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Stephen

@expatsais.bsky.social
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Musician, thinker, therapist, fella, conveyor (and consumer) of knowledge. Curious, intellectual, practical. English-born, now living in Wales. Слава Україні!

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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We forgive you.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The thing is, it's a LOT less dangerous than smoking, at least in the immediate term. Sometimes, "harm reduction" really is the best way, though the ultimate best way is "don't start in the first place". But then...when I was 16 year old, I don't think I'd have listened too hard.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yes, that bit really bothers me. I do wonder if we do nearly enough - beyond "just say no" - to inform kids about what embarking on what's really a rather pernicious addiction means for them. Talking to younger people of my acquaintance, there's a real ignorance about it.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
To be fair, I managed to successfully stop smoking via a vape, after many unsuccessful attempts to quit using the "conventional" approach. Sure, now I have to work on the nicotine addiction, but as a harm reduction strategy, it's worked very well for me, and I am already feeling the benefit.
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
@69thsb.bsky.social NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade @69thSB #Trump: You don’t have the cards ♣️♥️♠️ #Zelenskyy: I’m playing chess ♟️
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Roger 🇦🇺 @rramjet.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Yet another example of how utterly bereft of morality the IOC is when it comes to decisions involving aggression and acts of war crimes by one nation against another. It is solely focussed on ensuring its own grandiose existence and financial gains.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
At least, what with his hands being so small, it doesn't take much makeup.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
How is it that sport so often considers itself above international norms? First judo, now this, and these are just the latest in a long list. Does sport recognise a kindred spirit in Putin's corrupt oligarchy?
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Valve grinding compound is better.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
So you're correlating the colour of someone's skin with "risk"? That's pretty much textbook racism, right there.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Well, that'd be a first!
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Ah, the "find out" stage.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
If Steve Witkoff had worked for Truman we would have dropped the bombs on ourselves and unconditionally surrendered to Japan
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Cress 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌻 @lexicaleigh.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025
FFS, you couldn't make it up.
Two news article headlines, one saying the UK police have launched criminal investigations into 2 bands at Glastonbury for criticism of the Israeli government's actions in Gaza, while the other states that another Israeli strike kills at least 20 Palestinians at a seafront cafe. The juxtaposition is surreal.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A lot (most?) of the cruise missiles fired at Ukraine are launched from these bombers, which fly close enough to Ukraine's borders, and fire them off.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Being urgently briefed.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
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Pick a side – hate or Pride
June is Pride month. So our social feeds will be awash with corporate rainbow logos performatively signalling their support for the LGBTQ+ community. But some of the same companies celebrating Pride a...
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✙ Kullervo ✙ @kullervo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#NAFO edition 😅
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MaxMarten @maxmarten.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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An Irredeemable Heretic outlawed by donOld drumpft @furfaced1.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/03/2025
Several people popped into this thread to chastise me for using the word "fuck" so many times in one post, and I was all, "oh, honey, that's my actual brand" in my brain before I blocked them so they never have to see my filthy filthy posts on Bluesky ever again
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MyCabbages!! @mycabbagesoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
they are so cute when get a little hormonal
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sport seems to be incapable of recognising corruption, even when it's walked into their home and started jumping up and down on the furniture.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sshhhh, it's a NAFO Infiltration Op
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Not gunna happen. They haven't found the sex tunnels yet, nor will they ever.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/02/2025
Yes. You want to support musicians? BUY their work. Buy their merchandise. They need money to live! Streaming gives them almost no money! Musicians make more awesome music for you when they aren't literally starving!
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
And come and watch us when we play nearby to you!
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Yup. Mind you, it's a troll with only a tiny reach. But getting tinier with every block.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It's Hitler and Slovakia all over again, isn't it. And appeasement. Let's hope the lessons of history aren't forgotten this time.
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🇪🇺🇳🇱Fella_Javi🇺🇦🇪🇺 @fellajavi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
That's because the deniable funding isn't shown. For obvious reasons... 😳
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Mercator projections distort more the further away from the equator you get. Given that Trump's tiny dick is ON the Trump equator, it really is that small. It'd look much bigger if it were at, say, the latitude of his head 🤔
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
They're basing that on the publicly available funding info, not the deniable slush funds which form the bulk of our financing. It's been like that since the beginning, but these fools still think they've just discovered something amazing.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Keep the faith. Be the change you want to see. The seesaw is slowly tipping toward places like Bluesky, and away from the Xitter cesspit, and every little helps.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
What I hope is that they're feeling VERY relieved at being taken out of the fight, although that does look like a scary ride. It's really important that Ukraine continues to treat its prisoners with respect and kindness, unlike how they will have experienced life in the Russian armed forces.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I take it that the beard is to hide the chinlessness?
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Even worse than that, some people take "I do it THIS way" as a frank criticism of how they do it. Defensiveness writ large.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Heh, you're funny.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Oooooh, a little snowflake! ❄️
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ah, your mother has let you use the computer unsupervised again...
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Knobber.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
That's not how it works in Trumpland. Loyalty is a one-way commodity, there.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It's...interesting how often"working class" interests get by people like this with what turn out to be Russian interests, despite their protestations. Definitely has the whiff of useful idiocy about it.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Both can be done.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The man looks like a spoiled hamster.
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Stephen @expatsais.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
At a conference.
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