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Colin Harris-Day

@thepoetscane.com
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Bumbler. Burbler. Published occasionally.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 07/10/2026
Not sure what I'd think of a Jed Mercurio Doctor Who.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 06/10/2026
"Did you make it to the toilet in time?" "I... don't know... ?"
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 06/10/2026
Caught some of the recent Wuthering Heights film (the Margot Robbie one), and, Christ... I swear that none of the directors that adapt it have ever read the fucking book.
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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 04/10/2026
Whether good intentioned or not, this is daft and unworkable thing to do. It will cause all kinds of problems and plague the party for a long time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Green Party members back 'Zionism is racism' conference motion
The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 01/10/2026
So #GoodLuckHaveFunDon'tDie was a fun film. Some of the plot doesn't quite hold up on reflection, but it was having such a blast with its own premise, who cares? Sam Rockwell perfectly cast.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 30/09/2026
There's that many diversions on my bus routes they should just do away with the notion of routes altogether.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 29/09/2026
Catching up on #snluk and the Harry Kane babybel fever dream is my kind of weird nonsense. The show is at its best when it goes either full on satirical or just plain weird.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 28/09/2026
I genuinely think about this all the time. Scif focuses so much on earth being invaded or conquered, but it's not worth the effort. They can just stick a metaphorical flag in our solar system and we can't do anything about it even if we noticed.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 25/09/2026
Man, how are the Orangemen still a thing.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎵come with me, and you’ll be in a health and safety violation 🎶
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Willy Wonka's Iconic Welcome Entrance
ALT: Willy Wonka's Iconic Welcome Entrance
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The gap in my CV? That’s where I carried you. No, no. I’ll see myself out.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 24/09/2026
Films imagined dangerous AIs as supremely intelligent supervillains. What we've got is the software equivalent of rogue psychopathic tractors with no brakes.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 20/09/2026
Can you employ someone to turn up at your house, slap you in the face, then force you at gunpoint to finish your writing projects?
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 19/09/2026
I think that was the first #snluk episode that didn't land for me. Maybe I'm misjudging it because I liked the previous ones so much, but it seemed weird and off. No jokes outside of weekend update. Ignore me, though. I'm an old grump.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 18/09/2026
Sad to hear Stephanie Cole has died, but confused that she was only 84. She'd been playing pensioners for about 40 years!
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 18/09/2026
Didn't this guy used to have principles? Who thinks, ooh I fancy a career change, I'll go work for the tech department of the apocalypse.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 17/09/2026
Holy shit. I have just witnessed Mel Gibson's twitter feed.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 17/09/2026
Christ on a fucking bike. Also, isn't the conspiracy theory that the government are spreading chemicals? The government he is part of. Stupid leather faced walking bollock.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 17/09/2026
The Sheeran thing has fascinated me. I never anticipated him simply trying to get some new support acts and carrying on like nothing happened though. Was hoping for some kind of backbone growth.
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"hi, im actor willem dafoe" "and im mark wahlberg" "and today you're watching That's Not My Real Penis"
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 16/09/2026
Honestly, to have not just your support acts pull out, but your backing band too, is some next level shit. I actually feel a bit sorry for Sheeran. The ultimate bland apolitical pop star, who no matter what he does now, it will be a political act.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 16/09/2026
This is the first time I've looked forward to hearing what comes out of Ed Sheeran's mouth.
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's easy to think of the arts as frivolous entertainment but never forget a lot of artists get into this line of work because they are loyal to something other than money
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
leftfootforward.org
TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 15/09/2026
Someone sneak a Free Palestine sticker onto Ed Sheeran's guitar. He'll be all alone on stage with nothing but a cymbal.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 15/09/2026
Why does Scotland, the largest country in the UK, not simply eat the other three?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
reuters.com
Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports
The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone is always like “oh Dracula is so bad, oh Dracula is so weird and horny, Dracula bit my dad” but Dracula also has times when he’s just at his house for 200 years bothering no one so maybe chill out
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 06/09/2026
I'm too fucking old.
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 02/09/2026
The only time I looked down on a ghostwriter was one I used to serve in a bar/coffee shop. He used to come in with a local gangster, ghostwriting his latest volume of autobiography while the guy told him about all his evil shit. And he was so fucking smug...
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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For people who point out that I’m incapable of playing football to any real level, I would like to remind them that I played three games for the 10th Ipswich Cub Scouts team, and I enjoy *watching* football, so really the lack of anything like technique or stamina is minor details.
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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A ghostballer is someone who plays the game for me and wears my name on their shirt. So far as most people (apart from grumbling industry insiders) will be concerned, they will *be* me. I will of course receive plaudits and most of the wages, since I’ll be telling him what I want to happen.
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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning. As a (comparatively) successful author I feel it’s time to branch out in my career. As a result, I’m excited to be stepping into the world of professional football. Since I’m physically incapable of playing football at a professional level I will be hiring what I call a “ghostballer”
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 02/09/2026
Honestly, US police training's real issue is imagination. All they have is: words, then taser, then shoot them the fuck to death.
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 01/09/2026
Messi retiring from being Gulliver in Lilliput, going by this photo.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/08/2026
*looks to camera*
"I’ll put the true part of it on the record myself. My marriage ended because I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife and my daughter, women (who Jon would call “cis women”), at a time when it was made very difficult to do so. And rather than support me, almost every friend I had looked the other way and let me be painted as a monster and a madman instead. Ardal O’Hanlon. Adam Buxton. Amelia Bullmore. Bill Bailey. A long and ignominious list.

My lawyers will be reading his chapter about me carefully, but my instinct is not to sue him, and to let it stand exactly as written, a signed confession, an indictment of him and the cowardly, careerist, mendacious class of people who could roughly gather under the title “Graham Linehan’s old friends and colleagues”.”
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 29/08/2026
I suspect that if Trump doesn't stay for a third term (which he would do regardless of legality), he'll just get one of his kids or his son-in-law to run, and then back seat drive the US shit show. It's so bleak...
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you’ve been hit with a rhythm stick, you might be able to make a personal Ian Dury claim. #NotTOTP #BBCFour
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gonna punch the Grim Reaper in his bony dick and steal his lawnmower if he doesn’t do Trump next.
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh FFS, it’s like 2016 all over again
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 23/08/2026
Champion of the Earth? The man has spent his life flying around the world in private pollution-causing jets just to stare at animals having sex. He's a hazard! (This is a joke. I do not want to be stabbed by nature documentary fans)
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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
hot subway take, I think we should rename all the classical pieces whose names are just throwaway metadata. Symphony For Piano In Q-Minor Third Movement? No, now it's called Stompin' With Jimmy and we can all remember which one it is
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 21/08/2026
Just seen a BBC video referring to chiropractors as regulated healthcare professionals. Having made up training to partake in your dangerous made up magic therapy doesn't make you a healthcare professional ...
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Colin Harris-Day @thepoetscane.com · 20/08/2026
The Trump presidency is clearly ai. Hands are the wrong size. No-one has that many bombs.
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