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*Clears throat* *Reply delayed in order to savour this moment* Well, at least this gives Southeastern drivers an excuse to sit around scratching their arses all day for twice the money for once! *Sends this post to the RMT staff magazine, feels righteous, yay socialism!* 😉

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 14m

Exactly the same sentiment (although it's just a fucking tree) but the presentation makes all the difference. You English people, which apparently now needs to be very tightly defined because you're English, are fucking weird and should seek help. Signed, a Welshman who isn't playing this game.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 18m

While my mum had cancer: Andrea: We've got our gardener coming next week, would it help if he trimmed your tree back? Please say if it's not a good time." Jill: Some of your tree's branches are over our garden. Please get someone to trim them back before our gardener comes. Hope your mum is well.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 26m

((The guests are also different: the posh neighbours' guests go "oh, they have border collies! Such lovely dogs don't you find, Andrea?" while the snooty ones' guests go "is that a woke gay flag in their window? Don't you find that annoying, Jillian?"))

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 26m

(The difference between the posh neighbours and the snooty neighbours is that the posh ones just have a dinner party in their yard; the snooty ones drop us multiple texts to say they're having people round.)

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 34m

The canapé that followed was served with the words "sorry this is still cold". The British are fucking devastating when we're shaming people.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 34m

Next door (the posh ones, not the snooty ones) are having a soiree in their back garden tonight. I suspected this was happening when I saw them serving wine and canapés to two people at 5pm. Everybody else arrived at about 7pm. The wine was served with the words "sorry this is still warm".

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 1h

On a pathetic non-channel like this, I'm fine with recorded continuity... except they made a clever-clever almost-joke in each announcement... and then ran the same announcement every day at the same time for the entire history of the channel.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 1h

Can I make the joke the rest of the railway make about you drivers, Matt? You know, the one about being sat around scratching your arses for most of the day for twice the pay of everybody else? Please Matt? Please? 😜

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 3h

The washing machine has walked forward enough on the spin cycle to now say "Unb" when it tries to spin. I have therefore broken out my blue crowbar to get it back into place.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 3h

Please add me to your "this person is anti-AI" moderation list, my delicate little flower. Let me see those hot hot tears you're crying. I'll be devastated and chastened, I promise.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 3h

There are, of course, several problems with AI generation tools that we don't need to go into here, obviously, but a quite major one is that they are pumped full of far-right bullshit and thus produce this type of far-right bullshit because they're basically far-right bullshit-producing machines.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 4h

Disney+ is 15% cashback, single use, max £19.48, a curiously specific figure... because that's the same thing: it's a month, and you don't get the free month offer they often have. Well, thanks for that. That's just excellent and has totally built fondness in me for both the advertiser and Monzo.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 4h

Monzo have built-in offers that do similar things. My favourite is "Channel 4+ — 100% cashback online — single use — max £8" which actually means 2 months free, rather than the month they already offer, except if you use the offer, you don't get the free month. Wow.

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 5h

Just Eat have sent me a 50% voucher. But in the small print it says the maximum discount is £10. So it's not a 50% voucher. It's a £10 voucher. Wankers.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

(Mainly by doing a half-arsed job of everything I do, but since I mostly work in higher education, that in itself isn't the win I think it is.)

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

Anyway, capitalism won this one — I didn't even get an IBD attack from the McNothing burger, just an increased chance of dying of a heart attack at some point in the future — but rest assured I will continue to try to bring it down from the inside.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

If I was quite as much the revolutionary socialist as I believe myself to be, I'd've gone in and just plundered the salt sachets and left, except there was someone restocking when I arrived and I didn't want to do it in front of him, although he wouldn't've given a fuck obviously.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

The full story is that I bought a Tesco boxed salad to eat after my spanking club, then realised that I had no salt to make it edible, so went into McDonalds to buy fries in order to grab some salt sachets but they had an offer on the McPlant that my order didn't qualify for in the end.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

Then I'm making up for *that* with a slow-cooked 'autumn vegetable' soup for the next few days (lentils, celery, leek, Pearl Bailey, courgette, white wine, veg stock that's possibly older than you that I found in the freezer, garlic, Maggi, random dried herbs).

