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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 28m

The way it glistens, makes me feel all funny in my tum

Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 29m

Seen videos of dingbats in the silly states in the US arguing for “Grandparents rights” and that’s when you know you’re in end-stage conservatism; when you have people begging law makers to make it illegal for their kids and grandchildren to think they suck.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 40m

Sure it’s wetter in Scunthorpe this time of year, but I’d rather be there or Clitheroe than Cockermouth

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 43m

Off to Scunthorpe tonight. Much rather be there than Penistone. I know my way around Scunthorpe, Penistone’s a bit weird and unfamiliar for me

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 54m

Not sung at a wedding reception karaoke, but about 15 years ago I was at a wedding where the DJ had been dumped 48 hours earlier and got whiskey drunk and played “Love Will Tear Us Apart” on repeat until the Bride’s dad punched him.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 56m

I remember someone saying that their girlfriend just watches every reel on insta right through and so has beat the algorithm but has the blandest feed where nothing has less than 1m views. I think she’s just the median human. She’s the only person that OpenAI or Claude could actually do therapy on

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1h

*fires hunger games cannon*

Pictue of the recentky fired white house press secretary

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

Just found out I’m mentioned in Russell T Davies Autobiography. So I know what my next book to read will be.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4h

Marge Bouvier Simpson wearing an outfit based on the Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onasis Chanel Suit she was wearing on the day of the JFK assassination

Marge with her pink and black trimmed Chanel suit done in an asymmetric double breasted fastening

Jackie Kennedy in a black trimmed pink Chanel suit with asymmetric double breated fastening

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5h

Spoiler, I just got to the end of the video: IT WAS FUCKING MAYONNAISE

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5h

Just got to the end of the video, IT’S FUCKING MAYONNAISE!

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6h

AI researchers months away from seeing the kids at weekends

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5h

atching Mullet Review on TikTok, a guy from the US South eating at shite Chinese Buffets until he gets food poisoning, and it now makes that whole US vs UK chinese food argument look even sillier. Sidebar, I’m surprised the American cheese mussels under a heat lamp on day 99 didn’t kill him.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

Seems it’s really difficult to write an unlikeable character you are the opposite of politically without making them a stereotype or giving them your wish fulfilling character traits

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

Other book related, I am really enjoying the trend at the moment for books with unlikeable protagonists. Read a lot of them recently, some books I’ve liked others I’ve liked less; specifically the ones where the protagonist is obviously the type of person the author hates politically.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

I thought Frank Herbert was too heavy handed when he introduced Leto II as the God Emperor, but there will still be people thinking the movies are celebrating appropriating Arabic culture and Islam.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a bit in the first film where Chani sees the Atreides ship arriving and goes “our new oppressors” and I squirmed in my seat and thought “ah balls, they’re going to be too heavy handed with the subtext in this” and seeing loads of people still thinking Paul’s the hero I have changed my mind

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DanSlott @danslott.bsky.social · 8h

True story: At a con in Philly, I was in the green room sitting with David Tennant & Billie Piper. I gave Billie some SILVER SURFER trades... ...and David said they were good, then he tapped on the cover where Dawn was, and said, "You'll like them. There's a lot of Rose in this character, Dawn." 🤯

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

Looking forward to The Takes after Dune Part Three

The paper back covers of Dune and Dune Messiah, showing the planet Arrakis on one and the planet with a big statue of a man’s head in the place of one of the sand dunes on the other. The first is called “Paul is Bad by Frank Herbert” and the other is called “Ok, I guess I wasn’t Clear… by Frank Herbert”

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

This is because conservative men are only aware of two emotions that men have; “angry” and “horny” and assume every other emotion is some combination of these.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h

The only thing I will say about Shane Gillis’ comments last week, because it doesn’t deserve more brain time for anyone, is it is really telling that all the men supporting him for his objectifying, misogynist comments are the same men who were all “we need to protect women’s sports!” before this.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 9h

I feel that pain, I get between 4 and five hours in any 24 hour period depending on whether I manage to go to sleep 2 or three times

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 9h

this is the worst buzzball i’ve ever tasted

Me holding a ball of DYLON intense black frabric dye, basically shaped like a hand grenade or something.

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nige [ham] @sensualdad.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

she’s got an ass that won’t quit, boobs that can’t get fired, legs that won’t accept a redundancy. honestly, we’ve tried everything and now we need to get HR involved.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17h

Shame when he had to get cut out of his car though

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 19h

Then the woman in the Spar next door went “Eugh, I hate your jumper!” So it’s fair to say Ludlow will not be a stop on the next tour 😂

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 19h

Mick and I could not have a more different audience. 25 minutes fighting for my life not to eat shit there. Fortunately I’m one of the best to ever do it, so I won them over in the end.

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Soren Bowie @sorenbowie.bsky.social · 20h

My favorite artist, Vent Reznor. I’ve got Hand That Freeze on repeat.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21h

Is this one of those optical illusions? When you switch them round the one that was on the right looks smaller? X

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h

I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21h

On tonight with Mick Miller, who i gigged with 20 years ago at his first “alternative comedy club” tonight we’re at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This is the face of a dog who changed theatre at the age of 22, Radio at the age of 24 and Cinema at the age of 26

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My boy, always got his hooba-booba in my face

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Pronouncing Hubba-Bubba in the Swedish style (Hooba-booba) when referring to my cat’s arse-hole

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I got them to include in the contract that I’m allowed to be silly. I can pretend to be a mummy and stuff as long as I hit my numbers.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In Bloom Nirvana. I also bought The Chipmunks Achy Breaky Heart and Rowdy Roddy Piper’s I’m Your Man later that same day from the bargain bin in Andy’s Records. That Roddy Piper single was a banger

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I'm Your Man - Rowdy Roddy Piper

YouTube video by Records of the Wrestling World

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A lot of people say “I’m too cynical” and they’ve confused cynical with simple.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For context, it *was* my birthday and just a couple of hours earlier we’d sung happy birthday and I’d been told to blow the candles out.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If people I like could stop dying for a bit that would be smashing.

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m@thew @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

wife: why r u putting garlic in ur pants me: so dracula won’t try to eat my ass wife: why would dracula try to eat ur ass me: he won’t. the garlic- r u even listening

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Apparently as a baby I would sing “happy birthday” and try to blow out the Christingles at the service

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Tiernan Blanchard is in SPOOKY MODE @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Telling Americans about the Christingle Orange again

The Christingle Orange - an Orange (which represents the world) with a ribbon round it (for Christ's blood), sticks with sweets on them (for the four seasons/gods creations) and a candle (for Jesus). There is also some tinfoil, which is purely functional.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have a demi glace to make at the weekend 😩

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There was a line in it that absolutely floored me: “My ignorance of human feelings is so vast that they might have hated me without me being aware of it”

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Just read a book called “I who have never known men” because how could you not with such a happy title? But it’s not happy, it’s like if an autistic Belgian woman tried to write Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in the style of The Little Prince. 5/7 would read again

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Dave. Just Dave. @davidwhittam.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Big day today. I’ve just learned how to crunk.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The freezer for whenever I have a recipe that says “caramelise an onion” 😂

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