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Mirthless Laughter

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Translator. Editor. Copywriter. Occasional voiceover bloke. Planning to return to cartooning after a brief 35-year hiatus. Posts in français and svenska may occur.

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 22h
One person found this review for a Lego set helpful
Amazon review for a Lego set titled “Lego”. The full review reads: “It was Lego”
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
and then on Friday I overheard someone on TV talking about Jeffrey Archer so I asked Celeste is he dead or is that just wishful thinking and she said no he’s written a new book and I said Oh God that’s all we need and then this evening she came up to me and said hey guess what
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) @englishmansdcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
[scrolls] very good, excellent choice [scrolls further] okay, okay [further still] yeah but they better have included [further still] no seriously where the hell [scrolls to #1 slot] phew! had me worried there for a second!
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My sister and I had a cat called Celeste. The neighbour’s cat used to visit us sometimes and for some reason I started calling her Florence. It just seemed like a good cat name. Years later I met the woman I now share my life with. Her name is Celeste and her eldest daughter is Florence.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lucy from Peanuts consorts with the Devil
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Le Capitaine Haddock parle au téléphone avec le diable et il explose
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nestor répond au téléphone et c’est le diable
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Le capitaine Haddock est dans son bain et parle avec lou diab’ au téléphone
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apparently I missed Batman Day
Two-panel comic strip: in the first panel, Satan holds a telephone receiver as he says “Hello… it’s me, Satan.” In the second panel, Batman, also holding a receiver, says “If this is your idea of a joke, your humour is sadly misplaced! Good day, Sir!”
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tragicsystem (spooky edition) @birce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran il fait de la musique pour les gens qui vont se recueillir tous les ans sur la tombe de Dobby.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The first time Lucy plays the football gag on Charlie Brown, from November 16, 1952.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Placing the papal ring against the orb, Pope Leo solemnly begins to recite the oath: “In clarissima die, in obscurissima nocte”
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"At times, things take a turn for the Lynchian, and I mean that in the best way possible, as some outright strangeness descends on this town and its inhabitants." Ground Control Mag recommends Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernandez (out 10/6)! ow.ly/zmj750ZOxJ4
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I Wanna Be Literated #195 - Ground Control Magazine
Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Storiesby Gilbert Hernandez I’ve known about Gilbert Hernandez for a long time. I don’t know how he came onto my radar but I think the fact that I’m a punk who’s into comic books makes it inevitable. I knew he was involved in something called Love and Rockets but it seemed like a universe so vast that it would basically be impenetrable to me at this point. Every time I saw some Hernandez artwork it would […]
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
2027 LONDON UNDERGROUND A3 CALENDAR I’m proud to announce my 2027 Tube Mapper Calendar, sharing special moments from my journey exploring every stop on the Tube, Overground, DLR, Tram & Elizabeth line Buy Here tubemapper.com/buy-tube-map... Please share with anyone who might enjoy it
Tube mapper calendar Tube mapper calendar Tube mapper calendar
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Of ye Plummef thou didft buy to break thy faft And laid in ife until ye morrowe; I prefently have made repaft, I muft impart with forrowe. I beg of thee thy wrath to ftay; Forgive me for my boldneff. Good were they, and fweet were they, And ftung my teeth with coldneff.
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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What's the point!?!

