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Alfred the Unicorniest

@unicorniest.bsky.social
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Punster, puzzler & pedant. Twitter handle: @corniest2016

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Rick de Ruiter @rickderuiter.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 09/02/2024
Enjoying Bluesky? Share it with a friend! 🦋 Create an account (no invite code required): bsky.app Download the Bluesky app: bsky.social Send them this post on mobile by clicking the three-dot menu > Share.
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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 09/02/2024
If you're new to Bluesky, and are used to Tweetdeck, you could do a lot worse than try deck.blue. It already does more than I need, and new functions are being added all the time.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 08/02/2024
Theophilus, Amadeus, and Gottlieb walk into a pub. The barman looks up and mutters "Oh, for the love of god..."
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Alfred the Unicorniest @unicorniest.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
A world without spelling errors has never existed and never will.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/02/2024
If you joined Bluesky during the Beta, congratulations, you are now officially a Bluesky Elder! You will be assigned a rocking chair, a single cloud to shake a fist at, and a Chesty Gandalf Action Figure and/or Orca pool floatee while supplies last. Enjoy your new, completely inconsequential status!
Abe Simpson yelling at a cloud, with the caption "Bluesky Elder Yells at Cloud"
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 06/02/2024
You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) - Bluesky
Sign up for Bluesky! No invite code required.
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SFH @sfharris.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
I think the FDA would strongly advise against this.
Screenshot of a headline reading “recipe: decades-old shrimp scampi tossed with spaghetti is timeless”
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Alfred the Unicorniest @unicorniest.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Prompt Brush is like Midjourney, but human.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
I’m Japanese American, and I would have fallen for this!
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Musical Interlude: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgq...
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 31/01/2024
Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this. (To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Just let it sink in, I’ll wait.
A gearshift knob labeled in braille.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Gordon Parks was contracted by the US government to photograph these servicemen as part of multiple efforts to solidify war support. Southern segregationist senators flipped out that Black men might be considered war heroes and blocked Parks from going to Europe to photograph them in action.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Four of the right wing justices encouraged Abbott’s lawless behavior at the border, but they should probably consider what happens in the long run when the Court sends the message that the Constitution and the law are optional for the majority’s ideological allies www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Gift Article: The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders
Greg Abbott is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging him to do so.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
I need this service, too!
RUTH BUZZI on X: An anonymous scam caller said, “I have all your passwords.” | grabbed a pencil and paper and said, “Thank God! What are they?”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
every time i open twitter (once every two weeks roughly) its all blue check crypto guys, the nastiest most hateful posts you've ever seen, and this
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Moments ago, The Islamic Republic of Iran murdered Sabah’s dad by hanging him, per state media. (Please see my other posts for information about the other Kurdish dissidents who were also executed)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Oh, NYC. Never change!
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Today’s bake for brother’s 40th. I believe I have outdone myself.
Homer Simpson disappearing into hedge cake with buttercream hedge
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James Tymberlake @boisdulac.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
@franglaise.bsky.social
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🎃 Can't Think of Spooky Name 🎃 @noclevername.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
A Twitter favorite on E. Jean
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Quinn Cummings on Instagram
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
imagine making a William Shakespeare biopic and not casting Anne Hathaway as Anne Hathaway, shameful, pull the plug now
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MaryamB (She/Her) #FBPE #BanX #DemocracyDiedInDarkness 6Nov24🖤 @maryamb.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
On Holocaust Memorial Day, let’s remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust and in the following genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and Gaza. Today isn't just about remembering the past, it's about shaping our future too. #NeverAgain 🖤🖤
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
OH GOD SOMEONE PLEASE HIRE HER TO PLAY A SCIENTIST AND REMIND RACIST HOLLYWOOD THAT SOME SCIENTISTS HAVE ACCENTS GAH #%*€£¥%#
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Sofia Vergara Says ‘My Acting Jobs Are Kind of Limited’ Because of ‘This Stupid Accent’: ‘...
Sofia Vergara says she can't play a scientist because of her accent.
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
The US embassy in London has weighed in on the controversy created by a US scientist's suggestion that tea needs a pinch of salt.
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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
This is how you write a headline. 👇
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 24/01/2024
Perfect opening by the (British) Guardian in an article on an (American) professor claiming to have found the best way to brew tea 😄 www.theguardian.com/food/2024/ja...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
It’s so telling that you can build a media career on this and not on being, say, “Britain’s kindest teacher”. Absolute bunch of child haters
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
The invention of the air friar (colorized).
A monk wears hand-made wings of cloth and thin wood.  He perches on the edge of a high building.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
has anyone ever figured out our emotional attachment to coffee mugs
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
'Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers.' Illustration from The Snow Queen, Edmund Dulac. From Stories from Hans Andersen, 1911. #BookWormSat
Snow Queen over buildings and church, all snow covered, illustration.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
😂
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/01/2024
Bug Thread xkcd.com/2881
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/01/2024
'For a bet whilst drunk, former Marine Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at.' 1956 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
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Alfred the Unicorniest @unicorniest.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Wordle 938 3/6* 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @scoremywordle.bsky.social
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Ew!! “Online retailer eBay Inc., will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees who sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the home of a Massachusetts couple, per court papers filed Thursday.” apnews.com/article/9ac2...
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Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M
Online retailer eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over employees who harassed a Massachusetts couple by sending live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items ...
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Mr Snodes @mrsnodes.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Props to @ProofReadJulia
Spoof Ozymandias plinth
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
The five stages of wedding grief
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Kari-Anne Fygi @kafygi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Oh gosh, this embroidered piece by Narumi Takada is so so lovely. “Stepping on Fresh Snow”
A small square piece of embroidery. It is a fluffy white ground made using a punch needle and cut loop technique, and cutting across it are flattened embroidered footprints and paw prints
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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Just saying…
DON'T EVER BE ASHAMED OF
LOVING THE STRANGE THINGS
THAT MAKE YOUR WEIRD LITTLE HEART HAPPY
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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
If you want to make the case that authors are hurting because of the BL attack, maybe don’t lead with the one who has no doubt earned enough from his tv production career (and paperback sales) to keep him and family very comfortable www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...
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Richard Osman among authors missing royalties amid ongoing cyber-attack on British Library
Writers’ much-needed ‘annual windfall’ of up to £6,600 delayed as library in London struggles to restore crippled systems
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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 01/01/2024
Happy New Year! Have a cartoon (and a rant): ivacheung.com/2024/01/haza... #AmEditing
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Hazardous cleanup - Iva Cheung
(See the mouseover text if you’re in this situation in a PDF and aren’t aware of the quick way to get back.) A rant might not be the most auspicious way to start a new year, but the 2023 Acrobat i...
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Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!
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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
✊🏾🫠
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