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TheGrimRecapper

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Wrote a huge thing about reality TV one time. Feed SFW visually but definitely not mentally.

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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Look, I don't want to tell a mega corporation how to do its job but whoever decided to (1) do this and (2) use the word "new" to promote a Coke product again after the last time it happened deserves to be yeeted back to the 80s via a kick to the nards.
Can of (Coke Zero) (Coke No Sugar) Coke Zero Sugar that looks exactly like a can of standard Coke but is marked with a label reading "new look" anyway.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't love the bland corporate font but they clearly saw the Paris "lady, but her hairline is a flame!" logo and said "hold my beer". So so so many layers to this.
Logos for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#16: Cubs & Campfires (Dylan Drakes, 2024) I tried. It's clearly good, but I couldn't get into it, and I don't know why. Maybe it's just chapters are so long I couldn't "just a few minutes" it and the gaps between spare time were so long it kept taking me out of the story? 6/10.
Cover of Cubs & Campfires by Dylan Drakes. Two chonky lumberjack looking bois drawn in fancy cartoon style, one heavily bearded and one looking younger, cuddle in the forest.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Any good? I hadn't heard about it until I saw it advertised on the side of a bus stop today.
You read the post, you know what's here.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TIL the Taskmaster Iceland trophy looks like they bought the bad Cristiano Ronaldo statue off of Temu. You're welcome, sleep paralysis demons.
Bust of Cristiano Ronaldo?Bust of Icelandic comedian whose name I cannot spell?
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah but in Australia someone does a hurdle and then someone else hurdles THEM. And they do it all in short shorts and no padding.
Hurdleception.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay nerds, what would come fourth in this sequence?
Card reading "3: Bounty hunter arrives".Card reading "4: Investigative panel told he died"Card reading "5: Office fire and reassignment"Card reading "?"
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now hearing the Diverse Stripes have pulled out of the Ed Sheeran tour. (No word on Rosalind, but she's always been a fucking nightmare.)
Mark Watson and Nish Kumar performing a song as part of a team task on Taskmaster.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bush whisper meme.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It took an entire 30-minute lunch break to get this far. And judging by the star ratings this is in the bottom 20% in terms of difficulty. It's going to take me like an entire month to get through this.
Partially complete puzzle.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Told a coworker last week I was thinking of getting back into puzzles as a self-care thing. Turns out logic puzzles were her lockdown hobby. Today I turned up and found a printout of a single logic puzzle that's SEVENTEEN PAGES LONG. Terrified just looking at it. This is just the last two pages:
Photo of two A4 pages, showing a big long grid filled with symbols passing down the left sides of each page and patches of rules and example diagrams on the right hand sides.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Also basically the styling of the discount brand in every indie supermarket in Australia, weirdly.
Photo of Black & Gold branded groceries.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
IYKYK.
Man reading book on television.

I SAID WITHOUT COMMENT.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Indie pizza restaurants ftw
Pizza. This one has some kind of green thing on it?Pizza. This one has no green thing but a hell of a lot of meat.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post something random or you'll have an awful September
Brisbane skyline at sunset.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For anyone who wishes to disagree, this is an actual exhibit at the Australian Museum in Sydney:
Skeleton man riding skeleton horse like a skeleton cowboy.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#15: The Open Era (Edward Schmit, 2026) Enjoyable enough and feels like it's trying to say something deeper about anxiety, but also what a paper thin plot. Like, "one tennis match stretched out over four chapters" thin. 6/10.
Cover of The Open Era by Edward Schmit. A silhouetted male tennis player holds a racket aloft as he is illuminated by lava-lamp-style lighting in various colours but mostly hot pink of the "just in case you thought it was about straight people" variety.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Still hurts.
Dolly Parton standing next to a railway platform sign reading "Belgrave", circa 1980s.The same sign in 2026, sans Dolly.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express
X-Files screen cap showing Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi having a three-way phone call while all sitting in different hotel bathtubs.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Friday rolls around faster and faster each week.
"Now That's What I Call..." album cover, doctored to read "Now That's What I Call Fat Cock".
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So, how foggy is it in Melbourne this morning?
Fog. And not a lot else.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#14: Boyfriend Material (Alexis Hall, 2020) Look, I laughed HARD at quite a few moments in this. But also, the leads are kind of not that interesting, either alone or together, all the supporting characters are one-note jokes, and the plot is wafer thin? Comedy goes a long way though. 6/10.
Cover of Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. A whole bunch of white outlines of English stereotypes and London landmarks - you know the ones, I don't need to rattle them off - are placed on red and blue tiles, as are images of the two main characters Luc (brunette, "are we still calling them emo if they're not actually depressed?" vibes) and Oliver (blonde, generic suit man).
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
Car crashed into a wall mural painted to look like Wile E. Coyote painting a road on a wall to stop the Road Runner.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I mean, at least that one is partly historically accurate.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for the 80s band Asia, showing they too originated in London, England.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sometimes, you see a photo from a promo event that just hits you the right way.
Photo of a promo event for The Traitors Australia season 3, featuring irritating season two contestant Annabel pawing eagerly at new host Gretel Killeen, who looks like she's about to have security hung, drawn, and quartered for letting her get this close. Annabel's desperation is captioned "Ten, trying yet AGAIN to make The Traitors work in Australia", while Gretel's disgust face is captioned "The Australian public".
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Heated Rivalry screenshot. Closed captions reading "I don't ever want that problem to ever go away."
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I don't want to say I've never gone from "how the fuck am I supposed to get through another 400 pages of this?" to "I will ride or die for this writing" so fast in my life, but these two passages are on the SAME PAGE.
Passage 1, about the main character's mother and her friend discovering Drag Race.Passage 2, about why gays don't do curry.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Help me pick a smutty novel to read, Bluesky. Got it narrowed down to these four. Thoughts in the alt text of the blurb photo.
Front covers of (clockwise from top left) "Pucking Around" by Emily Rath, "The Deal" by Elle Kennedy, "The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston, and "Boyfriend Material" by Alexis Hall.Rear cover blurbs of (clockwise from top left) "Pucking Around" by Emily Rath, "The Deal" by Elle Kennedy, "The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston, and "Boyfriend Material" by Alexis Hall.

