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Joel

@snufkinlib.bsky.social

Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡³šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ‡®šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡¬šŸ‡§šŸ”¶ | Mark 8:36 | he/him The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer

created June 9, 2023

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Profile picture Joel (@snufkinlib.bsky.social)

There have always been two Americas

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Looking fresh!!

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Profile picture Carly Goodman (@carlygoodman.bsky.social) reposted

Every day it should be clearer and clearer that undocumentedness is something done to people by the US

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The sparks between relentless cynicism and relentless optimism, the decades of personal friendship, the ten years of developing bits, it’s great

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John Oliver *as a guest* on Colbert is the height of late night television imo, the peak of it

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It’s crazy that he’s shouting so loud you can hear him echo off the rotunda

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Those are actually the people who hate this site the most

3/9/2025, 9:20:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me and my pal Joe Stalin are about to win the anti-dictator war

3/9/2025, 9:18:18 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anime about a future war between a woman run DPRK and a hypermisogynist RoK

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I’ve been to Veles, I liked it there

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Putin: if I die the entire country falls apart. Like bigtime. Again. I need daily blood transfusions Xi: we had a perfectly good system and I made it personalist again. I’m gonna go out mumbling like Mao KJU, measuring his daughter for epaulettes and the big hat:

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Whole time he’s repressing the urge to go ā€œI intend to live forever too, through my childrenā€ and annoy the other two

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me with my ancestral homeland (šŸ‡¦šŸ‡¹)

3/9/2025, 8:58:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Personalistcels seething at hereditarychads over their absence of succession crises

3/9/2025, 8:58:06 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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how’s the ancestral homeland looking

3/9/2025, 8:56:19 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is only one way to Eternal Life and for men like you it’s the eye of a needle

3/9/2025, 8:43:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing ever changes

3/9/2025, 8:42:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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C’mon at least let us be Serbia

3/9/2025, 8:21:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel (@snufkinlib.bsky.social)

Saw Mozart performed by a travelling group of child prodigies, the most authentic way to experience his work

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Kingston upon Thames, it is a delight to be your servant again

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NC has a big Indian population! Who we were trying to reach but a good number of them were R

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I’ve realized it’s Albanian food but in my defense they don’t say that. I had no intention to cause offen-

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Profile picture Wrath of God Bot (@wrathofgodbot.bsky.social) reposted

As much as I am enjoying Farage have strips torn off him by the Dems no Member of Parliament should appear before the US Congress in this capacity at all ever

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POV you live somewhere, anywhere, except Clacton:

3/9/2025, 5:51:34 PM | 34 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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And they serve tres leches for some reason too

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Nako’s in Kingston is some of the best Greek food I’ve ever had, it’s so good, I need to come here more

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Token?

3/9/2025, 5:30:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They should make him ambassador to Greece

3/9/2025, 5:28:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This looks like a frame from a TV ad of the future

3/9/2025, 4:47:07 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julianna šŸ’Ž (@batariangal.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Like, you definitely get the sense some people have absorbed right-wing sneering at her. That she inherently should be taken less seriously than someone like Starmer

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Profile picture Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This made me laugh. The United States is almost a century older than Italy!

For decades, many of those in power—not just here, but across the West—have been locked in a cultural war with their own nations. We see that in many of the countries of Europe today, where the immigration crisis threatens to transform the ancient fabric of those nations—and all who object are menaced by an increasingly totalitarian censorship stat
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Profile picture M☿th (@monroetempleton.bsky.social) reposted

the Home Secretary's husband should not be a TV presenter

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Profile picture Dave Andress (@davidandress.bsky.social) reposted

Free-for-all on incitement to violence against marginalised groups promised by leading thugs of the British state.

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Profile picture John (@johnlk.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Was he a Great Man of History? Kind of not? He seems to have been very ordinary as a human. But maybe the single most powerful western European ruler between Charlemagne and Napoleon?

1/9/2025, 2:24:42 PM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel (@snufkinlib.bsky.social)

Aztecs, Ottomans, French, Lutherans, look at my intray man

3/9/2025, 12:13:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John (@johnlk.bsky.social) reposted

16th century hot take: Charles V is like if the Triple Entente was embodied in an individual human. His existence was basically a foreign policy initiative to contain Valois France. And it (mostly) worked!

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Profile picture HOPE not hate (@hopenothate.org.uk) reposted

You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ā— Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.

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Profile picture Joel (@snufkinlib.bsky.social)

Again an attack on civil liberties for all on the basis of xenophobia. An old & well known tune

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Conch meat!!

