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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 6h

But they’ve turned out how they have, so I guess I’ll just go to sleep.

John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 6h

What’s fun for me is that I can post “I wish that things had turned out differently” and that could apply in a ton of different ways.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.

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lady bea @captaingrammar.bsky.social · 17h

"Complimentary giveaway" - A desperate ploy to get rid of stock that they literally cannot sell because nobody is interested in buying anything from an author who is a catastrophically mammoth piece of shit.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 20h

Someone campaigning for Labour knocks on to ask if I’ll be voting, and would I like another leaflet. Fuck no, all the local politicians have at LEAST tripled my recycling over the last few weeks! Why would I want another leaflet?!

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 21h

Elon Musk has 14 children, which is weird for a guy who's clearly never had sex x

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, now that shit is funny. And more true than not, regarding many men.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s a weird kind of resentment you feel when you finally stop feeling like headachey dogshit, but at like 9:30pm.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lolololol well of course THEIR OWN ENQUIRY didn't think they did anything wrong Remember when the Telegraph was a quality newspaper?

Facebook post by the Telegraph

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK did not break any laws when senior party figures were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a £500,000 gift from a foreign donor, an internal investigation has concluded.

A 27-page report, commissioned by Reform, after a Channel 4 investigation into funding also cleared the party of wrongdoing over the funding of three opinion polls.

🔗: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/10/07/reform-inquiry-clears-staff-over-undercover-donations-sting/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_staff-over-undercover-donations-sting/

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do you know what, I think it’s truly something that needs to be investigated, Badenoch’s ability to be wrong even while attempting to say something we might want to agree with.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pete Davies chronicled it all in his book All Played Out, quoting racist fans who said that they didn’t count any goal by a black England player. When England beat Türkiye 8-0 away in 84, it was “only” 5-0 because John Barnes and Viv Anderson scored the other three.

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need you, Janine.

Janine Butcher gives Sam Altman a Barry goodbye.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

I have reached that part of the year where the foxes inexplicably deposit random objects on my lawn. Today: a very large man's shoe. I realise as I type this that I have not in fact checked whether it contains a very large man's foot, which, if so, might suggest I have a lion problem.

As described. Shoe is black and has the forlorn look of an object that has had a rough few days.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His surname being Poirot while delivering a claim with no evidence is also making my brain do something.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'There's no evidence of this' has really made me laugh.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch, who is currently purging the Tory candidates list, tells Today she stands for "uniting the country" and wants to "bring the country together". She then laments the Coalition years when "we had to make concessions". It's amazing how often "unity" means "everyone must agree with me".

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop] Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve been away for a few days and on three occasions I’ve gone “Ooh a pub, I might pop in for a pi…” then spotted the AI flyers in the window. “Perhaps not.” Also this one takes the prize for looking utterly repellant.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another café doing an AI flyer that looks like all of the others. People saying they won't eat there, others saying why blame small businesses for using AI? Yes, of course, the environmental cost, but mainly, it looks shit. How much for the ball bearings on an armadillo, topped with matchsticks?

A scaly jacket potato with perfectly spherical baked beans and unnaturally straight grated cheese.

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fucking thing was all up in my grill during breakfast as well. Maybe it knew me in a past life.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

During which, Paddington jams Archer’s head through the pearly railings.

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An absolutely awful decision and a very sad day for Nottingham.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All joking aside, I wish commissioners would stop casting far right extremists in entertainment shows. I know why they do it, but do they ever stop to think how this supports the mainstreaming of their politics

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

nick ferrari is nowhere near as thick as he pretends to be but far thicker than he thinks he is

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Arturo Magidin @magidin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

if you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, you DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS! What you have in your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both." -- @alicefraser.bsky.social , on The Bugle, issue 4333 (March 5, 2025) 2/2

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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just once. Just fucking once, I’d love a detective in a TV show to ask “can you enhance that?” about a pixellated CCTV screencap and for the guy sat at the computer to turn around and mutter “are you mental?”

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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

me: *tries to open it with my teeth* him: just double click the file

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Telling a child that they were adopted is the hardest thing about being a party clown

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would like the tiny fly that is constantly hovering around my face - even after I rescued it from my pint - to fuck all the way off and bother the pricks at the next table.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He’s probably knocked himself out banging his head against a desk.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I continue to be agog at the propensity for entirely unforced errors from people I’m trying to have some degree of optimism over.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a mess! “The resolution as voted yesterday goes against our agreed positions of the EGP and its Member Parties, therefore as EGP we unequivocally distance ourselves from it… we demand clarity from the leadership and parliamentary group of GPEW, to understand the official party policy.”

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The UK Arts & Ents industry contributes over £10bn to the UK economy a year & one of these days our politicians might even realise that instead writing it off as icky girlie flouncing bc you can't do a photoshoot in a hard hat & hi-vis gilet at the national theatre without looking like a tit

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference:

Priti Patel displaying Thatcher merchandise.

Limited edition Thatcher toby jug, £47.50

Telegraph: "BADENOCH: I'LL TURN BRITAIN AROUND LIKE THATCHER"

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Back in the days of tanners and bobs, With asbestosis the reward for your job, There wasn't this satellite TV hysteria, Instead; dying young of TB or diphtheria. Or polio, measles, mumps or rubella killed thousands - and don't forget lead in the water.

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