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Sean Stanley

@johnyofunny.bsky.social
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Born at 317ppm CO2. Environmentalist,Rejoiner, Skeptic, Humanist, 1st Dan Karateka, Science & critical thinking is our way out of this mess. Legally Irish. Trying to learn German (it’s not easy for me!) Just started trail running

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1h
This is demented. Disqualifyingly bad
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2h
People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3h
Trump, Musk, Weidel, Le Pen: These are collaborator-populists who triumph at the ballot box and yet would sell their country to a Russian despot iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...
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These are the men and women who betrayed Ukraine
Some of them are fascist collaborators. Some of them are self-interested Machiavellians. Some are merely cowards. All of them have blood on their hands.
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Sean Stanley @johnyofunny.bsky.social · 3h
Trump trying to help Putin once again
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 4h
So Reform UK LTD are spending some of their cryptocurrency donations by sending out 15 million 8 page flyers to homes if you want them or not. It would be a shame if people who didn’t want them send them back making them pay for the postage?👌👌👌
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Sean Stanley @johnyofunny.bsky.social · 3h
Worth reading Spike Milligan’s war books lots of swearing in them
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Sean Stanley @johnyofunny.bsky.social · 3h
Wouldn’t they be too young to fight in WW2. My dad was born in 1931 and was in the British army in the 1960’s to 1980’s had a rough childhood but no criminal activity and still doesn’t swear but a lot of his fellow soldiers did
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h
“Trump and Musk continue to shoot themselves in the foot at every turn.”
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Who Betrayed Ukraine?
Musk? Trump? Or both?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h
Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen: “If Russia wanted peace, they could simply stop. “They are the ones attacking. Nobody else is attacking in Europe right now except Russia.”
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h
FAFO, Elon
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 5h
🚨🚨 I am so utterly happy and bloody satisfied that #Ukraine has resumed their strikes on #Russian oil refineries. Apologies for language bu go f🤬🤬 yourself #trump and #putin and to hell with your energy deal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Trump calls Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries a ‘disgrace’
US president describes Zelenskyy as ‘more difficult ​to deal with ​than Putin’ after so-called energy ceasefire collapses
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 19h
So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28
Daily Mail Front Page headline:

4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade. 

