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Alex McKay

@aemckay.bsky.social

Coffee, Comics & Cats

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It's not a great movie, but one of my favourite little moments of acting on film is the moment in Die Another Day where Michael Madsen, after narrowly avoiding being atomised by a doomsday weapon, casually pulls out a cigarette and lights it up in relief.

He understood the power of little moments.

04.07.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've just put my son to sleep by gently singing Beatles songs to him as he drifted off and words can't properly describe the feeling in my chest. ❀️

25.05.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

09.05.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 53832    πŸ” 8162    πŸ’¬ 3355    πŸ“Œ 544
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Manchester Canal, painting by Stephen Bewsher (b.1964). #NorthernArt

19.04.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, no surprises, just a ghoulish monster gloating over lgbtq rights being taken away.

18.04.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1271    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 2

My newborn son is very taken with a piece of art I took from my mum's house when she died 9 years ago. It was one of her favourites.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the corner crying my eyes out ❀️

17.04.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of SpongeBob standing with his eyes closed and smiling in front of two large speakers that are blasting music

Picture of SpongeBob standing with his eyes closed and smiling in front of two large speakers that are blasting music

When you find a new song to obsess over and listen to exclusively for the next 10 days

14.04.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13795    πŸ” 1801    πŸ’¬ 402    πŸ“Œ 298

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

08.04.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17895    πŸ” 2372    πŸ’¬ 592    πŸ“Œ 151
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My default setting since my son was born:

09.04.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are going to LOVE it! Voss might be the best villain in the whole series.

02.04.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I ruined the Nintendo Direct today to celebrate the Tim Gettys Farewell Tour. You're welcome.

27.03.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 674    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 12

Why did we build all the stranger things kids in a lab if we aren't recasting the xmen

26.03.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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@maffewgregg.bsky.social Pretty sure Tom King has been watching Botchamania while writing the Wonder Woman comic...

20.03.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

20.03.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 62944    πŸ” 10384    πŸ’¬ 834    πŸ“Œ 582
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X engineers clocking in this morning

10.03.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 27150    πŸ” 3929    πŸ’¬ 463    πŸ“Œ 143

Patriotism isn't being proud of your country no matter what. If the government are clearly shitting the bed it's patriotic to want them to do better. You don't have to love Britain unconditionally, it's a country not a son.

11.03.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 361    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
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10.03.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TUSK

10.03.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1227    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 22
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Lookalike: Nosferatu and UK defence secretary John HealeyΒ 

From the latest Private Eye, in shops now.

10.03.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1

So long as you're happy and can still watch daft wrestling bollocks!

24.02.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's such a pain to try to commit to something (straight, bi, ace, can't be bothered) and then it changes with no warning

fuck it, i'm putting my sexuality as ADHD

23.02.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 0

May you be lucky enough to have a leader who loves his country half as much as this man loves his.

23.02.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 489    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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24.02.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saturday morning, we were heading to a nursery open day.

Instead, my partners waters broke and our son arrived in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A very early reminder that life doesn't care about your plans!

24.02.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon β€œa man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon β€œa man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

18.02.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 14566    πŸ” 3001    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 443

On the other hand, Bonnie Raitt is still utterly sublime.

15.02.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Arcade Fire playing the SNL concert

15.02.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spider-Man & Black Cat

(Written by @danslott.bsky.social, naturally)

05.02.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Sister's cunt!"

02.02.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are a straight, cis person and you feel that fucking knot in your stomach about what the administration is doing right now to trans people and trans children, you have to at the very fucking least say out loud in front of your friends and peers in real life "this is fucked up."

30.01.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5129    πŸ” 1648    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 62

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