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Tony Kennick
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Expat Bournemouthian in Sheffield
Digital Swiss Army Knife.
Please donate to my Movember campaign
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While you can hear The Muppets warming up for one of the greatest movie diss tracks, it is still Movember and there is still time to donate
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A happy middle aged bloke showing off his mustache A QR code linking to my Movember page
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I am so angry at the all-too-believable levels of racism in the justice system, media, and politics right now.
Science 'nerd' guilty of making explosives in shed of mum's Bedfordshire garden A self-styled “nerdy” science geek - who had a life-threatening allergic reaction to one of his own experiments - has been found guilty of making explosives in his garden shed. Harry Whittaker created a makeshift laboratory in the garden of the home he shared with his mother, the Old Bailey was told. They included: black powder, blank ammunition and a round of live ammunition, chemicals, lethal poisons, and suspected improvised explosive devices. Police also uncovered radioactive materials and white phosphorus, a substance which can spontaneously ignite in air and is so dangerous that it had to be destroyed by controlled explosion by the military, the court was told. Following his arrest, police uncovered a stream of racist chat on WhatsApp in which Whittaker directed hate towards a mosque in Luton.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Three weeks of mo.
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A moon-faced middle-aged white man with glasses showing off his mustache.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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[A tower of blocks is shown. The upper half consists of many tiny blocks balanced on top of one another to form smaller towers, labeled:] All modern digital humour [The blocks rest on larger blocks lower down in the image, finally on a single large block. This is balanced on top of a set of blocks on the left, and on the right, a single tiny block placed on its side. This one is labeled:] The 65535 different new versions of "Dependency" (https://xkcd.com/2347/) that appear after every cloud service provider outage
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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BBC SPort infobox How's stat?! published at 09:38 GMT From Andy Zaltzman Test Match Special statistician “That last wicket makes 17 wickets taken today which is the joint most wickets taken on the first day of an Ashes Test since 1909.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Slightly late mid-month update.
A bit scrappy but doing its best.
(You decide if I mean the mustache or the owner)
Donation link in bio.
A middle aged white man's moon face with glasses. On his top lip a rag-tag group of hairs are coming together against all odds to form a mustache.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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With apologies for both being a corporate shill, and using a time pressure technique on you. Pringles are adding £20 to the first 5000 donations from 9am this morning (13/11/25) until tomorrow (14/11/25) or when the money runs out.
£20 boost from Pringles on £20+ donations. Ts&Cs at https://uk.movember.com/terms#PRIZING_TERMS Donate at https://movember.com/m/14624506 Movember 2025
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Written about Hephaestus, but in my hubris I also see myself.
For while I accept there shall always be mystery, and sometime appreciate it, I also have that burning desire to know everything.
From an appendix to the great Cookie Lord saga:
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For to love knowledge is to accept that there shall always be mystery. And so what is known is never completely true and what is true can never be completely known. As an artist and craftsman wisdom is outside of his reach, but always in his orbit. His fire is born from this pain.
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Help me take on mental health, suicide, testicular & prostate cancer. For the next month I will be growing an itchy monstrosity on my top lip for charity.
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#mentalhealth #movember #beatcancer
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I couldn't hear most of the scenario that the two small people were making up at the tram stop. But "pirate security" came up several times.
I must have misheard the last thing before the tram arrived because it sounded like "we can get away if we break the film" probably just wishful thinking.
Elliott Dale-Hughes as Long John Silver holding a crutch and sword but wearing a black security guard hi vis vest. Also in the picture Samantha J H Oldham as Dr Livsey. Behind them is a bare brick wall with black and white art.
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Help me take on mental health, suicide, testicular & prostate cancer. For the next month I will be growing an itchy monstrosity on my top lip for charity.
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A white man in glasses smiling at the selfie camera with a freshly shaved face.
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Graham Platner gets a cover up of the cover up tattoo.
David Mitchell in the "Are we the baddies" sketch from Mitchell and Webb badly photoshopped into a tattoo on Graham Platner's chest.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Garfield cartoon where we can't see the eponymous ginger cat, he is hiding under a blanket in his box which is labeled AWS. A thought bubble says “I hate Monday”
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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For my American friends, here is som Sir Terry Pratchett on the subject of kings.

(For those of us in Britain and the Commonwealth realms it still looks like one of the least worst options, but could probably be reduced in cost and scope much further)
"NAE KING! NAE QUIN!NAE LAIRD! NAE MASTER! WE WILLNAE BE FOOLED AGAIN!" over an illustration of a massed group of the Nac Mac Feegle.
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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And so it begins.
