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Eddie Duffy
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Biped. Omnivorous. 32 teeth, namely 8 grinders, 8 premolars, 4 wisdom, 4 eye-teeth and 8 incisive. Sheds coat in the spring. Age known by greyness of hair.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/LegalAdviceUK by user Fun-Blueberry-2147. The post describes that the user’s sister, who has schizophrenia, admitted herself to the hospital after believing someone was communicating with her through her smart fridge, which turned out to be an LED screen advertisement. The post explains that she spent two days under monitoring with medication adjustments and that the specific ad she saw included her name, making it especially distressing. The user questions the legality of such targeted or unsettling ads on smart appliances in the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD.

It is a little-known fact that, from 1978 to 1982, my family, their friends & I starred in some of Britain's most acclaimed, yet rarely-seen, low-budget folk horror films.

I've summarised the plots from these cult classics below in the alt text, beginning with...

1. Dragon Cottage (1978)
Bored out of their tiny brains after being transported against their will to a cottage on a Welsh mountainside by their vague and foppish parents, Holly and her thug brother David find an old ouija board in a gap in a stone wall and begin to experiment with it, calling up the spirits of the long-dead creatures of the mountain, learning in the process that animals were often far bigger and more interesting in the past. Now largely known for the overused internet meme of the scene where Holly surveys a passing fox and says “I ain’t interested in that: it’s shit and small”, Dragon Cottage is in fact a multilayered comment on parental neglect and the bad weather that dogged the British Isles for much of the 1970s, beloved amongst true connoisseurs for its deeply moving final scene, where the constantly dungareed David is nonchalantly decapitated while Holly, far too involved in her own burgeoning passions to notice, rides off ebulliently in the direction of Llandrindod Wells on a giant extinct species of horse.
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
How the Daily Mail has responded to a Budget that will slightly raise wages for young people, vs how they responded to a Budget that almost crashed the entire economy
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
eddieduffy.bsky.social
A touch of the Adam Driver about ol' Hank here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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andrewmale.bsky.social
#Hank
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November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Ah the 1970s.

Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Look at the absolute state of him. Preening and ridiculous.
October 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.

After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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peterchilvers.com
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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bleary.off-the-records.com
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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sethdmichaels.bsky.social
AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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molly.wiki
slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
There's officially been more accountability for corporate extramarital affairs at Coldplay concerts than there's been for the sitting president covering up a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.
July 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
eddieduffy.bsky.social
After a few 'purple first' days, today's purple was only achievable by elimination for folk this side of the pond. #dividedbyacommonlanguage

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July 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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seanreynard.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Why say it in five syllables when you can say it in one?
June 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Alabama heard everyone making fun of them for sending Ball Coach Tuberville to the Senate so they decided to send someone even dumber out of spite.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 24
Katie Britt: "President Trump is gonna win the Nobel Peace Prize. No doubt."
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Just want to express once again my contempt for all the mainstream and libertarian platforms that promoted this loathsome discount Goebbels. Shame on you.
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jun 10
Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...
June 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
eddieduffy.bsky.social
Explaining why might give away a clue, so let's just say that the only way I was ever going to get blue today was by elimination.

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June 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
eddieduffy.bsky.social
Narrowly avoided "death by 'one away'" today. #phew

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June 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
eddieduffy.bsky.social
Will settle for that. Very American today, with one category I knew nothing about, and two other words used in a way I'd never seen before.

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April 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
eddieduffy.bsky.social
Stared at this one for ages before I could even get started. But having to dig deep forced me to eke out the purple first. Turns out the reason I was puzzled is my complete lack of knowledge in one of the subjects.

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April 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM