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Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.

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“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”

Was @marxculture on Twitter
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Bear: Big pause
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
youtu.be/B1VGcDrKSmk?...

One of these dogs is all of us. You will know it when you see him.
Golden Retriever Refuses To Go For A Walk
YouTube video by WeRateDogs
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December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons.

"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Are you a perv looking for a way to perv on people without them being able to easily tell that you're perving on them? We've compiled a list of the most compelling pervtech available.
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
December 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Fucking loved Tond. Go for a drive in the countryside and play it loud.
Thanks for all the kind words about TOND, the #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.

We’re really proud of it, and hope to be able to make lots more of these. So, thanks to all our supporters on Patreon.

pod.link/1745494718/e...
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
St Stephen's Day saved thanks to a spare Sonos soundbar and an optical to HDMI converter.

Now listening to music once more.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social Service Service design MA course last year had a team who redesigned the shared parental leave service for their degree project using GDS design principles. It was really excellent and I would highly recommend DWP/HMRC take a look.
December 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Sad but unsurprised to learn that only 5% of fathers take up shared parental leave. Not only does it require financial security, having just filled in the forms for mine (thanks, Jo Swinson!) they are pretty impenetrable and would fox many sub-par HR teams.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
Why shared parental leave is a monumental dud of a policy
Ten years on, it’s only used by a small percentage of parents – and many fathers haven’t even heard of the policy
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Massive long shot but is there anyone on here who lives in/near Cardiff, has a drone and would be willing to help me find my cat today? She got out at some point yesterday whilst we were away and we spotted her on a nearby roof this morning but she’s now disappeared. Please share
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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One for #TheAshes

I spent too much time making this.
December 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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An extremely nerdy Christmas quiz I did for the toy soldiers chat group I’m in for those similarly inclined looking to fire up the brain cells on Boxing Day

What links?
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Staring suspiciously at my bookshelf speakers which have given up the ghost just as the Boxing Day sales have started.
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is a great list.
hi hi! I spent a fair chunk of time in December compiling a Big List of my favourite books/movies/video games/etc of 2025, all published now, all free to read, enjoy: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-very-lon...
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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It seems the first of the new 'nine river walks' the Government announced in place of a real access policy... won't actually create any new access?

They're just upgrading the existing path and adding some signs and benches. A really rubbish level of ambition.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west
Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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hi hi! I spent a fair chunk of time in December compiling a Big List of my favourite books/movies/video games/etc of 2025, all published now, all free to read, enjoy: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-very-lon...
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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It's that day again. Happy anniversary
December 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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A seasonal ghost story…

Part of the #BrokenVeil channel on Patreon.

Now available as a Christmas gift… wherever you get your podcasts.

Patreon.com/brokenveil
December 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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A new episode of Monstrosities Mon Amour is out! The writer Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social on his love for the strange, eerie landscape of the Fens, and the joys of the psychedelic Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request. johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Fens with Tom Cox
#13. John Grindrod meets writer Tom Cox to explore the flatlands of the Fens and the Rolling Stones's most controversial album, Their Satanic Majesties Request
johngrindrod.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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France TV diffuse «le Comte de Monte-Cristo» version série, en 8 épisodes réalisés par le Danois Bille August. Une adaptation sans relief, d’une insipidité presque anachronique.
«Le Comte de Monte-Cristo» sur France TV, un enfer de Dantès
La plateforme diffuse la version en huit épisodes, anglophone et sans relief du roman de Dumas, d’une insipidité presque anachronique.
www.liberation.fr
December 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM