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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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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 4h
Me and him talk music: listeningsessions.co.uk/heavy-rotati...
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Heavy Rotation: Red Sky - Listening Sessions
Next up taking the controls on our Heavy Rotation series, we have Red Sky, the Drum & Bass duo of Mat Zerosum and Mark A500plus! They've been part of our community here in Birmingham for a while now, ...
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Nathanael T. Booth (he/him) @nathanaeltbooth.bsky.social · 21h
It seems to me that the biggest argument against purely materialist explanations of politics is that materially comfortable people regularly go fashy because they’re bored or horny.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What a handsome lad
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TFW you’re sitting quietly, reading, when your beloved labrador bounds into the room and vomits copiously all over the sofa, the footstool, and your trousers.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me and the pup.
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The Cult Archives @thecultarchives666.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rest In Noise: Conrad "Cronos" Lant (1963–2026). #blackmetal #heavymetal #metalsky
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Rest In Noise: Conrad “Cronos” Lant (1963–2026)
There are no words, only a hollow, black rage at the news. Conrad “Cronos” Lant is dead at 63. If you listen to anything faster, heavier, darker or more...
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/09/2026
You should just be able to find your little niche in the world & stay there comfortably if it’s what makes you happy. That’s literally all being human is about. Just hanging out and doing something helpful. We made up all this other shit and it’s making everyone miserable, bc there’s no finish line.
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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well you’re out of my sexy dance party now
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I thought this was a private conversation
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also have a cold
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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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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🥹
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not a winning combination…
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Steve-Rogers-I-understood-that-reference.gif
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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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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😬
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti'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
No, of course I’m not actually PLAYING. I’m not a complete arsehole.
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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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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Amazing story.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I hereby enter your lottery!
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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
Perfect casting
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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 · 04/09/2026
Happy birthday xxx
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ambient crustiness.
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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There’s a Birmingham hardcore band called Flesh Creep you ALL need to be getting on board with. They’re top drawer.
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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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Curse of the Libby Dead @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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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ordered!
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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
Ignorance is bliss, my friend. We don’t *HAVE* to watch it.
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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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Mark Stevenson @mpstevenson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sounds good to me!
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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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