Monk debunks Stamp over the headlne
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7h
An estimated 97% of households use the BBC's services each week. "Many, however, take the BBC for granted – until they’re deprived of it. A study in 2022 found that after nine days without it, 70% of those who’d said it was poor value changed their minds."
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What’s behind the BBC’s funding crisis? An expert explains
It means more programmes will face the axe as cost-cutting continues.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 6h
Superb analysis of AI prose: how it works and how it feels silentroom.media/the-craft/br...
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AI Has Finally Learned to Write Perfectly. That's the Worst Thing That Could Have Happened.
"Slop" went into Merriam-Webster in under two years; "spam" took fifteen. A history of the word, the ten tells that give machine prose away, and why the detector is always chasing a moving target.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7h
They know this is beyond the pale otherwise they'd be bragging about it on Twitter and Fox & Friends.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18h
Poll reveals that 50% of young Britons would never fight for UK under any circumstances. Cue meltdown on talk radio stations and X. Well at least that's down on the 60% who said the exact same in an Oxford Union debate in 1933. Because... guess what kids... people don't want to fight in wars.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23h
⚡️Europe shuts US out of Russian assets conversation "These are frozen Russian assets held in Europe, belonging to Russians who are destroying Ukraine and killing people there every day.. the idea of releasing these assets is completely out of the question," said Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.
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Europe shuts US out of Russian assets conversation
"These are frozen Russian assets held in Europe, belonging to Russians who are destroying Ukraine and killing people there every day... the idea of releasing these assets is completely out of the ques...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW Sally Rooney and Faber are not overreacting in withdrawing books from the UK market Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Faber withdrawing Sally Rooney's books from the UK is no overreaction
Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Is there a primal scream emoji?
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/10/2026
It's the Year of our Lord 2026 and people are still talking about "Not Poking the Bear" when it comes to Putin and the far right. I hate this idiom more than words can express, but I thought I'd write some words to express it anyway.
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‘Poking the Bear’: From Putin to Tommo
Rejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
‘We don’t have the money for that’ says the former Chancellor who cut NI twice when we couldn’t afford it for purely political reasons.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ukrainian civilians are dying every day while Trump allies with Russia and paints Zelenskyy as the villain. There is blood on Trump’s and Musk’s hands as they pander to a brutally imperialist dictator and enable genocidal violence against Ukraine. They are complicit in Putin’s aims.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🚨🚨A logical but despicable extension of the #Putin-Trump deal energy to further pressure #Ukraine to give up their fight for #independence and protect their #sovereignty against the #Russian illegitimate invasion: www.ft.com/content/5435...
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US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks
European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump’s negotiators during meeting in Miami
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Terrorism law is a special body of law which should be taken seriously. The UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action discredits terrorism law.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14/10/2026
if only there was one weird trick for the eu to whip elon musk into shape. too bad he doesn't own several international corporations that rely on european sales to stay afloat
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alaintwigger.bsky.social @alaintwigger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remember when the US was lecturing the world about not using Chinese telecoms equipment because they would do the bidding of the CCP. Now Putin tells Trump to tell Musk what to do.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fedorov says Starlink’s in-motion speed limit has been restored to 160 km/h, and he is working to remove the restriction entirely. It was “restored” because the limit had dropped to 70-80 km/h during the day.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Today's lesson for Europe: if your national security relies on US oligarchs' tech, they'll cut you off when you most need it.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zelensky speaking the truth. The US is now a Russian ally, and the Starlink decision is a massive benefit for the Russian military (and it has nothing to do with Ukraine attacking Russian refineries). The US is literally riding to Putin’s rescue.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No one in 2026 should be buying *anything* from Elon Musk.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/10/2026
It's already been said many times that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, was turning its back on Ukraine. But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively helping Russia win the war.
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Editorial: Donald Trump is helping Russia win the war
It's already been said many times that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, was turning its back on Ukraine. But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively help...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remake Ladyhawke but instead of her turning into a hawk and him into a wolf they each turn into different random animals each time.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is a mad situation, which is presumably the point Rooney is making www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Imagine working for Starlink in TX, CA & WA, going home to your own family at night knowing the product Musk sold to Ukraine for battlefield Wifi use is now being turned off so Putin can murder children in Kyiv. There must be some kinda ‘paper trail’ in your offices. Leak it now.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
French Far Right Rassemblement National leader and Putin puppet Marine Le Pen told the FT she would end French financial aid to Ukraine within six months of becoming president, oppose Ukraine’s EU membership and reconsider EU sanctions on Russia.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/10/2026
Yesterday, the head of MI5 warned that far-right, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim extremists are becoming increasingly likely to consider carrying out terror attacks. This should worry us all. 🧵
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Race hatred still rife on X and Ofcom risks being 'played' by the platform - @britishfuture.bsky.social response to today's Ofcom update: www.britishfuture.org/race-hate-on...
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He concludes it had “little impact” - but how does he know? The vote was so close that just a marginal impact on a small number of voters could have been decisive. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Russia did try to interfere in Brexit referendum, head of MI5 confirms
Ken McCallum says Kremlin attempted to influence vote through social media and TV reports but had little impact
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/10/2026
I told you that’s next.
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I confirm that tonight SpaceX introduced a speed restriction on Starlink terminals while in motion.
At present, the restriction applies to the Star Shield
"military package" and is set at 100 miles per hour.
Our Defense Forces received no prior warning about this limitation, which resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.
Obviously, this cannot be a coincidence and is connected to the current political situation.
(Quoting Zelensky's miltech advisor)
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/10/2026
⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Sean Stanley @johnyofunny.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Good for you :)
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I really dont think we talk about this week enough. This week marked THE critical change in Ukraine war: Trump & USA support for Putin has largely been "by ommision" up to now. This week marked the tipping point when the USA moved to *actively* backing Russia in its war. This is now a new era.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Your daily reminder that nobody has done a comprehensive assessment of the impact of Russian meddling in Brexit. McCallum is expressing an opinion, not the product of an MI5 investigation.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I was on the telly.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump is now openly advocating for Russia
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This guy is not really qualified to assess whether the Brexit vote was swayed or not. He should point out that that is outside his expertise and is a social scientific not a security question. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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MI5 chief Ken McCallum confirms Russia did interfere in Brexit referendum but says it had little impact – UK politics live
He argued there was no evidence to suggest the result of the Brexit vote had been swayed as a result of the effort
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/10/2026
Naomi Smith on Russian interference in our democracy. 🚨 "So we don't need to question whether or not there is Russian interference in our democracy. There palpably is."
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