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Gareth Rimmer
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Came across Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s autobiography in a charity shop. It is everything a devotee of weird history could hope for
Photo of a page of a book: I didn't realise that the people who came to the house were often famous. There was the nice man who stood on his head to amuse me and who I called Udi who was Yehudi Menuhin. He once said to my mother, 'Molly, I love you because you never ask me to bring my violin.' Of course he sometimes did. There was the funny little man who once cooked a sponge cake in a frying pan to entertain me who was Philip Harben, the first TV cook. There was the sweet Welshman who sang to me with a wonderful voice who was Harry Secombe. There was the serious Scotsman Uncle Alex Fleming who did tricks of legerdemain to divert me; and so many others. One of my mother's great friends was Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie who would sweep in smelling wonderful and call me poppet. She was lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, and when the King was alive she used to collect risqué jokes from my father for the QM to tell the King who adored them. She was the woman who had introduced the Prince of Wales to Wallis Simpson, thereby doing the country a great favour, as she put it. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VIll, had a very unpleasant side; he was also born with one ball and a tiny penis so his obsession with Wallis was entirely sexual, and by using alum to… …shrink her vagina and cold cream to lubricate it she enabled him to have 'normal' sex for the first time. As Audrey said, he wasn't a potential breeder so had the monarchy survived him we would have ended up with Queen Elizabeth in any event.
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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loreandordure.com
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)

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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
grfrmr.bsky.social
Here’s a list of books and things that I like and recommend.

Could be useful if you need Christmas gift ideas for the middle aged designerd in your life

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Things I Like and Recommend | Design Essentials — Gareth Rimmer
A list of my favourite books, tools and products: all well-made, functional and built to last. A perfect gift guide for anyone who loves design
garethrimmer.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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nickwalker.bsky.social
Did you know there are service stations in Russia that have made unlicensed use of the Octan branding as seen in LEGO? maps.app.goo.gl/uiSP3nTKrkpz...
Google street view capture of an Octan service station in Oryol Oblast, Russia The box of the LEGO City Service Station set featuring an Octan petrol station
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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jontofski.bsky.social
We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
Har har yes

(by Instagram user @art_storefronts)
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Pie chart titled "PERKS OF BEING AN ARTIST". The chart has three unlabeled segments (light blue, orange, purple), implying the absence of the listed perks: "money" (red in legend, not on chart), "work-life balance" (purple in legend, purple on chart), and "making family proud" (yellow in legend, not on chart). The joke is the disconnect between the expected perks and the empty or ironically represented segments.
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ripcinema.bsky.social
nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007
Akinator, the mind reading genie
Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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n-auchterlounie.bsky.social
"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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sonofbengt.bsky.social
Can confirm
August 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
August 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bryb.bsky.social
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
August 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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garius.bsky.social
This is the most dangerous shade your brush water can be.
Brush water that looks like tea
August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
grfrmr.bsky.social
From Understanding Comics by @scottmccloud.bsky.social 👌
June 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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barcajim3.bsky.social
Thanks again to Facebook memories for reminding of the day the designer at Ford, who loved Roland Rat, got his own way
June 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social
What’s made of brass and sounds like Tom Jones?

Trombones.
May 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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kohler.bsky.social
ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered
book with the title "what's cooking potatoes" food storage item called "stay fresh cheese bags"
May 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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adamschiff.com
Tariffs like these raise prices and don't work.

But if you skipped class the day we all learned that – here's a refresher:
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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preachypreach.bsky.social
Unexpected Koyaanisqatsi in London Bridge station this am
February 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Hooray! It’s a Top Of The Pops repeat from the era that we nicked the pre-show rundown from.

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Classic Top Of The Pops
YouTube video by TVGCity
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February 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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bell.bz
for my fellow aphex fans
February 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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garypanton.co.uk
Some rejected #Gladiators names.
January 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM