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@markbrophy.bsky.social
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On a darkling plain. Movies, music, politics, tech, football, photos, outdoors. Pfp: me wearing a giant crown with an arrogant expression. Banner: a still from the 80s arcade game, Battle Zone.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 24m
This is the Brexiteers' last throw of the dice: it is obvious now, even to them, that the whole thing has been a disaster in everything except the prime reason, "I hate foreigners". So the last move in the game is to make it be someone else's fault.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Historical figures didn't appear on UK banknotes until 1970 (Shakespeare). Churchill didn't appear until 2016 and he was only the 2nd former prime minister or wartime leader, after Wellington. The vast majority have been from the Arts, or scientists.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are only 2 kinds of people: those who've worked in customer service, and those who haven't
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 07/10/2026
folklore fans may find this fascinating www.youtube.com/watch?v=74XL...
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1972: Seamus Heaney and the ancient gods | BBC Northern Ireland Archive
YouTube video by BBC Northern Ireland
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh baby we are having a good day today "Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN." www.espn.com/soccer/story...
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Cristiano Ronaldo won't return to Portugal team while Jesus remains coach - sources
Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has issued an ultimatum, saying he will not return to the national team while Jorge Jesus is the coach, sources have told ESPN.
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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm not sure the people who got this wrong 2008-2020 should have any say either. A bit like Gareth Southgate offering his take on why England couldn't hold onto that 1-0 lead against Argentina
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can’t really take a political mainstream that insists the Greens be shunned but Reform and the Tories be treated as legitimate seriously.
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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s like a less homespun version of the Dad’s Army title sequence. Who do they think they are kidding…?
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There should be guide lines preventing the BBC from employing these people
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I bought a badge like this years ago at a Mark Thomas show, just after the Jean Charles de Menezes killing
A London Underground logo with the words "Don't Shoot"
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what gaining influence through buying football clubs looks like
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Zee Zom @fnafilms.com · 30/09/2026
I can’t imagine AI coming up with Dark Side of the Moon or Seven Nation Army or even The Birdie Song. More bollocks from the Silicon Valley Virgins.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My concept of personalized music is Sound and Vision followed by Same Old Scene followed by Thinking of You followed by Ghost Town and I don't think that's what they're offering
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi w Peas Pilau and 2 chapattis Recommend
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mid wife crisis actor @ballistari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the shortest suicide note in history. fascinating stuff
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That settles it, definitely a bad idea
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees
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STC @blobbystc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big fan of generous state pensions tbh
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STC @blobbystc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Getting rid of the triple lock is bad, actually
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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 28/09/2026
I get being all “ha ha, eat shit boomers!” but fucking with pensions won’t hurt them, they’ll be long gone, it’s just going to hurt you
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes Nigel, you're missing something
A post on X by Nigel Farage:
How is it that Danny Tommo sits in a cell while five suspected terrorists are out on bail?

Is this two-tier Britain, or am I missing something?
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would love to see the transcript of the meeting where the CIA updated POTUS on some thieves about to steal a few barrels of diesel fuel
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Hauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The real terrorists are inside the base, Wesley.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Streeting saying the informant only had a partial picture of events... Was he saying authorities knew they weren't terrorists? Cos it sounded like the opposite www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK security forces were aware of RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot, hints defence secretary
Wes Streeting indicates farmer who alerted police and said security forces had ‘dropped the ball’ only ‘had a partial picture’
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For some reason my internal narrator for this was Margaret Hodge
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some days I think "you can't block them all"
Two posts from different bots exactly alike down to the number of exclamation marks
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DISCLAIMER: other places than America also exist
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So it is, in fact, in the manifesto.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was watching the reboot of Avengers Endgame last night and if the Labour party could get hold of the infinity stones they'd go back in time, eradicate the left from history then destroy the stones
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just got a system update for my phone which included a Harry Potter theme pack and I had better be able to turn it off
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I fell asleep during an interview once, don't ask me about the etiquette
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If all Netanyahu launches against you is a furious tirade then you should count yourself lucky
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would’ve accepted it happily if Sir Keir’s boys had saved the world, and I feel the same about Burnham’s very similar, overlapping bunch of lads. Like, I will not pretend I’ll ever like them, but I am ready for them to save us any time they want. In your own time, folks
One of the real problems with "The Left" from the centre to the fringe is the fixation that it is more important that | save the world than the world gets saved
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 23/09/2026
Monstrous. Gene Wilder was a human being and an actor (not a comedian as Mashable seems to think). This sort of shit isn't him "living on", because actors are constantly making choices. It's an insult to the man's craft to think all that matters is a crude recreation of his voice.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A teacher who was retiring gave a tear jerking speech about how he'd always remember our faces. My friends were outraged when I, a weird 11yo movie geek pointed out he'd nicked the speech word for word from Goodbye Mr Chips.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Any nation thinking of backing US military operations should be aware this is what they're signing up for. Or maybe we always have.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’ve lived through the nearly complete systematic unwinding of the postwar public university, which for all its faults, was premised on the idea that not only aristocrats could be intellectuals, & that having non-aristocratic intellectuals was better for knowledge & therefore better for everyone
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sacrifice yourself so my priorities get addressed is an unsurprisingly ineffective message to those on the chopping block
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Sock Council @sockcouncil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sunderland played Alkmaar the other night in their first European game in 53 years. A diverse team of immigrants mainly. As that happened, Sudnerland's Reform led City Council voted to withdraw support for @srtrcengland.bsky.social A councillor has called them "anti-reform". What a disgrace.
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Sarah Brand @drsarahbrand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We held a village referendum
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington isn't a viable small nation imo
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jack Douglas in "Carry On Girls"
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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If they vote for it turn off the power and the water
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