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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Judging by the number of responses to my reel this week suggesting that I paid someone to laugh at me, the general public severely overestimates how much money there is in comedy.

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh nice, how long y’all about for?

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When 90's dance music lies to you. 🎤 & 📷 - Quantum Leopard Comedy #robins #showmelove

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember the classic 80s ZX Spectrum platform game Manic Miner? It’s back…in hideous AI slop form. Fortunately I analysed the trailer and explained everything they’ve done wrong. youtu.be/phst1Z6AWQc?...

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The remake of Manic Miner that NO-ONE wants...

YouTube video by RuffledBricks

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do observational comedy about indie video game soundtracks now. 🎤 & 📷 - Quantum Leopard Comedy #celeste #faithless

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Life hack: soundbites from Trump, Farage and their supporters become marginally less insufferable to sit through if you use this as a bingo card

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For my Q3 haircut, I’ve gone full Goldsmith

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New article. From the laugh tracks of three-camera sitcoms to the involuntary tics of a stand-up comic’s delivery, a significant aspect of comedy is telling audiences exactly when to laugh. But are such devices patronising and manipulative, or creative and misunderstood? medium.com/@ianlane_108...

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From Tracks To Tics: the fine art of telling audiences when to laugh

Since spending early adulthood scrolling through comedy forums, I’ve found myself to be a staunch defender of the live audience…

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don’t know the context but I recognise the musical reference, so have a Like

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Would love it if YouTube could actually recommend a rock critic channel where every video isn’t just “Kasabian are shit now coz they sacked their frontman for beating his wife”

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Been watching a lot of the newer comedians recently, and based on their hard work I’ve been able to update my list of contemporary references to write jokes around. Thanks all. x

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lads, I don’t care if ADHD is fake or not, just help me find my keys or you’re not an ally

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lol, just kidding, we all know those Stone Roses albums *did* rank themselves

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Look, you can slag off Burnham for being slow on the climate crisis, but come on, the lad's been busy. Those Stone Roses albums won't rank themselves.

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Bet those people who keep making "Did Diane Abbott do the figures" jokes about political polls are the same people who respond to memes that say things like "What's 13 x 7? If you get this question right you're 160 IQ"

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Really bothers me that the Subway Takes guy has 100 whole percents he can use for agreement, yet only ever uses two of them

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Every Backrooms video on YouTube be like: Urban Explorers: We love exploring Shit IKEA: Oh yeah? Well explore me Urban Explorers: Okay [explores and dies, probably]

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Artist's impression of Clacton next month

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

How important is it to run a comedy gig if you're a comedian? As someone who's never done it myself, I have some thoughts on this, and these can all be found in this new Medium article I've written. Enjoy! medium.com/p/319f93661a71

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wrote a new article. This is a cautionary tale for stand-up comedians. A story of how one comic's hubristic attempts to organise his comedy material efficiently resulted in a document so terrifyingly uncanny that it almost made him gave up stand-up entirely. medium.com/@ianlane_108...

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Marcus Payne @nowtro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

TGJones in Richmond. The name has been crossed out and replaced with WHSmith (its former name) by a disgruntled graffiti artist.

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In light of some of the “they’re all as bad as each other” rhetoric I’ve seen going around recently, I feel compelled to share this old Webcomic Name comic for some reason…

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“I knew exactly what the Palestine Action activists would look like before I even saw the photo” said a bunch of blokes on Facebook who look exactly how you’d expect

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The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) @theacms.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

With @bechillcomedian.bsky.social, @charlievmartin.bsky.social, @drucripps.bsky.social, Gary Le Strange, Helen Duff, Henry Whaley, @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social, @jlukeroberts.bsky.social, Jordan Lewis, Stephen Catling, @tombellforever.bsky.social and W*nkers! The full 12! Tonight we go loooooong!

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Been rewatching the early Buffy seasons recently and the most unrealistic thing about that show is the idea that teenagers would actively go to a bar to dance to Morcheeba

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Jaycie Grace @jayciegc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We are streaming NOW - our last Blizzard Comedy show ft @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social @danmckee.bsky.social @jamesrosscomedy.bsky.social @wilkinsonsamuel.bsky.social and some more non-he/him comics who unfortunately don't have bluesky so make us look worse www.twitch.tv/blizzardcomedy

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BlizzardComedy - Twitch

Blizzard Comedy Catch Up ft. Toxic Shame Squadron, Dan McKee & More!

