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Al King

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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

09.11.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 14021    πŸ” 4190    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 127
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

08.11.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12716    πŸ” 3191    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 392

honey soy shrunk the kids

08.11.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I helped an escaped convict remove his shackles when I was a boy and now because of that act he is secretly paying for me to become a gentleman. Never stop grinding

04.11.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

it would be a shame if mugshot insecurity discouraged someone from a career of hijinks, critical endorsement for catching a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and thinking β€œgood day for a crime??” though

07.11.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thread ..

06.11.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

its a news media innovation

breaking: local council ordinance tiff between inexplicably hot councillors

06.11.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the Louvre hotties are fake but i’m not complaining!!

06.11.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

decided that the st james tunnels should be a roguelike

06.11.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why favourite is when SSO is misconfigured and navigates to a default hub view rather than the page you were last going to when it reauthenticates

06.11.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when you get really, really bored that’s just the essence of the allegory revealing itself to you probably

04.11.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

trying to watch The Long Walk because people said cooper hoffman and david jonsson were good and feeling very, Dead Dove, β€œi don’t know what i expected” about it

04.11.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the Salieri of parliamentary fitness rubbing their hands together evilly πŸ˜†

04.11.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

your enthusiasm radiates!

16.10.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i hope woke 2 is so woke it cancels me

16.10.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

phew!!

09.10.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think Gregory has died?? but he stepped down from RSC as a result of his husband’s terminal illness

09.10.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDarmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”

06.10.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 528    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

conan the vulgarian

25.09.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. πŸ”­πŸ§ͺ

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department β€” at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

24.09.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1880    πŸ” 868    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 36
A crocheted Patti smith

A crocheted Patti smith

Patti smith from Horses

Patti smith from Horses

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

08.09.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 12425    πŸ” 1537    πŸ’¬ 291    πŸ“Œ 126

dastardly

17.08.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no-one who’s a CEO could be evil 😌

10.07.2025 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol

25.06.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yoob yooty

22.06.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

as above (some stuff) so below (more stuff)

19.06.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

mixed responses to rick astley’s β€˜chappell flintstoan’ style cover

14.06.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

concerned that someone drunk will wee into the grandfather clock

13.06.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i was about to do my joke and then the sheppo yanked me off. no as in withdrew my presence,

05.06.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

07.01.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3845    πŸ” 584    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 24

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