Niels Grotum
@ngrotum.bsky.social
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Pronounced with the umpty. (he or they)
I am impossibly old.
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Tom McH
about 7 hours ago
see part of the fun when I originally made and posted this on Twitter was desperately trying to get the (here excised) screenshot of the envelope with its green wax seal in the movie that looks just like the Taskmaster envelope HOWEVER the only option was scrubbing through a gray market cam stream
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Sara BP
about 8 hours ago
Katten Àr ute ur sÀcken - det hÀr skrev jag om hÀr för nÄgra veckor sen. Bra att det nu lyfts i media, för det Àr sÄ otroligt allvarligt. (Jag sitter med i den rekryteringsgrupp vid Uppsala universitet som har detta Àrende)
www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/uppsala...
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Uppsalaforskare ville bli docent â sakkunnig i Lund hittade pĂ„ artiklar han inte skrivit
âOm en student skulle göra motsvarande sĂ„ skulle han ju bli avstĂ€ngd.â
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/uppsalaforskare-ville-bli-docent-sakkunnig-i-lund-hittade-pa-artiklar-han-inte-skrivit/
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It's Boxing Day. Stupid pun threads are all I'm capable of.
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Make a Bond movie academic Dr. Unlikely Given the Evidence Octopodesque Review 2 a Kill You Only Revise & Resubmit Twice
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about 8 hours ago
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Make a Bond movie casual The Man with the Golden Bun On Her Majesty's Bus Replacement Service Rattleball
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Much like a certain minor Timothy, Bluesky has the juice.
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Isabel Köster
1 day ago
A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)
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Stealing from the Gods
Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of temple robbery or sacrilegium. As a self-proclaimed empire of pious p...
https://press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stealing-from-the-Gods?fbclid=IwY2xjawO6R3hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeLq251fLOvoBbKDn_SGzAH1FVPlIc47NBhErG0U4pioY54lmRqs59IoRs2zQ_aem_BRCfsRgvMLsb6gD47KzG7A
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Micah
1 day ago
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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mylesOS
about 1 year ago
trying to convince my friend that there really was a nintendo DS launch title called âPenn & Tellerâs Shithead Basketballâ
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Like all great teachers, Everett True always takes care to explain in meticulous detail WHY he's kicking your arse.
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Melissa Martin
2 days ago
Extremely funny to call the pope âholier-than-thouâ
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abby (sports)
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A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, surely Tiny Tim is dead by now
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Very much hitting the mid-Thirties phase of angst, ennui, and regret over past decisions and hurt caused.
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Natalie Weiner
4 days ago
nyer profile of willie something tailor made to make me lose my mind but this is special
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404 Media
4 days ago
This is 404 Media's
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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DK Metcalf Offensive Player of the Week, imo.
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Brendel
5 days ago
Thereâs a certain type of actor who really gets crushed under the weight of being handsome leading man and yearns to be a weird guy. Colin Ferrel, Russell Crowe, these are men who needed to age into demented uncles and make strange movies about being the Popeâs Exorcist to find peace
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Tom Reaganâs Hat
6 days ago
Samuel L Jackson is 77. This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, heâs just damned entertaining & straight-talking:
www.vulture.com/article/samu...
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Cullen
over 2 years ago
Sometimes you don't realize how much you say "ooh la la" till they play your 911 call on the local news
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Ben Williamson
7 days ago
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker đ§” Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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pro watching lege making a
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7 days ago
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Rudbeckia
8 days ago
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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VHS Vault
8 days ago
How To Become A Teenage Entrepreneur [Full VHS] : 162s
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This is extremely good and rad.
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Of fucking course. If she "got pretty far" it was only because the committee was trying to hire Naomi Klein.
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Branson COMMS OPEN
8 days ago
Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
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John Rogers
8 days ago
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
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Running Dog
9 days ago
Cool how there have been fifteen million profiles of McSweeney from all the best-connected hacks in the business, and it takes Steve Reed blurting it out to learn that he maybe thinks the NHS was a mistake.
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Pete Fraser
9 days ago
I can never quite get over the fact that the British government embed spies in peaceful social justice movements. Itâs so monumentally fucking sketchy, especially given how they carry on when in post.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Pornhub
9 days ago
For International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Siri Dahl discusses her journey in sex work, her activism, and the importance of solidarity and education.
www.pornhub.com/blog/interna...
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Michael Hobbes
9 days ago
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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And a sine qua non for The Unauthorized Bash Bros. Experience, which is always running on repeat SOMEWHERE in my subconscious. Still love that Chronic(what)cles of Narnia.
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James Ball
11 days ago
âNo less an authority than the United Kingdomâs former Prime Minister, Liz Trussâ Thatâs a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trumpâs legal filing.
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Mike X. Nichols
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Well my name's Lane Johnson and I'm here to say That I'm likely to return in a major way
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Carol Atack
13 days ago
If youâre looking for wholesome family content how about Giuliano Bugiardiniâs delightful family group with Leda, Castor, Clytemnestra and a rather tame swan? Painted in the 1520s and now on display in the Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo?
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Vince Mancini
13 days ago
âElla McCayâ is essentially about a grown-up Tracy Flick, only sheâs the hero of every scene and weâre supposed to instantly fall in love with her.
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more mr. nice guy
14 days ago
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
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Matthew Downhour
14 days ago
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles âa slaughterhouseâ
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/africa/2025/12/05/at-least-60000-murdered-in-sudanese-city-which-resembles-a-slaughterhouse/
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Marking their first positive contribution to the public weal in some time, Linehan and the Telegraph publish a list of beloved comics who are still All Right.
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Far too often, "two bigots playing team sports" serves to describe what passes for political discourse.
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Anna Aslanyan
16 days ago
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got âa few money-saving present ideasâ, such as âconsider not giving presents this holiday seasonâ. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for
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www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/december/on-the-picket-line
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Pete Paphides
15 days ago
A few loving words about Madness and one song in particular.
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âWith Madness that felt important because you know how desperately a certain sort of pink-faced, St. George's flag-waving Reformer would love to embrace them as one of their own.â | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/with-madness-you-145665947?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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Screaming Pectoriloquy
over 1 year ago
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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Rodney Ascher
16 days ago
Very enjoying finally reading THIS IS ORSON WELLES
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Aric Toler
25 days ago
Alasdair kept digging and identified most of the photographs at the ending that are shown in montage before the ballroom photo is zoomed in on. Turns out that Ronald Regan is in multiple photos.
www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKub...
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Laura in excelsis đâïž
16 days ago
'i asked chatgpt' yeah well i looked it up on gallica and found a ton of 18th-century french dudes with long-ass names who'd written satires about it
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Nate O
16 days ago
The Spectator has done everything in its power to harm Jews, Muslims, Black and brown people and defend its fascists friends from criticismâitâs a perpetual hate machine. Therefore, naturally, every year the London elite attend its summer garden party to be photographed and do cocaine
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