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Temuescent Thursday

THIS WEEK: Inflatabooble fun

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Lucy Sweet
Apr 02, 2026
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In these turbulent times, I often feel adrift, floating like a foil birthday balloon towards a 400,000-volt pylon.

And if you look at Temu, that feeling only increases, especially when you see a volleyball shaped like a tit, or a T-Rex costume deliberately photographed from the back so that it looks like a wizened carrot / an old man’s knob.

Yes, this week’s theme is hot air, and I don’t mean a cat with human hands blow drying a rooster. I mean bouncy, non-biodegradable inflatables designed to make life a hell of a lot weirder. Because why would we need anything to make sense anymore? Instead, we should just let AI do its worst while we do this:

Sounds like a plan to me!

Okay, let’s blow this place up…

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