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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So...Redemption Theory, but real? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redempt...

Redemption promoters allege that a secret fund is created for every citizen at birth and that a procedure exists to "redeem" or reclaim this fund to pay bills. Common redemption schemes

The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Worth knowing about "Cape Feare": the production staff had already handed in their notice, so they departed from the (mostly) grounded humourous style of the show for a more Looney Tunes direction. This is why there's infinite rakes, an elephant parade, and a Gilbert & Sullivan production.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Matched with Briton Reviere's "Aphrodite (Selfie With The Squad)"...

Briton Reviere's painting "Aphrodite". The Goddess, depicted as a white woman in a red dress, is surrounded by wolves, bears, lions and leopards while walking through a forest, and holds her arm above her as though taking a group selfie.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Favourite film that came out when I was 20. Saw this in a little cinema on my uni campus and wondered if I was dreaming.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"For an Android...an eternity."

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Patricia - and Kate O' Flynn playing her, and Katie Dippold and all the production team behind her - isn't just a great character. She's a TRAILBLAZER.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As contrasting examples, take Joyce from "Speechless", or Jan of "Only Murders In The Building", or (arguably the most , Tammy 2 of "Parks And Recreation". All of them are interesting characters; but too often their main function in the plot is a threat or obstacle.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The fascinating thing about Patricia Moyer of #WidowsBay is not that she's new or unique. There are dozens of TV shows which have similar characters - unconventionally attractive, physically dangerous, isolated, traumatised, older-than-25 women. They're just not usually the protagonist.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Naturally it reads a little differently in the original Japanese:

生きることはまことに苦しく、つらい......
Ikiru koto wa makotoni kurushiku, tsurai......
To live is extremely difficult and painful......

世を呪い、人を呪い、それでも生きたい......
Yo o noroi, hito o noroi, soredemo ikitai......
I curse the world, I curse people, and yet I want to live......

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

St Peter watching Joyce deny Dorothy

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If I had a nickel for each time the second Trump administration had a mental breakdown over the colour blue and ended up cramming algae into everything...I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"But he's from the North!"

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

(An English thing happens in England in an English way, Englishly) "What are we, ITALIANS?!"

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

(This is particularly apt in that Starmer is almost as much of a scoundrel as Churchill, just not so bloodthirsty)

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

From Shortpacked!: www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id...

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Suddenly remembering when Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson created a not-too-subtle satire of Blair in TRANSMETROPOLITAN, through the uncanny figure known as "The Smiler", whose secret was that he was grown in a vat

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The cast in this is terrific, and it has one of the great standout performances of Ian Holm!

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oh, can't forget the Sand Superman, the Superman made of sand. ...that's all I got.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Believe it or not, there is precedent for the above statement in British law: www.lawteacher.net/cases/pinnel...

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Gorm the Dissolver is a cooler character design/concept than any other bounty hunter, and that includes any and all inhabitants of Mandalore.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bought one of these patches last year and it's one of my favourite things on my jacket. Huge recommend!

Close-up on a black denim jacket. A patch has been sewn on with white, blue and pink thread. The patch depicts a marble torso of a person who's had top surgery, surrounded by flowers. A banner reads "THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A WORLD WITHOUT TRANS PEOPLE"

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Oof. 2008's catalogue has aged just awfully. The kickoff of the MCU, the massively overhype of "The Dark Knight", horrible misfires like "Slumdog Millionaire", "Benjamin Button", "Gran Torino"... Thank the stars for Melonie Diaz, Jack Black and Mos Def.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Right?! The hair, the combined V+M logo, the runway model heels...and that big grin looks FANTASTIC drawn by Iban Coello! I've been reading Venom since I was like 15 and it's never been as fun as this

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"They're talking about invoking the 25th amendment"

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I've recently discovered Kamome Shirahara's "Witch Hat Atelier", which is * A better-written story * Gorgeously drawn * Proactively worldbuilding a LOT better than HP on core plot questions (e.g. "Why must magic be kept secret?", or "What are witches for anyway?")...

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Trying to explain to said friend that my landlord doesn't allow sub-letting

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I didn't start gaming until 2020, so these are mostly classic to me specifically

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It also makes sense that there's a great deal of art which is deliberately iconoclastic because, on one level or another, it's trying to say "these rules/dogma are made up, not immutable laws of the universe". Magritte did this all the time. So does MÖRK BORG.

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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Another adaptation could grapple with your points, but the motivation of "Frankenstein" was never "I can bring the dead back to life": it was "I can discover the Elixir". He isn't a scientist, and doesn't think he should be limited by the focus of medical science.

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