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Man in Cardiff. I can’t tell you who I work for because they wouldn’t approve. And most likely, nor would you. 🌐 markturner.info 💬 DM via signal: markturner.42

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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 20/09/2026
Holy shit! Never knew he was such a shameless plagiarist.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 16/09/2026
You love to see it
theguardian.com
All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 29/08/2026
Is this the first tangible action of the @plaidcymru.bsky.social government? Throwing trans patients under the bus because a Tory read a gender critical blog post? Really not a great look guys.
wearequeeraf.com
NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 28/08/2026
Well well, in a shocking twist, it’s the right who live in an echo chamber. Fancy that!
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 26/08/2026
Well that didn’t last long. Just more of the same.
theguardian.com
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 15/08/2026
This is astonishing. They hounded this man to his death, for the crime of embellishing his CV.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“You don’t have the cards”
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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/08/2026
Fondly remembering my last total solar eclipse back in 2015 at the BBC Analytics Team, where @markturner.info saved our eyes by making a pinhole viewer out of a paper plate.
A pinhole in a paper plate held aloft in the sunlight.The image of the moon eclipsing the sun via a shadow through a pinhole in a paper plate on a wall.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 26/07/2026
Wondered what was inside the fake books they have in Ikea, fair to say you can’t judge this one by its cover!
The spine of a book that reads “Girls can score too!”The inside title of the actual book: “Social Militarisation and the Power of History”

Quite a read I’m sure!
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 15/07/2026
In other news, was there really nowhere nearer brown onions could be sourced from?
A label reading:

Brown Onions x3
ORIGIN
New Zealand
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 15/07/2026
Well you fucked that, Thomas
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 23/06/2026
Anyone still defending them at this point needs to take a look at themselves. Stronger sanctions from UK necessary now Starmer is going.
theguardian.com
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 20/06/2026
Good riddance to Starmer, I’m now ready to be disappointed by another underwhelming dude.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 06/06/2026
Lots of fascinating insights in this: yougov.com/en-gb/articl... One that particularly caught my eye, ten years on from the Brexit referendum, the leave/remain split is as clear as it ever was (if not more!)
A screenshot from the linked article. It reads: 

How Wales voted at the 2026
Senedd election:
by 2016 EU referendum vote
If there were a Senedd (Welsh Parliament) election tomorrow, which party would you vote for? % of 2,391 Welsh adults aged 16+ who were likely to vote

Underneath is a graph showing a stark difference in Senedd election voting by leave/remain votes. For example, among remain voters 48% went for Plaid and 10% for reform, among leave voters 17% went for plaid and 53% to reform.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 21/05/2026
This is grotesque.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 18/05/2026
Oh Wes, mate.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 11/05/2026
Great lunchtime watch today! Fascinating breakdown of the tricks they used to make this groundbreaking game (didn’t enjoy hearing it came out 25 years ago though!)
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 11/05/2026
I missed Starmer’s speech but I assume this big misunderstanding has all been straightened out now?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 10/05/2026
Lots of chat about the results but my overriding impression is this is a pretty much total failure of a so-called proportional system. A fully proportional result would be: Plaid - 34 (-9) Reform - 28 (-5) Labour - 11 (+2) Conservative - 10 (+3) Green - 6 (+4) Lib Dem - 4 (+3) Others - 2 (+2)
2026 Senedd election results

Party
Votes
%
Seats
Plaid Cymru
444,665
35.41
43
Reform UK
367,985
29.30
34
Labour
139,203
11.08
9
Conservative
134,926
10.74
7
Green Party
84,608
6.74
2
Liberal Democrats
56,012
4.46
1
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 07/05/2026
Would love to know what this guy’s story is. Just look at that list of parties! And not one of them would have him this time. Heartbreaking.
whocanivotefor.co.uk
Lawrence Douglas Gwynn for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf in the Senedd Cymru elections
Lawrence Douglas Gwynn is an independent candidate in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf in the Senedd Cymru elections.Get the latest information on this candidate at Who Can I Vote For?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 07/05/2026
Holy moly, Amazon has a lot to answer for! This did introduce me to the hilarious Cerveza Cristal Star Wars ads (further down the thread) though so thanks I guess
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 12/04/2026
Go Hungary!
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 24/03/2026
Thought he’d been quiet since Sea Change
A bbc news headline reading:
“Beck named as Wales Six Nations attack coach”
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 17/03/2026
Apart from the anger management issues, can a man who repeatedly demonstrates his failure to learn about flight mode or any other way to mitigate something that keeps irritating him, be trusted with… well, anything?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 14/03/2026
I just want to know who reached out to whom to make this happen
youtu.be
CMAT - The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station (Official Video)
YouTube video by CMAT
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 13/03/2026
Jesus Christ, this reads like dystopian sci-fi. I know I shouldn’t be shocked by anything anymore, but I am.
theguardian.com
Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war
Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 01/03/2026
Insightful piece which gets to the heart of (one reason) why voters have lost trust in the Labour Party, and why Starmer himself seems so variable. For me environmental responsibility is non-negotiable and any wavering on that is fatal.
theguardian.com
Keir Starmer abandoned net zero to court Reform voters. He failed
After byelection defeat and with right-leaning advisers gone, will PM return to his instincts and embrace Labour ‘DNA’ on climate?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Not even hiding the belief that there are Real Voters (white, male, perhaps working class when politically convenient) and Fake Voters (graduates, Muslims, people in cities, anyone on the left regardless of class or ethnicity). A belief shared by many on the Labour right
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 28/02/2026
Even Russia managed to keep it in their pants for the duration of the tournament they were hosting. Screw FIFA, teams should pull out and just go and organise their own competition. If European and South American nations aren’t in the “real” World Cup, which one are people going to watch?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 27/02/2026
Good to see the media commentators finally catching up with my hot takes 😏
theguardian.com
Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform
Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 27/02/2026
Get in the bin
A picture of racist shyster Matt Goodwin looking sad and his phone. A statement from him reads:

