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Steve B
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Post other people's funny, gags from pro comedians, and my own tat. New stuff every day. Also support outstanding investigative journalists and their work.
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Exceptional from Ygrene.

So good, it has forced me into a move I was saving for when things next went quiet on here.
Cartoon. Panel 1: Cutesie dog; person saying "I guess I'm a dog person". Panel 2: (close up) Cute dog removes mask to reveal it's really a cat, and saying "Guess again." Panel 3: Just the person saying "You piece of shit." Panel 4 (close up) Cat low in panel, just its head and popping up a double-pawed middle finger flick.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
stevebasnett.bsky.social
Exquisite.

Puts me in mind of...
Cartoon. Panel 1: Cutesie dog; person saying "I guess I'm a dog person". Panel 2: (close up) Cute dog removes mask to reveal it's really a cat, saying "Guess again." Panel 3: Just the person saying "You piece of shit." Panel 4 (close up) cat low in panel, just the head and a double-pawed middle finger flick.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
stevebasnett.bsky.social
I see what I want to see.
Some TV quiz show ripping off the kid's game Hangman by sticking a hottie in front of a big flashy board where contestants have to guess a phrase by filling in the blanks. Almost all of it is complete: "_UCK _E IN THE A__ TONIGHT" Beneath is the caption. "If you didn't get "Luck Be In The Air Tonight" the internet has probably ruined you.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Everyone's at it. So an... urm... helpful pointer?
"LUBE ISN'T FOR EPLAY" written in the style, font and colours (yellow with red shadowing on a blue background) of the "Zohran for New York City" Mayoral campaign.
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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🎶 Shirley Bassey is our Queen 🎶

Newport State of Mind
"DIAMONDS ARE for EVER" written in the font, style and colours (yellow with red shadowing on a blue background) of "Zohran for New York City".
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
stevebasnett.bsky.social
Matt's is funny, though.
"TIT for TAT" written in the font, style and colours (yellow with red shadowing on a blue background) of "Zohran for New York City".
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Just joining in, really.

Here's the link if you fancy a play:

homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...
"GEORGE For EMAN GRILL" written in the font, style and colours (yellow. red shading on a blue background) of "Zohran for New York".
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The deadliest animals in Australia

Animal Total human deaths since 1980

Horses 172
Cattle 82
Dogs 53
Snakes 37
Bees 31
Sharks 27
Crocs 21
Spiders 0

Humans 12,880

We fear the wrong animals.

Wild animals are wrongly feared all over the world.
The numbers prove it. Also measuring injuries.
Wild grey kangaroo up close, smiling and staring straight at us. Deadly. Even has another killer baby kangaroo bursting out of its chest. Other roos bide their time in the background, waiting for their opportunity to hop over and strike. This photo was taken in 2006 in Australia, somewhere remote south of Sydney, on the grassy back of a lovely empty beach by the ocean.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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SAM: What sound does a giraffe make?

LIV: Bellow.

SAM: With giraffes, everything is below.
It's a perfectly blue sky, but a Giraffe has stuck its neck out and invaded in from the left, batting its lush eyelashes right at us with a look of "Hey, you down there, why are taking a photo of the sky and not me?"
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Con con con:

Conservative and right-wing media outrage at wrongful convict release is a con job. About 50 a year were released in error. In 2023 that number began to rocket under the Tories, hitting 262 in 2024-2025. Not defending Labour - clarifying it's an unreported Conservative convict con.
Channel 4 News UK graph showing prisoners released in error since 2006. It's a steady average of around 50 per year, which is bad enough, but then it begins to rocket in 2023, and in 2024-25 reaches 262 prisoners released in error. I've posted this screen grab to demonstrate that the outrage the Conservatives and right-wing media are generating is false, because it it clearly the fault of the previous Conservative government themselves that the overall situation is so dire. This went largely unreported while the Tories were in power, certainly by the right-wing media.
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Test your skills recognising AI-generated images. Easy one to begin with. Real or AI?
A weird colour image. Viewers are asked to say whether they think it is real or AI generated. It's kind of a natural landscape of a body of water surrounded by trees and rocky terrain, but in the middle of it some sort of UFO has landed. But it's like a UFO from a planet where they're all environmentalists and it's powered by foliage.
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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First London marathon, 1981. Dick Beardsley and Norway's Inge Simonsen pull away. In the last mile each kicks to break the other. The other responds each time. Thrilling, gutsy running. Inseparable, exhausted, they link hands and cross the line together joint first.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s239...
Square black and white photograph of Dick Beardsley and Norway's Inge Simonsen crossing the finish line together to both jointly win the first London marathon in 1981. Rain sodden and exhausted, over the final mile each dug deep several times to somehow find another gear and tried everything they could to kick for home and break the other. But each time, unbelievably, the other responded. It became clear to them and everyone watching that they were inseparable throughout the race. No one knew for sure if holding hands was a thing and that it would mean they would both be classified first. On that extraordinary day, in that extraordinary race, whatever the rules did or didn't say, everyone felt it and knew it. Recognition of their equal achievement simply had to prevail and they were both declared the winners.
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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The artist and prince formerly known as Champire had a very good run yesterday.
Screen grab of a sequence of Bluesky posts by Champie with the hashtag ShakespeareAtHalloween: Henry VIII: Portrait of a Serial Wife Killer A Midsummer's Nightmare on Elm Street Twelfth Night of the Living Dead Hamlet the Right One In Othelloween If Champie doesn't make this his Alt text of the day, I will weep gently into my dinnertime cornflakes.
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Absolutely.
Abso_lute_ly. It's just a picture of a lute.
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The rule of Hooded Claw
A still from an animated cartoon featuring the Hooded Claw, a villainous character in a dark green hat and cape on the far right. On the left is Penelope Pitstop, dressed in red with white driving goggles on her head and white boots. The Hooded Claw has kindly offered her a chair to sit down on and lashed her to it with rope so she can't get away. They appear to be in a dank, ominous dungeon-like scenario, not unlike what it must feel like to be in an oppressive regime based on the rule of law where the President breaks those fundamental laws himself and then forces the people to suffer "laws" he just makes up willy-nilly to inflict harm on them, which his hand-picked Supreme Court Judges u[hold by themselves breaking the rule of law.
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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-- SPOILER ALERT --

Slow Horses

The latest episode wraps up series 5 themes of radicalisation and extremism in cross-culture-reciprocity, a subject in Supertanskiii's sensational new video:

bsky.app/profile/supe...

The steps of mirrored retribution are in the ALT text of the Slow Horses image.
SPOILER ALERT: This Alt text contains spoilers for season 5 of the Apple TV series Slow Horses. The image features 8 characters from the show. The reasons for posting the image are: the marvellous timing of Supertanskiii's latest YouTube video on Radicalisation and Extremism, these themes being central to the latest episode of Slow Horses, and an attempt to hide spoilers for it in the Alt text of this image. The 7 steps are: 1 Compromise an agent; 2 Attack civilian area; 3 Create urban chaos; 4 Distract the media; 5 Assassinate a populist leader; 6 Blind the enemy; 7 The unexpected sting in the tail.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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--SPOILER ALERT--

Slow Horses

Uncanny timing. The latest and last episode (Wednesday) wraps up series 5 themes of radicalisation and extremism in cross-culture-reciprocity.

I've plonked the steps of mirrored retribution in the ALT text of the image to make it a harder reveal to stumble into...
SPOILER ALERT: This Alt text contains a spoiler alert for season 5 of the Apple TV series Slow Horses. The image features 8 characters from the show. The reasons for posting this image are the marvellous timing of Supertanskiii's latest YouTube video on Radicalisation and Extremism, these themes being central to the latest episode of Slow Horses, and an attempt to hide a spoiler for it in the Alt text of this image. The 7 steps are: 1 Compromise agent; 2 Attack civilian area; 3 Create urban chaos; 4 Distract the media; 5 Assassinate populist leader; 6 Blind the enemy; 7 The unexpected sting in the tail.
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Elevated football stadium with a view? Madeira has that covered.

