Chris Allen

Bit of a week!

Series 2 readthrough for Smoggie Queens and then winning best comedy at the @broadcastnow.bsky.social digital awards! 🤪 🏆

#SmoggieQueens #BDAS #Comedy

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This.

In years to come we'll look at this era and wonder why in light of a global pandemic, economic inflation, growing inequality and technological upheaval we decided to make the private lives of a minority considerably worse.

Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.

YouTube video by Bluey - Official Channel Bluey: What Games Should We Play? Read by Cookie Monster and Elmo @SesameStreet | Bluey Book Reads

When icons collide...
#Bluey #SesameStreet

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Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words " not again " above her ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words " not again " above her

The head of #WhiteLotus’s corporate PR team arriving at work on Monday.

God I miss when the news was basically just shit like this

Today's Headlines

Last One Laughing is brilliant fun. Just joyful and daft.

The 90s game 'Dream Phone'

That US national security group chat

‘Smoggie Queens’ Renewed For Season 2 By BBC BBC's ‘Smoggie Queens’ has been renewed for Series 2 - Hat Trick's show stars Phil Dunning, Michelle Visage, Charlotte Riley and Mark Benton.

So excited that @chrisjonesgeek.bsky.social's show Smoggie Queens has been recommissioned for a second series. Up the Boro!

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'Tuvix' remake waiting to happen.

Three pictures of George Lucas laughing

Everyone watching The Phantom Menace in 1999:

“Why does this matter? Tarrifs and blockades of trade routes in outer space?”

George Lucas in 2025:

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias

Diana Davies, US photographer who documented the US Gay Liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, including activist Marsha P. Johnson #WomensArt

This.

Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.

That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.

And some unwise people clap and cheer.

More of this!

Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left.

An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.

a picture of a necklace with a figure on it who is pushing some kind of pearl or bauble up the necklace chain, labeled “the Sisyphus necklace”… “a reminder that you can overcome anything”

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

Happy Pancake Day

Photo featuring the side of a large building with a huge mural of a white girl in a dress holding a watering can and tipping it over a real tree which grows by the side of the building on an urban street

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt
#Monday

Library display based on artwork from Dev the Pineapple. A smiling Mychal, illustrated, with books and sunflowers. Text quote reads, "Library kids are going to save the world"

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024.

What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.

Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

Emergency podcasts sir. Thousands of ‘em.

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.

Foot pedal for water, just like at the Barbican. Nice.

"Daddy or Chips?"

Bet Rita and Mavis from Corrie in Blackpool with ice cream

The three doctors (1973)