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@orladoherty.bsky.social

Languid and bittersweet

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'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny

19.02.2026 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1595    πŸ” 362    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 16

Finally some good unprecedented times have begun

19.02.2026 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His buffoon image was deliberate - to soften him while he enacted extremely conservative policy. People have reported seeing him purposefully messing up his hair before going on camera.

09.02.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:

"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat πŸ’€ Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"

08.02.2026 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5737    πŸ” 431    πŸ’¬ 191    πŸ“Œ 66
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FREE RANGE: FEB 2026 Ah, but will you listen to the very end?

I've done another radio show. Listen whenever you like for a few months.
www.mixcloud.com/mofgimmers/f...

08.02.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guardian reviewers have a new favourite word this month - splenetic.

24.10.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still after cool folk for this by the way. Super easy to do and you can plug your wares to a site that have 40k eyes on it last month.

14.04.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That Delia piece is INCREDIBLE

09.04.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10 SONGS WITH… HEY KIDS ROCK N ROLL Welcome to a new sporadic feature where we let interesting and cool people tell us what they’re listening to, what makes them tick, and what they love about certain records. 10 songs that mea…

First of a fun new feature over on my music blog. More to come too!

thepopcorps.co.uk/2025/04/08/1...

09.04.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Am I just really thick or does everyone have to concentrate incredibly hard to work out whether a clock change = losing or gaining an hour?

27.03.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May I present this crime against humanity that I am forced to pass on the school run. The apostrophe somehow makes it so much worse.

17.03.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Here marks the death of my use of Minority Report as an exaggerated example of a fictional, dystopian future.

12.02.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kendrick doing that performance with Trump in the building is a moment

10.02.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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probably the most mischievous grin ever

10.02.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 25926    πŸ” 4849    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 558

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST KENDRICK

10.02.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey this Superbowl scoreboard graphic absolutely blows

09.02.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't remember the last office day I had that wasn't soundtracked by a game of cough tennis. It's just going to be this forever now, isn't it?

30.01.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI DON’T SHAKE HANDS WITH WHITE SLAVERS”

26.01.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man I just let out a ridiculous hoot at this

08.01.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think you should just commit to only doing it in song.

17.12.2024 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Joint Present
YouTube video by Portable Radio - Topic Joint Present

Every time I hear the talky bit in Lonely This Christmas, I think of @phingersphil.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hhd...

12.12.2024 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Luigi's Manifesto Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

10.12.2024 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14055    πŸ” 4979    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 988

This feels slightly relevant today

04.12.2024 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1043    πŸ” 429    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 12
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bread time let's have a bread

21.11.2024 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4459    πŸ” 1108    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 113
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Manifesting

20.11.2024 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's -1Β° and I can't quite find enough layers, so obviously I saw a teenager in shorts on my commute this morning.

20.11.2024 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you eat a Peppa Pig Multivitamin jelly do you believe it’s *literally* the body and blood of Our Lady Peppa Pig or purely symbolic and memorial in character?

18.11.2024 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 599    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 14

When is it correct to buy Christmassy snacks? It's a fine line between making the most of the availability of Treeslets Vs making them less special

18.11.2024 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Donald Trump and RFK Jr shake hands. 

Headline: Trump's Cabinet picks raising eyebrows. There are 3 ways this could play out.

Donald Trump and RFK Jr shake hands. Headline: Trump's Cabinet picks raising eyebrows. There are 3 ways this could play out.

1. left eyebrow
2. right eyebrow
3. both eyebrows

16.11.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 853    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

Lovely! I've not tried these, but I'm always interested in a pickle number

15.11.2024 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0