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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 11h
Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alexi Sayle dressed as a traditional transylvanian vampire in an episode of the Young Ones, taking a moment to shill pot noodles
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a little known fact that all Hispanic people have enough levels in Monk to Slow Fall
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know art, but I know what I like
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bring back the Scorpadillo you cowards
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Post a character you think is cool and give no explanation why:
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Nien Nunb Says 'Yah.'
Alt: Nien Nunb Says 'Yah.'
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fucking hell. I'm not keen on the creepy as fuck adverts for AI apps that pop up in between moves on the online scrabble-like game I'm playing.
A creepy as fuck ad for an AI chat thing offering users the chance to "control the emotions" of a suspiciously young looking AI generated female character
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm tired, boss...
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TfL Barbie @chaff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
have we had this yet
screen from the Simpsons of jimbo holding a camcorder and saying “videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we ever had”
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Blade: Bring It On
Alt: Blade: Bring It On
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I had Nirvana tickets that I never got to use for... less pleasant reasons
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Niche
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Easily amused
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It's been a rough week
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And to be clear, that's West Cumbrian. None of that Barra nonsense.
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One for Up the Arse Corner, if Viz still do it. Which they probably don't, since it's not as funny as it used to be
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pablo the Chlamydia Kitty is off to his new home tomorrow. He'll be "mad for it" in Manchester by this time tomorrow.
Extreme close up of a black kitten
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
All I’m saying is if I was going to write a book about a boy who never grew up, I wouldn’t have called him Peter Pan. I would’ve named him Constanteen.
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Having one of them days
The "now that's what I call music" logo but it says "jesus me fucking back knacks"
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Looks like we may have found a good home for Pablo the Chlamydia Kitty. In other news, I'll be pitching my exciting new animated series concept "Pablo the Chlamydia Kitty" to all major TV networks this autumn. Well, the ones that don't have restraining orders against me, anyway.
A black kitten asleep on a blanket next to.a small cow stuffed toy
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Turns out the cute little stray we are fostering probably has chlamydia. Not a development I was expecting
A cute black kitten that apparently has chlamydia, playing with a cat toy
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Skellibobs
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Space Jaws, obviously
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"I've shit in the kettle"
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sumo Mouse, in case you were looking for one
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Fuck you and your mother"
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
*taps sign*
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Derpy proto-Godzilla from Shin Gojira
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We appear to have temporarily* acquired a cat. He's called Pablo, and is one of the hazards of having a kid that works in a vets where there's critters that need foster care. *well, he'd better be temporary anyway
A close up face shot of a sticky eyed black kitten
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"I'm not from here! I am my own customs! Look at my crazy passport!"
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned! Ask not for whom the bone bones... it bones for thee"
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Whilst preparing a report for our legal team to assist them with some very important litigation, we had to look up the dates the company went through some significant mergers on Wikipedia as apparently nobody in the company itself actually kept any records about that kind of thing
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it
Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team.
Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Any help would be massively appreciated
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A man says "I'm an adult! I can do anything I want!" he then bears a quizical expression and asks himself "Hey What DO I want?" He holds his position and ages for years and years until he is a skeleton.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Odyssesus's dad wants to chat Routes (This one is a print and I have four copies left of in the edition before it's sold out, ie never to be printed again! Shop link in my bio 👆) #odyssey
Scene is a domestic room in ANCIENT GREECE. The traveller ODYSSEUS enters to meet his DAD, an old, bearded man. 

DAD:
Odysseus!

ODYSSEUS:
Father!

DAD:
It’s so good to see you after all these years! How was your journey?

ODYSSEUS:
Not bad, yeah

DAD: 
Which way did you come?

ODYSSEUS:
Oh... I dunno. 

I just followed the sat nav

[There is a silent pause. Odysseus’s dad smiles, a frozen rictus of affability which says ‘that is not acceptable and I’ll pretend you didn’t say it’.] 

DAD:
Which way did you come.

ODYSSEUS:
Um. I dunno, Dad

DAD:
Did you come via the domain of the Cyclops?

ODYSSEUS:
I think.... um....

DAD:
Through the lair of the Laestrygonian cannibals?

ODYSSEUS:
Uh....

DAD:
Past the siren song of the enchantresses?

ODYSSEUS:
Dunno, I had a podcast on

DAD:
You must've gone the Western Edge of the World way, past Scylla the six-headed monster and the Whirlpool of Charybdis...

ODYSSEUS:
Is that by the McDonald’s roundabout

DAD:
Yes

ODYSSEUS:
Yeah I did come that way

DAD:
OOOH YOU SHOULDN’T COME THAT WAY

[Ends]
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I heartily endorse this event or product
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
These hydration breaks are ridiculous. I want to see players running around so starved of water they look like the California Raisins on Arrakis
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Garth Marenghi Garth Marenghi'S Darkplace
Alt: Garth Marenghi saying "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Customer service staff have the statutory right to tell up to 3 customers a week to fuck off without it effecting their employment
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
HYDRATION BREAK!
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Homer Simpson's Water Contraption Fail
ALT: Homer Simpson's Water Contraption Fail
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How Does It Feel, Mr Footballer? [from 2021]

[Title]:

How Does It Feel, Mr Footballer?

[Following panels show a footballer being interviewed in various scenarios]

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[Making first contact with an alien on another planet]:
Yeh y’know obviously it’s a great to make first contact, we’re here to represent humanity and give it 100 per cent

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[Chained above the fiery pit of Hell] :
2 Yeh y’know obviously it’s disappointing to be in the fiery pit but you’ve got to look forward

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[Being devoured by tiny Nanobots in a future dystopia]: 
Yeh y’know obviously the murderous nanobots are a factor but we’ve got to take the positives 

4 
[On WW2 VE-Day]
Yeh y’know obviously we’re pleased to win World War 2, they came out organised and made it difficult for us

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[In a multi-dimensional vortex]:
Yeh y’know obviously there’s no easy games at the multiverse level, take one dimension at a time

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[Stood on a cloud, next to a shining orb of light]
Yeh y’know obviously it’s great to see the face of God, we’re happy with that

7 
[In the midst of an apocalypse, the world on fire]:
Yeh y’know obviously we wanted to survive as a species but we haven’t managed to do that 

[Ends]
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We were just talking about this film last night, and now the deeply upsetting trailer is here. (The whale is grief, by the way)
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Ben Stewart @benstewart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Evergreen
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