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Mark Roberts

@thatmarkroberts.bsky.social
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Peddler of pop culture related twaddle.
Used to blog a lot. Mostly about British comics. Not so much any more.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 11h
Scout
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
There are a lot of opinions about what makes you a real writer, so let me tell you the truth: You become a real writer when you notice a typo and it's too late to do anything about it.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Booniss Everdrunk @bookiesnacksize.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Monday
Pingu holding a stick of dynamite captioned "you triggered my fight or flight response, and I'm a flightless bird"
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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Marvelous Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He already had his face used by someone else, he’s not about to do that all over again.
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 10/10/2026
{"just like heaven" plays tinnily on the speakers}
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Friday morning 9AM meeting?” “Sure” says past me, a total idiot.
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lock in, GIs! The countdown to the UK premiere of Rogue Trooper at London Film Festival this Friday is on, as @manmademoon.bsky.social brings the all-guns-blazing sci-fi @2000ad.bsky.social comic strip to life bit.ly/4ebVzhl
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have never been so brutally called out in my life
10:00am - anything is possible
2:00pm - but not today
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Should I have coffee? 🔲 Yes 🔲 No 🔲 The mug is already in your hand, it's weird you are asking me
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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#NationalBadgerDay in my native Ayrshire and adopted Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger Held in high esteem; 'broccán' is 'wise man' and 'badger'. Near the home they protect against evil influence and represent family harmony more in my book: "Folklore of the Lake District" art: Lily Seika Jones
Wise badger sits reading to robin and tit
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Mark Roberts @thatmarkroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly terrifying. Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Dip Burning
Alt: A clip of Christopher Lloyd’s lowing a Toon into a vat of Dip, from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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The Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like ancient bog bodies, swamp timber defies time. Submerged in cold, acidic peat water, heart cypress doesn't rot - tannins "pickle" the wood, turning fallen trunks into indestructible ghost logs that outlast generations. The mire keeps its relics intact, held safe from decay. #SwampLifeSunday
A massive, weathered sinker cypress log resting on a muddy, leaf-strewn bank alongside a calm swamp river reflecting bare trees and blue sky.

Creative Commons image. Long found in tannic river in Louisana, believed to be well over hundred years "sunk" in the river.
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hi, I'm Baloo. Life in the jungle is easy! Forget about your worries! Now, here is a list of specific instructions in order to not hurt yourself eating a pear.
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Dan McPainInOneSpecificKnee @danmckee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The tobermoreys wombles gag is so good im angry ive never thought of it
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And on that day, horror movies were born! 😅
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Don’t be an idiot, Harry. Just ask him for directions.”
A running car sits on the shoulder of a muddy road. A bison a few feet away looks into the driver’s side window.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
alien graffiti can be pretty hurtful 😔
Dumpster labeled “EARTH BORING.”
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Scary Berry @berryh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Film tie-in popcorn buckets are getting ridiculous. If they'd had them for SE7EN in 1995, you'd have been eating your sweet 'n' salty out of Gwyneth Paltrow's head
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Saladin Ahmed @saladinahmed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this thread was a really nice reminder that even though everything's terrible everything isn't terrible
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Mark Roberts @thatmarkroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also a favoured Christmas Movie. And no, not in a ‘Die Hard is just *set* at Christmas’ way. It’s almost impossible to take Christmas out of this movie.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026
Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment
Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws 
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it
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Mark Roberts @thatmarkroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And it was worth every day.
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rich uncle skeleton @alexeptable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just keep having visions of some poor fucker getting psychosis when his spotify plays an AI knock off of Mr Brightside but it features his name and personal details about his life he accidentally shared with a bot
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026
Forever hilarious to me that Jack from THE SHINING (novel) was Stephen King reflecting his own tormented soul and asking if it could ever be redeemed, then Kubrick got ahold of the story and was like "Wow, this Jack guy SUCKS" and depicted him as a total son of a bitch with no redeeming qualities
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mmrilla @mmrilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's Meme from @desveaux.bsky.social
What your favorite obsolete English Letter sags about you

thorn: you are a nerd
eth: you are a nerd
Wynn: you are a nerd
Yogh: you are a nerd
Ash: you are a nerd
Insular G: you are a nerd
long S: you are a nerd
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Mark Roberts @thatmarkroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly, that this video is from over two decades ago now? Makes me feel pretty old. But it remains absolutely brilliant. The standard I hold other remixes up to.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026
Please accept this perfect photo of Maxx who believes himself invisible as my contribution towards your mental health for the day. Also, take a break, drink some water, and double check that curtain isn’t see-thru.
Maxx hiding behind a sheer gold curtain.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nah. Sounds about right.
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carlos Ezquerra
Strontium Dog: A Royal Affair
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
street art goatse
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Jock @jockbsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New DREDD/BATMAN piece by Bill Sienkiewicz🔥
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I truly suffer for my art
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the consumer TV show, That's Life, Doc Cox was a co-presenter. His alter ego was Ivor Biggun. I wonder how he got that job considering his scatological, smutty music career. It'd be like if BBC's Watchdog hired K**t & The Gang to perform cheeky songs at people in Fulham North End Road market too.
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Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30th v October 1st
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Mark Roberts @thatmarkroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man, the misinformation online is getting silly…
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The revived EAGLE (1982) was ostensibly the family-friendly alternative to 2000 AD. Nevertheless, it gave us the famously creepy Doomlord, dystopian nightmare The Tower King, fearsome dinosaur Bloodfang, and gritty dole drama Dolebusters!
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Mark Roberts @thatmarkroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“As seen on ITV’s Chart Show”
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met
Still from the television show What We Do in the Shadows showing Laszlo speaking. Text reads "he's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy."
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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