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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Inside you there are two wolves
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Flashing lights illuminate the scene as a photographer snaps pictures of the mangled corpse. Several yards away, a uniformed officer is vomiting on the sidewalk. An unmarked sedan pulls up, and a detective emerges. Staring down at the body, he slowly removes his sunglasses and whispers, “Found him.”
A person dressed as the character from Where’s Waldo (Wally) steps in front of a bus.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I do not think it raises that question at all. Nobody in the world thinks it raises that question. But good for you, typing some content.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Ironically this post itself contains a major error as Big Brother did not air until 1999.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Frankly it’s embarrassing how much George Orwell’s “1984” gets wrong about 1984. The publisher should update it to be more accurate, e.g. “Winston heard ‘Eat It’ by Weird Al Yankovic playing on the radio. ‘I’d hate to be Michael Jackson right now!’ he said to Big Brother”
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
them: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?! me: no
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Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I don’t trust people who “can’t complain.”
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I don’t understand why more people don’t get nipply about dendrochronolgy. It’s like, we’ve determined that the tree used for that beam was growing when Queen Elizabeth I was using Venetian ceruse to cover up her smallpox scars
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Also, actors in movies.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
More posts like this please
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
let this be your reminder that you too can kill nearly everyone aboard the Titanic if you just believe in yourself
R/Titanic subreddit post: The iceberg that sank Titanic started as snowflakes falling in Greenland well over a thousand years ago. Imagine holding one in your hand, knowing it was destined to strike the Titanic
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
True. This is me and my sisters on my eighth birthday.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Elnathan John gets it.
John: It's not just the apps. It’s everything America has done to spread its influence, because America dominates the media. We all consume it. In some way, shape, or form, things trickle down.
And it’s pervasive when you speak to Americans that they are unaware of their position in the world and this cultural hegemony––that their conversations very quickly dominate the public space because everybody is affected by these influences. You grew up watching American TV. You grew up listening to American music. And often you might have to remind people that maybe we want to step back from America being the center of this conversation.
For example, say I want to talk about slavery in northern Nigeria. One of the books I'm writing now is set in a time when the so-called caliphate in what is now northern Nigeria was at its peak. At that time, at least one in four persons was an enslaved person or in indentured servitude. At one point, we had probably the highest number of slaves in the world. I’d like to talk about this without talking about slaves in the U.S. or white people. You know, why do I have to talk about white supremacy when writing about this period in Nigeria? But the conversation always goes there.
This U.S. hegemony is true regardless of race. Even if you are oppressed in America, you still have this outsize influence globally, and the rest of us are choking on it. And we would like to have conversations in our local spaces that do not always devolve to American tribal wars.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
What a fascist. Hitler wanted to cultivate what was good in the human heart too. HITLER. You are HITLER, Jay.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I regret to report that all the people not on Bluesky are right about all the people on Bluesky.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Roxane would no doubt condemn the writer - whose name currently escapes me - who once said, "The problem with freedom of speech is that people think it means freedom from consequences"
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints
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Joel Gever @joelyjoelyjoelyjoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Ugh. To those of you citing Charlie Kirk’s hypocrisy and reprehensible views as an implied justification for his murder, stop and think: do you really think people should get the death penalty for hypocrisy? Or for having stupid, despicable opinions? Democracy doesn’t work if we can’t speak freely.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
WHO WANTS TO SAY A JOKE
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights makes some bold choices
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Trump, dying: They don’t actually want you to know tomatoes is fruit. The woke pyramid tells you it’s vegetable. We love sandwich. Beautiful turkey, some ham, does very well. The Swiss have been treating us poorly for decades, charging for the whole slice
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Black Yeti Plush. Most people assume that all yetis are white. Is this racist? Yes. Yes, it is. collabs.shop/gvckxb
A Black yeti plushy.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Well la di da Mr I’m Too Classy To Jerk Off To The Chipettes.
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
On a scale of 1 to 10 for hotness, I would rate myself a good listener
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This might be my favorite comic we've made.
1 Teletubbies: We're all vaxxed!
2 Guy watching TV: The Teletubbies feared Covid-19.
3 Guy: This proves that they are mortal.
4 Guy, loading shotgun: The beasts can be killed.
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Sunshine Jarboly @sunshinejarboly.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
me, at the big work meeting, after the boss has just laid out a 20-year progressive plan for the company: haha, you’re laying out these complex metrics as if… {chuckling as i gesture to everyone in the room} …as if any of this matters.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Hi, just checking in on Bluesky. Everyone still intersectionally sound? Great!
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This isn’t true. This could definitely happen in Australia. I think it could probably happen just about anywhere. Absolutely everyone is capable of seeing themselves as victimised, given the right motivation.
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Used Robot Salesman @urs-annex.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
A nice knock on your door. Against your better judgement you open it. "Hello!" I say happily. Dressed in a brown plaid suit, black bowler hat, and carrying a very large suitcase. "Have you ever considered the advantages of reusable metal tubes?"
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
muppetizing the film industry: thread
Animal running for his life in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Sometimes all you can do is laugh. This is a symptom of major brain injury.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Also, there was a fear that the new arrivals would introduce a criminal element to the continent, which to be fair was a pretty accurate fear." Brilliant extract from @benpobjie.bsky.social's "Error Australis", concerning 1788 and all that.
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Book Club: “Many of them found their own slow deaths were lowering their morale”
An extract from Ben Pobjie’s Error Australis: The Reality Recap of Australian History.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
You know how at McDonalds the wifi is called “Wi-Fry”? That kills me. It’s amazing. I could never think up something like that.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It’s quite an honour to be featured here. It’s like the Substack equivalent of playing the Grand Ole Opry, or something more appropriate than that.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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On the 20th January, 1788, the Fleet arrived at Botany Bay, where the British immediately came into contact with the indigenous inhabitants of New South Wales. Many of the indigenous community saw their arrival as evidence of their government’s lax border protection policies. “If you’d had the ticker to introduce off-shore processing, these boats would have stopped coming,’”they declared, to which their opponents pointed out that the boats had only just started coming, making it difficult to foresee. “Besides,” they added, “these poor white idiots need our help, let us extend the hand of friendship.” But a sentiment grew strongly in the community that the First Fleet had behaved appallingly by attempting to sneak in through the back door rather than going through the proper channels. By coming on unauthorised boats, it was pointed out, the Englishmen had taken places away from those in genuine need. What’s more, the journey from England to Australia was long and dangerous, and many Aborigines stressed the need to discourage desperate Englishmen from getting on boats and risking their lives.

Also, there was a fear that the new arrivals would introduce a criminal element to the continent, which to be fair was a pretty accurate fear.

Of the meeting between Europeans and Aborigines at Botany Bay, Watkin Tench poignantly wrote, “I had at this time a little boy, of not more than seven years of age, in my hand”, which is pretty unsettling. He showed the little boy to the natives so they could see his white skin.

“Yes, we get it – you’re all white,” the natives replied. “Leave the little boy alone.” But Tench would not listen.

“I advanced with him towards them, at the same time baring his bosom and, shewing the whiteness of the skin,” he wrote.

“It’s spelt ‘showing’ you idiot,” the Aborigines replied, and the misunderstandings only got more problematic from there.

The First Fleeters did not have time to ponder the intricacies of modern race relations just at that mome…
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“Many of them found their own slow deaths were lowering their morale.” No newsletter this week because I've been on holiday. Instead, here's an extract from @benpobjie.bsky.social's excellent book Error Australis, concerning 1788 and all that
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Book Club: “Many of them found their own slow deaths were lowering their morale”
An extract from Ben Pobjie’s Error Australis: The Reality Recap of Australian History.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Please introduce me to Stephen Fry open.substack.com/pub/benpobji...
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Please introduce me to Stephen Fry
I am crowdsourcing friendship
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I will pay you to apologise to me
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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 14/06/2025
#WTCFinal 🏏
Simpsons George Bush meme: AND BECAUSE WE'D MASTERED TEST CRICKET THERE WAS NO NEED TO PLAY IT NEXT SUMMER
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The word “erection” can be used in more than one context. Which may be useful for comedic purposes. Just a tip.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The sort of piece I’d like hooked to my veins
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I think this is 100% true.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Starmer backwards is REM Rats.
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If I lived in London I could see squirrels every day
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Ben Pobjie @benpobjie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I think I should move to London. All those in favour send me money.
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