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Bread AND circuses? In this economy?

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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10h
Look what I did today!!
A star carved on a square of prepped stone
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Etihad Streisanding their tits off, I see www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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City sponsor Etihad Airways considering legal action against the Premier League
Manchester City’s main sponsor, Etihad Airways, is considering legal action against the Premier League after the verdict of the independent commission
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Belle & Sebastian is, I'm afraid, unfeminisable.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can anyone think of a film, TV show, or book in which someone with untreated tuberculosis makes a full recovery? It's a hell of a disease, but it's not rabies.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I thought the Wests lived in Bristol?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Arrested Development: Get Rid of the Seaward
Alt: A GIF from Arrested Development: when Michael tells Gob to "get rid of the Seaward" and Lucille, overhearing, says "I'll leave when I'm good and ready"
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think I just don't like the sound of the marimba.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Patients with ADHD will no longer be formally diagnosed. Instead people will be encouraged to say ‘oh, he’s just a bit, you know,’ while doing a new hand gesture designed to indicate, you know, that he’s a bit like that
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He'd be like "hmm, checks out".
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would watch anything Hans Keller presents. Anything.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Erling Haaland, celebrating happilyBeavis, celebrating happily
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*Two* Danny Tommos? What have we done to deserve such a fash loser bounty?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have a desperate short-term memory, but I can remember *numbers* in circumstances where I wouldn't have a hope in hell of remembering words or concepts. What's that about?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A double X in a word makes me physically cringe. Basement Jaxx. Jamie Foxx. So you can imaging how delighted I am with the "-maxxing" thing
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This kimchi in sealed Tupperware inside a sealed ziplock bag really doesn't want you to forget it's there 👃🏻
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: Nuclear War Struwwelpeter Miss Gresham Argentina AIDS My nonno's kidney op The 1981 movie "Dragonslayer" The skeleton in a top hat under my bed Heroin Demonic possession The girl I liked kissing the boy I hated
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's amazing how often I have to say to myself "FFS Marco do it *properly*", and almost as amazing that after such self-exhortation, I usually do
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Daniel Peake @quizzydan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you like quizzes? Do you like industrial estates in Cardiff? Do you like being tortured by questions? Do you like a labyrinthine format where no-one goes home? Do you fancy seeing me scuttle shiftily around the studio? Then apply for the next series of Only Connect! www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...
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Only Connect | Shows and tours
The popular BBC Two quiz show presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell returns for a new series in 2027.Only Connect is seeking teams of three players OR single applicants or teams of two looking for like...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I saw this on insta (via @sarahduggers.bsky.social I think?) and it very much tickled me!
A single panel cartoon featuring Easy E and Ice Cube, relaxing in a teenage bedroom, bowl of popcorn at hand, and Easy is saying "...Marry the Firemen... Kill the Paramedics."
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I mean, if someone was working 24/7 to create a kind of super-COVID that could kill 10% of people (same expected value if not same circumstances) you'd expect world governments to crack down with extreme prejudice and have the ringleaders jailed forever, right?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We're all just pointless resource gobblers watching things turn to shit.
Bluesky's trending topics, where "Iran War" comes second to "Wordle results shared". Man, we're screwed
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
At least this particular issue can be easily solved by kneecapping every Telegraph journo 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Is it possible that gravity is, like, a cheat code? Like a higher power programmed the universe but couldn't quite get it all to work, so modded the code with "gravity" so it worked properly?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If it's helpful for some people to think of AI as "alive", then think of it as alive like Smallpox, or Hitler, something that will only ever do us harm that should be stamped out ASAP with extreme prejudice.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Artists I've seen more than 10 times (in approx order) - Stereolab - Mega City 4 - Belle & Sebastian - Th' Faith Healers - Senseless Things I imagine you can guess my literal birth month from the above but there you go.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@theathletic.com I shall terminate my subscription the moment you announce a tie in with a prediction company. I'll urge everyone I know to do too. For shame.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Eau-de-Nil British-Home-Stores
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's a sign!
A sign outside the chapel at Farleigh Hungerford Castle, pointing to the crypt. Fuck yeah, a crypt!
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If Izzy is involved, this will be fabulous! Support the arts!
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"You have selected regicide"
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My dentist's loo has the sound of birdsong piped in and it's making me ridiculously happy. Might need to add birdsong for every eventuality
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I am fond of The Guardian, sometimes, but there's currently an article about Russ Abbott asking "why did he walk away from his successful career?" He "walked away" at the age of 68. FFS.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The two genders
Buttons inside a lift, but the only ones available are 1 and 33
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For some reason, I got no response on this last time. Any takers?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Okay hear me out. I don't hate it - I like it! But - The Princess Bride is maybe the clunkiest movie I've ever seen. Which is intentional, right? But it *grates*, it does
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JW @footyramblings.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Huge fan of Palermo announcing their squad numbers through an apartment intercom panel. New players handwritten with the elder statesmen having engraved tags. Lovely stuff.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I bought two on the same day, so:
The album "Heaven on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle - Belinda lounging on some steps, next to a globe, with a blue colour paletteThe album "Introducing the Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby", with the artist now know as Sananda Maitreya looking down to the left and absolutely the most handsome man ever, possibly
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm sitting in a trendy bar in Edinburgh reading an obviously feminist book and I'd make it very clear I'm NOT doing it performatively, it's just that my phone's too low on battery to doomscroll
The paperback of "Poet Mystic Widow Wife" by Hetta Howes, in a trendy bar
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Who's the richest person whose life isn't a ghoulish horror that's destroying themselves and everyone else?
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I desperately want this sweater I saw on... Fortnite
White and light blue sweater, as worn by a character on Fortnite
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
People who say "don't bring politics into sport/comedy/whatever" are, every time, the people who know their politics are shameful and embarrassing and don't want to have to justify or defend them.
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Inexplicably, I find myself without focaccia 😣
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
St Swithin absolutely taking the piss this year, lads
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Parents! If you think your kids are watching too much shitty YouTube but you don't know how to manage it, just ban them from watching anything that involves shouting. It works!
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Theme from a Summer Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I am getting a bit sick of people assuming, because of my age & gender, that I have little truck, patience or understanding for various "woke" things. I do! I'm very woke! It all matters to me! And I hope my years can help give me nuance and context, but it doesn't change right and wrong.
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