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@fitzjohn.bsky.social

Failed writer, failing better. MDANT, so there's that.

created October 19, 2023

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Tougher English language standards would make life deeply problematic for Lee Anderson.

2/9/2025, 11:30:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They've done a swift deal with Disney for the animatronic, which is being programmed as we speak.

2/9/2025, 11:25:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Roomy.

1/9/2025, 9:31:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The omelette bar at Bedminster.

1/9/2025, 9:29:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's no 'if' about it.

1/9/2025, 9:19:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brenda Fricker nailed it: "When you're collecting an Oscar, you're British; if you're drunk at an airport, you're Irish."

1/9/2025, 9:01:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of which company is he "millionaire CEO"? I ask merely so that we can doxx him, and if necessary, boycott them into oblivion.

31/8/2025, 9:31:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, I bow to no one but Lorenz Hart on this particular altar. He twisted the language and the universe to make them work.

31/8/2025, 9:22:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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[a] There's always been something seriously wrong with this prick, and [b] he didn't tweet this.

31/8/2025, 9:13:24 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've run up against certain upper class twats who've used the latter pronunciation. It has to be said that the former is immensely more satisfying, especially when shouted.

31/8/2025, 9:09:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, it's just difficult for rich people. Paedophiles, impossible.

31/8/2025, 9:00:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even if it existed, there's no way this rotten fucking prick would be going anywhere near it.

31/8/2025, 8:58:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeh, this fucker's cooked.

31/8/2025, 8:52:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So anyway, of which company is he CEO? Just so that people can boycott whatever shit they're making.

31/8/2025, 8:49:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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'In', not 'on'. Easy mistake, but no excuse for making it again.

31/8/2025, 8:42:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To paraphrase Basil Fawlty, "nothing painless, I hope."

31/8/2025, 8:39:57 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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The United States have learned so many lessons from China, Iraq, and North Korea, none of them good.

31/8/2025, 8:33:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even then he looked like a hunk of fucking cheese in an ill-fitting suit.

31/8/2025, 7:51:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's not actually 'talking' or in focus in any of their iconography.

31/8/2025, 7:46:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Miller is Beria Vance thinks he's Kruschev (he's Malenkov) De Santis is Brezhnev The rest are the rest of the fucking bastards.

31/8/2025, 7:44:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That must have been one really fucking heavy donut.

31/8/2025, 7:28:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When at least 50% of them need to be.

31/8/2025, 7:26:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One can but hope.

31/8/2025, 7:23:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nope. Susan Collins is as dumb as a fucking fence post and as greedy as a drain.

31/8/2025, 7:07:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's usually something useful in a junk drawer. These fuckers are a waste of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.

31/8/2025, 7:03:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Boy Genius.

31/8/2025, 6:59:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The guy in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been owned by the KGB/FSB since the 80s. They in turn have provided him with all kinds of shit on Republicans and - possibly to a lesser extent - Democrats. Keep electing fuckers, keep getting fucked.

31/8/2025, 6:57:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For legal reasons, I will inquire no further.

31/8/2025, 6:23:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got to be Vanky. Eric can't read, Junior will be utterly janked, and the other two couldn't be arsed.

31/8/2025, 6:21:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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'Love Story', right? I'm that fucking old. Didn't think you were, bud

31/8/2025, 6:19:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me: [sitting on a bench, muttering] Bill Haley and the fucking Comets...

31/8/2025, 6:16:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah well.

31/8/2025, 6:08:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Worked for us. Apparently.

31/8/2025, 6:06:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's transitioning him from 'the former guy' to 'the dead guy'.

31/8/2025, 6:03:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks current.

31/8/2025, 6:00:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope they both fucking haunt his waking and sleeping (and nodding-out) hours.

31/8/2025, 5:59:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When your skull is full of cottage cheese, there's no accounting for your decisions.

31/8/2025, 5:45:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's apposite, because even without a medical degree, I can diagnose this fucking smackhead lunatic just by looking at him.

31/8/2025, 5:43:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She broke mine with that wonderful operatic voice.

