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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 12h

"Gee, this town I have zero personal or cultural connection to has a nice golf course, I guess I'll be rector of their university" is peak American-visiting-Scotland

Screenshot from BBC News:
US Office star in the running to be new St Andrews Uni rector
[picture of Brian Baumgartner, a.k.a. Kevin from the American remake of The Office]

An actor best known for his role as Kevin Malone in the US version of The Office is among the candidates to become the next rector of St Andrews University.

Brian Baumgartner is among six people vying for the role, [highlighted:] after he visited St Andrews in the summer. [end highlight]

In his address to students, he said he "fell in love with the town's culture and history".

Other candidates include Green MSP Q Manivannan and a ministry of defence analyst.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 19h

This 1893 book on "contrary sexual instinct" says that lesbianism is caused by sewing machines, anyone have any idea why??

He reports that this vice is, of late, quite the fashion,—partly owing to novels on the subject, and [highlighted] partly as a result of excessive work on sewing-machines, [end highlight] the sleeping of female servants in the same bed, seduction in schools by depraved pupils, or seduction of daughters by perverse servants.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mr Sneeze Of all the Mister Men Would benefit most From an antihistermen

Roger Hargreaves' "Mr Sneeze", a blue spiky thingy with skinny legs, eyes and a wee satsuma nose

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

- there was an angry pedant thread the other day about how a lamp and a lantern are not the same thing, the picture when you buy a lantern shows a lamp!

Lantern - hanging apparatus with shielding for a central candle/oil flame/whatever

Lamp - teapot shaped thing like what a genie lives in

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

from the Cambridge Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

cowboy
noun [C] (DISHONEST PERSON)
UK informal

someone who is not honest, careful, or skilful in their trade or business, or someone who ignores rules that most people obey and is therefore not considered to be responsible:

- a bunch of cowboys
"Those builders are a bunch of cowboys - they made a terrible job of our extension."

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Block Pushing Puzzle Game But You Can Time Travel" is a thinky puzzle game I made ages ago. In this level, you have to walk the route, then go back in time and put the crate in front of your past self so that they push(ed) it to the goal, & avoiding paradoxes. versificator.itch.io/block-pushin...

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a bible thumping evangelical "prophet" with the same name as me, how can I use this information to my advantage

The fake Robin Johnson ranting "Ephesians you wrestle not against your mother-in-law your in-law flesh", insightful

"Robin Johnson" (not me) in a studio earnestly telling you that the best way to serve God is to send money to his PO Box (address blurred). CC reads "anything through the mail, it needs to go to Robin Johnson Prophetic Ministries"

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Overheard "fucking weirdo with a cat on his shoulder" from someone who thought they were out of earshot (or thought that weird = deaf). Gave them a cheery hello, got a "mind your own business" look as if they'd been talking about some other fucking cat weirdo

Me, a fucking weirdo with a cat on my shoulder. It's a beautiful sunny day and we're both smiling and minding our own business

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fuck?? This is a show about communist vegans coming back in time from after the climate collapse to foil billionaires and neonazis. Main characters include a heroin addict, a chronically selfless social worker, and a black single mom who kicks the shit out of her stalker cop ex-husband

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why did nobody tell me Columbo had a murder lesbians episode with Faye Dunaway and Claudia Christian

Co-murderesses Claudia Christian and Faye Dunaway holding each other's faces in a *just* plausibly deniable manner in a dimly lit LA apartment

The two meeting illicitly in a women's restroom BUT NOT LIKE THAT! They are merely there to innocently discuss the murder they did last night

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. DO YOU?

The puppets Zippy and George from "Rainbow". George is a pink hippo and Zippy is a strange yellowish-brown creature with a zip around his mouth. Zippy is dressed as Sherlock Holmes for reasons that are unlikely to become apparent

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This may be the look I'm remembering

Snap, Crackle and Pop looking femboyish on an early '80s Rice Krispies box

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But the clone of the game as it was 40 years ago doesn't have *any* play or players "behind" it. By definition, it's at the very back, and all that play is "behind" the newest edition. You're allowed to prefer it but being older means it's LESS tried & tested, not more. (See also: Star Trek)

screenshotted skeet because I don't really want to argue with this person:

Funnest thing about helping out in a FLGS is when someone omes in fresh looking [to] start playing 5e. "You could do that, or you could play this version of DnD that's got 40 years of play and players behind it and it half the price and a third the size" and they walk out with Swords & Wizardry

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please use alt text because this is hilarious

TRULY this is a great world. By a simple and painless operation Mies Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, one of the best known society ladies of the Shen-andoah Valley, Virginis, who for thirty-eight years was supposed to be a woman, was given a license with the signatures of two reputable physle-ians attached stating that [he] was a man. The young man startles the community by proceeding to marry young lady whom he had worked, associated and slept with for some years. His great love for the lady caused him to give up his female garb.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

WAIT at the end of "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" does John Lennon burn the woman's house down??

Lyrics to the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" which you can look up if you like but two bits are circled: in the first verse "She showed me her room/ Isn't it good?/ Norwegian wood" and in the final verse "So I lit a fire/ Isn't it good?/ Norwegian wood"

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Friends, we have been lied to. If you get an owl wet it's just a beak and a pair of googly eyes on a stick

Rescued owl after a bath so its feathers are slacked down by the weight of the water. It's gawky as heck

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This does not belittle Spock/Kirk, btw. Spock and Bones are drawn to each other only by their shared unprocessed love for Kirk. Trek has plenty of precedent for this

Seven of Nine and Chakotay flirt, but they are both thinking of Captain Janeway

Q and Vash sit arm in arm on a couch, but they are both thinking of Captain Picard

Captain Sisko (masquerading as Evil Sisko) and Evil Kira embrace, but they are both thinking of Good Kira

Geordi gets a shoulder massage from his creepy hologram of Dr Leah Brahms, but they are both thinking of the USS Enterprise-D

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Including a peaked cap as part of a uniform to be worn in free fall is certainly an idea

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mirriam-Webster says deTRYtus, if I'm reading it right

detritus
noun
de·tri·tus di-ˈtrī-təs
plural detritus di-ˈtrī-təs -ˈtrī-ˌtüs

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

why do we even bother writing jokes

screenshot of a post on r/PhilomenaCunk by a uniquely observant genius, reading:
Our soles [arseholes]
Is it just me, or is Diane Morgan cunningly using her Lancashire accent to say 'our souls' in a way that sounds like 'arseholes' in Cunk on Life 2025). I mean it's about what everyone else in the room hears right?

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Gonna wait for the sequel, Bowl of Petuniasfall

poster for the film "Whalefall", showing a human falling into a whale so it should really be called Humanfall

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Whoah, cool your BBQ, before you totally bin it, dude

A communal bin in the park with a label on it reading "This bin is for used BBQs only. Cool your BBQ before you bin it"

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ah, my Ninja also thinks the Highlander rule applies to cats

Black cat curled up on some colourful handmade quilts, with her front paws extended langorously

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That was the stupidest Trek episode ever and I loved it

Muppet versions of T'Prihg, Captain Pike, Cdr Una and Dr MBenga, and the only (half-)human Spock in today's Strange New Worlds episode "Level Five Transporter Accident"

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you're in a park with trees, look behind you

Dozens of light crescents projected onto the ground between the shadows of the leaves

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every time there is a news story about a 20-something being able to afford a house (because that is a newsworthy event in itself, apparently) the secret turns out to be "have rich parents" Every. Fuckin. Time.

BBC News screenshot: "I started in my 20s and made £8,000": Why women are often better investors than men

"I saved aggressively and loved at my mum's for half of that time, so I could save as close as possible to the maximum £4,000 per year into Lifetime ISA," she says.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm the public and I didn't WANT them to clean up the cool murals, so who exactly cost me my money?

Screenshot from BBC News showing a Banksy mural on the High Court building. The mural shows a judge beating a protester with his gavel. Headline reads: "Banksy works cost public almost £150,000"

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