Mim
@troublerabbit.bsky.social
Unfathomably twee creature. Big nerd. QI Elf. Aspiring stand-up. Falls off things a lot.
Loving Juno Dawson’s HMRC trilogy. Anyone else a fan? They’re really fun books. Tearing through them at a rate of knots.
August 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Loving Juno Dawson’s HMRC trilogy. Anyone else a fan? They’re really fun books. Tearing through them at a rate of knots.
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Going outside but shaking my head the whole time so people know I don’t agree with what’s going on
November 6, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Going outside but shaking my head the whole time so people know I don’t agree with what’s going on
Stand up comedy thoughts:
- Lots of nights these days encourage people not to heckle. That’s nice! Love that.
- many people are really friendly and supportive and it’s been a delight to meet other aspiring comics.
Can you tell I’m about to go “But-“?
I’m about to go “But-“.
- Lots of nights these days encourage people not to heckle. That’s nice! Love that.
- many people are really friendly and supportive and it’s been a delight to meet other aspiring comics.
Can you tell I’m about to go “But-“?
I’m about to go “But-“.
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Stand up comedy thoughts:
- Lots of nights these days encourage people not to heckle. That’s nice! Love that.
- many people are really friendly and supportive and it’s been a delight to meet other aspiring comics.
Can you tell I’m about to go “But-“?
I’m about to go “But-“.
- Lots of nights these days encourage people not to heckle. That’s nice! Love that.
- many people are really friendly and supportive and it’s been a delight to meet other aspiring comics.
Can you tell I’m about to go “But-“?
I’m about to go “But-“.
So I’ve started doing stand-up comedy, following a six week course at @angelcomedy.bsky.social. I have the bug real bad. It’s SO much fun. Last night was my fourth ever gig, and my best one yet, I reckon. I met Alan Francis, who was closing the show, and he said I was “really good” and made my YEAR.
August 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
So I’ve started doing stand-up comedy, following a six week course at @angelcomedy.bsky.social. I have the bug real bad. It’s SO much fun. Last night was my fourth ever gig, and my best one yet, I reckon. I met Alan Francis, who was closing the show, and he said I was “really good” and made my YEAR.
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In the Ewe language, an equivalent phrase to “between a rock and a hard place” is hlo madekotoku; kpakpla tse do, makplamakpla ha do. It means “you’ve got yourself a problem if you carry a porcupine in a sack or not.”
July 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In the Ewe language, an equivalent phrase to “between a rock and a hard place” is hlo madekotoku; kpakpla tse do, makplamakpla ha do. It means “you’ve got yourself a problem if you carry a porcupine in a sack or not.”
Honestly the most delightful thing I have seen all week.
Happy World Porcupine Day! For those wondering what a baby porcupine is called, it’s a porcupette. For those wondering what a group of porcupines is called, it’s a prickle. And for those wondering what porcupines sound like, turn up your volume for this smol guy called Kemosabe nomming on a banana…
July 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Honestly the most delightful thing I have seen all week.
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There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?"
99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
June 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?"
99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
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I feel I have been "like a crocodile in a wallet factory" many times in my life.
There’s a Dutch phrase about feeling anxious that translates to “shitting seven colours of sludge.” A Bulgarian version is “deep in thought like a fat pig before Christmas.” But my favourite variant is the Puerto Rican como cocodrilo en fábrica de carteras, or “like a crocodile in a wallet factory.”
June 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I feel I have been "like a crocodile in a wallet factory" many times in my life.
Hmmm. What's a good way to have a newsletter that isn't Substack?
June 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hmmm. What's a good way to have a newsletter that isn't Substack?
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Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy!
The Actual Future:
The Actual Future:
May 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy!
The Actual Future:
The Actual Future:
I read this last week. It's wonderful. I'm so grateful for it. It's exactly the book I would, if I had a TARDIS, go back to 1996 and give my younger self.
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"An LGBTQ+ story of self-acceptance and the sometimes tricky collision of religion and sexuality" -GamesRadar's EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
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✨HEY, MARY!✨
⛪OUT APRIL 15th!⛪
"An LGBTQ+ story of self-acceptance and the sometimes tricky collision of religion and sexuality" -GamesRadar's EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
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Eisner-winning writer Andrew Wheeler’s new YA graphic novel Hey, Mary! is a sweet LGBTQ+ themed tale of self acceptance
Check out a preview of Hey, Mary!
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May 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I read this last week. It's wonderful. I'm so grateful for it. It's exactly the book I would, if I had a TARDIS, go back to 1996 and give my younger self.
Hey! I was on Meet The Elves, which is bonus Patreon content for No Such Thing As A Fish! Learn how to make any garment super unfashionable with this one neat historical trick!
