Reposted by Colm OdinsonRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/ 91121102094
Reposted by Colm OdinsonMr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don’t care billionaires think about any country. They don’t live with or near normal people, they sit on social media, have about 12 mates who are just like them and think the world’s turned to shit because the poors are rude to them online. Mental illness with no relief, just an extreme budget. 06813
Reposted by Colm OdinsonHolly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season: 501401469
Reposted by Colm OdinsonRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1062353687
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Teenager gets bitten by spider, does not seek medical attention. 010
Reposted by Colm OdinsonQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026UK transit nerds are next level. 1454158717
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-worl... Given this was in 2019, Long Poo Tuna Kid is probably entering the work force now. Legend.bristolpost.co.ukMum pulls kid out of school because he was given tuna after long poo"I don’t think it's right to let my child starve" 011
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Kind of curious to see what the GMC would make of Max Pemberton’s unethical behaviour. 010
Reposted by Colm OdinsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026There is no "war on the motorist". But there is a war, waged one-sidedly by the motoring lobby, against public health, the safety of pedestrians and liveable cities. Against us, in other words. 81025191
Reposted by Colm OdinsonRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026gets incredible air here 256145513361
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Rod Liddle is dead www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCw_...youtube.comCharlie Brooker on Rod LiddleYouTube video by D. Alistair-Years 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonLuke Knox @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026this is my new favorite diagram 9445821411
Reposted by Colm OdinsonChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026What do we wante? Iambic pentameter! When do we wante it? "Tell me about a complicated man" 316616
Reposted by Colm OdinsonGod @thegodshow.com · 25/07/2026This is a totally surreal moment in the Epstein scandal. They win the top award for exposing a pedophile, then have to shake hands with said pedophile. 2163152884
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Sam Neil should have played more villains. He was great in Event Horizon and Mouth of Madness. 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“They” don’t want you to know this, but you can just put a little toothpick and olive into sandwiches you make at home. You don’t need a license. 1151969121
Reposted by Colm OdinsonNewsThump @newsthump.com · 29/06/2026Why is it that every photo from Trump's Great American State Fair looks like this... 26315
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026You’re using this land to open a poultry farm? The plot chickens. 100
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It really is truly remarkable how useless the Russian military are. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Always worth remembering that the guillotine was viewed as merciful. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026It’s fine if they never make any more Doctor Who. No franchise needs to last forever. It’s been fun. Let’s have new things. Same also for the stars Trek, Wars and Gate. And Buffy. And whatever else. Forever franchises aren’t good for fans. They’re just good for business. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026That #NintendoDirect was woeful. Where are the big, proper Nintendo games? Enough with remakes and remasters. The fact that, after a year of Switch 2, we still have no new Mario or Zelda game is incredibly poor. Especially with the price increase pending. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Interesting thing about #FIFA is that, for most “evil” corporations, the evil is just a passive byproduct of extreme capitalism. Whereas FIFA seem actually actively malign. It’s fascinating. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNicola’s only crime was to love too much. And to not notice the Jaguar on the drive | John CraceRather than being one of the shrewdest operators in British politics for a decade, it turns out Sturgeon was just too trusting 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Looks like the New Glenn rocket is ready for regular (maybe even weekly) holidays for billionaires. 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 28/05/2026It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work 521183358
Reposted by Colm OdinsonMichael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines 616288339436
Reposted by Colm OdinsonThat Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it… 4553002167
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Football fans really are scum.bbc.co.ukPolice pelted with bottles as Celtic fans celebrate Scottish Premiership title in Glashow's east endHoops fans gathered in Glasgow's east end after a 3-1 win put paid to Hearts' dream of lifting the trophy. 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/05/2026This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America 342844474
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Genuinely think the great alt-universe inflection point of British policies wasn’t the brexit vote. It was Milliband eating the sandwich. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Absolute state of the English electorate, voting for the xenophobic thugs that are Reform. Hang your heads in shame. 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 07/05/2026106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed. 16810298
Reposted by Colm Odinsonmollz @ilikemints.bsky.social · 07/05/2026it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad 24870951276
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Best of luck to all running the #LondonMarathon . Been applying to that infernal ballot for years now. Grrr 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/04/2026“Your government is run by pedophiles” is honestly hilarious. 38684185
Reposted by Colm OdinsonBex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 08/04/2026You might think those young cannibals are "fine" but taboos are there for a reason 2416
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Hey, general American public. This is REALLY the point where you act together and remove a madman from office. This is it. 000
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026#AppleTV app is mis-labelling movies and it is DELIGHTFUL 000
Reposted by Colm OdinsonAlan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I’m pretty sure that’s more public toilets than the council have across all of Dublin #speirGhorm 35017
Reposted by Colm OdinsonSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Autism is largely caused by combinations of genes, and its true rate in the population has not meaningfully changed. Any environmental influences occur by birth. 316540
Reposted by Colm OdinsonProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026This devastating, emotional, 2-minute clip of the oral evidence from Professor Kevin Fong (@drkevinfong.bsky.social) discussing his hospital visits at the height of the second wave perhaps explains it best. 7/19 17407183
![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e)
![[Scene is the Tudor royal court. ladies and gentlemen standing round. In the corner a very fat HENRY VIII is hunched over playing a lute.]
1
LADY:
Hey Anne Boleyn -
Who’s that lute player?
ANNE BOLEYN:
I dunno
[Determined face]
But I’m gonna find out.
[Title lettering panel]:
THIS SUMMER
[Scene is now two musicians - one with a harp, the other is Henry VIII again playing the lute]
HARPIST:
Yo Henry VIII -
Who wrote that sick lute riff yo’ jamming?
HENRY VIII:
Why...
[Looking around, modest, surprised at the attention]
I did…!
[Title lettering panel]:
SEE THE STORY
[Scene is now a tudor record producer with ruff and wearing dark sunglasses]:
PRODUCER:
Congratulations Henry
Your lute thing is a hit and your story is now one of uncomplicated musical success!
[Show a panel with lots of Beatlemania-style scenes of success for Henry the musician - swooning tudor girls, playing lute on stage, waving to fans as he descends from his golden carriage. In the middle of it in Tudor lettering are the words]:
“UNCOMPLICATED MUSICAL SUCCESS MONTAGE”.
[Another scene - a man is saying to Henry]:
MAN:
Say Henry VIII -
Are you doing anything outside this narrative that is very bad or weird?
HENRY VIII:
No.
[Title lettering panel]:
…OF A MUSICAL GENIUS
who definitely didn’t do anything outside this narrative that was very bad or weird
[Scene with Thomas Cromwell]
THOMAS CROMWELL:
Hang on Henry aren't you also a -
HENRY VIII [jumping in front of him with his lute held aloft]:
LUTE SOLO!
[Final film title panel]:
HENRY VIII:
Rock Biopic
[rated U]
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidmilghzmgnj35twr4xvnfm5eubpcdc4xmtd5nzexe2ybcubmeu7m)
