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Optimistic aliens measure space typographically. Culture ship name: GSV Oh No, Not Again

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Tom Astle's avatar Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social
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I found this beetle trapped in an abandoned spider web and freed it, because it was essentially in the spider equivalent of a ghost net. Also, it was a very cool beetle - a rugose stag beetle, Sinodendron rugosum.

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Philip the Italic's avatar Philip the Italic @fernmonkey.bsky.social
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I've always said you can tell a lot about a society from how it treats its prisoners.

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I had a mug with that cartoon until a friend broke the handle off it. He too was gifted.

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We had one that would literally stand on the lino and vomit on the carpet.

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Notice the rug right next to the plant.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank 's avatar Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social
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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

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Philip the Italic's avatar Philip the Italic @fernmonkey.bsky.social
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Oh to be a little frog having a health-giving spa treatment

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Popular memes have evolved into Jung's collective unconscious

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I'm really sorry. Here in NL, I held onto my bolted celery because the bees seemed to be enjoying the flowers so much.

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Sex is all very well, but have you ever found square candles that perfectly fit your square candle holders, and they're reduced to clear?

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I've also heard that New Yorkers are rude, and that's not a language thing. I think that's a failure to understand a cultural norm that everyone's time is valuable, so you decide how you want your bagel BEFORE joining the line, otherwise YOU are being rude to the bagel guy and other customers.

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Dutch people are supposed to be rude too (in a different way) but since we moved here everyone's been more than lovely.

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(The latter is based on nothing more substantial than having lived in 3 cities like that and made a deliberate decision not to live in a 4th.)

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I think they either had unrealistic expectations or were on the sharp end of bad reactions from Parisians who are thoroughly sick and tired of tourists failing to treat their home as a place where people live.

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The opposite of the Bum and the Blebee.

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SoCal Leslie's avatar SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social
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Good morning. ☀️ Anna’s hummingbird grooming 🪶

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Philip the Italic's avatar Philip the Italic @fernmonkey.bsky.social
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Between all the skill and the sneaky bonuses, it's an excellent class

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Philip the Italic's avatar Philip the Italic @fernmonkey.bsky.social
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Well, I hope everyone now sees exactly WHY so many survivors don't come forward.

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Oh, there was plenty of appetite in Central Europe for schmaltz and kitsch. Always has been. But he couldn't force the arty set in Vienna and Berlin to appreciate his schmaltz and kitsch.

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"The woman who wrote [Barbie] will now be directing The Chronicles of Narnia for Netflix." Netflix are about to adapt an explicitly Christian series of children's books. What exactly is he complaining about again?

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And as I understand it, his reasons were perfectly sound. I'd be pissed off in his position too.

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Did you see how much she blushed at that? He's never going to shag you, Nadgers.

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Hi Mack! What a handsome kitten you are

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Damn, I wanted to do that one.

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It's really not complicated; they like John Lennon's music but not Yoko Ono's music, therefore it doesn't matter what either of them actually DID, Yoko must be the baddie.

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I think it was in either The Rusty Sheriff's Badge or The Fish Supper

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It could well be. Sadly we sold that Viz annual in the Great International Move of Doom Book Sale otherwise I'd scan it in.

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Considering that I avoid makeup like the plague due to dysphoria, it would be illogical to judge someone for the opposite decision

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There is an old Viz cartoon called "Lord Shite and Nanny No-Dumps" ("a one-off strip about an aristocrat who wishes to defecate "like common people" and his former nanny who is determined to stop him") which always makes me think of Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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Major was right about "the bastards" and the danger they posed, and I've been thoroughly enjoying his "fucking TOLD YOU SO" Brexit years. Also, running away from the circus to become an accountant is a pretty funny origin story.

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I will always believe that David Cameron's people picked out Larry for his photogenic mannerisms rather than his hunting skills. And boy has he performed!

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A smash burger is just a wannabe pljeskavice that can't do the accent.

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Yeah. Those of us who aren't posh but have had them inflicted on us at various educational establishments (scholarships or university) know the type; we've heard them holding court, and they don't fool us for one hot minute.

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Larry the Cat is about 17 (nobody really knows because he's a shelter mog) and it's just occurred to me that when he dies that's going to be one hell of a day for burying bad news.

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You've nailed him. Rees-Mogg is the pretentious parvenu that all Austen heroines are trying to avoid having to marry.

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No, that's Michael Fabricant you're thinking of.

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸's avatar Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social
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Everybody shut up and look at this vole.

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Philip the Italic's avatar Philip the Italic @fernmonkey.bsky.social
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Anyone seen Charlotte lately?

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The Green Party's 4 seats are far more impressive than Refash's 4 because they managed it without the entire media setting up camp in their back passages and giving them wall to wall 24 hour coverage for the past 5 years.

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Only if they're trying to attract the attention of someone to let Larry in

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I adore cornflower blue. It's the best.

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