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I have come up with way less credible excuses for getting a chippy tea
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ok look I love Judith Kerr and Mog is a stone cold classic but what's going on with Tiger Who Came To Tea storywise? Some big bastard steals all your cake and bread and drinks THE WATER OUT OF YOUR TAP DRY and you're just like "oh well, chippy tea"? Come on
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One of my absolute favourite things on Netflix, it's my emotional support show
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Warning: Midnight Diner (2014) is only available until 31/05/2023 uk.newonnetflix.info/info/80113541 #LastChance
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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 1,200 words u can download it on instapaper and it'll read it to you in two minutes. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again/I walked right through leaving footprints from some guy's spilled Heineken/Your sister said that girl Rebecca's still the goddamn worst/I don't know when she left there but she sure wasn't the first"
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" could 100% be the first line of a Hold Steady song
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TC frantically googling "how to cash in subscriptions paid in crypto or Funkos"
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"Advertisers should find somewhere else to advertise" don't worry friend, they are way ahead of you
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"Advertisers leaving is good for Twitter, actually" say horde of ticks in replies as they sit out on a branch, vigorously sawing through it
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Twitter's already wary advertisers are going to looooove paying to have their brands associated with Tucker Carlson.
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I've rarely backed a KS as quickly as I did this
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Launched my most ambitious Kickstarter yet today, an attempt to take something that's only existed in the zine space and give it a real commercial go. The list of contributors is really something. For a start, look at this cover by @HackinTimSeeley! rockandroll5e.com
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First look at Albert Einstein in Christopher Nolan’s ‘OPPENHEIMER'
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You can't make an Omelas without breaking a few legs
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Reading through the whole of Marvel Comics Presents and I have now decided that the worst words in the English language are "Nine-Part Young Gods Serial"
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I'm giving "Cover of the Weekly World News" there
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Another difference you can see quite clearly in this photo of me, which is I wear clothes now
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Almost entirely, for instance I used to be like two feet tall for a while, that was pretty great though
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Would you say you look drastically different from when you were a child?
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I did it
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Gonna put a rap verse in a Mountain Goats song
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I have to say, this movie being shown in a city famously built on seven hills feels like a bit of one-upmanship
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Can't make tomorrow's Discover preview? Don't worry, The Eight Mountains opens on Friday.
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[me meeting Connor Roy] wow, someone's dad was a green arrow fan
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Gorgeous 1985 cover featuring the New Mutants’ Dani Moonstar for the French comic “Titans”, which was featuring reprints of the Claremont/Sienkiewicz “Demon Bear” tales from 1983/4. (I wish I knew the artist. Jean Frisano created many Titans covers, but I can’t say this is his.)
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FRANZ FERDINAND: do they remember me
ME: *encouragingly* sort of. There’s a band named after you.
FRANZ FERDINAND: are they good
ME: *encouragingly* sort of
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Some corkers available here; some quick recs from me would be Giga, These Savage Shores, Hollow Heart and Fearscape
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FLASH SALE
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Hurry, this sale is ending soon. Don't miss out on the (Big) deal. Promo is good until 5/7.
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I wish it wasn’t weird and awkward to randomly tell friends and friendly acquaintances how much acts of kindness towards you in the past that they’ve probably forgotten about meant to you
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Human writers being hired to refine ChatGPT scripts is like human chefs being hired to rescue some mangled vegetables after a wonky food processor's done a crap job. Just hire the chefs
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This whole thread is excellent but I would add that it also genuinely is beneath them
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It’s not that it’s “beneath” them, it’s that they’re being asked to do a lot more labor. twitter.com/jackshafer/sta…
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Some incredible buzz about this movie
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FINAL WARNING: Wild Mountain Thyme (2020) will be removed in the next couple of days! uk.newonnetflix.info/info/81457263 #LastChance
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Watching The Girl in the Fireplace with the 8y/o and Dr Who tells Mme du Pompadour to stay indoors in August 1724. A cursory bit of research suggests August 1724 in France was quite dull and he was presumably warning her off attending the opening of the Rémy Martin cognac house
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TBF, arresting members of the public for having rape alarms might be the most Peak Met they did since arresting women for laying flowers to commemorate the woman raped and murdered by the colleague they covered for
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They were arrested for being in possession of… rape alarms. They hand them out to women.
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In an interview with comics scholar Hillary L. Chute, Spiegelman says: “comics is the only form in which past, present, and future are visible simultaneously… left is the past, and to its right is the future. And your perception of the present moves across it.” 4/13
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My friend Mike has a book out, which you might be in the mood for reading just now, for whatever reason
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The TV coverage is giving serious Daniel Barker's Birthday
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HAPPY #FREECOMICBOOKDAY EVERYONE!
As is tradition, and I would love for you to enjoy the complete Fun Mudlifter saga: all four issues of Dungeon Fun and the two Pirate Funs to date #fcbd
dropbox.com/sh/akb9n6y93y8
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Charles about to be Gotcha Oscared
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"The Met must justify this" assumes a justification exists
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I don’t believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
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Doctor: great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight, you should go see him
Patient: Mmm, sure, but what about great clown Grimaldi? Some would say even greater clown than Pagliacci?
Doctor: No, nobody would say that. Pffft. Big Loseraldi more like, no, steer clear
Patient: but
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Though the fact that there's a Hawkeye epic coming that's largely Solo Avengers reprints
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