this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Your favourite disabled journalist who bangs on about tech, rabbits, gaming and his dead dad https://linktr.ee/ourdadsdied
@beefanddairy.bsky.social Literally subscribing in the hopes it’ll convince Ben to make more Kenny Baritone content asap This tweet is practically guaranteed to get no likes because it’s impossible to recommend this podcast, but if you’re reading this and wondering, my god is it worth the listen
Replace the goals and drop the footballers: how to fix Football
It’s that time of year again where I get a notification from my dead dad asking me to help out with something. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: whatever your problems are up there big man, I sincerely doubt I can assist
My partner sent me this updating me on how my rabbit Lola (not pictured) is getting on, along with a video of Brakes as he recovers from his surgery. Idk if I’ve just had pets for too long but my instinct was Brakes was updating me on Lola and calling me “squishy”, I assume his new pet name for me
The best part about this is the topline I went with is truly something stuck in my past because I hadn’t yet realised I was glutenintolerant lol If any of the big pizza chains want to develop the tech to make an actually nice gluten free pizza I can guarantee I’ll be there with a film crew
legacy, what is a legacy, it’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Mohamed Salah is destroying his legacy, says Wayne Rooney in latest podcast
Mohamed Salah is destroying his legacy and should not be involved in Liverpool's next two games before he goes off to the Africa Cup of Nations, says Wayne Rooney.
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Somebody to Love is *objectively* a significantly better song and if you have any opinions about this I would be very grateful if you told my pal Rich them
QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup RECAP, last night: After two recounts, Under Pressure beat Don’t Stop Me Now by a vote. BBC mates and music pals went Don’t Stop Me Now. Transformers fans edged Under Pressure, but BlueSky was the difference. Today: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST or SOMEBODY TO LOVE
QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup I Want To Break Free, a standard, slightly hum-drum tune where they dressed up for the video. Or: BICYCLE RACE, one of the greatest songs ever. Vote #IamBoring for I Want To Break Free, or #YEAH for Bicycle Race. That simple. Appease your circus-master.
a man in a top hat is blowing a trumpet with the words the greatest show on earth written below him
Alt: a woman in a top hat and fake moustache is blowing a trumpet with the words the greatest show on earth written below him
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The result we demanded
#QueenWorldCup The crowd are whistling... The ref blows! It is over, we have our first upset! A major contender has fallen! RADIO GA GA - 18 YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND - 19 With Another One Bites The Dust through already, we are definitely saying "Deacon's the new Harrison, pass it on" at QWC HQ.
You’re my best friend is objectively a better song, and I would implore you to demand my friend Rich respects this fact
QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Finally back to AM kick offs! RADIO GA GA YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND No time for an opening comment, VOTE (in reply, maybe with your reasoning).
Facebook coming at me with my dad asking me for help from beyond the grave lol Whatever your problems are up there big man, I seriously doubt I’m gonna be able to help
I am absolutely devastated about danya. He was my favourite streamer. I don’t know how to feel. This is just an awful, awful day. US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Daniel Naroditsky, US chess grandmaster, dies aged 29
The young prodigy's "unexpected passing" was announced by his family on Monday.
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Big fan of @twgerken.bsky.social answering the actually important questions in the BBC’s article on the Xbox ROG Ally, like how it runs Sonic Adventure 2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup On the one hand, as @twgerken.bsky.social points out, the video for I'm Going Slightly Mad really goes for it, with Mercury, months left to live, gets a banana wig: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6h...
Queen - I'm Going Slightly Mad (Official Video)
YouTube video by Queen Official
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QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Ironically, kick off is late for an all-early Queen encounter. Our first Freddie songs! Our first song off A Night At The Opera. Get pomped, it's... Love Of My Life vs Seven Seas Of Rhye Vote #LOML or #SSOR by 9pm!
a man in a leather jacket singing into a microphone with the letter s on his shirt
Alt: Freddie Mercury in the 1970s in a leather jacket singing into a microphone
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Me: finally parks and rec is on a streaming service in the UK!!! The streaming service:
Lola and Brakes exploring/scent marking their new house… they’ve already decided who gets the upstairs bunk lol
Man talk about something to bring you back down to earth after today’s wonder win www.bbc.com/news/article...
American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report
Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.
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Not being able to turn on the TV for screen time reasons has led to the need for alternative arrangements
DAY ONE PURCHASE PERSONA 4 REMAKE LETS GO youtu.be/Tcrb4s9ecd4?...
Persona 4 Revival — Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Official ATLUS West
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Thing is I’m a Steve McManaman purist, I liked him before his Digimon phase
Are you fed up with AI-generated action-figure starter packs? Plenty of illustrators are, and have taken up their pens. @twgerken.bsky.social asked me to drop in and work with the Tech desk by verifying some details. Then I got chatting to some creative types… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI dolls are taking over - but real artists are sick of them
Artists hit back on social media to warn artificial intelligence may be endangering their livelihoods.
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I just found the Nintendo magazine from 2005 that inspired me to go into journalism. 20 years later I’m on the BBC previewing Nintendo’s latest console the Switch 2. I literally had the cliche school teacher telling me it was a pipe dream back then because I’m disabled. Pipe dream this, Miss.