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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You may think you're cool, but you'll never be as cool as Lithuanian folk art St Francis doing stigmata kung fu (via limis.lt)

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 17h

"The stairs!" "Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks" part 1 (1988). #DoctorWho

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

38 years ago today I became a Doctor Who fan. Thank you Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, John Nathan Turner, Andrew Morgan and even Keff McCulloch. You sparked decades of imagination and indirectly set me on the path where I met my wife and became a published writer

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

5th October, 1988: "Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks" part 1. #DoctorWho

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Only I wouldn’t have said “trailer” because we didn’t call things trailers back then we called them adverts

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember this. And I can recall the next day at school when the other kids were mocking it for the special effects bit and I said that’s probably just for the trailer and it wasn’t so there’s that and I felt a bit embarrassed but my word Remembrance is one of my all time favourite stories

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hi. Would show your working on that one please? How does liberal = Saudi Arabia should not exist? Is it because they are authoritarian regimes? If so, what does that mean for, say, China?

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They should make a biopic about the Public Universal Friend

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But it is such a bad television show; how could anyone bring themselves to watch it twice?

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No. This is about small owners.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah but Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night etc etc

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 02/10/2026

It's national poetry day! Here is a poem of mine first published by Arlen House in Washing Windows II and then republished by Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann 's volume Vital Signs: Poems for Illness and Healing.

Remembrance

In my dream you were alive. I said I

loved you and you heard me. You knew it was

me, not just distance with a human shape.

You tell me I need to stay here, so I

do. I grab the thread of sewn pink petals

hanging tight between us, their wet edges

drip your soft thunder all over the floor,

liquid velvet slips between our fingers,

soaked; we campaign to walk against time. Come

see me, you said, before I forget. You

knew, before we knew, that the dementia

was slithering in, knocking out pieces

of you with its blunt mouth. I’d put you back

together if I could, click each petal

into its stem so that I could say I

love you and you could hear me.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagine the reaction if the British government partially destroyed Stonehenge?

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s Catherine Zeta Jones?!

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio Still I can’t escape the goats of ewe

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Musk’s vision for the future of warfare might be robots fighting robots. Forever.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“These people are dangerous” says the guy who posted a statement yearning for conflict. Screenshot warrior peddling risible neoright buzzwords and making up stories about an interlocutor who dared to query his post-truth rhetoric.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

> It’s faux rage and phoney grief that poor old “Danny” has been treated badly by some mechanism of state. It’s two-tier bullshit.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

> It’s flooding the comments on news of children drowning in the channel with laughing emojis. It’s dressing in black and balaclavas and marching on Portsmouth. It’s claiming the cross of Christ while betraying everything Jesus commanded.>

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Neoright: post-truth, post-liberal (Trump contra Prabst), ethno-nationalism. A distrust of institutions and criticism of mythical elites. It’s MAGA burgers washed down with Jordan Peterson nonsense juice. It’s hoisting union flags on lampposts and demanding that everyone likes it. >

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You’re asking for a definition?

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These are entertaining attempts to belittle me. You know as well as I do that the term “lawfare” has been embraced by the neoright. Your use of it exemplifies your adoption of neoright talking points as shown through this … erm … conversation.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah. “Lawfare” is a great example of neoright buzzword.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The point is, you made a discursive statement. I wanted to probe that statement. I didn’t need to come with claims of my own. You want an argument to win. Fine. You win.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A discussion doesn’t just need to be two people throwing claims at each other. Fascinating and boring. Schrödinger’s ghost.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

>> We have now reached the point of the discussion where you retell the discussion inaccurately.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1. I didn’t label voters as fascist. I referred to an individual fascist as a fascist. I didn’t dismiss documented technocratic power as a discursive gem. I described your use of language as a discursive gem. 2. I never claimed to be “just a polite guy” and definitions are important. >>

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess the ad homs were inevitable.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m interested in your arguments which are increasingly revealing themselves as weak sauce behind a veil of neorightist jargon.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And please show me how what I have said is “motte/bailey performative ignorance”. Thanks.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How does the ONS track ‘ethnicity’? Talk to me about the methodology and methods.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, I was joking. But it’s interesting how tribal you’re being given your bio. Upon what credentials are you basing your categorisation of me as “leftist”? Would favouring membership of the EU constitute a solely leftist position?

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I never claimed to be making any arguments. My interest is in your assertions. If you’re not able to back them up just say so. I’m also interested in the patterns of discourse and the rhetorical techniques & linguistic choices you employ.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘Wordcel’ is new to me. Which forum did you get that from?

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, I just liked being able to go on holiday without queuing and without being charged zillions of pounds to use mobile data.

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who said those things about ‘English’ and ‘Britain’? Define ‘ethnicity’ for me.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Computer consciousness is a fairy tale

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who keeps turning it back on?

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stephen @sputniksteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love “technocratic coalition”. A discursive gem that implies a cohesive state mechanism acting against “democratic opposition” (where the supposed democratic opposition is, in fact, a fascist who wants to impose his will upon the rest of us). It’s almost Foucauldian. But not.

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