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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The shortlist was down to two, the tub of lard failed to make the cut.

A chimpanzee dressed in a white jacket, grey shirt and black bow tie. He is holding a cup of tea.

This is from the old PG Tips chimps ads ...... "My name is Bond. Brooke Bond"

The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Is it just me, or do all the lawyers, currently appearing for their confirmation, look like Mr Slant* from the Discworld novels? * Mr Slant is the foremost lawyer in the Discworld. He is also a zombie, which means has accumulated decades of experience.

Mr Slant, a zombie lawyer from the Discworld novels.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama are all Nobel Peace Prize laureates*. Donald J. Trump will never receive that honour. * Mind you, so was Henry Kissinger.

A cartoom orange, with a happy face, holding a trophy cup.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Janey Godley was so, so right. Thank you, Janey, your voice is missed.

The late Scottish comedian Janey Godley, carrying her "TRUMP IS A C**T" placard, high fiving a policeman.

The late Scottish comedian Janey Godley, carrying her "TRUMP IS A C**T" placard, high fiving a line of policemen and women.

The late Scottish comedian Janey Godley, carrying her "TRUMP IS A C**T" placard, talking to a policeman.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Let's be honest, at least some of these ICE 'agents' know all about starting trouble, they did it on January 6th 2020.

Part of an article from the Los Angeles Times, suggesting that the federal immigration (ICE) operatives started the LA violence, using flah-bang grenades and pepper spray on peaceful protestors

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Howard Lutnik's plan to deal with the banana shortage is revealed.

Three normal sized bananas, an oversized banana and a banana skin, all made from Lego bricks.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thank you @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, it was a real treat to see Mon Oncle once more. A gentle film, beautifully shot & quintessentially French. #JacquesTati #MonsieurHulot

A red film poster, with an impressionististic figure of man, wearing a trilby, a raincoat and he is smoking a pipe. He is talking to a young boy, who looks up at him. In the background there a silhouette of a small dog.

"Mon Oncle", a Monsieur Hulot film starring Jacques Tati.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

And May 25th is also the equally wonderful Douglas Adams, who gave us The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is, of course, Towel Day. Why Towel Day? A towel, [according to the Guide to the Galaxy] is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. DON'T PANIC!

A Towel held in a case, similar to those used for fire equipment. It says "In case of interstellar travel" and "Break glass and don't panic"

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

It's May 25th, time to remember the events of the Glorious Revoltion of Treacle Mine Road. And, of course to remember Sir Terry Pratchett. "All the little angels rise up, rise up. All the little angels rise up high! How do they rise up, rise up, rise up? They rise heads up, heads up high"

A sprig of lilac. In the Discworld books, this is worn in remembrance of the Glorious Revolution, by those who were there.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A very interesting article, as ever. Thank you. MacArthur gained the nickname "Dugout Doug". There was even a song to go with it.

A poem about Douglas MacArthur, known as Dugout Doug by the Marine Corps grunts.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A set of rather wonderful fingerpost road signs, possibly 1940s, seen at a junction close to Chatham Station.

A black & white striped poll, with two black & white road signs attached, seen close to Chatham railway station. One points toward Maidstone, one toward Dover.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film? "Silent Running" is a US 1972 environmentally-themed sci-fi film, perhaps even more relevant today. It was directed by Douglas Trumbull & starred Bruce Dern in his best role ever. IMO.

Poster for the 1972 film "Silent Running". It shows a man (Bruce Dern) tending a garden in a geodesuc dome on a spaceship. He is accompanied by a small 2-legged orange droid.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

FINALLY found time to hang my rather lovely pictures. Thank you @ciaraioch.bsky.social, you rock! (Now I need to buy frames for the two new ones 😆)

Two artworks purchased from @ciaraioch.bsky.social. The one on the left is a dolphin swimming, against a graduated green background. The other is a montage of sea creatures that can be found in Irish waters, with their names written in Gaelic.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Does anybody know if there are any airshows and/or other such events, in the Kent area. I've got one of the Summit Aviation Skyvans flying around, I know they're based out of Brize Norton for parachuting purposes.