If the blurbs aren't easy to make out (sorry): Pucking Around appears to be about a polycule with one woman and three male hockey players, but it had a rainbow sticker on the spine in the bookshop so queer content should be a decent part of it. The Deal is the first book in the series the TV show Off Campus (basically Gentrified Heated Rivalry) is based on. The Pairing seems to be two exes having a bet to be as slutty as possible while trapped on a European bus tour together, and is by the author of Red, White, and Royal Blue which I liked-but-thought-the-movie-was-better. Boyfriend Material appears to be "rock star's nepo baby pretends to date a prude for PR", and is the first in a three-book series by Alexis Hall, who wrote another book I read earlier this year that was solidly in the "the writing is fun and I'd like to read more of his work but I'm not enjoying THESE characters too much" category.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I feel you. After watching Heated Rivalry I fell down the twin rabbitholes of "anything gay" and "anything with athlete smut", and... look, Read pile on the left, To Be Read piles on the right. I'm not proud.
Small pile of books.Three piles of books side by side, photo taken from far enough away that some of the titles on the book spines are hard to read.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Simpsons Did It: "Isn't all Commonwealth politics the same?" edition.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#13: Winging it With You (Chip Pons, 2025) There's an excellent story to be made from the concept "two strangers fall in love while having to fake being a couple on Definitely Not Amazing Race For Legal Reasons". This... is not it. It's OK, it's just I don't buy the setup, show, or couple? 4/10.
Cover of Winging It with You by Chip Pons. In front of a backdrop that appears to be an airport runway being illuminated by aurora borealis for some reason, a nerdy white dude with glasses and a pilot (who is Latino in the book but honestly the image kind of doesn't give that impression?) do the awkward leaning-kiss thing like it's that one sailor photo from the end of World War II, only not as impressive.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Heated Rivalry screenshot pair. Part 1: "Do you want that problem to go away?" Part 2: "I don't ever want that problem to ever go away."
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Scrolling through the holiday photos, all the coworkers keep loving this photo I think is a bit garbage. Your thoughts?
Sunset, taken from inside a train carriage. The ground is dark enough that the reflection from inside the brightly-lit carriage is bright as day where the ground should be visible.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Simpsons meme showing Hans Moleman in a phone booth being attacked by birds, captioned "no, that's too blunt a metaphor".
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Going to need a larger fridge. :(
Fridge/freezer door covered in magnets from various holidays around Australia.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
And for the other obvious comparison, Brandon's 50 now, and: still would.
Instagram screenshot of a bearish man celebrating his 50th birthday.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Answer in the alt text of this one.
Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Yep.
Local theatre, sunny day.Local theatre from below.Local theatre, walls and windows.Local theatre, partial view.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pop quiz: Without cheating, guess the country this photo shows.
City between water and mountains.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You know, it's not that World Cup logos are particularly bad or Olympic logos are that good, it's just here's the logo for the last time the US hosted the World Cup and the logo of the Winter Olympics in Norway that same year.
Graphic design is America's passion.Logo for a Macintosh typing tutor program.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#12: See You at the Finish Line (Zac Hammett, 2025) I wanted to like "Heated Rivalry, kind of, but it's the Oxbridge boat race" so much. And the writing is decent enough that I'll buy the author's next book. I just wish I cared about the stakes more or, indeed, at all. 6/10.
Cover of See You at the Finish Line by Zac Hammett. Two young men - one a buff blonde dude in a singlet and short shorts holding an oar so you know he's a rower, the other a much shorter brunette with books and a backpack so you know he's a nerd - stand near each other on a riverbank as two boats row along it between them. Quite why they're not on boats given the theme of the story, or why the boats appear coxless when "the small dude is the coxswain of the cocky bigger dude's boat" is the entire setup, is unclear.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Douze point for Go-Jo's ass, if nothing else.
Go-Jo standing with a lady watching a kid busk. (I don't want to stereotype but based on ethnicity I would guess the lady is the kid's mother?)
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Advertise your Bsky account with a Simpsons image
Lisa Simpson, friendless nerd, dressed in what she thinks cool people wear.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A likely place for a "sushi entrance", if that's what we're calling it these days.
Sign on apartment building entrance reading "Doors not woking (sic) come around the back door entrance near the sushi entrance".
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Labloombloom.
Shop window Labubu mannequin, with a bunch of plastic flowers on a vine connected to its body.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I should call him.
Ornamental rock that looks like an ornamental cock.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I swear I've found just about every possible way to take a photo of that stupid tower without actually going up inside the thing now.
Shot of the Sydney skyline with the Chinese Gardens of Friendship in the foreground and the creatively-named Sydney Tower towering in the background.
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TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The sails have been added because none of the colours already there represented fans of musical theatre.
Pins being sold in the Sydney Opera House gift shop, with a white silhouette of the Opera House's sails overlaid on the colourful Progress Pride flag.
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