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Iain Grant

@iaingrant9.bsky.social

I feel we've been here before.

created October 11, 2023

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Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Along with a version of Christianity (I'm an atheist) that celebrated the actual Christian faith, rather than the worst bits of Leviticus or whatever.

1/9/2025, 2:42:00 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) reposted

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h Remigration is the only way Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_•18h Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere. It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people.... Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_ X.com Epping is everywhere. 12:02•8/29/25 • 275K Views Elonmusk All Britain is Epping @Steve_Laws_ Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.
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Profile picture Julianna 💎 (@batariangal.bsky.social) reposted

It is astonishing how badly suited Keir Starmer is to the current moment. Just astonishing

1/9/2025, 2:17:47 PM | 956 149 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

You are wrong, as well as being a cunt.

1/9/2025, 10:54:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social)

Huh?

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31/8/2025, 7:10:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Ben Dover? Really?

31/8/2025, 3:24:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }

30/8/2025, 5:21:28 PM | 5705 2162 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Morrish (@edmorrish.bsky.social) reposted

making tax digital is such bullshit. i shouldn't have to pay a company money to be allowed to pay the government my taxes.

29/8/2025, 10:15:20 AM | 128 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course you will remain eternally young.

29/8/2025, 10:36:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) reposted

🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

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28/8/2025, 4:46:33 PM | 4151 2578 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Tldr: that’s what Putin told him?

27/8/2025, 7:26:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

27/8/2025, 1:39:57 AM | 8065 1871 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Will Jennings 🗳️ (@drjennings.bsky.social) reposted

Amazing.

27/8/2025, 8:39:40 AM | 289 60 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cllr Dr Alex Powell (@apowelllaw.bsky.social) reposted

Just in case people are unclear, putting 'hundreds of thousands' of human beings into camps is fucking evil. Are we all clear on that? You know when we talk about those lines before which we shouldn't draw parallels, this is one of those lines. This is evil, Farage is a fascist. These truths matter.

27/8/2025, 8:59:34 AM | 467 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture "Sources close to" Bob Borsley (@bobborsley.bsky.social) reposted

Good piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on some of the people who are “concerned” about asylum seekers: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/going-afte...

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26/8/2025, 8:11:20 AM | 495 157 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam Freedman (@samfr.bsky.social) reposted

Also it's August. Government is on holiday. A lot of senior hacks are away. Silly season but now with added racism.

25/8/2025, 8:38:20 AM | 232 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

You don’t fucking say

23/8/2025, 7:06:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) reposted

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

23/8/2025, 1:30:34 PM | 4330 1831 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Martin (@ianmartin.bsky.social) reposted

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23/8/2025, 3:10:56 PM | 96 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Christ give up you aren't good at this.

23/8/2025, 8:59:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Did you use up all of your massive brain power on your handle?

23/8/2025, 8:41:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

No but I dropped my biscotti in a cappuccino and it was awful.

22/8/2025, 7:23:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew McGregor (@mcgregor.bsky.social) reposted

Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.

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22/8/2025, 9:28:41 AM | 1558 613 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

If I had that much I'd let my freak flag fly.

22/8/2025, 9:18:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

I forwarded it to Alistair Campbell and now I can't see his profile. I assume I'm blocked.

21/8/2025, 3:44:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

That's old for a meerkat.

21/8/2025, 3:38:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social)

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

21/8/2025, 12:01:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chaminda Jayanetti (@cjayanetti.bsky.social) reposted

Obviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?

20/8/2025, 7:23:56 AM | 1407 396 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

What?

19/8/2025, 8:00:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

You fucking ghoul.

18/8/2025, 1:17:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking hell, do it! Let's test this hypothesis!

17/8/2025, 4:49:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yes. And the noise thing is unbearable.

14/8/2025, 8:19:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

You fucking bien-pensant right wing thickheads are going to be held responsible for sane washing this shit.

13/8/2025, 1:44:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel D. Anderson (@joelanderson.bsky.social) reposted

That white Marine who fatally strangled a homeless black man on the subway got invited to Trump’s suite at a football game and got a job at a vc firm. They’ve definitely told us what it is.

12/8/2025, 12:10:25 PM | 2074 511 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Because people like you are obsessed with it.

12/8/2025, 10:49:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Best wishes.

12/8/2025, 10:37:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh it's a T. Puzzled for a minute.

10/8/2025, 6:00:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) reposted

He was sent to prison six years ago, but the horrid details of the case coupled with Trump's best wishes have resurfaced on Reddit.

8/8/2025, 3:17:29 PM | 368 123 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social)

@ianmartin.bsky.social

7/8/2025, 11:09:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/8/2025, 11:08:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Classic drug dealer move.

5/8/2025, 3:52:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/8/2025, 3:45:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

It perfectly describes what has happened to that rag.

3/8/2025, 3:24:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Venika Dewan (@venikadewan.bsky.social) reposted

This is revolting

2/8/2025, 3:42:47 AM | 1176 151 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

31/7/2025, 12:44:57 PM | 8176 2427 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

That's just your kink. I hope someone can be bothered to indulge it.

31/7/2025, 12:31:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/no-youre-n...

30/7/2025, 5:29:37 PM | 363 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Lawrence Durrell.

30/7/2025, 4:07:25 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Every fucking time.

30/7/2025, 10:26:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

In what way specifically does it echo Orwell?

30/7/2025, 9:03:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Never seen Thelwell mistaken for Wilde before. Also 'fit actors".