First pic is Maritimo stadium, second is the Nacional ground.
Maritimo Football stadium, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. This photo is taken from an elevated position to the west of the stadium, looking down towards central Funchal. In the top right of the frame is the blue Atlantic Ocean, and higher parts of the city can be seen cascading down the mountain from the left. The first of two photos of football grounds in Madeira with epic views. Nacional Football ground, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. This photo is taken from an elevated position to the north east of the stadium, looking down towards central Funchal. In the top left of the frame is the blue Atlantic Ocean, and lower parts of the city can be seen sprawling away to the west. This is the second of two photos of football grounds in Madeira with spectacular views - the two grounds can just about be viewed from the other in each of the two images.
October 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
stevebasnett.bsky.social
Elevated football stadium with a view? Madeira has that covered.

First pic is Maritimo stadium, second is the Nacional ground.
Maritimo Football stadium, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. This photo is taken from an elevated position to the west of the stadium, looking down towards central Funchal. In the top right of the frame is the blue Atlantic Ocean, and higher parts of the city can be seen cascading down the mountain from the left. The first of two photos of football grounds in Madeira with epic views. Nacional Football ground, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. This photo is taken from an elevated position to the north east of the stadium, looking down towards central Funchal. In the top left of the frame is the blue Atlantic Ocean, and lower parts of the city can be seen sprawling away to the east. This is the second of two photos of football grounds in Madeira with epic views - the grounds can just about be viewed from the other in each of the two images.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Best graffiti in American history.
The press briefing room of the White House. Behind the lectern, is the famous blue oval sign of the White House. An unknown artist has taken a fluorescent orange magic marker and crossed out the East Wing.
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answering a question from a Huff Post journo about US economic collapse during government shutdown:

You see that large slimy glob of loogie mixed with nose snot I just hoiked up on the floor? That's you that is.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, also known as YOUR MOM.
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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History repeats itself.

Escher?
- Bless you.

I don't believe that the White House footage supplied by Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social is real because no one is perpetually falling down unnecessary steps which go nowhere.

History repeats itself.
October 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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A street sign that reads "PORRIDGE POT ALLEY". Technically it's in Surrey, but there's a bit of Surrey in London.
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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She should've said she was dressed as a sausage.

Former Louth Mayor, Councillor Jill Makinson-Sanders, dressed as a sausage in 2012, appearing on Mock the Week (UK).

Pathetic government crackdowns on satire have escalated so far that police have been told to arrest women dressed as sausages.
Split screen photo: LEFT: Former Louth Mayor, Councillor Jill Makinson-Sanders, RIGHT: JIll dressed as a sausage in 2012, appearing as the credits ran in a final highlight reel of Mock the Week (much missed UK comedy/satire telly programme). I have posted this image because pathetic government crackdowns on satire have escalated globally to the point where police have been ordered to arrest women dressed as sausages.
October 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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She should've said she was dressed as a sausage.

Former Louth Mayor, Councillor Jill Makinson-Sanders, dressed as a sausage in 2012, appearing on Mock the Week (UK).

Pathetic government crackdowns on satire have escalated so far that police have been ordered to arrest women dressed as sausages.
Split screen photo: LEFT: Former Louth (UK) Mayor, Councillor Jill Makinson-Sanders, right: JIll dressed as a sausage in 2012, appearing as the credits ran in a final highlight reel of Mock the Week (much missed UK comedy/satire telly programme). I have posted this image because pathetic government crackdowns on satire have escalated globally to the point where authorities have been told to arrest women dressed as sausages.
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM