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James Connelly

@funinfunerals.bsky.social
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Amateur musician, artist and writer. Professional rogue and scoundrel

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 07/08/2026
More from Jessie Zhang:
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Smart World Cup tactics from USA
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
AI data centres in Europe, 1437
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SalisburyDock @salisburydock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
👏👏
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 05/06/2026
Early microscope
Early microscope
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/05/2026
Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...
Please see link for full statement. Please see link for main statement. Please see full statement.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The scene is a LATE NIGHT CHAT SHOW, present day. The audience are clapping the host who is starting the show. 

On the center of the wall behind the host is a huge version of the famous Author Portrait of William Shakespeare from the First Folio - the image is the iconic one we have of Shakespeare, ruff, beard, bald]. 

[Close up on the HOST.]

HOST:
And now - l can't believe I'm actually saying this...
Please welcome. through the newly invented Time Portal..

[We see now that there is a glowing hi tech box on the stage]

HOST:
MR… WILLIAM… SHAKESPEARE!

[Huge applause, whoops, cheering from the audience]

[Through the Time Portal comes WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - grinning and waving to the audience, revelling in the attention. He has a full, glorious, brown, flowing head of hair.]

SHAKESPEARE, still smiling glancing up at the huge author portrait on stage]:
Who's the bald guy?

HOST:
That's your author portrait!

It's the only one we've had of you for the past 400 years.

[Shakespeare again. His grin is fixed but waning. He looks at the host. Back at the bald portrait. We see it again. It is really very bald. Shakespeare looks a it. His grin is fading ever so slightly now. He looks back at the host.]

HOST:
I believe it was put at the front of your collected works after you died by your lifelong rival, Ben Jonson.

[Shakespeare again. Shakespeare’s smile has gone now. He looks back at the host. He looks back at the bald portrait. He looks at the host again. Then he abruptly turns and walks back out of shot]]

SHAKESPEARE:
COME HERE JONSON YOU FU- [Words truncated as he disappears back in time through the portal, while the host runs trying to catch him]

[Ends]
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
[scene is a press conference at CERN. The head of CERN, Mark Thompson, and Ursula Bassler, a high-up director at CERN, are speaking to journalists in a press conference room with a screen behind them]

THOMPSON:
Ladies and gentlemen, We are honoured to announce 

...we've found dark matter.

[audience]:
APPLAUSE
WHOO

THOMPSON:
Our observations have conclusively proved that the mysterious matter prevalent throughout the entire universe...

[He pauses, removes his glasses, closes his eyes, rubs them as if tired]
 
...Is Biscoff.

JOURNALIST:
What

THOMPSON:
It's Biscoff.

[Show behind them a photo of deep space, with black blobs throughout it and the Biscoff logo in all of them]

THOMPSON:
Yeah. We were quite annoyed to be honest.

URSULA BASSLER:

According to the data, 95% of the Universe is in fact a delicious collab with the Lotus Bakeries corporation.

[Ursula also looking despondent now, rubbing her head with her hand, looking down, ashamed]
 
And unfortunately for the scientific community,  this is also strong evidence for the existence...

...of The Great Influencer. 

[On the screen behind them, an image has appeared of a typical annoying food influencer, with a YouTube thumbnail style image of the blonde, mistachioed, young influencer making a dumb "OOOH" face and the title: 'THE VOID x BISCOFF!?!]

URSULA BASSLER:

It seems that everything was created by a cosmic god who just had some kind of viral recipe idea which "You just gotta try guys."

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[silent pause as the scientists look despondently at the image on screen of the Cosmic Influencer] 


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THOMPSON [Looking away in disgust]:

Honestly I'm so pissed off.

[ends]
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2026
We are the laughing stock of the world.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Off and on it
[Scene is heaven, in clouds. JESUS, acting as God’s PA, is briefing God, a big ball of light with arms sat at an executive desk, with a computer on it]. 

Jesus [holding a tablet computer]: 

OK, so -

The next one to check in on is…

 ‘Earth’.

God: Spelling?

Jesus: E-A-R-T-H.

[God types into the computer] 

tap-tap-tap-tap-tap. Tap.

God: F—ing hell.

What’s happened here!?
 
We need to complain - get me the manager. 

Jesus: Uh, well, the most powerful one is…

[Jesus turns his iPad round to show God. We can’t see the screen]

God: What is that.

I mean, it’s been a while but that’s definitely not how I designed them. Are you sure we’ve got the right planet?

Jesus: Yes, this is the… top human.

God: Off and on it again

Jesus: I’ll book the meteor

[Ends]
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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
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James Connelly @funinfunerals.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
All these years I thought The Pink Panther was a comedy and now I find out it was a gritty true crime thriller
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Celtic Fans Collective @celticfcollective.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 09/08/2025
this 3 act story has something for everyone
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haunt-a willow 🐈‍⬛🐦‍⬛🔮🖤✨ @hanawillow.kim · 19/07/2025
need more guys that sound exactly like this tbh
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
holy shit lmao
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🏳️‍🌈 HeroRareheart 🏳️‍⚧️ @herorareheart.hyperscat.com · 14/07/2025
Finally, I can post this video I've been hanging on to since somebody sent it to me.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice
Part 1 of 4

A Peanuts Comic. Once again Lucy has goaded Charlie Brown into trying to kick a football, and (as usual) she jerks the ball away at the last second, sending Charlie flying into the air. 

This time however Charlie lands heavily on his neck and is killed instantly.Part 2 of 4

Lucy kicks Charlie Brown to check if he’s dead. Which he is.
Exasperated, and worried she’ll be blamed for his death, Lucy begins to drag Charlie’s now lifeless body towards the creek.Part 3 of 4

Lucy dumps poor ol’ Charlie Brown into the creek and watches him float away.Part 4 of 4

Lucy heads back to Charlie Brown’s backyard to pick a fight with Snoopy in order to establish an alibi.
 
Unfortunately a disheveled, crumpled man with a cigar is already there.

“Miss, have y’seen this dog? He’s best friends with a BIRD. Can you believe that?”

That’s right folks. Columbo is here to avenge Charlie Brown.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 19/04/2025
"Trans people have always existed" That's simply not possible because people haven't always existed. There was a time before people, and so therefore, there was a time before trans people. And in that time, there were trans dinosaurs.
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Ava Draw @avadraw.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Bordado que dice "trans lives are more important than Harry Potter"
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/03/2025
Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
FFFFFFFUCK OFFFFFFF
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
The Bulwer-Lytton Awards for Worst Opening Paragraph went out and, man, I totally disagree. This opener is hilarious.
The Fantasy & Horror Bulwer-Lytton award winning line for worst opening paragraph text is shown: "Sir Arthur Pendragon, High King of the Britons, son of King Uther Pendragon, nephew of King Aurelius Ambrosius, who was in turn the son of a long list of people who weren’t kings and thus don’t matter, only slept with his sister once, but boy did it come back to bite him in the ass." -Diana Murtaugh, Baltimore, MD
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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Weather apps #weather
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
Taurus: You will become incredibly invested in something no one cares about. Again. Nerd.
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slartibartmads @slartibartmads.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Wizard Work #comic #webcomic
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❤️Lau❤️ @2022lush.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Imagine buying yourself a toy and coming home to it being planted on your doorstep 😲
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Just so we're all clear, it's still a war crime to blow up ambulances, even if you claim the enemy is inside one.
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Orpheus "Teige" Wren 🏳️‍⚧️ @probablyacryptid.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
You’ve heard of sexy Jar Jar, but are you ready for sexy Admiral Akbar?
Admiral Akbar in a sexy white bunny costume cosplay like wow, that is some amazing air brushing technique on the body paint. I have no idea how this cosplayer can see? Maybe they can’t. Anyway, I’m impressed. At a con, other people in the background
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
(1/13) Do you know Geena Davis? This is Geena Davis. She's, in my opinion, the most impressive actress alive and not because of the excellent roles she played... but because of the one role that changed the direction of her life. Geena Davis started her career in the classic Tootsie as April Page.
Geena Davis in 80's makeup in The FlyGeena Davis as a Catcher in A League of their OwnOn left Geena Davis from BeetleJuice holding a bug, on right Geena Davis in her 50's at an award's show in a black, glossy gown
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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
This is how you quit.
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Eve 🐙 @xehsu.northsky.social · 19/08/2023
Germany once again is having none of this transphobic garbage.
DEUTSCHER
I SCHACHBUND
The German Chess Federation (DSB) has a clear position: we do not exclude trans women. In Germany, a trans woman already became German Champion in the 2000s and trans women will of course be allowed to participate in all German tournaments for women in the future. The German Chess Federation is not changing this practice. In doing so, we stand together with European partners, such as the French Chess Federation, which handles this in exactly the same way.
We have serious concerns that these new FIDE rules are compatible with the legal situation in several countries. If a person is legally recognised as a woman, it is incomprehensible to us what FIDE still wants to check and why it needs two years for this - as stipulated in the new rules.
From the point of view of the German Chess Federation, these regulations issued by the World Chess Federation for the registration of transgender chess players are an example of how discrimination arises when those affected are
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