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Anton Karidian
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Teacher of MATHS, neophyte of GUITAR, runner of JOGS
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*belches the alphabet all the way to W*
Norman Rockwell’s 1943 “Freedom of Speech,” now on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Fun fact: 369 is 3 × 3 × 41, so technically it's not _Sum_ 41, but _Product_ 41

Contains both country *and* western
Spotify Wrapped screenshot saying "Taste like yours can't be defined. But let's try anyway. You listened to 369 genres."
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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An Alamy-watermarked still photo of Robin Williams as Mork from 'Mork & Mindy' wearing surgeons hat and mask next to Jonathan Winters (playing their son, Mork's people age backwards) breaking out from inside a giant egg
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
A photo from the set of Conan the Destroyer which shows basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (2.16m) and wrestler Andre the Giant (2.14m) dwarfing bodybuilder/actor Arnold Schwarzeneggar (1.87m)
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🎵 Deliver string beans to Utah tonight
I better go fast or they won't be all right
Deliver string beans to Utah tonight
Donny and Marie can both have a bite
Bite it Marie! 🎵
Photo of Pope Leo, eyes closed, two hands on a microphone, could be praying, could be singing
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Ermmm ... attn BBC, is it because I'm not in Scotland?

Signed,
England resident
Screenshot of a BBC Sport webpage promising highlights of 'Scotland edge out Denmark in six-goal epic to reach World Cup' with the advisory 'This content is not available in your location.'
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A New Yorker cartoon of a whisper from a tent in the woods, saying, "Did you hear something?" when outside the tent there's a bear standing on its hind legs wearing a Stratocaster guitar and plugging it into a Marshall stack (an amplifier on top of two large cabinet speakers)
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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'Eugenics (Ain't The Way To Go)' is my favorite 80s soundtrack tune after 'Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)'
Screengrab from Genius.com song lyrics: "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)" was introduced in the 1989 movie _Heathers_, which satirizes America's misguided discussions about teenage suicide. [Don] Dixon provided the vocals for the fictional band Big Fun. The song was released on one of his albums a few years later. This is a parody of Queen's "Don't Try Suicide."
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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How your email finds me
Photo of a Northern bald ibis, which was described as a bird that looks like it stuck its head inside a cannon in a Warner Brothers cartoon
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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She smiles and says, "I will always love you."
Photo of the front end of a 1958 Plymouth Fury, as featured in the John Carpenter film of Stephen King's 'Christine'
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This week in 'words and tags I find annoying *and* uncomfortable on this app', brought to you by Avoiding Work
A moderation list from Bluesky of 'Your muted words' (in text or tags): sensual making biscuits corrie mountbatten arsenal platner diaper toe beans
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A post from Andy Borowitz, reposted by Mueller She Wrote: To those experts who said a Democratic socialist could never be elected mayor of NYC, a reminder that one was elected president of the USA four times Featuring a colorized photo of a grinning Franklin Delano Roosevelt leaning forward inside of a convertible with a lit cigarette in a holder in his left hand
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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I'm telling the kids this was Cocteau Twins
A photo of Russell Crowe, Geneviève Picot and Hugo Weaving from the film Proof (1991)
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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A post from Twitter by The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) Physician Lauren Hughes was driving when another car T-boned her Subaru, totaling it and breaking her ankle. Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary. Image of Lauren Hughes HEADLINE: 'A car accident sent her to the hospital -- and $64,000 into debt' Subheading: Her insurance covered the ambulance ride and some ER charges but not the ankle surgery and overnight stay charges from the out-of-network hospital.
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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This was the explicit advice of the former Clinton strategist James Carville, writing in The New York Times in February: "It's time for the Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us." It is a weird reprise of an old Marxist attitude -- Trumpism, like capitalism, will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions. And it is doubly delusional. It assumes in the first place that the force that will revive the Democratic Party is nostalgia. This is the politics of a country and western song: the guy on his fifth whiskey telling the barkeep that his wife will soon realize she should never have left him for the hollow thrills of that louche seducer. Second, it grossly underestimates the speed and ruthlessness of Trump's dismantling of the norms and institutions of American democracy. Trumpism is not withering -- it is putting down firm roots in the military, in the media, in the justice system, in civil society, and in the legislative branch. A democracy that plays dead will soon be dead for real.
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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The fewer witnesses the better
From the original Star Trek episode 'The Conscience of the King': Ensign Reilly's milk being poisoned by a hand in a blue cloth glove wielding a very 20th century spray bottle, next to a plate of extremely colourful spacey food cubes resting near a 1960s aluminium food dome, on a tray with a groovy mandala-like covering.
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The Philadelphia Shipyards have not been a going concern for 30 years. (And also hadn't built a warship proper in 55 years?)

