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Snufkin

@snufkinmcguffkin.bsky.social
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Dad in an ND family, dormant artist, very dormant animator, cozy gamer, anime newbie, perpetual target of feline disdain.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
british fan chat
cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:

[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]

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TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.

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TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.

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TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.

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TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,

and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.

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TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re 
thinking, lads:

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TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?

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TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...

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Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… 

TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate

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TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.

By the time they remember, 
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.

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TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...

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...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.

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[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA
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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Because I'll take any excuse to write about Gremlins 2, Grogu's appearance in cinemas prompted me to revisit the incredible puppetry in @thejoedante.bsky.social's madcap masterpiece.
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Heading to the park this weekend? First, brush up on the unspoken rules of sitting down. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/the-unspok...
It is one of those rare spring London days. The sun is up, the sky is blue and the contents of an entire postcode have been dumped onto the local park:

The £100,000 tax trap couple, sat atop a sensible blanket, playing host to an E5 Bakehouse sourdough, M&S picky bits and Tesco Finest prosecco. The group of eight twenty-somethings, somehow with nine bikes, drinking pre-mixed G&Ts and playing music not quite loud enough to justify complaint. And the young parents attending an emotionally volatile third birthday party, doing their best to exude calm.





Imagine you’re walking into this park. Where would you sit? The universal answer is “as far from everyone else as possible in order to secure the largest patch of grass possible”. But how do you know where that is? You don’t know, you just do. It turns out, you’ve been engaging in a bit of complicated mathematics this whole time.

Voronoi diagrams divide a space into regions, called Voronoi cells, based on their proximity to a set of points — each region belonging to whichever point is nearest. It works a bit like gravitational pull, except without the gravity.
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 22/05/2026
🇧🇩 Donald Trump lookalike buffalo draws crowds in Bangladesh Crowds in Bangladesh are flocking to snap photographs with an unlikely social media star — an albino buffalo with flowing blond hair nicknamed "Donald Trump".
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Also (sorry, but honestly) if I had to make a list of places cis men couldn't go to because a cis man had made a women "uncomfortable" there, it would be very long and there would be literally nowhere for men to go.
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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I exist to traumatize men. 1/2
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"I think the war is very complete, pretty much" ~ Donald Trump, 73 days ago
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
DENTISTS ARE SO COOL. just out here fixing buckaroo pain and helping buds smile. dang.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is ridiculous. People are ridiculous
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 05/02/2026
This is a cool photo of crescent Venus. And the Moon, too. Image credit: Iván Éder
A blue sky, some patchy clouds, and a thin, bright crescent. That's Venus. The larger, dimmer crescent is the Moon.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Lovely, fascinating thread — the crucial takeaway is how incredibly chaotic the act of artistic creation is A film requires hundreds of people, each making hundreds of daily choices, and the iconic final product is often born from collaboration/compromise/improvisations AI does none of this
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/05/2026
Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
No-one gives a damn, but this is a testament to our complete moral collapse on this issue.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Someone misread my trans rights shirt and thought it said "train rides" but now I quite want a "TRAIN RIDES ARE HUMAN RIGHTS" shirt as well
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The best Casablanca random anecdote.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hard to overstate how much the Overton window has been allowed to shift on this. “Labour bans trans women from female toilets” would have caused a political earthquake in the party in, say, 2019.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/05/2026
Maybe this is because you can't turn on the radio without hearing hourly updates on the number of people arriving in small boats.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A lot of our discourse seems to assume that 1) these wrong beliefs somehow arise naturally and 2) politicians have a duty to behave as if these wrong beliefs are true. It saves asking questions about old and new media, or doing anything brave, but it’s rotting our society and economy.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
exactly, what's his pitch - "I'm a younger, shorter, scouser Starmer"?
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Pia Guerra @piaguerra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us".
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Limmy @limmy.com · 20/05/2026
Limmy reference in LEGO Batman www.youtube.com/watch?v=PimI...
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Limmy reference in LEGO Batman
YouTube video by Limmy
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Somehow Morgan McSweeney returned star wars palpatine meme
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20/05/2026
Oh look, new pervert glasses. BAN THEM. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Google to release first smart glasses since Google Glass flop
The glasses will go on sale sometime in autumn and allow Google's artificial intelligence product to interact with a user.
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Uni has the biggest head :3
A black-and-white cat with a red bow tie lying on a bed
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 20/05/2026
dead internet theory goes brrrr I dread to think how many not-very-clued-in consumers will be so easily misled by these
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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Agree with Emily Thornberry here.. this is a properly shit decision from the govt. How can you just throw them under the bus
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The classic 60s and 70s BBC testcard with a young girl playing noughts and crosses with a horrific clown dollThe clown doll from the test card readying itself to eat your soul
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/05/2026
We need a campaign where every MP gets cornered in a pub on a sunny day by a middle aged man who keeps checking the app and bragging about how much he's saving/making.
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Snufkin @snufkinmcguffkin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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a man is holding a microphone in front of a sign that says psyche
ALT: a man is holding a microphone in front of a sign that says psyche
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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just remembered this
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 19/05/2026
Today I took a picture of a happy duck and I want you all to see it
A white duck, mid-quack, while standing in a pig sty. The duck's feathers are mildly dirty from the mud. The duck looks pleased.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 19/05/2026
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Simply Me @simplyme0612.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 19/05/2026
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
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jesse, head of endorsement deals at BOOingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Imagine telling ten year old me that one day they'll release a Star Wars film and you won't give less of a shit.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠
nytimes.com
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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The Devil’s Re-Geoffs @geoffreykeel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I’ve done an inexplicable thing.
It’s the cover of Weezer’s Blue Album but I’ve replaced all their heads with Jar Jar and where it said WEEZER in the top corner now it says WEESA
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Your good friend, Chris Normal @heythatsmyleg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A coworker said I look like Superman. That seems like too much work.
Clark Kent

It's flattering, but being compared to the Man of Steel conjures an overwhelming dread about all the things I'd have to do.
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