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Bread AND circuses? In this economy?

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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 9h
Community service for people who shout on YouTube videos - who says no
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 17h
I take photos of my wins in Fortnite. I am 52 years old.
The "victory royale" screen following a win in Fortnite
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 17h
The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If I could turn, say, botflies into another animal, it def wouldn't be a person. Ugh there are enough people already. Maybe a puppy, or a duck
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I choose to believe this is the column in its entirety
Adrian Chiles's new column in the Guardian - a large square of white with "I hate golf" at the top and Mr Chiles face at the bottom.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Someone has Moomindaddy issues 🤔
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I was watching an old ep of Sharpe last night and he played a repulsive villain!
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
AND she can't even go. (the kicker is, nor can I as it turns out, I'll be in Malta)
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I just got an invite to a special screening of the movie! And then read it and saw it was to pass on to a client. Humbug.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My take on this is a bit different. I always thought I *was* a bit weird, & embraced that, self-consciously. But being into alternative music isn't weird; nor is liking medieval history etc. Best I can *actually* do is claim nerdiness & mildly off-centre attitudes, while being a straight white dad 😔
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not quite in the spirit of this, but for decades my mum refused to work with, or support her clients to work with, Harvey Weinstein, who was enraged she had the nerve to do so.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Can anyone think of a retailer or an online company which is a) great and b) run by a high net worth individual who's perfectly happy to make an indefinite loss?
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey I haven't been on it for ages
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That's a pre-Synod of Whitby tonsure, I can't believe it
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Relatedly, Wilfred Brambell was 49 when they filmed the first series of Steptoe. Let that sink in, if your decrepit ancient brain can manage it.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm watching a show about seminal sitcom Porridge. I remember Fulton McKay's character being an angry grandad. He actually looks like a youthful John Inman with a moustache
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I was at university in Italy, my best friend there was also called Mark. His nickname was Perfect Mark 🤔
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Grown men who refer to people as surname-plus-a-Y is just such an ick
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If we don't have at the very least a Nuremberg-style trial to convict and imprison every CEO and senior exec of these companies who *at the very least* are going to destroy economies and thousands of individual lives, and their abhorrent propagandists, what the fuck are we doing
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Covid-19 comes along with a 1-2% mortality rate and the whole world launches an unprecedented multi-trillion dollar war to suppress it. AI comes along with a "10-50% chance of human extinction within 5 years" and I can't finish this fucking sentence, I'm so disgusted
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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😊 I made a game about British birdsong and time travel. The newest level is set in #Ely, starting about 7000 years ago... 🐦‍⬛ Listen to birds, guess who's singing, and collect the dawn chorus. 🦻It's built for accessibility and free to play bird-times.lovable.app #IndieDev #GameDev #Birdsong
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey Kat, do you know the crossword compiler Angel (www.mycrossword.co.uk/Angel)? She's one of my oldest pals!
mycrossword.co.uk
Angel (Rachel Playforth) · MyCrossword
Made for cryptic crossword enthusiasts, MyCrossword is a free platform for creating and publishing your own puzzles.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three weeks until this lil cutie arrives
A sad-eyed blue whippet puppy looks at the camera as her mum and siblings rest and suckle.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I missed out on it in my feckless youth so I don't have any comparisons :)
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have – shhhh – tried my son's pills on a couple of occasions. They've definitely helped, but I am unsure whether they help because they do the job or they help because they are speed 🤷🏼‍♂️
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I guess the answer is more or less what you'd have been told in the 70s. Try harder, focus better pull yourself up by bootstraps etc? I'd be lying if I said I hadn't wanted a magic pill – literal or metaphorical.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I was recently diagnosed as non-ADHD ("many traits but can't call it a disorder")- not a huge surprise as my symptoms are spotty - but it does leave you a bit flat. All the elements of me that make my life harder - what now?
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pre-Covid you'd have baked bread in the office like we all did back then
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is spectacularly, mouth-openingly cool. I got a boy in 3rd century China who died immediately after birth. Oddly powerful and moving
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you! He was fun to paint though I have taken certain liberties (he's more hench that the original, also mine is much worse). I wondered if he may be a sea lion - his face reminds me of how they rendered lions back then...
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, I have done a few weeks of the course now and this is what I painted (to be clear, it's a direct copy of a medieval special guy, nothing original from me bucko)
An unskilled acrylic/watercolour painting of a medieval merman (I think!), my first ever painting
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously though. Who thought it would be a good idea to introduce a character so gross and unlikeable that she'd ruin every scene she was in? When she's redundant anyway? I am, professionally, baffled
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Tracey Ullman died on the way back to her home planet"
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tracey Ullman's character though. I don't understand her performance, the writing, her point in the show. The whole caboodle makes the show materially worse!
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Could this solution BE any more Guardian 🙄
Guardian headline reading "The Audio Long Read - the end time fascists are plotting to escape from our world. Our mission is clear - podcast"
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer, at the height of his success, asked my mum to be his agent. "Fuck no" she said
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I will accept a bad thing happening to Sam Altman. Perhaps a sequence of increasingly humorous, increasingly painful things.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think by definition! Also, my amazing Stone carving teacher, who is an astonishing Stone artist, is also a bell ringer
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look what I did today!!
A star carved on a square of prepped stone
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very much so. Even when not recording the 2am showing
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hung out with him at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008, when he had a (modest) solo show there. I remember his voice being pretty normal too. Nice fella but I'd have never guessed this was his future!
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Etihad Streisanding their tits off, I see www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
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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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh for sure. But give him a good song to sing!
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The novel analogy is interesting. When I read the Game of Thrones books, each chapter is from the perspective of a character, and I grew to dread the ones featuring specific non-faves. I read them anyway, because it's a story. Any story with Yellow Submarine in it needs a hard edit :)
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I definitely don't disagree with you in principle. But (using your Ringo example), my version of Revolver - after many listens - no longer has Yellow Submarine in it, because it's awful, and absolutely takes me away from my enjoyment. Forcing myself to include it would just infuriate.
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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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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's even more intriguing!
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was at university in Bologna, & at the end of the year I came back to the family home. I left my stuff in the front room, then went out with pals & stayed with my gf. That night, the house was robbed, via a window in the front room - & they took all my bags, incl all the essays I'd done in Italy.
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All Hallows' Mark @biondino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I did once actually have burglars steal my homework
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