Short SC-7 Skyvan C-FARA of Summit Aviation.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today is World Donkey Day. Trump has celebrated with his inimitable style.

A picture of Donald Trump, with a donkey head photocopied in to replace his own.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

And that is why I always go to the National Portrait Gallery & not the National. Better class of people at the NPG.

A lady with short blonde hair, wearing a pink dress.

Portrait of Mo Mowlam, held in the National Portrait Gallery. Thank you Mo, for all you did.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

As beautifully illustrated by the supremely talented (feared by rich farmers throught Ireland), @ciaraioch.bsky.social.

Picture celebrating Bealtaine, the Irish celebration of the coming of summer. Illustration made by @Ciaraíoch

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Frothing seems to be endemic amongst that side of the community. I remember, a good few years back, the BNP doing a "we don't want them Poles/Czechs etc" leaflet, illustrating it with the quintessentially British Spitfire of the BBMF ...... in the markings of 303 (Polish) Squadron!

Spitfire of the BBMF wearing the colours of 303 Squadron, manned by Free Polish aviators.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Scary how people in power ignore the lessons of history. 1) Growing estrangement between the Trump admin & US people 2) The ongoing conflicts in Gaza & Ukraine 3) Tariffs 4) Growing demos across all states 5) The decimation of essential agencies by Musk & RFK Jr 6) Trump Over to you USA.

Causes of the American War of Independence

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Introduce yourself with: One Book 📚 One Movie 🎥 One Album 💿 One TV Show 📺

Cover to Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather". A Santa-type figure on a sleigh drawn through the air by four pigs 🐖 🐖🐖🐖

A French lady, with dark short hair & wearing a red top, looks sideways at the camera whilst smiling. The film "Amelie"

The cover for Nitin Sawhney's album "Prophesy"

Compo, Foggy and Clegg. Last of the Summer Wine

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

You’ve just woken up in outer space! time travel and/or inter dimensional travel may have been involved! who are you befriending first to show you the ropes of your new galactic adventure? 🚀🛰️🪐

Two animated characters. One is a bald-headed man, wearing brown trousers, white shirt & green sleeveless jumper. The other is a large beige-coloured dog with brown ears. They are having a picnic on a moon made of cheese.

They are, of course, Wallace and Gromit having A Grand Day Out.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

And with a single picture, any lingering doubts are wiped from people's minds. I know you're supposed to separate the art from the artist but, in this instance, there IS no art.

An over-privileged, middle-aged woman sitting in sunshine, drinking a large glass of something fascia coloured and smoking a large cigarette.

She Who Must Not Be Named

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

You've gotta love the (sadly shortlived) change to the TC Wikipedia page. Describing how white they are? Best to use the analogy of German cars; decent carvery restaurants can be thought of as Mercedes, Toby is like a clapped out Trabant sitting on bricks.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Malcolm Tucker, in the series "The Thick Of It", used the word "omnishambles" to describe that.

A man in a grey suit, angrily looking sideways at the camera.

Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker from the TV series "The Thick Of It".

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

On this day in 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin made a single orbit of the Earth. youtu.be/wY-kAnvOY80?...

A man, dressed in orange and wearing a head covering & space helmet.

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut, the first man in space.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The markets aren't even open, but Tesla has still managed a drop of 2.5%. 😆

Tesla's share price falling my another 2.5%, even though the markets are not yet open.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Because they never cast actors in different roles, never happens. screenrant.com/doctor-who-a...

Peter Capaldi, dressed as the Roman Caecilius

Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor, playing a mean guitar

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Spring is sprung The grass has riz I wonder where the birdies is They say the birds are on the wing Don't be absurd The wing is on the bird

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts ..... #WorldTheatreDay

A large semi-circular auditorium, with rows of stone seats rising above the performance area, with the sun setting over mountains in the background. The theatre of Epidaurus, the last unmodified Greek theatre.

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The Grim Squeaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 @thegrimsqueaker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today is Manatee Appreciation Day. I don't agree with this; I think we should appreciate them, and all the other wonderful species with whom we share this planet, each and every day.

Two Manatee nuzzling each other, under a beautifully lit seascape.

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