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May 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Hey! I was on Meet The Elves, which is bonus Patreon content for No Such Thing As A Fish! Learn how to make any garment super unfashionable with this one neat historical trick!
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International news: everything is terrible, awful, the end times
Meanwhile in Cornwall: beaver's farted again lads
Meanwhile in Cornwall: beaver's farted again lads
April 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
International news: everything is terrible, awful, the end times
Meanwhile in Cornwall: beaver's farted again lads
Meanwhile in Cornwall: beaver's farted again lads
I use “bucket”, “ladder” and “appliance” a great deal in this context.
If you want to insult someone in England you can just put words like “utter,” “total,” or “Grade A” before pretty much any inanimate object. Here are ten to get you started…
10. Parcel
9. Walnut
8. Flannel
7. Donut
6. Rocket
5. Helmet
4. Pancake
3. Hoop
2. Plum
1. Wet wipe
10. Parcel
9. Walnut
8. Flannel
7. Donut
6. Rocket
5. Helmet
4. Pancake
3. Hoop
2. Plum
1. Wet wipe
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I use “bucket”, “ladder” and “appliance” a great deal in this context.
Found out today that the word ‘rebarbative’, meaning repellant/grim etc, is from the Latin for ‘beard’, as in ‘irritating and prickly, like a beard’. OED links it to the idea of confrontationally standing ‘beard-to-beard’. Sorry, beardy friends. (I do not find you rebarbative. I married one of you.)
April 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Found out today that the word ‘rebarbative’, meaning repellant/grim etc, is from the Latin for ‘beard’, as in ‘irritating and prickly, like a beard’. OED links it to the idea of confrontationally standing ‘beard-to-beard’. Sorry, beardy friends. (I do not find you rebarbative. I married one of you.)
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People have interpreted this as a call for a boycott, when I actually want a wealth tax so aggressive it'd make Lenin say, "steady on, lad" if Lenin talked like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
A lot of people want to separate the art from the artist, but I would settle for separating the artist from her money.
April 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
People have interpreted this as a call for a boycott, when I actually want a wealth tax so aggressive it'd make Lenin say, "steady on, lad" if Lenin talked like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
I did not study natural sciences because I like to leave my house without the cursed knowledge that centipedes can mug bats to death, and yet here we are, I have failed to remain in my protective pod of iambic pentameter and now I Know Too Much
April 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I did not study natural sciences because I like to leave my house without the cursed knowledge that centipedes can mug bats to death, and yet here we are, I have failed to remain in my protective pod of iambic pentameter and now I Know Too Much
"May I have permission to use your photo of a giant centipede hanging off a cave ceiling, lying in wait for a bat, and murdering it? I am absolutely fine about the Nature your very informative paper has educated me about, and didn't want to leave my house again anyway".
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"May I have permission to use your photo of a giant centipede hanging off a cave ceiling, lying in wait for a bat, and murdering it? I am absolutely fine about the Nature your very informative paper has educated me about, and didn't want to leave my house again anyway".
Have read too much lore about deep sea fish this week. Learned about some very large creatures. Increasingly coming to the conclusion that the sea is terrifying. I just - we should leave it alone, you know. We should be cautious about the shit that's Dwelling down there.
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Have read too much lore about deep sea fish this week. Learned about some very large creatures. Increasingly coming to the conclusion that the sea is terrifying. I just - we should leave it alone, you know. We should be cautious about the shit that's Dwelling down there.
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Local post official
March 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Local post official
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Aspiring today to the self-confidence levels of the Eats & Bits shop at White City tube.
March 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Aspiring today to the self-confidence levels of the Eats & Bits shop at White City tube.
This is what the other side said. If you're wondering what the product was, it was a small CD player.
Mim, how do you feel about the ancient tech you got so you could play the CDs you were bought for your birthday?
"Inexpressible newfound joy," I stammer as I am transported back to 1999
Mim, how do you feel about the ancient tech you got so you could play the CDs you were bought for your birthday?
"Inexpressible newfound joy," I stammer as I am transported back to 1999
March 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is what the other side said. If you're wondering what the product was, it was a small CD player.
Mim, how do you feel about the ancient tech you got so you could play the CDs you were bought for your birthday?
"Inexpressible newfound joy," I stammer as I am transported back to 1999
Mim, how do you feel about the ancient tech you got so you could play the CDs you were bought for your birthday?
"Inexpressible newfound joy," I stammer as I am transported back to 1999
larp at the V&A! care bears at the V&A! falling off things at the V&A! ... MARXISM at the V&A??????
you know, I'm not actually sure that's true
March 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
larp at the V&A! care bears at the V&A! falling off things at the V&A! ... MARXISM at the V&A??????