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"Pariah Carey".

Hey @deshocks.bsky.social buy that sub a pint will you please?

Yes, yes, but how does that relate to the one thing I'm obsessed with

The guy in front of me in the security at La Guardia was traveling with only a medium pizza and a cat?

Take my money

Leighum as well.

What’s next, Swedish cyclist survives in the wilderness by assembling and sheltering in the flat-pack wardrobe she had on the back of her bike?

Evelyn But The Girl.

The Womble and The Clanger in the style of The Omen and The Exorcist

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

A painted bat, with orange body and orange and black striped wings, flying against a dark green background

Kerivoula picta, the painted bat, looks like a figment of Halloween's imagination, but is real. Very sadly they're endangered, but the fact they exist is a pretty magical thing to think about today: www.batcon.org/bat/kerivoul...

Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.

In which internationally renowned crotchologist Robert Wangdon races against time to find the secret for which nearly-as-renowned Dr Walter McGuffin was brutally murdered, aided by 23 year old brunette anthropologist Virginia Vavavoom and reclusive genius Professor Obvius Wrongun.

Baking was critical to the Lower Kingdom. It allowed the stationing of large forces to counter tribal raids into the fertile Nile region.

Bread production on that scale required advanced yeast filtering through linen bags.

If hadn't been for cotton-tied dough, they'd been harried long time ago.

I think I know that car park! One of the ones in Poole old town.

If life gives you fusilli, make fusillade.

I once took some shoes to be repaired and when I walked into the store, the guy grabbed them out of my hands, stared at them, and then said, in a very thick Southern accent, “Did you get these off’n a DAID person?!”

…in retrospect, they were a little beat up.

Oh, Wu Tang Clan’s seldom-heard cover: I Want a ¥$€#%* Hippopotamus for Christmas.

a man in a suit and bow tie is saying why would you say something so controversial yet so brave .. Alt: A man in a suit and bow tie is saying “why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?”

That deserves an equally edgy and original response…

Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer

Ah, but this is codelle, an altogether more sophisticated dish than mere coddle.

Too much, when you could be utilising that time to maximise your networking effectiveness!

A minor point, but their avi is a fine example of “graphic design is my passion”… unless they’re really called Et Launc.

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Something about that photo makes her look like the AI avatar for a virtual PA.

Four Draculas and a Funeral
Three Draculas Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Two Draculas for Sister Sara
One Dracula After Another

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

We benefit from wonderful minerality in our local water. (It can fur up a kettle in less than a week).

It took 24 hours for the government to respond to the Opposition demanding mass deportations and their response is, effectively, "look they're right, it just wouldn't be fair to do it to people already here."

My New Year’s resolution for 2025 is to stop procrastinating so much