29/7/2025, 8:56:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted

Appalling

27/7/2025, 9:52:22 AM | 372 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (@jayapal.house.gov) reposted

Trump’s appointees have ZERO IDEA what they are doing or what their jobs are. Breathtaking and staggering incompetence. I truly could not believe what I was hearing.

23/7/2025, 7:24:32 PM | 1801 472 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Felton (@jimmfelton.bsky.social) reposted

imagine being a child fleeing for your life and you arrive in a country where you just hope you'll be safe and the cunts start asking Grok if you can stay

22/7/2025, 3:44:17 PM | 199 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Armando Iannucci (@aiannucci.bsky.social) reposted

Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.

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21/7/2025, 12:24:51 PM | 492 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

You were lucky. We were a Kenneth McKeller family.

17/7/2025, 3:43:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember when Sly and the Family Stone had to follow her at Woodstock? The Who flat out refused.

17/7/2025, 3:16:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Joe Gallina This video of Trump saying he's surprised Biden put in Powell as Fed Chair while a video of Trump nominating Powell HIMSELFplays below is going viral Share this video of Trump's mental decline because the media won't.They're too busy giving wall-to-wall coverage for some autopen bullshit

16/7/2025, 8:16:54 PM | 289 190 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Irony is lost on me at this point.

16/7/2025, 3:36:58 PM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Irony is really lost on me now. I believe anything.

16/7/2025, 2:56:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Only he could sell that quite so badly.

15/7/2025, 3:49:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) reposted

*whispers* mad as a hatter

15/7/2025, 2:59:38 PM | 721 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family] Nazi propaganda:
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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

There’s always a tweet! This one from Junior is from just two years ago.

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14/7/2025, 4:21:17 PM | 3238 745 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would a lumpy conehead like that have such a grudge against society?

12/7/2025, 2:44:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

Brilliant. 🔥

11/7/2025, 10:20:54 AM | 553 85 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted

Three things you can say about a man who appears in public looking like this: 1. Nobody loves him. Not a soul. 2. He's not of sound mind. 3. That ear was never even scratched.

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8/7/2025, 10:54:20 PM | 4254 845 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

TMI

6/7/2025, 12:04:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

American acquaintance of my son referred to a Ghanaian friend as African American and didn't understand his mistake.

4/7/2025, 12:35:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Continuing their crazed search for something to be offended by, so that people won't think they are racist.

3/7/2025, 11:16:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

That is certainly an opinion.

2/7/2025, 2:30:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard agree.

1/7/2025, 8:47:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Best for Britain (@bestforbritain.org) reposted

Kemi "No Gaffes Ever" Badenoch, here, visiting the army. ~AA

Kemi Badenoch looks through a monocular, with the cap still on, and sees her future. Kemi Badenoch pointing a gun at the only other person near her.
30/6/2025, 9:05:23 AM | 245 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted

i've been trying to think of a nice way to say this but some of the people on this site desperately need to realize that not everything has to be about american politics 100% of the time. stop replying to people's unrelated anecdotes and pictures of their dogs with unfunny jokes about donald trump

29/6/2025, 9:36:49 PM | 2393 264 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Why are right-wing thugs obsessed with (their idea of) gay sex?

30/6/2025, 8:32:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Christ it looks like raw rabbit kidneys.

29/6/2025, 7:50:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Remind me what a centrist is?

25/6/2025, 2:44:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@ianmartin.bsky.social And then...

18/6/2025, 10:26:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Right.

16/6/2025, 6:36:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James O’Brien (@mrjamesob.bsky.social) reposted

Huge crowds. Huge. Only fake news says otherwise.

15/6/2025, 8:33:02 AM | 1279 276 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/6/2025, 3:51:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

A charmer like you? How bizarre.

12/6/2025, 2:20:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Price (@timprice.bsky.social) reposted

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

10/6/2025, 1:56:05 AM | 23500 4956 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mat...

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Profile picture Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

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Profile picture shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) reposted

put his face on money

8/6/2025, 12:24:45 AM | 1029 123 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

In this Ohio diner, a closet case still means a 24-pack of Bud Lite you keep in your closet for emergencies. But they do know this: Jack Posobiec kicking off Pride month by talking about "phallocentric" Musk and Trump "going at it" is the kind of thing that straight guys say all the time.

7/6/2025, 11:33:24 AM | 769 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pawel Swidlicki (@pswidlicki.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Aging almost as badly as that Hannan '10 years after we vote to leave' piece

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Profile picture The Author, Séamas O'Reilly (@seamas.bsky.social) reposted

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.

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Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

My first (of only 2) was La Boheme at La Liceu in Barcelona. So great, and so much better than Madama Butterfly at Covent Garden. Go for the emotional thrills not the grandeur is this novice’s advice.

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Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Lived here my whole life and at least it’s not America.

2/6/2025, 3:31:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Author, Séamas O'Reilly (@seamas.bsky.social) reposted

Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".

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Profile picture Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted

Given Musk’s obsession with the Great Replacement, birth rates and racial hierarchy, it’s hard to see his decision to mass murder millions of the poorest people on earth as anything other than genocide based on eugenics.

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Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Right

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Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

We didn’t all vote for it you know.

30/5/2025, 10:40:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

The one that brought us Brexit.

28/5/2025, 3:52:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the way in which it's always about him that's baffling. Who does he think he is?

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Profile picture Iain Grant (@iaingrant9.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard relate

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Profile picture Your pissed off grandma (@anomaly100.bsky.social) reposted

The man with the nuclear codes walked into a wall. 😬

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