interpreter power dynamics. It leads to reflective discussion.
Been talking to a deaf academic from Texas who has had her lessons on the same subject cancelled.
A deaf person is banned from talking about power.
God bless America 🇺🇸
Been talking to a deaf academic from Texas who has had her lessons on the same subject cancelled.
A deaf person is banned from talking about power.
God bless America 🇺🇸
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I am privileged teach a session to interpreters about deaf/interpreter power dynamics. It leads to reflective discussion.
Been talking to a deaf academic from Texas who has had her lessons on the same subject cancelled.
A deaf person is banned from talking about power.
God bless America 🇺🇸
Been talking to a deaf academic from Texas who has had her lessons on the same subject cancelled.
A deaf person is banned from talking about power.
God bless America 🇺🇸
Post five pleasures in life:
1. The smell of fresh basil as you add it to a ragù
2. Climbing into a bed made up with clean sheets
3. Swimming in an empty pool (of people, not of water)
4. Coffee and a pastry at a sunny pavement cafe
5. Being happy to see people and them being happy to see you
1. The smell of fresh basil as you add it to a ragù
2. Climbing into a bed made up with clean sheets
3. Swimming in an empty pool (of people, not of water)
4. Coffee and a pastry at a sunny pavement cafe
5. Being happy to see people and them being happy to see you
Post five pleasures in life:
1. Waking up to realise it *is* actually saturday
2. Reading a new book by your favourite author
3. The cat deciding it's your lap they want to snooze on today
4. Putting the world to rights over a whisky with your mate
5. Realising it's now Big Jumper season
1. Waking up to realise it *is* actually saturday
2. Reading a new book by your favourite author
3. The cat deciding it's your lap they want to snooze on today
4. Putting the world to rights over a whisky with your mate
5. Realising it's now Big Jumper season
Post five pleasures in life:
1) The first pint in a pub after a week’s work
2) Lying on your back on the beach listening to the sea
3) Holding someone you love
4) A mug of tea in the sun first thing in the morning
5) Standing alone in a forest hearing the wind in the branches
1) The first pint in a pub after a week’s work
2) Lying on your back on the beach listening to the sea
3) Holding someone you love
4) A mug of tea in the sun first thing in the morning
5) Standing alone in a forest hearing the wind in the branches
September 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Post five pleasures in life:
1. The smell of fresh basil as you add it to a ragù
2. Climbing into a bed made up with clean sheets
3. Swimming in an empty pool (of people, not of water)
4. Coffee and a pastry at a sunny pavement cafe
5. Being happy to see people and them being happy to see you
1. The smell of fresh basil as you add it to a ragù
2. Climbing into a bed made up with clean sheets
3. Swimming in an empty pool (of people, not of water)
4. Coffee and a pastry at a sunny pavement cafe
5. Being happy to see people and them being happy to see you
I will never forget sharing a stage with Erin Doherty at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 and being blown away by her performance. I said to the DSM “She’s getting an Oscar one day”. She’s just got her Emmy. I wish I’d put money on it now. Honestly one of the best actors I have ever seen work
September 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I will never forget sharing a stage with Erin Doherty at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 and being blown away by her performance. I said to the DSM “She’s getting an Oscar one day”. She’s just got her Emmy. I wish I’d put money on it now. Honestly one of the best actors I have ever seen work
I’m thinking of it! (Just wish I’d brought my car)
September 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m thinking of it! (Just wish I’d brought my car)
