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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I once had to implement a system specified by Logica. They taught her well

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well this is it, I thought it was more a South East thing

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There probably is a point to make here. But you'd need a much more recent reference - Bukayo Saka on the inflatable unicorn maybe, and how we need to be watchful about backsliding since then John Barnes in the 80s is very much NOT IT

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

GSV An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The other day she said the 90s had a lack of news Barnes moved to Liverpool when she was 7. Fair enough her not being aware of this stuff at the time. But you could check? It's insanely lazy

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She's so good at saying 100% checkably wrong things seemingly off the cuff There was at least one whole book about this www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did he mention crubeens? That's... proper aul fella food

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Ring is a film about the importance of looking after your emotional well-being

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rita, Sue and Bob and Knuckles Too

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Among the achievements of Eva Marie Saint being celebrated, maybe a more minor one is inspiring a dodgy rhyme in the title track of the first Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc4...

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Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

YouTube video by LloydColeVEVO

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Dundee V&A has a "local design" section and it's this weird mix of textiles, Beryl the Peril and Lemmings

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You might not like it, but it limits the size sandwiches can grow to in our 20% oxygen atmosphere. In the Carboniferous monstrous giant sandwiches roamed the early forests

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's mad that Boeing - Boeing - didn't have the confidence to introduce a new aircraft. And I guess risk the Ryanairs switching to A320s? So they pretended this thing with the engines sticking up over the wing is still a 737. And hence cursed

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Bringing it back: The Punisher / Tintin mashup thread - stick any Punisher Max caption on this sequence and see how it works

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good grief I had forgotten how many people were in this Blake! Admiral Piett! Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth AND Duggan!

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Freddie Jones you absolute rotter

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Loved it. Also, did a snigger at "he's not the messiah" Nice one Denis

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway I plumped for Juggernaut (1974)

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tubi's selection isn't so much a broad spectrum as a mad swerving to and fro The nearest streaming service to a video rental shelf in a corner shop

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good lord Tubi! Moon Maidens or Paths of Glory? How can I choose?

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think you may have her confused with the DC superheroine Zenyatta Mondatta

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That bit in The Living Daylights when Necros asks "Ballon mein herr?"

Necros posing as a balloon seller in Vienna in the Bond film The Living Daylights

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Breuropäischeunionzurückeintrag

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ha, you have to go some way down this for the first mention of The Archers www.reddit.com/r/AskBrits/c... On Bluesky a good number of the Top 5s were *all* Powell/Pressburger; almost all had at least one I think I prefer it here

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder how she's going to go about brötchen the subject

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bond connection (among several I'm sure): Angela Scoular from OHMSS

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh yes. I know it was controversial but his take keeps the worldliness while dropping the hardboiled tough-guy schtick. It's refreshing. And the opening quest to feed his cat is a brilliant way in

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not sure I can think of 31 songs I haven't seen anyone else put up. We'll see how far I get In the meantime, this was a handy excuse to hear Pauline Black giving it some welly

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So many of these are lines from The Goon Show. Not saying Spike invented them, but he built a weekly show out of these gags for a decade He probably invented some of them? Or Larry Stevens did...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not me, but growing up my best friend was the vicar’s daughter, and I vividly remember one day overhearing the vicar’s wife imploring him to NOT refer to their lunch guest as “the baby eating bishop of Bath and Wells” because “we have established that he does NOT find it funny”.

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

German counting is a bit "a flagon of nut-brown ale my stout barkeep" because it's all five-and-twenty like ye olden times talk Can't take it seriously

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

James Brown published this and Viz, right? Were the same people writing on both? Someone should do a "Fortean Times headline or Viz one-off strip?" quiz

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever you see a boat in a garden: "blimey, that was a high tide"

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember at the time we were saying "where's all the news gone?". The Major government was so stable, no foreign wars, a settled attitude to Europe, no economic shocks No wonder Kemi aged 10-20 found it dull

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City fans were famous for ruefully enjoying the club's (sometimes self-inflicted) haplessness. So long-term this is on brand, if longer and more spectacular

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