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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was deep into studying the Burma Railway at university before learning of an identical scenario in WWI when Turkey tried to build one in Iraq, with slave labour killing thousands of POWs just the same

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I heard that his dad was Saturn More like King Nepotune

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even then… if I smash a shop window and hoist a jerry can, the reporting won’t read that “some legal experts have suggested that arson may be prohibited”. Laws in their intention are broadly understood.

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The current US government is buying TV ads telling people to vote for them, which is very much illegal. The NYT reporting phrases this as “Some ethics experts have argued that the Trump administration is violating federal laws”. Newspapers are useless when they don’t say what is happening.

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s a combo of the worst uninformed people and the worst exploiters who secretly know better. Everyone should let each of them know what shitheels they are on a daily basis

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the greatest comment ever written on a poetry site

Comment that reads simply “I like this, makes me feel”

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Why, he’s brown as a berry” What fucken berries are brown, Enid Blyton

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yep, disrupting terrible people who do shitty things is good regardless of the details

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What the living hell is a pound of beer

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Legitimately just had to explain to an American the Australian differences between ratbag, ratshit, ratarsed, and ratfucked

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Does this mean we now have to include Grover when thanking first responders

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s… ClownTown (not that, please don’t make me be close to clowns)

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Was literally making this joke offline with some friends drunk a few days ago, great / horrifying to know that there are similarly cursed minds

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I didn’t get Rocky Horror when I first saw it years ago. Then saw a screening recently in a dilapidated Portuguese castle, which was perfect, and the whole thing clicked, the daring and the signficance. What stood out most was Tim Curry’s delivery - immaculate. Well played.

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amazing! I started doing this a couple of years ago. Didn’t see it through the full 11 seasons or whatever, but perhaps I’ll start again and write about it.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I like “we took civet” as a phrase. Very elegant. Can apply as desired.

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ONLINE WATER DIVINER: “I hope this email finds your well”

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Like, of course reality TV is confected, but the fundamental draw of it has always been the shame and thrill that those are real people doing the confected thing

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

and the moment, months later, when I realised that because those ghouls pursue the cursed person, unceasing, for life, the fact I could not stop thinking about them meant they were also pursuing me for life

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

hardest agree I’ve ever had on this website. First couple of eps were stunning, last couple were a hot mess, but that sequence created a fear like nothing before on television

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A century after the rise of Hitler, Nazi relics that we thought vanished forever instead reappear during the dystopian damage wrought by climate change… The lead in the writers room throws a book at my head

Screen cap from a video story reading: Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the Danube during record heat and low water

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hahaha, totally fair! Like seeing a Tyler or a Cody or something - warning signs I expected that movie to be dogshit for many reasons, but it had its charms. (The sequel, not so much)

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The actor and character are Asian, he’s supposed to be from Scorpion’s bloodline. And the movie is great fun

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Conflicted! The previous one was a surprise favourite, it was unexpectedly witty as well as having the Scorpion-Subzero epic. This one, the game dynamics were fun, but the script aside from Kano felt like LLM shit.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/08/2026

Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ah, it takes out a lot of the human error! And replaces it with deranged machine error.

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I legitimately did this by accident this week because I read the floor plan wrong, and let me tell you it was a long and bewildering three hours

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also, having worked on the minutiae of complex projects with book designers, it’s so interesting to get up close to what they do, and how decisions and creative leaps are made. Rare to get a look inside that process, there should be more of it

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was an excellent review, thorough and thoughtful, that helped me clarify my response to the film. I’m sorry that some people are irrepressible dipshits who don’t grasp the concept of critique.

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s the most distilled pure form of the smug arrogance of self-righteousness

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

How many pages of The Odyssey do you reckon old mate Musk has actually read

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Ben Zelevansky @benzelevansky.com · 21/07/2026

Even more realistic is that a rich guy sets up his own island and stocks it with wall-to-wall predators

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

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Spoiler Alert @thespoileralert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Odysseus: brb Odysseus: omw

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Messi washed the baby, then the baby washed Messi

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Presumably the vampire landlord would have previously visited the property during purchase. Do they need to be invited if the home is not inhabited? Does their invitation lapse with each new lease?

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That means you’re going to float back down with the lightness of puff pastry

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A bakery thing and a chocolate milk and some eavesdropping equals a god-tier moment of self care, congrats

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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Funny how Succession had that running gag about Greg suing Greenpeace, and it was shorthand for being an irredeemable piece of shit, and now JK Rowling is for real suing *Amnesty International*

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