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Mark Stevenson

@mpstevenson.bsky.social
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Birmingham gay music nerd. Often getting under @geekmeetsworld.bsky.social’s feet.

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 21h
Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms
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Joe @archaeologyboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can tell Final Fantasy XVI is super high fantasy. Slavery, two-tier society, death of the middle class, for-profit wars, colonialist expansion, wealthy elites fighting wars for a power supply even though its use is killing the planet? Absolutely cannot relate to any of that.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gotta be honest, I’m a bit down right now
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Graham 🔜 TFN Swindon @thomsongraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎉 To celebrate six years of The TFUK Guide, I am giving away this brand-new Transformers Retro Optimus Prime! 🎉 To enter: - Follow this account - Share this post The winner will be randomly picked on 3 October 2026. Open worldwide. Good luck!
A photograph of a MISB Transformers Retro Optimus Prime toy
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There’s nothing quite like getting masters of your tracks back from your new label and they all sound like absolute fucking rippers.
A screenshot of a Dropbox folder containing six .wav files.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Listened to the new MNEK and Orville Peck records this morning. I am a Contemporary Homosexual.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m on a golf course for the day. I feel like a class traitor.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After booing him, the crowd breaks out in a loud, “Ted Cruz sucks!” chant.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In central Leeds, where I’m asking, “is he gay or just a student?” at least five times a minute.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hello Leeds. I am in you, that’s what the itch is.
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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 08/09/2026
Oil, on the other hand, has never caused this. 🤡
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Best boys birthday
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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
GODZILLA AND KONG ARE GONNA FUCK THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You know you’re at a proper punk gig when it’s in an outdoor courtyard and STILL all you can smell is B.O.
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Libby @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Had a little dabble in politics, fucked it up, then scarpers. He'll probably get a position with Tony Blair setting up data centres in Gaza www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer to stand down as MP
Former PM says it is right time to leave Commons, which will trigger byelection in Holborn and St Pancras
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Mike Seibert Radio Podcast @mikeseibertradio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Please take a minute and read this magnificent piece from Hooks on the passing of Peter Cullen. Thanks to @tfuinfo.bsky.social for sending my way Our Robot Dad by @jameshooks.bsky.social medium.com/p/our-robot-...
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Our Robot Dad
What Peter Cullen, best known for his role as Optimus Prime, meant to me.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Some balance being restored to the world, at least: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Ratko Mladic death: Former Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide dies aged 84
General was convicted of genocide
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lockerbie.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When you follow someone on instagram cos they’re pretty but then they post a reel of the film they’re watching on TV and you realise with horror that THEY’VE GOT THE MOTION SMOOTHING ON
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Grim Reaper in training: But I did what you asked for!!! Grim Reaper: NO, not DoLLy it's two N's!! Grim Reaper in training: Well I can't read your handwriting... give me more precise instructions! Grim Reaper: The person with a cameo in the 2nd Home Alone movie! Grim Reaper in training: Got it!
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Was gonna go to the gym but discovered I had packed two tops and no shorts. I am not a functional adult.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ten years ago I saw Kit Harington in Doctor Faustus. At the time, I thought he was poorly cast as a man who makes a deal with the devil.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
GRINDSET 1993
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Title:
GRINDSET 1993

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[The following is an Eddie Vedder-like GRUNGE ROCK GUY from 1993, but he’s doing a modern, grindsetty, LinkedIn-lunatic-style diary]

5am:
Sleep is for wimps - I get up at 4am and have a two hour session of Avoiding Selling Out.

[Show him sitting up in bed, staring intensely ahead and going HURRRR]

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9am:
I'm layering the moment the thrift store opens - ten minutes late is for losers.

[Show him putting plaid shirts over other shirts first thing in the morning in a charity shop]

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10am:
I'm *always on* - every interaction is a business opportunity.

[He's walking down the street and an OLD LADY approaches, gesturing to her little dog who is poking its head out of a roadside ditch]

OLD LADY: 
Excuse me - 

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OLD LADY: 
Please can you help me pull my dog out of this ditch?

[Grunge guy looks out camera - he’s had an idea]

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[Cut to a 90s-style music video with MTV-style titles below telling us what the song and band are called]:

DOG IN A DITCH by Ditchdog

[Grunge guy sings “Daaawg in a diiiitch….”]

