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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 5h

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

That's it, isn't it? Harking back to "better times".

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He makes out like Churchill on the banknotes is some eternal solemn unbroken tradition and it just isn't. I've got a kid in primary school who's older.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And I'd say that's a more positive representation of our culture, identity and history than anything Goodwin is likely to come up with. (As are woodland creatures to be fair)

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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

My worst performance was when I turned up to after school club to pick up the kids and the person came out and told me my kids weren't there.

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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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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah that's pretty much my situation too

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good point, no. Most of the high profile failures have been in the public sector but undoubtedly it happens all over.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think a lot of the issues with large scale public sector IT projects is similarly that they are proposed on the basis that the technology will improve outcomes rather than using the tech to improve processes. So you end up with high tech systems mirroring pre-existing process inefficiencies.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Gentlemen, you can't promote mild social democracy in here- This is the Labour Party!"

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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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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought of Trump too - neither has ever had anyone say no to them.

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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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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are a lot of people like that who just do not want ex-forces people prosecuted no matter what, as if it would be ungrateful after the service they've given or something. And mainstream politicians appear to agree with that so I share your concern.

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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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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And I'm really pleased I saw them

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah I'm trying because I feel like I'm missing out. It's a genre I've just ignored before. So recently I went to see Backrooms and Obsession. Pretty mainstream, not slashers or anything. Backrooms I found a difficult watch, but in the same way I find Alien or Jaws a difficult watch. So that's fine.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh I agree with what you're saying, totally. One of the horrors I watched, I appreciated it was a brilliant movie, well made, completely did what it meant to, I just found it unbearable to watch. And that's on me obviously.

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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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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And yet although the Cunningham family find every day a happy day, they're still waiting all week for Saturday. Why?

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've always hated scary stuff ever since though. I watched 2 "horror" movies this year for the first time and I was so proud of myself

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Sea Devils scared the shit out of me in 1972 and I don't think I've ever quite got over it.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The point this person is making is just tactics. You tried this before and got stomped on, so don't do it this time. Not taking into account that anyone trying to do anything remotely progressive will get stomped. The implication being, just don't. Which doesn't seem like much of a plan for change.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They're not even bothering to make a new scandal , they're just saying these people are already discredited as a signifier they should be ignored (and very probably destroyed again)

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The report on the vote at the Greens conference I saw last night was on #skynews, and they made a clear link between the success of the motion and entryists from the left being the same people who'd made Corbyn's Labour so unpalatable on the same subject

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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

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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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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of us remember even if he doesn't

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was 12 in 1980 and remember both decades. I don't remember rubbish piling up everywhere, or dead bodies lying about unburied in the 70s. But the North in the 80s was like living in occupied territory. Awful, cruel things being done to you by people you had no influence over

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What they mean by unaccountable trade union power is the kind that couldn't be crushed and ignored at will. So people like this guy hated it, because ordinary people had a route to get what they wanted, they had to be negotiated with instead of dictated to.

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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 · 01/10/2026

I turned my kids against Harry Potter by pointing out the unfairness of Dumbledore's house points system, Labour could fall the same way

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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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