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The last of my 2025 list vids is up: the best albums, EPs, deluxe editions and compilations that had some notable focus on remixes to them. But that would be a terrible title, so I'm just going with Best Remix Albums Of 2025. youtu.be/xg8IJOa7nd4?...

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The Top 20 BEST Remix Albums of 2025

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The second of my 2025 review videos is here, with the Best Remixes list. So many good stuff released last year, I couldn't cover it all in anything smaller than Top 40 form. Feedback is welcomed as ever. Enjoy! youtu.be/aZhNcvFI3D4

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The Top 40 BEST Remixes of 2025

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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The Blender, eventually! @theblender.online · 13/01/2026

This is great stuff, and if we had any taste we would have heard these and played them for you. But we didn't, so you should watch this instead.

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

So yeah, it's mid-January. And speaking of mid, I just released a video about some remixes I heard in 2025 that were worse than mid. Enjoy! youtu.be/H1n5mhSf-KE

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The Top 10 WORST Remixes of 2025

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My unachieveable goal for 2026 is to make something as good as this photo I took when cat-sitting Bella

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Not wishing any of you a Happy New Year unless you promise me you’re not going to squander it this time

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

For my last review of 2025, we're looking at the new queen of sample-based dance pop, PinkPantheress, who celebrated her breakout mixtape Fancy That with a star-studded 22 track remix version titled Fancy Some More? But will you? youtu.be/lqQWe2eeP9s

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Beyond nostalgia? PinkPantheress "Fancy Some More" (a deep dive review)

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

An absolute feast of tracks for the last Ruffled Mix before Christmas, plus a completely unmixable post-rock song that I've been forced to try and mix and am in no way worried about breaking the flow with whatsoever. 2pm on Twitch today, come investigate. x www.twitch.tv/toxicshamesq...

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Bronski Beat's 1984 debut The Age Of Consent mixed foreboding dark electro with Jimmy Somerville's unique countertenor to paint a both bleak and uplifting picture of homosexual life in 80's UK. This year the album's final remix packaged Forbidden Fruit dropped. Review here: youtu.be/WNvatorwPOQ

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More relevant than ever? Reviewing Bronski Beat "Forbidden Fruit (The Age Of Consent Remixed"

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Christmas idea: mulled wine, except it’s Huel

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This haircut took two hours because I do not understand basic hairdresser terminology, so of course I’m going to post it

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Finally getting around to completing some of the Remix Review Guy reviews I wrote and recorded in the summer. Firstly, Madonna's Veronica Electronica - a somewhat tardy and blinkered reimagining of her 1998 curveball Ray Of Light: youtu.be/fuikYjQoBwU

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Slower than a Ray Of Light: how Madonna's "Veronica Electronica" misses the point

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Gonna start a band called 2025 Anyone, so that we get free publicity in the YouTube comments of other people's songs. Obviously we'll have to break up at the end of the year tho

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Now that I am housed and Covid-free, I can get back to my most important body of work: doing DJ challenge streams advertised by dispassionate lists of real songs you may or may not have heard of. 2pm every Saturday on Twitch, I'd be honoured to see you there. www.twitch.tv/toxicshamesq...

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Yeah, Silksong is okay, but I really wish the enemies did more damage

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

So if you get older than 100, does that count as DLC

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Okay gang, so I’ve been playing Silksong at my partner’s house and the boss pictured below made me cry and she thinks I’m a weirdo for it. Back me up fellas, pls

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Haven't managed to do as much RRG content as I would've liked recently, but at the very least I managed a Roundup video for the last couple of months. Reviewing remixes of K-pop, hip-hop, Thai rock, Inuit folk, charity advert music, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lLe...

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Katseye, The Cranberries, Lupe Fiasco, Pussycat Dolls: REMIX ROUNDUP Aug-Sep 2025

YouTube video by Remix Review Guy

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My recent Worms Armageddon ranking video's already hit 15K views. I have no idea how. Maybe the comments section will explain its appeal...

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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. www.them.us/story/london-trans-prid…

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London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record

Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

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