31/8/2025, 5:02:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The guys turfing him out are wearing black shirts. Wake the fuck up, America.

31/8/2025, 4:38:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sad that cinematic franchise never took off.

31/8/2025, 4:36:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same amount of what?

31/8/2025, 3:59:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tell me about it.

31/8/2025, 3:31:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm slightly confused by his assertion that heroin got him through his college exams, but doesn't appear to have worked with the NY Bar exam.

31/8/2025, 3:30:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ironically, it chronicles a world of deceit, distrust and deception, but you can always depend on it.

31/8/2025, 3:25:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Football equivalent of Kevin Pietersen: a flat track bully. When defenders replicate his tactics, he turns into a giant, swivel-eyed toddler. Ben Godfrey ruined his night, for Pete's sake.

31/8/2025, 3:22:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But... they're a fucking religion.

31/8/2025, 3:11:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not soon enough. But I can wait. The closer to death I get, the more patience I accumulate. #TheFitzjohnParadox

31/8/2025, 3:08:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Been there. Whatever your age, for good or ill, the death of a parent is lifechanging.

31/8/2025, 3:01:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jennifer of that tribe and Angelina Jolie would like a word.

31/8/2025, 2:58:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lankford looks and sounds like a failed Magic Kingdom animatronic.

31/8/2025, 2:54:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We are none of us privy to their 30,000 year old plan. Hopefully it's a benevolent one. The dogs I've encountered suggest it will be.

31/8/2025, 2:50:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone needs to inform this self-entitled smackhead (who couldn't even pass the NY Bar) that 'experts' are qualified. Experts know about mitochondria. Trusting the priests and the Nazis is 'a feature of religion and totalitarianism'. Indict, impeach, or arrest him. He's criminally insane.

31/8/2025, 2:45:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One thing about this song that strikes me every time I hear it is how quiet, and poignant, but strident it is.

31/8/2025, 2:41:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Insanity doesn't run in my family - it gallops!"

31/8/2025, 2:23:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like a lindseygrahamectomy?

31/8/2025, 1:53:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry for your loss.

31/8/2025, 11:09:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Somebody had to. Glad it was you. Trust you.

30/8/2025, 9:17:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kennedy, "one of the world's foremost experts on public health", maintains that smack got him through his school exams. Funnily enough, it didn't get him through the fucking NY Bar exam. Can we agree that Stephen Miller is an utter fucking cocksucker?

30/8/2025, 8:54:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On the #197 from Swords to Ashbourne, and getting script ideas for Hammer House of Buses.

30/8/2025, 7:45:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Purple Heart, right there.

30/8/2025, 1:25:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ain't no rope strong enough. Can you die of broken cankles?

30/8/2025, 1:21:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Problematic, in this case.

30/8/2025, 1:09:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You might come back to an apartment smelling like an abandoned abattoir, and while, at 2am, you're taking the results down to the bins in plastic sacks, you might find yourself explaining to the Gardai that, no, you're not disposing of rotting body parts. I mean, you are, just not, you know...

30/8/2025, 12:39:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, and never switch the freezer off, especially if you're going for three weeks. Not even by accident. Check that you haven't.

30/8/2025, 12:37:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And a big consolation to him still being with us is that he'll probably be reading all this stuff, which won't be doing his self-regard or his blood pressure any good.

30/8/2025, 12:22:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not a trope, it's becoming a genre.

30/8/2025, 11:02:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a win/win, because if he's alive, he's probably aware of our scurrilous glee.

30/8/2025, 10:59:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We have your usual room ready, Mr Burke. Breakfast is still from seven till nine."

30/8/2025, 10:54:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooh. One for the list. Thanks.

30/8/2025, 10:48:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's only half past six there. He'll still be drooling on his pillow.

30/8/2025, 10:41:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No cover of "I Go To Pieces"?

30/8/2025, 10:38:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This set me thinking. Aside from this and THE SILENT PARTNER, can anyone think of any other films featuring the 'severed head in a fishtank' trope?

30/8/2025, 10:30:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do they not have lampposts in Time Square?

30/8/2025, 10:15:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is The Double Locks still going?