The cover page of Monstrous Regiment the play, written in pencil are the character names Scallot, Keep Guard, and Borogravian Guard each highlighted in different colours. The name Tony K is written in oink. The script for Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, with a yellow and pink highlighter pen sat in it.
October 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.
This Monday don't forget "fck Christopher Columbus" over a picture of a Native American giving the camera the finger.
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The US branch of ANTIFA started issuing medals in the 1940s
Three US military decorations, left The American Campaign Medal, shows a Navy cruiser underway with a B-24 Liberator bomber flying overhead. In the foreground is a sinking enemy submarine, and in the background is the skyline of a city, the ribbon is oriental blue in the center is stripe divided into thirds of old glory blue, white, and scarlet. Between the center and the edges are stripes of white, black, scarlet and white. Center the Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal, It depicts a sailor (left) and a marine (right) in full combat gear, holding rifles. A beach with shattered palm tree trunks can be seen behind them, with a long palm tree still standing. In the water beyond the beach are an aircraft carrier (left) and a submarine (right). An airplane is visible over the sub. The ribbon is gold in the center is stripe divided into thirds of blue, white, and red. Between the center and the edges are stripes of red and white. Right is the European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal pictured is a LST landing craft and troops landing under fire with an airplane in the background. The ribbon is: Brown 67136 which represents the sands of Africa; plus 1.6 mm each of Irish Green, White and Scarlet, representing Italy; 6.4 mm Irish Green represents the green fields of Europe; 1.1 mm each of Blue, White and red, which refers to the continuance of American Defense after Pearl Harbor; 6.4 mm Irish Green, again representing the green fields of Europe; 1.6 mm each White, Black, and White representing Germany;
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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And right wing British politicians are calling for the same here, as if we don't already have people who turn up by the minibus load to hall people off to internment camps ready for deportation.
Tweet from David Axelrod So far, the ICE gang has shot & killed an unarmed man & lied about the circumstances; shot a woman 5 times for obstructing their vehicle; roughed up elderly women and zip-tied small children; shot a clergyman in the face with a pepper ball; marched through downtown Chicago, masked and armed. And they're NOT going after the "worst of the worse," as promised. Most of the people they're snagging have clean records. Some are citizens. To be clear: this is NOT making Chicago safer. It's state-sponsored mayhem; dangerous political theater calculated to provoke.
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Posted by Natasha Clark LBC Political editor on the hellsite, so seems unlikely to be a photoshop job.
I suppose we can't 100% rule out sabotage given all of the stories about Jenrick being on manoeuvres, but I suspect Hanlon's Razor applies.
A chocolate bar with a wrapper saying "When Labour negotiates, Britian loses" - Kemi Badenoch
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This poster earwormed me, now it will do the same to some of you.
A coffee advert with the word Kenya over an orange sunset landscape. Almost everything except Kenya has been blurred out.
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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MONSTROUS REGIMENT AUDITIONS
Where: The Harlequin Inn, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield, S3 8GG
When: 6th and 7th October 2025, 7:30pm-10pm
Midland Players next show will be an armature production of: Terry Pratchett's® Monstrous Regiment A Discworld® play adapted by Stephen Briggs 18th-21st February 2026 Sheffield University Drama Studio, Shearwood Road, Sheffield, S10 2TD 'Terry Pratchett' And 'Discworld' Are Registered Trademarks Auditions 6th and 7th October 2025, 7:30pm The Harlequin, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield, S3 8GG A small cute dragon who looks a bit like my cousin Errol sits in a shako and redcoat holding a picture of the duchess of Borogrovia. QR Code for Audition FAQs https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-wStK9bT3Vy60GMCoIT10WWVmgQ6ISlT/view QR CODE for Facebook events https://www.facebook.com/events/2088099958706196/2088099968706195
October 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Midland Players' next show is Monstrous Regiment based on the book by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs.
Directed by Elliott Dale-Hughes, assisted by Hal Grayson and Tony Kennick.
Audition information will follow tomorrow.
Poster by Ruth Jepson 🎨
It began as a sudden strange fancy… Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time… And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well… They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of… the Monstrous Regiment. Poster by Ruth Jepson 🎨
September 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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*Slaps buzzer*"What is the Nuremberg Defense" Quoted post: Newsweek @Newsweek agents complain about Nazi comparisons, say they're only enforcing the laws
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“partly by the Dark Knight, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my villainy”
What nefariousness is going on here.
Find out Tonight through until Saturday.
Much Ado About Nothing
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Photo by Nigel Harper, Batman by DC.
Boracho and Don John plot, overlooked by Batman.
September 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Night one of the hilarious Much Ado About Nothing done.
Three more nights to go.
Ticket link in bio.
Steve Garner as Benedick with a gull on his arse.
September 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM