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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 8h

Indeed. His owner was trying to get him to say "sausages," but he kept saying, "Walls!"

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 8h

The Walls dog didn't say "sausages," though, just "Walls."

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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 17h

The new issue of The New Cartoonist is out! @thenewcartoonist.bsky.social. You'll find this one in there if you stay through the credits.

Cartoon- A man views the Bayeux Tapestry. right at the end are the words embroidered 'HAROLD WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS DOOMSDAY'

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 16h

Shout out to a Bearcam bear from 10 years ago

A tweet from me ten years ago reading
There is a bear on Bearcam today with very well-defined buttocks
The photograph shows exactly that

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 16h

Finally, Ken's Sardines and Mince Shack is getting a call!

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 16h

I'm officially home alone (apart from the cat) for almost 2 months. That calls for a takeaway tonight from somewhere that my wife wouldn't fancy getting something from.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 16h

My sympathies. My late mum had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 17h

saw this on @apiln.bsky.social's facebook page the other da

Empire: Amazon orders another Reacher round at Prime Video as Season 6 renewal confirmed.

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James Lark @jameslark.bsky.social · 21h

Famously, when Doctor Who finally got a Disney budget for VFX it produced the most successful and popular series of its 62 year run.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 23h

To celebrate the anniversary of me bursting from my mum, happy Alien vs X-men day!

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 22h

This beauty was a couple of weeks ago.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 23h

Waiting for my dad to arrive to take us to the airport to drop off Tiff there for her 2 month trip home to Tacoma/Seattle including a side quest to Arizona. So it'll be mostly just me and the cat until late November. Have plans for 2 of the Saturdays but nothing else yet.

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 23h

Had a fight about this in the office with someone a while back, saying he didn't see the problem. People's minds are getting shortcut-poisoned I swear to god

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 29/09/2026

Just reminded myself of the time that I failed an aptitude test for a job because I went to the wrong hotel where the test was happening. Thankfully, I ended up in a better job than the one the test was for.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would be excited for ANY Murderbot graphic novel, but with Erica AND Gary involved? Two long time favorite creators. And really lovely people.

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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

for those keeping track, the inevitable moment I had to stop myself heckling was: Emma Reynolds, in a panel about economic growth, talking about how brilliant it was that we had such great universities in this country

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We deserve to be told the truth..."

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Excitement at the announcement of an Erasure arena tour next year somewhat dampened by the sentence "Vince Clarke will be Musical Director for the tour but will not be appearing onstage alongside Andy Bell"

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, I refuse to be convinced this is a better bathtub Geralt than the original, no thank you www.pcgamer.com/games/the-wi...

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Here is your world-first comparison between original and remastered Tub Geralt in The Witcher 3

Geralt now 600% more damp.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Considered getting it but I haven't read every other book in the world yet.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Another photo taken at the excellent @marillion.com gig last night.

black and white photograph of 4 of the band Marillion

front left to right: Steve Hogarth (vocals & guitar), Pete Trewavas (bass), Steve Rothery (guitar)
rear: Mark Kelly (keyboards)

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

He's really gone downhill since his cousin Jasper got outed as a Hydra agent in The Winter Soldier.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This one raises a fascinating philosophical question: if you list your flat for £200k more than it is worth, have you really listed it, or are you just posting pictures of your home's interior online?

Georgia Dean and her husband recently took their property off the market.

He bought the two-bedroom flat in Haggerston, east London, for £470,000 in 2014. But the mortgage rate was due to rise from 1.6 per cent to 4.8 per cent: renting the flat out no longer made financial sense.

They listed it in June for £650,000, a below-inflation increase. An estate agent told them “no one would sniff around if the price stayed above £600,000”, said Dean, who works in product at a tech start-up.

In the two months before the couple pulled the listing, it attracted only two viewings.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mucking around with images of this night’s Moon as I returned from Newcastle #moon #photography #sky #nightsky www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

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Sunday Moon | Robin Ince

footling around with images of the Moon as I traveled back from Newcastle

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Nice. I first found out about them as they did the theme to Streethawk and a friend at school had all their albums. They certainly did a lot of movie soundtracks in the 80s for sure! Especially liked the ones for Legend, Thief and Near Dark.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Nice! Saw them several times but until tonight I'd not seen them since 2005, though I'd gone to two of Steve Hogarth's solo shows in the meantime.

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Reheated Pixels @reheatedpixels.com · 27/09/2026

The greatest game on any system, of all time, is Chaos on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. That's just scientific fact. And tonight, I've released a web-browser-based editor for it. Phew.

Edit the graphics of Chaos in your web browser. And spell data. And loads of other things.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

As usual @marillion.com were marvellous live and the support act Haunt The Woods were good too.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

The last time I went to a normal gig was on the university tour in 2001. Saw them at Marillion Weekend at Butlins in 2005 but then they moved to PZ and out of my price range.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

Great live band. First time that I have seen them live since Marillion Weekend in 2005!

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