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Skippa

@skippa23.bsky.social
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He works in education. He's far too invested in comics and games. He's based in the North East of England. He bought a whistle from a crooked merchant, BUT THE WHISTLE MAY BE MAGIC.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Pugwall and the Orange Organics will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
Pugwall
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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JewelKnightJess "R" Us 🎲🖌️🎮 @jewelknightjess.com · 29/09/2026
I love the Rogue Trader jet cycle because it always reminds me of a garden railway locomotive
A space marine in blue rides a black jet engineA man in blue rides a black garden railway loco
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Digger (2026)
Tom Cruise, in the mall, has way too much shit on, holding a shovel so you know we photoshopped really really hard.

"Tom Cruise is Digger"

The real poster is gonna get vandalized a lot in certain neighborhoods.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can’t understand the story of rock music without following the main and side plots together. For example, I don’t even WANT to know about Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart without the proper context of the accompanying episodes on the GTOs and The Banana Splits. That’s how good this is.
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I respect our British culture. DO YOU?
British wrestler Big DaddyBritish state sponsored religious chant manual COME AND PRAISE British royalty Peggy from HI DE HI, wearing yellow robes of stateBritish whatever the fuck pound shop Muppets Cosmo and Dibs are
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Emotional posting
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Vaun Earl Norman @vaun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
£1500 raised in a few hours. I can't believe the generosity and kindness from everyone who shared and donated. Really moved. gofund.me/645f5a343
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Donate to Buy a Mobility Scooter, organized by Vaun Earl Norman
Hi I'm Vaun Earl Norman you might have seen me in Vic and Bob's Big Night Out, or The Other … Vaun Earl Norman needs your support for Buy a Mobility Scooter
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@gralefrit.bsky.social the audio book of BE FUNNY OR DIE got me thru the Great North Run today, it's excellent - thanks for writing it. Although early doors you mention thinking about walking makes it impossible to walk, which wasn't a hurdle I was expecting.
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Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sometimes I browse through heritage auctions and I find the occasional odd gem, but today I stumbled upon the mother-load: these ridiculous grocery store ads promoting the release of The Jungle Book, and each one has me absolutely reeling. Sharing them here so you too can share in my bewildered joy
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i often think wolverine is more like Larkin’s parents, in that he fucks you up.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: The World According to Harp theonion.com/the-world-according-to…
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: The World According to Harp
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists
Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I only picked up a joke from DRUGS by watching the subtitles. "Turning the nein-ties into the ja danke-ties"
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your dad's taking the divorce well
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No cheating, post Ur lock screen
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Gavin Miller @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rewatching that episode of Spaced where the Barfly's gig listings are in the toilet, and they're the most 2000 thing ever:
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Bis Beastie Boys Pulp The Parkinsons ABC Flight of the Concords Rocket From The Crypt At The Drive In Beck TV On The Radio
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If it isn't my old friend Mrs McGrunt
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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Chris Cantrill wins Edinburgh Comedy Award
dlvr.it
Chris Cantrill wins Edinburgh Comedy Award
Marty Gleeson is best newcomer
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I pitched a show two years ago about this to Radio 4, to tie in with the release. They said they had already made a programme about computers fairly recently.
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You can stick your Jesus on a slice of toast up your arse, I've just found Terry Wogan in a Rolo Dessert.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
Like I said: SOMETHING will change. But yeah, no, the situation of Meta getting to pay ~1% of their yearly revenue and then getting to set the terms and paradigm for every other social media company that follows after them is Pretty Fucking Bad. I say again: Paradigmatic Capture.
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Farewell to Yayoi Kusama and thanks for all the fun art.
Infinity mirror room filled with yellow orange pumpkin sculptures with me in the one space to stand. Infinity mirror room filled with balls that have colourful lit polka dots. Giant spotty flower sculpture out in a dark rainy gallery courtyard. Red leaves of a real tree next to it have a light shining through them.Giant yellow pumpkin sculpture with black dots in the middle of Hyde Park.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That story that a humanoid robot at the Droid Olympics covered 100m faster than Usain Bolt would also be true if they’d fired it from a fucking cannon.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good lord. You just cited both Big Pharma and Moncrieff in the same post about mental healthcare. That's the equivalent of saying "You can't prove the Royal family *aren't* baby eating space lizards. Check out David Icke's articles"
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You mean you want a *new* article? Or will the several I've already written suffice? www.theguardian.com/science/brai... www.theguardian.com/science/brai... www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo... thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/how-long-s...
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Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong?
The Observer has published an excerpt from Johann Hari’s new book challenging what we know about depression. But do his own claims and arguments stack up?
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hmmmm. Yes. Well.
Cd cover of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Goodnight to our friend Screaming Mad George. An entire generation of horror fans were birthed from your blend of surrealism and carnality. Your contributions to the genre flowed from the grotesque to the dynamically impossible. We hope you know you were loved by genre fans around the world.
Goodnight to our friend Screaming Mad George. An entire generation of horror fans were birthed from your blend of surrealism and carnality. Your contributions to the genre flowed from the grotesque to the dynamically impossible. We hope you know how much you were loved by genre fans around the world.
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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is what really happened when Robin spoke up and ultimately left Monkey Cage. So few have his principles and conviction.
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Ian Mayor @ianmayor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A thread that cuts to the quick of the Jason Arday tragedy.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/08/2026
A small mirror with a note reading "Diseased Face" taped to it, taken from an issue of The Invisibles.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Stephen Colbert has a few thoughts on billionaires . . . (Video - 2:41)
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not only do I think he's lying that police advised him not to attend on safety grounds, I think it's a lie he used before back in 2016. He 'cancelled' a march on safety grounds but my FOI request to the Met showed this was a lie.
Farage pretended to cancel a march back in 2016 that he had no intention of organising.FOI request showing Farage never submitted a 3175 form informing police of a demonstration and had no safety discussions with police.FOI request showing police did not advise Farage to cancel his 2016 march, contrary to what he told the press.
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Post a meme made by you. Well, I'm sure I'm not the only person to do this.
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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Skippa @skippa23.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Do you remember that caravan holiday you went on where Mum and Dad kept you topped up with Mogadon the whole time? Do you? Do you?
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Decadence and “late rentier capitalism”
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Decadence and "late rentier capitalism" - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Several commenters have flagged an interesting essay by a British (?) writer, Henry Fudge, entitled “Degeneracy is a Symptom.” I know nothing of the author’s politics, but his account of what The Problem now is across the developed world has a sort of marxisant flavor, in that it insists — no doubt correctly — that […]
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 10/08/2026
They paved Dobby's grave, put up a parking lot
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 09/08/2026
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
They've already destroyed their world-class film, television & music industries, what an astonishing act of self-harm
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/
Uncanny X-Men cover by David Marquez
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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Pastel drawing of Paddington pushing Rod Liddle down some stairs and saying 'I don't like marmite'
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