I'm not even joking when I say that we're so used to this in British drama that it codes to us as Deeply Serious And Formal.

You know these things keep a record of exactly how long you were in them for, though, right?

lady wearing a shirt that has been badly edited to say "I joined BlueSky and all I got was blocked by the technical advisor who tried to cool his phone off in a pool and also this jpeg of a t-shirt"

Nearly guffawed in a Teams meeting you fiend

Sounds like the host of an animated potty-training video

I'm sorry but who could take being interrogated by "Mr Crapo" seriously

'Muttley, Incorporated pens £150bn deal to run fully-automated private prison on the Isle of Man'

If elected I will bring in legislation forcing tech companies named after Tolkien villains to instead name themselves after Hanna-Barbera cartoon villains. See how many governments fancy signing a big contract with DickDastardly or OfficerDibble.

Dark Towers theme tune (1980) YouTube video by Screen Clips

HAWAY SPUGGY MAN.

I see your Geordie Racer and raise you: youtu.be/OGlQ0SbGD7I?...

"seems poorly disposed for productive conversations" sir this is a social media website

if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

Fortunately this 3rd party one that predates Bsky's own version does exactly the same thing bsky.app/profile/did:...

I am far from a fan of Kemi Badenoch but I do admire her single-handed attempt to bring the word "chuntering" back into regular use.

But Chewbacca, if you're back here, who's driving this thing?

Surprised to learn I have only blocked 225 accounts. That's way fewer than on Threads.

So turns out blocklists I am on include both "AI Haters" and "'Ironic' AI Users". Make your minds up, haters.

Fair enough, I've blocked enough people on sight in the other direction tbf. Although granted I don't work for the platform

Not in South America though, are they. Bit of a clanger from the BBC that, see they've changed it now.

@why.bsky.team, whoever that is. User Blocking You.

New fun game c/o @soapachu.bsky.social - why not check whether @why.bsky.team has you blocked? They're some kind of technical bigwig for the platform, apparently. Bonus point if, like me, you have never had any kind of interaction with them and are only just now learning they exist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My ability to stand up from a chair without making a sort of grunting sigh

"Actually could you not blow us up just now, we're kind of in the middle of something"
"Sure, no worries, whenever's good for you"

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

Probably Doug Ramsey. Like, OG pre-Krakoa, pre-Revelation Doug Ramsey. Whose mutation was to be really clever in one very specific and not particularly useful way, yet who somehow managed to land a spot on an X-team just because his more conventionally superpowered friends liked having him around.

"Did you know that the politician was friends with a nonce when you appointed him?" is not a question that should ever be answered with "which one"

found my new favorite wikipedia picture on an article

It'd be like me putting out a novel that relied on readers being familiar with a news story I wrote for the Goole Courier 20 years ago

Just do a cold open, Joe, ffs

I mean... this doesn't sound like good storytelling, Joe

And he would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling kids

I cannot tell you who to vote for in next month’s elections, but I can tell you that I have just received a leaflet from a national political party which was immediately used to scrape up a dog shit I found on the upstairs landing.

God I love Sauron. How he thinks it's very important everyone knows that he chose his name because he is EVIL and CULTURED and not just because HE'S A DINOSAUR MAN