30/8/2025, 10:06:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, not a good point. We have 1933 hurtling at us again. Next year we need to make sure we don't have another 1936 x 2. No longer a believer, but still praying he strokes out before the end of the year.

29/8/2025, 8:40:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jim's the slim version of Adrian Chiles. Another 'Will This Do?'

29/8/2025, 8:26:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, I give it three months before the Nazi fucks don't give a fuck about being called Nazis.

29/8/2025, 8:20:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Christ. O'Neill. Another one. I am becoming brutally ashamed of Irish surnames, thanks to this fucking administration.

29/8/2025, 8:18:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone needs to inform this self-entitled smackhead (who couldn't even pass the NY Bar) that 'experts' are qualified. Experts know about mitochondria. Trusting the priests and the Nazis is 'a feature of religion and totalitarianism'. Indict, impeach, or arrest him. He's criminally insane.

29/8/2025, 8:08:52 PM | 108 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh who? Best piece of music crit I ever read applied to Lynyrd Skynyrd: "They sound like someone kicked a steel dustbin full of washing machine parts and broken bottles down a spiral staircase".

29/8/2025, 7:59:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Airports: Get here fucking early. We want you stressed to fuck, so you have to relax by SHOPPING! and DRINKING! (a bit) and a bit more buying. Maybe a €9 sandwich? We're a tiny city you can only escape by plane. Like West Berlin. Need a drink yet?

29/8/2025, 7:54:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One day I will recount how this... culminated in a famous Liverpool pub.

29/8/2025, 7:46:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK Jr: "There was this white stuff a few years ago. Not sure what it was, but I felt great. Can we get *that* out into the general population?"

29/8/2025, 7:42:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It really cannot decide between cracking the flags and pouring rain into said cracks.

29/8/2025, 7:39:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Steady on, Herr Beethoven, that's your fifth!"

29/8/2025, 7:37:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just going to give #BBC4 Friday nights the swerve until they rotate back to 1964.

29/8/2025, 7:35:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which platform is actually wasting pixels on this shit?

29/8/2025, 7:32:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tell me about it. "What are you going to do with those books?"

29/8/2025, 7:28:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same in Ireland. I can't buy more than one packet of Paracetamol, whereas... Ah. No, hang on. Largely rural. Lot of things wrong. But YOU CAN BUY A FUCKING FIREARM IN A FUCKING SUPERMARKET.

29/8/2025, 7:27:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That would be Pete.

29/8/2025, 7:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They both know they're dying. They want to take everyone with them.

29/8/2025, 7:21:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"That was The Fall with 'The Vince Earl Experience First!'. Next, Half Man Hall Biscuit with 'Colin Crompton's Hat'."

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29/8/2025, 7:18:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That cover looks like "The She Club Bouncer Collective are coming for you, and you won't be happy when they arrive".

29/8/2025, 7:10:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another spineless catamite who performed a complete 180° pirouette on Trump. Those FSB files must be fucking dynamite.

29/8/2025, 7:05:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can we all agree that when/if (it's a mighty big if) the Trump years are catalogued by Ryan Murphy in #AHS, Johnson will be played with great gusto by Michael Emerson?

29/8/2025, 7:01:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the RW malaise - the majority of them are not actually very smart. Panface now thinks that boasting - somewhat unconvincingly - about higher birthrate is a flex, but for a century it's been a fascist trope about untermenschen. *They* are the people they're most afraid of.

29/8/2025, 6:52:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And that, laydeez n gennlmun, was the entire point of Project 2025: re-fighting The American Civil War without risking a musket ball or bayonet in the gut. Re-litigating it. You should have listened to Henry V about lawyers.

29/8/2025, 6:22:38 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My experience of 22 years of marriage is that every horizontal surface I have created in this apartment, be it table, shelf, trunk, or chest, swiftly becomes jammers with Stuff. It's a four-dimensional version of painting the Forth Bridge.

29/8/2025, 6:16:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Leaflets ▶️ Pamphlets ▶️ Books ▶️ People. Depressingly, the only 'progression' they know.

29/8/2025, 6:04:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view