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Sometimes I say out loud the thing on my mind, maybe a project I’m working on, and it just slips out of my lips. That is how I became the apparently mad person on the bus who just mumbled to himself “drunk-driving crow simulator”

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If I was wearing Doc-Martens and a pork-pie hat, this would have potential to be a good photo, but I’m not

Madness, they call it madness. Walk of theme thing in Camden.

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I've hacked up a bit of code that reads the B3ta Starter Pack & finds links, and I'm using it to find snippets of news from the B3ta Diaspora to help populate the newsletter. Who am I missing from this list that a. are on Bluesky and b. are/were b3tans c. make newsletter-ish projects ?

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

Not making a political point but just saw this pic and thought: I recognise that expression

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B3ta newsletter 1000, out now "Only 66 issues until our Battle of Hastings special" * BUFFY'S SWEARING TELEPHONE - now works on mobile * GUESS THE SHOPPING - what price is milk? * BAD DINOSAURS - Netflix resurrects them b3ta.com/newsletter/i...

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B3TA newsletter: "ONLY 66 ISSUES UNTIL OUR BATTLE OF HASTINGS SPECIAL"

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

Chewie, Lewis and The News Artist: The Twisted Omentum b3ta.com/board/11431506 From the 'Unlikely Siblings' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/unlikelysiblings… #UnlikelySiblings

An image made by The Twisted Omentum posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.

Subject: Chewie, Lewis and The News

Body: pea

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

After every major crime there's a window where the right are desperate for the perpetrators to be brown, so they can have a little pogrom as a treat. Can't violence-enthusiasts have a traditional hobby instead, like beating each-other up, let's say on a Saturday, after watching some football?

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

Doomsdays scenarios aware always humans vs AI but never AI vs wasps. I dunno, AI might have really strong opinions on wasps; it's very people-centric to assume we'll be the main foe, rather than collateral damage in the wasp wars.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

From left to right: Benny, Frida, Vortran The Merciless, Agnetha & Bjorn

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 27/09/2026

Playing Kriss Kross’s “Jump”, a ludicrous pop-rap track which was probably aimed at toddlers, but I thought it was joyous and loved it. Then made the mistake of reading the Wikipedia page on them; making kids famous should be illegal.

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Looked up this track and it's... great? Massive gospel chorus, fantastic bass line, moody vocal, and a video that clearly has half the drag acts in London in it. Assume that's Tom Watkins playing himself as manager too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIP-...

Deuce - On the Bible (Official Video)

YouTube video by London Records

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Looking up a couple of old friends and realising they're impossible to find as they have such generic names, think something like Matthew Williams. Whereas me, I'm easy to find as my surname is just unusual enough that you don't have to look hard. Oh well I can only assume they don't want to find me

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You are jealous that you’re not me

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 25/09/2026

So it’s free and possibly a bit shit but you shouldn’t complain? I am unconvinced anyone at Lloyds understands common idioms.

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You don't need to hear the new U2 song but I gave it 90 seconds and was slightly amused that there's a backing vocal that's basically PARK LIFE. If I knew Bono I would enjoy very much annoying him by shouting Park Life all over it whilst he was going "do you like my new song?"

John Appleton @oddbodd13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

U2 - Silencio

YouTube video by U2VEVO

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To the tune of Jive Talkin': Vibe codin', You code with AI, Vibe codin', Your CV's a lie.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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I'm hearing this as a call and response song like Ghostbusters

Who will service your Sinclair C5?
HOOOVER !

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People who put the data side of a CD facing up, in a jewel CD case: scum.

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In great fuck ups of history that absolutely no one cares about other than me today, the album Golden Greats by Ian Brown has two versions of When Dolphins Were Monkeys on it, and neither of them are the good single version.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 23/09/2026

The most useful social activism a pop star could do at the moment would be someone like Dua Lipa putting out a track called "I'm not fucking anyone with pervert glasses"

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Going to shoplift Meal Deals in Sainsbury's and they can't arrest me because it'll make me a martyr. "Free the scotch eggs" I shout on TikTok, with a mouth full of scotch eggs.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 23/09/2026

We entered the room with the teacher playing Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2 on bagpipes. He then lectured us on how it was all about Jesus, whilst my mate, massive U2 fan was elbowing me in ribs and whispering "but it's about Martin Luther King"

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 22/09/2026

Hadn't heard this before as although I know XTC are considered worth diving into, never really bothered, but this is some *punchy* songwriting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p554...

Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 22/09/2026

XTC - Dear God

YouTube video by XTCVEVO

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Listening to Odelay and thinking Beck are what the Beastie Boys would be if they skipped the unpleasant shouting

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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Just got my old camera out of the loft and apparently five years ago I took this profile picture for my cat to go along with his Telegraph column where he’s only saying what we’re all thinking

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 21/09/2026

There’s a 10% chance that Furbies may eradicate humanity says CEO of Furbies PLC

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B3ta newsletter 999, out now "CALL THE COPS, IT'S B3TA NEWSLETTER 999, YOU'RE TWISTING MY MELON MAN(UEL)" * SWEARING AROUND THE WORLD -- illustrated FFS * PASSENGER FLIGHT SIM -- tray tables, bogs etc * 427 SATANIC GNOMES WAITING IN A LOFT - fear it b3ta.com/newsletter/i...

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B3TA newsletter: "CALL THE COPS, IT'S B3TA NEWSLETTER 999, YOU'RE TWISTING MY MELON MAN(UEL)"

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Noel Gallagher once did a mix of Beck's Devil's Haircut & just gave it a listen and I'm not sure Noel solid on what key the song is in. He keeps going to a d minor in what is in d major Mixolydian. Ok, do what you like, but it doesn't *sound* that great, go there if you like but DO something with it

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Wrote something about SNL:UK and what I learned by going to see it being made… joelmorris.substack.com/p/live-from-...

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Live from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!

What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy.

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I know writers aren't really stuck for ideas, they're more stuck for people to invest money in ideas, but on the off chance someone is listening, I think a slasher movie where the killer righteously targets twee users of English would have an audience and the title is right here

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 20/09/2026

Oh there's a whole Kraftwerk double album I didn't know about. I think I'd seen it in the list but just glossed over it thinking it was The Mix, but of course it isn't, it's something else.

Kraftwerk The Mix - you know your fav german dudes making music

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Go on. Fill in the clickbait for funs.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 20/09/2026

Recently I've had to travel across London on tube 3 or 4 time a week because of a family thing and 8 hours a week on the tube is a lot of tube travel so I take my laptop and get on with work and I've found I'm more productive on the tube than at home. Has anyone just made the tube their office 9-5?

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 20/09/2026

Running fesshole is a small insight into conspiracy thinking in that I get exposed to mental conspiracies about how I run Fesshole that are completely, what the fuck around you talking about mate? One is that I run a series of reply bots to it, on a platform which I don't even regularly look at.

I see I rumbled your 5p a day bot scheme for Fesshole, so you retired the first one and now have 3! Enjoy your 15p a day, cunt!

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 19/09/2026

This is correct but more importantly all the Planet Of The Apes films, original and reboot, are terribly named, except the initial title "Planet Of The Apes" which is perfect. Good luck knowing which ones are which.

The first two of the recent Planet of the Apes movies were named the wrong way round. "Rise" shows how it started, but "Dawn" shows how it gained momentum, which is objectively wrong. Ruins the films for me.

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Been on a Stone Roses listen and ended up on Ian Brown and in his lock-down losing it track Little Seed Big Tree. Yeah conspiracy brain rot but also so unfinished, not even a demo, more a songwriting first past: got some words, got a chord sequence, let's sing through and see if a song falls out.

Ian Brown - Little Seed Big Tree

YouTube video by IanBrownVEVO

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Spend the budget on actors and writers and not FX. A huge amount of the Disney series, the cash went on making the FX work at 4k, and, well, the were robbed, because very little of it felt grounded in anything you could believe in.

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I've got a lot of time for Look Mum No Computer, any MP review into his work can only mean MPs going "he's done WHAT to Furbies? How cool is that?!"

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