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Following advances in cellular, molecular & structural biology in a mercifully bot-free space.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🎯

A banner of Stalin is unfurled behind a chorus of singers performing to a packed theater audience.
Black & white still from the 2018 film ‘Cold War’

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“You depress me unutterably sometimes”

Claudius admonishes Caligula at a chance meeting on the streets of Rome, “You depress me unutterably sometimes”. Still photo from BBC production of Robert Graves ‘I, Claudius’ (1976) featuring John Hurt as Caligula & Derek Jacobi as Claudius.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Black/white print of red-kerchiefed cow with text ‘NOT TODAY HEIFER’.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“Everything I’ve done in my life..

Still photo of Succession’s Logan Roy claiming that “Everything I’ve done in my life, I’ve done for my children.”

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Movie still of theatre marquee advertising
‘Puppet Show
And
Spinal Tap’

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Indeed. ‘Little Boots’ on the ground.

Photo of Paul Bremer wearing the cosplay combat boots he was famous for as leader of the CPA during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Somebody gave me this body—what do I do with it now?
It's a very remarkable body, and nobody's body but mine. I'm alive and I breathe, I'm strong and tall-
won't somebody tell me who to thank for it all? I'm the gardener and the flower, too,
And in this prison of a world I'm not alone. When I move, when I breathe, I leave my mark
on the everlasting windowpane that keeps out the dark. It's the mark of myself! And that mark will remain
on the cold transparence of that windowpane. Life beyond the glass may darken, day to day,
but my mark on that windowpane will never go away.

—Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Paul Schmidt (1909)

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Photo of the moment mom rips off Lyle Menendez’s toupée in Netflix series ‘Monsters’

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Image of a kerchiefed cow over ‘not today heifer’ text.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Photo of AbFab’s Patsy taking a drag on her cigarette & thinking “For Godsake just die.”

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Still, color photo of the formerly camouflaged Childcatcher escaping with caged children from the 1967 film ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Color photo of Elf-on-a-Shelf in a vacuum jar.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Flashback:

Color photo of statue of Saddam Hussein statue toppled on Firdos Square during US invasion of Iraq.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Still seeking a worthy antonym

WordHippo antonyms for Cassandra fail:

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

OK, then: someone tailor his jacket, it makes him look like a hooded mushroom

Photo of a hooded mushroom resembling Trump’s suit jacket grappling with an obese torso perched over wasting legs.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Billboard ad for Fiat Palio reading ‘If it were a lady, it would have its bottom pinched’ with spray-painted message ‘If this lady was a car she’d run you down’

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Statement by the Nobel committee:

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise
courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended - with words, with courage
and with determination.“

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Pish & Tish!

Elon Musk mimics Marilyn Monroe’s ‘come hither’ look while sporting black negligée top.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Poem by Osip Mandelstam

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Image of bored, smoking Patricia Lumley saying ‘For Godsake, just die’ from AbFab.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Derek Jacobi as emperor Claudius in his final year.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Banner ad of a white woman eating cheese & crackers with advert text “crackers love cheese!”

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

1998 Newsweek cover image of Newt Gingrich ‘the loser’.
After Newt served divorce papers to his wife’s bedside in a cancer hospital, cancer-care nurses coined the term ‘gingrich’ed’ to describe husbands who similarly sued their their wives for divorce during cancer care.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Image of French national anthem music depicted as a Cocker spaniel & French anthem words as its wolf shadow.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Blanchett & Dench confrontation in ‘Notes on a Scandal’

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Still image of a recreated choral performance praising Stalin from the film Cold War (2018)

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Belgium

Cow grazing a green Belgian pasture with a flowering tree

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Somebody gave me this body—what do I do with it now?
It's a very remarkable body, and nobody's body but mine. I'm alive and I breathe, I'm strong and tall-
won't somebody tell me who to thank for it all? I'm the gardener and the flower, too,
And in this prison of a world l'm not alone. When I move, when I breathe, I leave my mark
on the everlasting windowpane that keeps out the dark. It's the mark of myself! And that mark will remain
on the cold transparence of that windowpane. Life beyond the glass may darken, day to day,
but my mark on that windowpane will never go away.

Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Paul Schmidt (1909)

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Succession’s Gerri Kellman asks “How does that serve my interests?”

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“If you see a horrid beast evolving, PUSH IT BACK IN!”

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Contigent

Elon attempting allure.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Baghdad Bob

Image of Iraq’s Minister of Information ‘Bagdad Bob’

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Paul Bremer redux

GW Bush’s CPA leader Paul Bremer wearing combat boots in Iraq

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Translated recordings of ‘relaxing bird sounds’ reveal them to be threats or cries for help by different bird species.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“I was launched before Elon went crazy”

Pictorial image of human greeting & earth coordinates from Voyager 1 probe

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

😉

Questionnaire in which every answer is ‘my cat’

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Keep your fork, there’s pie:

Image of April 30, 2025 news article reporting “New Trump Golf
Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar”

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Woodblock print demonstrating ‘the swimming test’ to discover witches.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

His Mom must be so proud.

Cartoon identifying the progressive steps of maternal indulgence leading her son to a drunkard’s grave.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

😉

Photo of a small domestic dog (labeled French national anthem music) casting the shadow of a wolf (labeled French national anthem lyrics)

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🎯

Kyle Rittenhouse at snack training camp

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I was admiring this sign on a city walk when a passing stranger asked me ‘Big Tesla fan, hey?’

Photo of Tesla corner in NYC.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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Pacifier

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

more like:

Powerpuff girls

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Philip Seymour Hoffman holding a boom mike in ‘Boogie Nights’

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Dinosaur reminding chicken of her noble ancestry

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Make Americans Grovel Again

Americans standing in line for aid beneath a billboard celebrating America’s high standard of living.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Stuff of nightmares

Photo of Elon suggestively auto-stimulating on camera at a drug-fueled party.

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PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Why yes, like this one that displayed footage of Nazi events & that disappeared 2 days after the election:

Screenshot of Twitter site promoting ‘German Historical Education’ featuring photo of model Aryan family.

PyrexCorex @pyrexcorex.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Joanna Lumley casually wishes you dead.