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Terry Stiastny

@terrystiastny.bsky.social
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Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out now from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/beli…

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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My entire feed is just withnailintherain.gif
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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @terrystiastny.bsky.social and Ben Kelly of @newsweek.com on Burnham's hopes of bringing back hope and the day's other stuff, plus @feap.bsky.social on Brazil's election, and more. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
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The politics of ‘Hope Again’: is optimism back or are voters exhausted by crises?
As Andy Burnham gives his first Labour conference speech as UK leader, will his politics of hope strike a chord...
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you call the emergency terrorist hotline but it's after 5pm. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MB...
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The Carlsberg complaints department 1988
YouTube video by UK ADS
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wraps up copy of Believable Lies, puts it in the post to Downing Street:
BBC News story about Andy Burnham’s GA speech announcing national centre against disinformation.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can’t have another quiz to do, there aren’t enough hours in the day! #Politicle: 21/09/2026 I identified the mystery MP after just the starting clues! 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Can you match my score? politics.co.uk/politicle
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Guess the MP! Politicle - Politics.co.uk
Can you guess today's mystery MP? The game for Political obsessives. From Politics.co.uk. New Politicle Puzzle Every Day.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Worth it for Simon Russell Beale’s version of Churchill’s French alone!
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone know what the very loud, low-flying plane that just came over north London was? And why?! Thought it was going to land in the garden.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feels like the right sort of day to be going to watch the De Gaulle film #dontpanic
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Same as it ever was.
Spotify tells me it’s a 60s femme fatale Friday afternoon. It’s just trying to get on my good side.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh hey thanks #slowhorses for giving me yet another bit of the neighbourhood to be scared of.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Clashing with #totp, what are they thinking?
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hate it when you recognise the filming location and it’s not where it’s supposed to be…
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The song is almost as bad as the cardigan #totp
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Realising that I still basically have a year 2000 haircut, is that bad? #totp
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer standing down as an MP: www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...
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Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer to step down as MP for Holborn and St Pancras
MP thanks local Labour supporters and says he is proud of what he delivered in 11 years in the House of Commons
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well, that’s another evening of songs to annoy the youngsters lined up. m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1l7...
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Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate
YouTube video by Tbrands88
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Introducing Son #2 to Citizen Kane 🤐
The famous Peanuts spoiler where Lucy reveals what Rosebud is.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What do you mean that funfair poster is AI generated?
AI slop funfair poster advertising such rides as Super Sciin and Ton Cout
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Me: it’s James Graham meets Vargas Llosa Everyone else: what the what now?
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This morning’s pointless rabbit-hole: wondering if there’s enough material for a James-Grahamesque story about ‘tired and emotional’ George Brown, Eli Wallach and the JFK assassination. Answer: no, not really.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is the best French word ever:
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Severe alert warning went off on the phones so loud I nearly dropped my lit cigarette* *joke
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can’t remember where I was for the last eclipse, but do remember where I was a week later when there was a massive earthquake. Not to worry you.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Times Radio Outdoor Eclipse Extravaganza with Calum & Friends.
Making sure not to look at the eclipse after an hour of live radio on the News UK terrace
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh look oh look it’s started! #eclipse
A pub sign with a new moon. A feeble joke, not in fact the eclipse.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I spy Slow Horses
The exterior of ‘Roddy Ho’s flat’ with lots of film vehicles.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ok never usually anywhere near this good: www.maptap.gg August 6 99🎯 99🎯 100🎯 99🎯 99🎯 Final score: 992
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Where do we stand on people playing their guitar on the bus? Not busking, just for their own amusement. Wondering if I’m feeling irrationally hostile.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Play Club Tropicana you cowards!
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
But you were up to your old tricks in chapters 4,5 and 6…#totp
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good lord, how could there have been so many unacknowledged shenanigans, we discuss, while watching 1970s TOTP…
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
‘The Andrew Lloyd Webber of rap.’ Bet Jay-Z was delighted. #totp
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Doing a much-overdue wardrobe clearout and found a dress that’s been in its dry-cleaner’s plastic wrap since, the receipt says, 2011.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Scratch’n’sniff romance books are apparently a thing. Who knew? Not me, anyway. This one smells of pistachio tiramisu.
A romance by Emily Collins called ‘In My Pistachio Era’. Though the text is French. It has a scratch and sniff cover that apparently smells of pistachio tiramisu. Not one for me on so many levels.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
TF1 are not remotely interested in the new British PM, it seems.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Dudamel and the Muppets sing Oh Jeremy Corbyn. My brain is broken.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pause fraicheur!
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Advantage of having lyrics: a lady dresses up as your flag.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gotta love French summer news. ‘It’s July. People are going on holiday. More as we get it.’
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
‘Very silly person’ in a Graham Chapman voice.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Looking forward to my new career as a cruet influencer.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Shouting ‘Chancellors’ at the TV. #onlyconnect I have missed you.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Quizzy Monday is back on BBC Two.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Is ‘Reilly, Ace of Spies’ on streaming anywhere? I’d love to watch it.
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I thought it was tricky boarding the bus with two bags and a dog. But someone else on the bus has a KAYAK!
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Been doing this for far too long today so good night! xkcd.com/386
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Duty Calls
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Those were some weird spectacles #FRAMAR
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
As I thought, political parties can’t pay for elections. Local government dept says: ‘To maintain the independence and impartiality of the electoral process, the law is clear that the cost of running elections must be met from public funds, and not by candidates or political parties.’ 1/2
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Election experts eg @timbale.bsky.social @aliceolilly.bsky.social am I right to think a political party can’t pay for an election for obvious reasons? Have been in a studio for nearly 2 hours so can’t make calls!
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Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Nicked this album from college friend who left it in my car. Sorry not sorry #totp
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