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Please, CNN, just because she’s a woman, you don’t have to tell us what she was wea- CNN: HERES WHAT KIM JONG UN’S SISTER WAS WEARING

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I always love reading the menus for these things, which you just know have been obsessed over

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I’d never considered before that it’s a German terrorist group calling themselves ā€œthe RAFā€ lol

3/9/2025, 6:09:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What do you think inspired the sketch

2/9/2025, 10:13:20 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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playing with dolls brackets nerd version

2/9/2025, 9:50:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I were Rayner I’d frame this immediately

2/9/2025, 9:23:02 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That seems to be a consensus in the replies

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Bond markets would never panic under a Tory Prime Minister

2/9/2025, 9:18:37 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Updating an old meme

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You know, I just might

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This is not necessarily his reputation

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The discourse is going to be very different when Tim Onion and Kat Abu go down like sandwich man

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The less wealthy blue staters in this future drove to Canada or, well, didn’t make it

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Writing a light Anglo-American romance novel in a near future where the UK is filled with millions of wealthy blue state liberals. The high point of the drama is when a character forgets the charade of calling them ā€œexpatsā€ and just admits they’re refugees

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I can only remember the coldest post of all time

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I could see the Your Party folding into the Greens in a very similar way as TIGfCUK did into us, with Corbyn as Mike Gapes

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This is what the billboards will look like in 2028

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Strolling along with a cinnamon soda from the Seoul Plaza, entire world is my oyster

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First trench coat night of the year. I’m thinking we’re so back?

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brutal

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I love to be so healthy I have a guy standing 2 inches behind me in case I fall

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Remembering how QEII held on right until she had to do a public appearance, welcoming Truss, which then pushed her over

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Kemal Ataturk

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Polanski

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Channel 5 introduces him in the news as ā€œformer actor and hypnotherapistā€, it’s over dog

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Will give this a try

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Why didn’t Sultana just defect to the Greens, it’s genuinely pure Labour egotism

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I did eventually produce a better version

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Printing out 50,000,000 versions of this London flag I made in 2020

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This is basically our message to Tories in the blue wall

2/9/2025, 5:02:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also all the other ways

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The last 3 sound especially promising

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He has a chance to do something very funny about 2 minutes in

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Just updated my bio

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which phrase?

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Profile picture Ellie Dawn šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļøšŸ„ŗšŸ˜šŸ’œ (@awkward.gay) reposted reply parent

Quick mockup

The intersex inclusive progress pride flag with the English 3 lions placed on top
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New colleagues are telling my their thoughts on why Kamala lost which is the direct psychic equivalent of being shelled with mortars

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Profile picture Duncan Robinson (@duncanrobinson.bsky.social) reposted

ā€œThe previous grown ups? Children, toddlers, babies in comparison to this lot. They’re fully grown. They’re haggard. They’re pensioners. They’re practically corpses.ā€

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Profile picture Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦šŸ‡±šŸ‡¹šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø (@dov.bsky.social) reposted

I too have legitimate concerns about asylum accommodation. For instance there seems to be a huge amount of nazis gathering outside those locations, screaming abuse at the poor people living in there. Something should be done about that

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ā€œHeels. Nails. Blade. Mascara. Fit check for my napalm era.ā€ =>> Patriots in Control

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wow

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*2028

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Kpop Demon Hunters KDH Kamala Devi Harris Wake up Sheeple!

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I think this is plausible by like 2029

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Writing a light Anglo-American romance novel in a near future where the UK is filled with millions of wealthy blue state liberals. The high point of the drama is when a character forgets the charade of calling them ā€œexpatsā€ and just admits they’re refugees

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CHIPS Act, arguably

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Celebrating first day of new job

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After five years of house arrest I should add!!

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If the England flag roundabout people think they’re hot stuff wait until I paint the three arrows on every road sign, massively confusing traffic everywhere

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this whale ain’t nothing to me, man

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I’m supposed to believe a guy who can’t spell ā€œtin foilā€ is a medical expert lmao

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This was 2019, I don’t wear the hat anymore, I have a different hat now. The flags are UK, UN, US, Austrian, and Irish

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I am fully prepared to enter flag discourse

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We deported the man who later built China’s entire space and missile program in 1955. He was previously one of NASA’s brightest lights and the US threw him away

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Yeah. I was trying not to think about that but yes.

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Profile picture Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social) reposted

Brilliant lads, we're getting roasted for not being normal about flags by the Northern Irish

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Profile picture AndrƔs ForgƔcs W (@andraswf.bsky.social) reposted

If that was Labour's plan, it's a really shitty one because I never voted Labour

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Profile picture Joel (@snufkinlib.bsky.social) reply parent

Some people should follow the Holy Father’s lead and touch grass

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Profile picture Julianna šŸ’Ž (@batariangal.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

ā€œDo you still think you can control them, Neil?ā€

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