Cat and Girl are spending a Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. 'Believe in education begins as a practical step,' says Girl. 'A potential pathway to a higher standard of living. The education itself becomes a virtue - isn't it GOOD to learn? To be curious about the world? Then you look around - at the most successful people in society - and see society's most self-satisfied, least curious members - with thoughts only for their own dominance - so why learn ANYTHING if it doesn't directly benefit me? Am I just a SUCKER?' They now look out across the island's far shore, and then walk into the waves. 'Yet I still believe,' continues Girl, 'even if the beliefs is negative - even if it's a relic - the Edwardian women still wearing a bustle when the rest of the world has moved on.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Carmen is an opera about a taxi company
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Full thing here youtu.be/x28WFIY-ms0?...
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INSIDE Reform UK's Party Conference - The TRUTH about what happened
YouTube video by The National
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Well, it don’t say nowhere that she’s alive neither, do it, Mister? No refunds, see?”
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Still recovering from the Notting Hill Carnival
A large teddy bear reclines on a bench in Avondale Park, London
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I spent the whole second half of this video hoping that Werner Herzog would say “I only speak French in cases of force majeure”
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨August newsletter!🚨 This one's about failure (and free comics). I would really appreciate a share and a sub! soupdadcomics.beehiiv.com/p/15-failure...
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#15: Failure is okay too
Shit happens, so what? Free comics inside.
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Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Resharing my two kind oldie/still lovely summer themed animation before fall hits our shores! -one last hurrah with plant bitch!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/06/2026
Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts
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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts
Study finds activity is not harmful or caused by stress of captivity – and is in fact more common in wild birds
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
a really useful tell on UK pundits having melted their brains on X is their obsession with DEI when the UK terminology is EDI.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I live in a country where they had an election and a 1966 Batman villain wasn’t the joke candidate
Nigel Farage holding a drink and resting a hand on a British lion statue while wearing Union Jack shoes, white trousers, a striped off-white jacket, a pink shirt, purple tie and extremely punchable facial expression
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bonus points if you can spot the quotation from Hebrews 12:2
An elderly woman pushing a shopping trolley up a West London street and wearing a suit covered in biblical quotes and different ways of referring to Jesus, e.g. Messiah, Son of God, Holy One, etc.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Jacob Phillips @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My cover for BAD SEEDS: GOTHAM CENTRAL #2 by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social and myself!
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For instance, the 1972 edition of the French dictionary Petit Robert didn’t contain the exorbitantly taboo word “enculer” - meaning to sodomise, reaching the same pitch of vulgarity as “cunt” in English - but the 1987 edition did.
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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dive or fly?
Photo du ciel lors d'un coucher de soleil, les teintes bleues du ciel contrastent avec la couleur rose des nuages. Dans le coin haut droit apparaissent des épis de maïs en ombres chinoises. La photo est-elle renversée ou s'agit-il du reflet de nos envies d'un monde meilleur après avoir renversé le capitalisme?
Si tu prends le premier objet à ta gauche et qu'il peut servir à <macronexplosion> toutes formes de discrimination, tu as la réponse à cette question
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
512) Arguebot. Is someone in your life insisting on arguing about something that you don't have the time or energy to care about? Let this robot step in for you and keep them occupied with its tireless dedication to whatever contrary position you choose. Don't buy two. #SmallRobotsRemastered
A round-topped robot with short, banded arms and legs and a little zigzag antenna. It's holding out one hand and pointing with the other, mouth wide open, its face contorted into an expression of belligerent fury.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is a simple request not to punch down and it’s being met with exactly the kind of derision you would expect on Twitter
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elliott junkyard 🌱 @handle.invalid · 10/07/2026
many years ago a neighbor friend asked me if i wanted their bread machine that they weren't using because i said i wanted to learn how to make bread. i turned them down and they were confused. "i want to learn how to make bread" is different from "i want a machine that will make bread for me"
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy birthday, America! Comic from almost 20 years ago, sadly still relevant.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I tried @sweetlosicecream.bsky.social’s Orange Julius recipe and, Madeleine-like, it took me back to the Esquimau ices I liked to get when we holidayed in France when I was a boy. I didn’t trust the structural integrity of my homemade cones. Sorry about the visual impact.
Two scoops of orange ice cream in a black bowl  topped by an upside-down waffle cone, why do you ask, Doctor Freud
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Doktoranden Ernst Cederholm @ernstcederholm.bsky.social har utvecklat en digital valkompass som ska ge väljare en annan bild av svensk politik än traditionella valbarometrar. Plattformen minDemokrati bygger inte på partiernas vallöften utan på hur de har röstat i riksdagen. www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Seriously though, whoever thought of calling Andy Burnham “The Mancunian Candidate” deserves the Freedom of the City of Manchester
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for actor Peter Boyle (1935-2006) and found out that amongst many other things, he appeared in three completely unrelated films titled Joe (1970), Crazy Joe (1974) and Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
Actor Peter Boyle dressed in a tuxedo like some kinda bigshot
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
A photo of  Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I earn my living through tech platforms now, and when I look at the deductions taken by the Very Worst People On Earth from my earnings for doing the square root of fuck all (“platform fee”) compared to what I do (all of it) and realise this money just vanishes, it makes taxes seem rather noble.
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 22/06/2026
OTD in 1979, THE MUPPET MOVIE opened in theaters across the United States. Jim Henson noted (with typical understatement) that its reception was "Great!" and it was one of the most profitable films of the decade. But getting the Muppets to the big screen in the first place was hard work.
The movie poster for THE MUPPET MOVIE, which opened OTD in 1979.
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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I spent about half an hour on Threads today and sod that for a lark
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This Makerfield voter sums up British politics in less than 70 seconds 🔥🔥🔥
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Kaffelavemang @kaffemaster.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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