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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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 · 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 · 27/08/2026

I got a label slapped on a post for putting up this panel from a flipping Tarzan strip which first appeared in the comics section of a newspaper next to Blondie and Popeye for god’s sake

Tarzan reclines on a cot and stares at books nudely

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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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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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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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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It’s not every day I buy fruit on the grounds that it’s adorable

A small, round pineapple reposes unsuspectingly in the palm of my hand

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Or to put it another way, Man sentenced after walking up to woman on train and grabbing her by the hair, if you want to stick to the facts, BBC

BBC website headline: Man who asked woman for kids sentenced in legal first

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Instagram page of Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026) as it appeared after the death of her partner Mattias Ripa last year. Satrapi’s family announced that she died of sadness

Marjane Satrapi’s Instagram page, arranged to spell out the words “For I lost the love of my life”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This photograph of me was taken about thirty years ago in Stockholm and I don’t really know what else to tell you

A young man with a Union Jack somehow hanging from his neck is sitting by a desk holding a white stuffed toy horse. Several papers, folders and books are strewn over the desk, along with a wooden Dalecarlia horse and a small globe

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

One of my favourite public monuments is the statue that was erected at the spot in Stockholm where a JAS fighter jet crashed during an air show in 1993 (there were no casualties)

A plinth in a park with a steel representation of a paper dart stuck in it, bearing an inscription explaining that this is where a JAS 39 Gripen plane crashed on 8 August 1993 during an aerial exhibition

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Going to tell my kids this is The Incredible Hulk

The Gruffalo from the children’s book of the same name by Julia Donaldson, a jovial, hairy horned beast

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Remembering the day I pocket texted my putative mother-in-law during a run

A text message that reads “I I My Did Do MGood My” and other similar gibberish

More gibberish followed by this exchange:
- Are you alright
- Sorry, I was pocket texting you during my run for some reason
Not sure how that happened
- I thought you might be having a stroke

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet

Tintin the Maltipoo gazes dejectedly over the gate we placed across the kitchen door

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

VINCENT: So while I was in Paris, I went to Five Guys. JULES: They got Five Guys in Paris? VINCENT: Yeah, but they call it Cinq Mecs.

A photograph of the Five Guys burger restaurant in the Gare du Nord, Paris

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It’s absolutely baffling how people in a space like Bluesky, where you would hope most users agree that bodyshaming of all stripes should be out of bounds, seem happy to comment on Greg Bovino and Joe Rogan’s height. Why is that okay? Would they be doing it if these were persons with dwarfism?

A series of posts on Bluesky making derogatory comments about Greg Bovino and Joe Rogan based on their height rather than the fact that they support a fascist regime

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

He who sets out to bake biscuits must first accept cookies

A page from the Sainsbury’s website listing recipes for biscuits, with a notice requiring users to accept cookies

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I must admit I’m quite intrigued by this bot follower’s choice of banner pic

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I’m not sure that’s the kind of help he meant

BBC News push notification that reads: “Starmer to announce help for heating oil bills as Trump calls on allies to help secure Strait of Hormuz”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Why isn’t this one of our main tourist attractions

Photo from The Londonist showing a traditional British pillar-box confined in a small space with openings on either side with the caption “The only postbox with two, opposite openings in Britain can be found in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The two apertures allow both the public (outside the walls) and the pensioners (inside) to use the box when the gates are closed.”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was going to ask a question about invoicing once

Google suggestions to complete the words “is it possible to”: fly, read minds, be allergic to weed or have black hair

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This approaches the weirdness of Samuel Beckett driving André the Giant to school in his truck

Excerpt from a vocal.media article on Donald Trump’s friendship with Liberace: “In 1985 at Trump Tower, Jackson took the second bedroom in Liberace's suite for a few weeks. The fact that Liberace and Michael Jackson were actually roommates, albeit for a short time, in Trump Tower is certainly stranger than even fiction would have it.”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Of course Fallout continues. It’s Wednesday.

Screenshot from the BBC News showing Nick Symonds MP speaking in Parliament with the caption “Fallout continues continues from release of Epstein files”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Either Spotify’s AI captioning is having a bit of difficulty interpreting the words “Quiet Riot” or it is hopelessly lovesick

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We have reached the Man in the White Suit phase of the applications of graphene

Advertisement for a graphene pencil, with the words “No waste. The pencil that stays sharp forever - yes, the tip never wears down.” above a photograph of the pencil. Below, a caption reads “Buy 3, get 2 FREE!”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

So we meet again, final boss of the Lindt Milk Chocolate Advent Calendar

A milk chocolate Father Christmas (sorry, can’t bring myself to call him Santa Claus, it’s how I was brought up) figure wrapped in ornate tinfoil

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I’m always a bit surprised that nobody ever talks about how she ripped the whole thing off from another, cough, controversial figure in the first place

The cover of The Books of Magic, a painting by John Bolton, depicting Timothy Hunter, a bespectacled boy dressed in jeans, T-shirt and trainers, riding a flying skateboard and accompanied by his owl Yo-Yo

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This is exactly what happened in 2016 except for the word “increased”

Comic book panel depicting a man wearing a helmet with electrodes sticking out of it, captioned: “By 2016, Man’s intelligence will be able to be increased by drugs and by linking human brains directly to computers!”

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Mirthless Laughter @mirthlesslaughter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The original Books of Magic series, yes (and nothing will convince me that JK Rowling didn’t completely rip it off, as the central character is a bespectacled boy called Tim Hunter who is initiated into the arts of magic and turns his yo-yo into an owl)

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