"We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged.
We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election. Matt."

What a total pillock.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 27/02/2026
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 22/02/2026
“In this past fortnight he has competed in 10 races across 115km, in six different events, in the space of just 14 days, and won every single one of them.” Wtf! This guy needs to be dissected for science.
theguardian.com
Norway’s Klæbo seals historic sweep with record sixth gold of Winter Games
Johannes Høflot Klæbo completed a historic medal sweep of the men’s cross-country skiing events, winning a record sixth gold for a single Winter Games
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 17/02/2026
Five pancakes for dinner; part of a healthy, balanced diet. They had lemon on so that’s my five a day, right?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 29/01/2026
I had noticed this too. I have something in common with Adrian Chiles.
theguardian.com
Is the wayward apostrophe in WALE’S LARGEST VAPE SHOP a sign of the times? | Adrian Chiles
I’d been catching sight of a billboard displaying what I suspected to be some rogue punctuation every time I drove into Cardiff. This time, I had to stop and capture the evidence, writes Adrian Chiles
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 24/01/2026
What the actual fuck?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 15/01/2026
Reform filling up their party with the people who lost the last election in a landslide should be a dumb fucking idea but I have no faith in the British public to see through it. Prove me wrong?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 23/12/2025
Another masterstroke from the Starmer govt I see. Take all the blame for enacting a policy and then months later when it’s priced in, u-turn on it. Who do they think will give them credit for this? Is there a single demographic less likely to vote Labour than farmers?
gov.uk
Inheritance tax reliefs threshold to rise to £2.5m for farmers and businesses
£1m Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold increased to £2.5m from April 2026 – allowing spouses or civil partners to pass on up to £5m in qualifying agricultural or business assets betw...
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 21/12/2025
Top story on bbc 6 music news today (because why let us just enjoy the music) is about how 0.05% of the uk population arrived from across the channel this year, framed of course, as a disaster from which we’ll never recover.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism in the UK over the past year. How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard? news.sky.com/story/terror...
news.sky.com
Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after Palestine Action ban
Official figures show 1,630, or 86%, of the 1,886 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year to the end of September 2025 were linked to supporting the group.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 12/12/2025
I just found out about the Giorgio Moroder cut of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and I now know what I’m watching this weekend. It’s set in 2026! It’s a dystopia about corporate control of humanity! I’m expecting it to be unnervingly accurate. And to sound amazing 🤖
youtube.com
Metropolis (1927) [1984 Giorgio Moroder Version] [1080p]
YouTube video by The Cinema Cellar
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 10/12/2025
Fonts are woke now guys
theguardian.com
Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
A cable from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 08/12/2025
Surely only a matter of time before Nige himself is caught up in this?
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 05/12/2025
This is what gets you the FIFA peace prize btw, extrajudicial killings (and joking about it). Not a problem.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 05/12/2025
Is this the most downvoted post on the bbc sport website ever? 😆
17:30 GMT
Trump given Fifa Peace Prize
US President Donald Trump is awarded the first Fifa Peace Prize.

493 upvotes
11722 downvotes
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 05/12/2025
What an incredible shock that Trump is awarded the FIFA peace prize that was created purely to curry favour with Trump. And what a grotesque stain on the beautiful game.
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 04/12/2025
How are they going to fill all that air space?
An excerpt from a guardian article:

In response, Farage launched a tirade against the BBC and said he would no longer speak to the broadcaster, calling it "despicable" and "beyond belief".
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Mark Turner @markturner.info · 03/12/2025
Thanks!
A defeated Pokémon trainer apparently exclaiming: “You got 2 Great Balls!”

I’m sure no-one has ever made this joke before.
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