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

I'm making up for it tonight by making my own pizza (well, I bought the pizza base) with lactofree cheese and portobello mushrooms.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 5h

I had a McPlant burger last night. It was a thing that I put in my mouth that made me temporarily less hungry, so qualifies as food I suppose.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 6h

For me it was how my dad immediately gave up the moment he got ill. Surrendered to it totally. Stopped everything he enjoyed, stopped being himself. Completely caved. Became, as you've said, indifferent. And then he lived another 20 years like that. Awful.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 6h

I could easily come up with a further nine, several of which would surprise even people who know me well, but these all had specific impacts on my musical tastes. That's why the Problematic Mancunian Mononym gets placed at no 1. No point in denying history.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 6h

These are my 9 albums, since we're doing that at the moment. You probably have your own and they will be different. That's fine. www.my9albums.com/s/2oksH0CCiv

Viva Hate, Morrissey; Kite, Kirsty MacColl; Welcome to The Beautiful South; Electric Warrior, T.Rex; Out of Time, R.E.M.; Plastic Letters, Blondie; Drawn to the Deep End, Gene; White Ladder, David Gray; Swing When You're Winning, Robbie Williams.

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Scott @merseytart.com · 9h

what is happening here please

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Five workies (four men and a woman) are posing like the Spice Girls underneath.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 11h

Train packed and noisy but luckily I’ve got my new child drowning device with me.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 11h

Even I have my limits. Probably.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 11h

This one - Manchesterford Victoria - is awful even by their usual standards.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 12h

I am having a soy latte and a vegan breakfast roll (“now with gag suppressant!”) in what might be the grottiest, dirtiest Starbucks in the world.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 12h

I carry both ceterezine and Benadryl at all times, as the number of things my body thinks are an attack (bell peppers, but not jalapeno, for instance, which is just insane) is ridiculous! It’s weird that my regimen before sex is to take PrEP and an antihistamine, but there we go. 😬

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 22h

Another time. GP: Who’s your next of kin. Me: My husband. GP: And what’s your partner’s name? Me: My husband is Chris. GP: Your partner’s phone number? Me: My HUSBAND’s number is x. GP: Does your partner… Me: HUSBAND. GP: Does your partner… Me: HUSBAND. GP: Does your “husband” have….

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 22h

Me, in passing: I’ve got an appointment to get PrEP next week. GP: I strongly advise against that as it can cause kidney damage. You’d be better off trying abstinence. He then prescribed me an unrelated drug that required required monthly blood tests because it was known to cause kidney damage.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 22h

Anywhere, which can be an issue with buggery! I even get hives from my own, so can’t splash on to my own stomach. 😑

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 22h

Don’t Panic, Protect and Survive, and on the way back Compact Cassette.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 23h

I can only imagine the reaction of my quietly homophobic GP to me asking to test for it. Pretty sure that would be the end of the “quietly” part.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 23h

It might be a Manchesterford thing, but there were 2 people on my tram to my hotel wearing @nikhorne.com t-shirts, and now there’s one on my tram back.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 23h

This is why I carry both Benadryl and ceterezine whenever I’m likely to find myself being no better than I should be.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 23h

It’s made worse because god, who does not exist, hates me and I’m actually allergic to spunk. Anyway, that’s why I’m on a tram at 2245 with my left eye swollen and closed and with hives in an interesting pattern on my cheek and neck.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 23h

CW: Ewww. I’m a very big proponent of homosexuality, as many of you may have gathered. Nevertheless there’s a downside: getting spunk in your eye is awful in every way.

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 02/10/2026

Possibility that the tram I’m on has hit a pedestrian.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is very funny

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Jamiebear 🏳️‍🌈 𓂺 @bearbehind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hello Julie. Goodbye Julie.

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