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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT

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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 15m
Latin for "I dunno, just a rat".
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 30m
Elon's cars have an admirable safety record, so this is a good idea
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 1h
The whole point being, we can't control what happens in school. We don't know what's realistic or manageable. We could say we want 1-to-1 support for key lessons. Or a sensory set up in the classroom. We DON'T FUCKING KNOW.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 1h
A large part of the email covered the fact that the school are not listening to us. The response was "I do not propose to respond point-by-point", a copy of their formal complaint policy, and a suggestion that we write a support plan for our kid and they'll review it.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1h
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 2h
Under new party rules introduced by Ed Davey any leadership challenge must involve a fight with the big cotton bud things off of Gladiators.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 3h
Kramer vs Kramer vs Predator
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Freddy vs Jason and the Argonauts
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 8h
What is the rate of “false” diagnosis? What is the actual harm done? Especially when the main intervention is “understanding and reasonable adjustments”? Or is this just the transphobic moral panic collecting another set of victims?
Daily Mail front page with the headline “RUSH TO DIAGNOSE AUTISM CAN DAMAGE CHILDREN
As rates soar up to 40-fold, major review warns of toll on those wrongly given label”
This is a photo from a press review. No money was paid or clicks given.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 3h
There's something so...limiting...about inviting all your friends to play in your own ideal imaginary world. Do they not get a say? Do you go and play in theirs sometimes?
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 4h
Ten months of "she's fine when she's here, just bring her in" has hit my limit.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 4h
Often a little detail can go a long way. The phrase "found with a samurai sword" tells you exactly who this guy is.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 4h
Never wanted to be the sort of parent that sends angry emails to school but I have been pushed too far.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 4h
Four-page email sent to my daughter's school. Somehow managed to avoid the phrase "raging incompetents".
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 4h
Ahab’s Irish granda checking in with him at Sunday dinner:
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 5h
The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 6h
Yes ADHD and Autism are being over diagnosed. It’s a big game of It. I’ve been breaking into people’s homes, pointing at them while they sit at their kitchen tables and going “NOW YOU HAVE IT” before fleeing. They can’t stop me because of woke. I won’t rest until everyone has been diagnosed.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 16h
Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review
The review, which focuses on younger age groups, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis or mis-diagnosis.
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alyx @alyx.sh · 08/10/2026
a while ago I made a bunch of unhinged requests to Amazon's shopping AI about things like "the best conceal carry holster for my dog" and I'm pleased to announce it's paid off
Home & Family >
Has a Doberman that is a guard dog and an ex-police dog

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Dog was part of a CIA experiment to allow dogs to carry firearms

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Dog has a bionic prosthetic with recoil suppression

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Dog has a Glock 40

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Dog is highly trained in the use of a Glock 40

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Dog is trained in the use of force

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Has a cat
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h
This is, I think, the data equivalent of every politician going on television naked and telling you that fire is wet and shite is shampoo, while you try to ignore their crinkled arses and saggy ballsacks
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 22h
He will go to his grave with everyone still referring to him as Prince Charles.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 22h
WhatsApp is not cockney.
Screenshot of WhatsApp chat which reads "can you get apples and" with the auto complete options "onions", "chips" and "eggs"
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TBH I assumed that she wouldn't survive and would end up being taken off life support. And as for "waking up confused and angry", no shit. That's how I wake up most days and I haven't been through anything like that.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's also really fun.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mad to think they used to make TV shows that didn't have Rob Beckett on them.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I will reluctantly accept "Iggy" if it looks like Metallic KO-era Iggy Pop, just a sweaty lank-haired bleeding maniac screaming at the viewer to fucking watch Antiques Roadshow.
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 07/10/2026
I'm sorry but this is just indicative of why the BBC is fucked, that phrase is seventeen (17!) years old! just really strong how do you do fellow kids vibes from the guy being paid to try and attract the younger audiences
Screenshot of a guardian article reading: "Brittin also laid out a potential overhaul of the iPlayer platform that included AI-assisted recommendations. He said he wanted the public to think “iPlayer and chill”."
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh fuck yeah
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm sure they've got their reasons but who uses cheques these days?
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just written an email advising someone that we can't pay them a sum we owe them by cheque. Ended it with "apologies for the inconvenience" while feels weird when talking about the most inconvenient payment method that's still legal.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quite niche that one, probably.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jonathan Sims to Simon Fairchild
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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No tittering at the Dutch potatoes.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Labour were running a van round my constituency on by-election day telling voters the Greens were going to sell all our children into sex work for drugs
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was my first thought but most of series 2-6 are still pretty funny to me. I can still watch Gunmen of the Apocalypse or Timeslides or something and enjoy it despite everything that came later.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(obviously they're all loaded and Ryan seems to want to just go off and use the money to become an animator, and good luck to him)
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I watched a video about the collapse of Ryan's World and the desperate attempts to keep the whole thing going now that he very obviously doesn't want to do it any more, and there were some really uncomfortable interviews with him and his parents where he clearly felt coerced.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
no listen i dark laughed so hard i accidentally hung up on a call
maxstrike

Surprisingly Ted Bundy was competent in his defense and the judge said under different circumstances he would have been a good attorney. With that being said, Bundy did have some legal education.


trowawufei

Interesting, I’ve read that Bundy made a really big mistake in representing himself and the jury was freaked out by him. It might’ve been a good strategy if he could somehow Mrs. Doubtfire himself and pretend to be a different person, but IRL, his behavior during the trial had to play well as both the attorney and the accused. So if his attorney displayed charisma and superficial charm, that’s one thing, but when he does it, the jury thinks “yeah, he could definitely use that to trick women into falling for his trap”.


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I think his big mistake was killing all those people. That’s the reason he lost.
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socketwench @deninet.com · 06/10/2026
Still thinking about a comment a read in response to "fast, cheap, or good, pick two" that responded with, "I never expected companies to pick fast twice."
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Philip Larkin's search history
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 06/10/2026
So far this week we have lost three right-wing fraudsters in their eighties with criminal convictions related to their use of hush money to cover up sexual scandals. Almost like the Grim Reaper is hunting for one person in particular.
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Hammermime @hammermime.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some of you are already outsourcing your hobbies to LLMs and all I can say is some people manage to find meaning in their lives and some people live in an emptiness of their own making.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're going to be forced to play semantic games and deliberately get lost in semiotics while in the real world, expulsions and killings are still continuing, retrospective articles stating the IDF lied are still being published, and people are still both sidesing. We're stuck in reboot culture
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's cool that we're going to run the 'zionism isn't racism and is actually normal' playbook again, while ignoring liberal Israeli politicians who are regularly going on podcasts calling for the permanent expulsion of all Palestinians and that killing children was actually fine, if not good
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would have thought the death of Jeffrey Archer would be a bigger deal. Barely seen anything much about it. Anyway fuck that guy.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 05/10/2026
"Don't genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men."
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S01E05 Scotch Mist 26 February 2004
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ian curtis of joy division sounds like he's on the phone with school pretending to be his own dad.
1:30 AM • Jun 15, 2023
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's good that they lifted the full coffin lid so everyone could see his trouser-medals.
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me flirting
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