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11am: 
Dog In A Ditch wins an MTV award so it’s time for another Avoiding Selling Out session

GRUNGE GUY [holding in MTV award]:
HUURRRR

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12pm 
Working lunch while I craft effortfully scratchy lyric sheets for the album inlay 

[Show him doing this]

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2pm: 
Hit the studio to make an extremely inaccessible third record 

[grunge guy in studio singing YOU’RE ALL GONNA HATE THIS while surrounded by white noise, accordions, etc]

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4pm: 
That's gone platinum (sad face) so it’s time to have another Avoiding Selling Out session

GRUNGE GUY:
HUUUURRRR

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8pm :
After dinner me and the band hit the Staring Intensely Out Of Shot Gym to work on our stares

[Show the band in a gym, just sitting on a weights bench staring intensely out of shot instead of exercising]

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9pm: 
One last Avoiding Selling Out session, Bovril, bed.

[He’s back in bed, holding his Bovril, looking intensely ahead, going HURRRR]

[Ends]
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Unforgettable pop hooks and relatable lyrics: Happy 30th Anniversary to the Spice Girls' debut album SPICE
Frames from the Spice Girls video "Wannabe" 

Lyrics: "If you wanna meet my mother/You gotta wait till she dies/Can we please change the subject/Let's go get some fries/Maybe she'll get a phone call/If we have some kids/This may seem way too harsh/But that's the way it is"
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Get ‘em, Thew
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
First time home all week. Glass of wine in hand, watching hubby on the PlayStation. Feel a bit more normal now.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One of my pet theories is that bass players are the most important member of any band. They’re the fire-carrier, and a band is only ever as good as their low-end. For supporting evidence, look at the state of Bloc Party post-Gordon Moakes. Ugh.
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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 20/08/2026
Just make them illegal. They're a menace. We are fine without them.
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UK cinemas consider ban on Meta glasses
Pubs, theatres and even the courts have been mulling how to react to the AI-powered technology.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Man, Power Trip should have been massive.
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 19/08/2026
The Labour government publishing this just two weeks after bringing in a nationwide toilet ban for trans people and two weeks before their trans section 28 comes into effect in English schools was certainly a fucking choice petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
The government recognises the devastating impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) on LGBT+ people in the UK. There is no place for discriminatory legislation in the UK, where all people, no matter their background or LGBT+ identity, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and to enjoy full inclusion in society.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Love a three-in-a-bed on a Sunday afternoon
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 16/08/2026
'Released 50 years ago today, Ian Wade revisits the brilliance of 'Dancing Queen' and discovers a single which future-proofed ABBA' Having the time of your life: #ABBA’s Dancing Queen at 50 buff.ly/qpvKBoq
Abba - Dancing Queen single cover. The band in soft focus, all wearing white hats.
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Teddy Ruxpin's Stunt Double @ruxpinsdouble.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fuck me, if I had thruppence for every time I've seen a pic of this bargain basement Screech looking daft in his thundernonce glasses, I'd have as much money as a daytime quiz show host
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jamie. @jmrgby.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Old enough to remember Justin Fashanu, treated abominably, including by his brother John.
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Gareth @milesbush.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The argument that the actions of the UK government will make no difference to climate change is basically the same argument some would make to dissuade an individual from starting or joining a trade union. Solidarity is powerful and it can get results.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At most, it will be two weeks before one of these morons blows his dick off taking a piss. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks
The US immigration agency is spending $20m on gloves that deliver a sharp electric shock intended to compel subjects to comply.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At most, it will be two weeks before one of these morons blows his dick off taking a piss. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks
The US immigration agency is spending $20m on gloves that deliver a sharp electric shock intended to compel subjects to comply.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Quality isn't the issue. Everyone has limited time. Everyone has limited money. No one wants to give up their valuable time and money for something you couldn't be bothered to create.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Really conflicted by this story because I am very much against disinformation (it's nothing to do with the grave, a guy made a joke about it at a conference) but on the other hand, anything that radicalises people against Harry Potter adults is a good thing.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
About to attempt the gym after a year off. Oh god this is going to suck
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just watched Titane. That was pretty fucked up…
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Shook off a bit of rust today.
Me playing drums
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 07/08/2026
A cooking competition show where master chefs don’t know the judges are cranky four year olds who haven’t had dinner yet. Trying to defend their intricate culinary masterpieces as kids spit it out in revulsion and say “EWW! Tastes like STINKY DOODOO!” and “I WANT DINO NUGGETS!” No one ever wins.
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Dr. Uncle Beard 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brian Blessed’s death scene in #IClaudius is a pinnacle of television. You can see the light die in his eyes then he’s still. Blessed once said that he felt like he actually was dying.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rod Liddle had a police caution for attacking his pregnant girlfriend. He peddled Rupert Lowe level virulent race hate for the Spectator long before it was fashionable. He wrote about wanting to fuck schoolgirls. To the end he was a bitter, petulant, thin-skinned, needy, angry man. Now he's dead. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh good, Rod Liddle’s dead.
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