I suggest we ask Urban Outfitters and TastyKakes - 2 businesses that moved into the Navy yard redevelopment - what their role building the new South Korean submarine will be
A post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) on October 29, 2025: South Korea will be building its Nuclear Powered Submarine in the Philadelphia Shipyards, right here in the good ol' U.S.A. Shipbuilding in our Country will soon be making a BIG COMEBACK. Stay tuned!!! President DJT From Wikipedia entry: The yard built its last new ship, the command ship Blue Ridge, in 1970. Because of foreign competition and reduced needs due to the end of the Cold War, the defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended closure of the yard in 1991. The city and state struggled to keep the facility operational, and the planned closing was unsuccessfully litigated to the US Supreme Court in Dalton v. Spencer. When the yard finally closed in 1995, it cost the region 7,000 jobs. This followed years in which the region had lost industrial jobs to restructuring and movement of manufacturing overseas.
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Lee was a member of the SOE, a dirty tricks/ assassination squad.
Describing a YouTube video interviewing Peter Jackson: According to the video, Jackson was blocking a scene in which Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) stabs Saruman (Lee) in the back. Jackson goes into a long explanation about how he wants Lee to react and Lee says, "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back? Because I do." Lee was a veteran of World War II.
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Senior Leadership Team: we'll combine all of your inset days so you can have 2 weeks off in October to rest!

Me, post-term 1: Me, now:
A Northern bald ibis, which looks like a stork after getting shot in the face by an Acme cannon in a Warner Brothers cartoon See photo 1
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Still from the film Johnny Dangerously of the front page of the 'New York Gazette' with a picture of the character Roman Moronie under the headline "MORONIE DEPORTED TO SWEDEN - CLAIMS HE'S NOT FROM THERE"
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
A still of Monty Python's "Gumbys" (l to r): Terry Gumby, Eric Gumby, Johnny Gumby, Grazza Gumby, Mikey Gumby ... replete with knit singlets, short trousers, knotted hankies and Welly boots
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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(With the added note that teachers should ALWAYS follow this advice. We are in a powerful position of teaching behaviour as well as our subjects. Sarcasm in a time of fragility is counterproductive.)
A post by 'olofahere': Main heading: Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that _all_ the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or _any_ sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, _encourage_ it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because _*I swear to f cking god*_ there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Quick overnighter to see our dissertation-writing eldest at work in Marchmont and at home on the Sunshine Coast
A moody, hazy view of Leith harbour from an airplane coming in to land at EDI. A pocket of sunshine backlighting Arthur's Seat. An empty glass next to an empty tin of Newbarn Pale Ale at Leith Bottle Shop A round wooden 'LEITH PERSEVERE' coat of arms displayed on the wall behind the seating in the Mother Superior pub. (I did not enter the guitar shop next to it, though it was calling me) Plaque outside the Carriers Quarters pub, which reads, '42 Bernard Street - Leith's oldest unaltered public house (1785)'. Was hit on the head by the windowed door opening inwards when trying to scritch a pub dog. Forever known now as "Your Da' with the Heid"
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Nick Frost and Simon Pegg in vlose contact, superimposed in front of images of them in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Squash toad in the hole with baked tomato relish for my vegetarian family's tea tonight #EnglishVeggieCooking
A roasting pan with squash toad in the hole in foreground; behind, an oven-proof dish of baked tomato relish. Both recipes from Leith's Vegetarian Bible.
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM