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Greg Markwardt

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Vaguely interested in quite a lot of stuff. British.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2h
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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'Bob Terror Nuts' is an anagram of Robert S Burton. Sorry. @robertsburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was once at a silent disco in a train museum, one of the ones where there are two *ahem* tracks to select between, with 2 DJs. One was playing dance-pop, the other mostly soul bangers, and the crowd's choice somewhat divided on age lines. The younger ones thought we'd gone mad when this dropped.
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Rue - I Have Guns in my House (for murder) 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @rueshine.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A barbershop called Chaps will play deafening stomp clap hey garbage and charge you £54 to make your head look like an iced gem, whereas a place called Boss Cutz will give you the best haircut you've ever had in your life & it'll only cost you £15.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: Mudhoney Nut Loops.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/09/2026
Where did it all go wrong? Leaving primordial ooze 14% Origin of bilateral symmetry 7% Transition to land 32% Human-Chimpanzee divergence 47%
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's OK for things to be over. It's OK for things to end. Good stories end.
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Grand. Truly. They have until tomorrow to learn "Sweet Transvestite."
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This was my introduction to Tim Curry, and I can still sing every word of this wonderful and appalling song. Goodbye to the Grand Wizard. youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI?...
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Anything Can Happen on Halloween - The Worst Witch featuring Tim Curry (HD Remaster)
YouTube video by Rad Retro
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The fuckers kept the comments turned off on that story. Not hard to guess why either.
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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kryten: "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." PM Burnham, hands steepled: "Change it."
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It was a lot like Dragon Age Origins but years before. No one seems to have heard of it.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Witcher. It's clearly great but I played it for about 6 hours three times and I always was waiting for it to grab me.
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Nyil @nyil.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’d like to add that frustration tolerance is good to learn just so you can learn new skills generally. Learning new skills can be extremely frustrating. For example, art was so hard for me at first, I’m just really stubborn so I stuck with it and eventually learned something after a few years.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I'd be a farmer. Either a manual labourer on shitty pay, or a farm owner with notable assets. I can't see myself being great at either of those to be honest.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is so true..... #BookSky
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'Bob Terror Nuts' is an anagram of Robert S Burton. Sorry. @robertsburton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Before he was Scrooge... He was a guy in the place with a bittersweet face. His friends called him Eezer and he was the main geezer and he vibed about the place like no other man could. Refined, sublime, he made you feel fine, though very much maligned and misunderstood.
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Cane and Rinse @caneandrinse.com · 22/07/2026
New podcast: Day of the Tentacle “How about an amendment that the president has to be a human being?” Leon, Brian, Jesse and Ryan get lost in lavatorial time-loops, appraising the Looney Tunes-inspired art and humour along the way. Available now for free via podcast pipes, Spotify, YouTube etc.
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Day of the Tentacle - The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast
In this podcast we return to the Maniac Mansion for beloved follow-up, Day of the Tentacle.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
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Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
People of Clacton, you have been gifted the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. Do not squander it!
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Good news that I'll be dealing with tired people who are at least happy about it today.
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The Ghost of Diana Goodman 👓🎥 @lecinenerd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There is Yorkshire Burrito - it’s a Sunday roast wrapped in a giant thin Yorkshire pudding.
A burrito made of thin Yorkshire pudding as a wrap, with meat and gravy spilling out
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Neery @neery.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
You know the Pratchett quote that goes “No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock he wound up winds down" etc? Today my dad's spirit lives on in some truly astonishing aftermarket modifications I can't figure out how to remove from his/now my e-bike.
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Matt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 02/07/2026
Gm to all my fellow lapsed Catholics having a chuckle this morning
Two girls fighting. One is Catholic chuds the other is da pope

Guy smoking weed in the background is lapsed Catholics
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Lee Healey ✍🏻 @leehealey.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Can you dig it?
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
me watching dredd (2012) the first time: this is awesome me watching dredd (2012) the second time: this is awesome me watching dredd (2012) the third time: this is awesome
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“The Night Alarm: The Advance!”, by Charles West Cope, 1871. (Which always makes me think, there’s something rather wonderfully Discworld going on here.)
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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died
Cover of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
RIP to John Blanche, the best to ever do it. Before Warhammer was even Warhammer he understood what it was: weird, gross, unsettling, maximalist.
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There’s a real struggle between making society more tolerable, respectful and sensitive to the needs and lived experiences of its citizens AND ALSO distress is an inevitable part of the human experience and distress tolerance is the key to preventing it from ruining your life
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Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue
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Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I won the work vegetarian cooking contest. Baked butternut squash biryani, which is so easy it feels like I cheated.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I know we all know it's hot, but this is what happened to a can I left in my car.
A can of Dr Pepper that has exploded, the whole top of the can blasted upwards, on a work desk.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Literally ghoulish.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is the glorious 25th of May. How do they rise up?
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 24/05/2026
I think the enhanced games exists, a lot like MMA, for men who like to think they would be good at sport if they applied capital to their performance and simply do not participate enough in sport to really understand that supremacy is not what sport is about for most people involved in it.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"Here Comes The Metric System!"
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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A cage of you. Everything you want to see and hear, and nothing new to trouble either sense ever again. We are building a very fine Hell indeed, aren't we? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Spotify Introduces AI-Generated Personal Podcasts
Per the new feature, Spotify will create a audio based on prompts such as "Share my daily city updates, and tell me about local concerts from artists I love."
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wildly oscillating between impressed and horrified here.
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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I’ve been staring at this for half an hour now
A concoction of slices of toast, baked beans and grated cheese, labelled as ‘beans on toast lasagne.’

It is the most alluring thing I have ever seen.
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'Bob Terror Nuts' is an anagram of Robert S Burton. Sorry. @robertsburton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A lot of 'why has the UK had so many Prime Ministers in the last decade?' pieces lately. It's #brexit. Just that. It was an utterly stupid thing to do, and impossible for anyone to satisfactorily sort-out. It hit after counterproductive austerity policies and the only way to fix it is to undo it.
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky
Screenshot of Tumblr post by user sunshinemoonrx, reading:

‘Old Welsh lit: Dave punched Steve. This incurred a fine of twelve cattle and a nine-inch rod of silver and is known as one of the Three Mildly Annoying Blows of the Isle of Britain

Old Irish lit: Dave punched Steve so that the top of his skull came out of his chin, and gore flooded the house, and he drove his fists down the street performing his battle-feats so that the corpses were so numerous there was no room for them to fall down. It was like “the fox among the hens” and “the oncoming tide” and “that time Emily had eight drinks when we all know she should stop at six”

Old English lit: Dave, the hard man, the fierce man, the fist-man, gave Steve such a blow the like has not been seen since the feud between the Hylfings and the Wends. Thus it is rightly said that violence only begets more violence, unless of course it is particularly sicknasty. Amen.’
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My autistic son gets one of these Taxis, which takes him and two other boys to a specialist school over an hour away. He couldn't attend without that, he would be out of formal education. These dim arseholes are winning, and we will all suffer for it, not just disabled kids. But disabled kids first.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Every guy in a videogame:
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Had a dream last night where there was a new series of Blackadder with Blackadder as the UK Ambassador to America, and now feel this needs to be made.
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Greg Markwardt @gregmarkwardt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is the coolest job in the world.
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