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@stefanmacp.bsky.social
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Glasgow UK former I.T. consultant, amateur musician (synthesizer, organ), gamer. Pro EU + Scot Independence. Political Left. LGBTQ++, INFP-T. ME/CFS English, Scots, Français, português BR, Espagñol, Deutsch Pls..no DM small talk linktr.ee/stefanmac

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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
he's looking more like Eugene every day
"Arseface” Eugene Root from "Preacher" TV series played by actor Ian Coletti
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I've long admired O Cantor das multidões, singer to the multitudes, Orlando Silva. His elegant velvety tones are little known outside the Portuguese speaking world. I've had this terribly sad song from 1937 stuck in my head all week. Check out English lyrics in Alt text. youtu.be/Ost3ouWspmw?...
Caprichos do Destino - Whims of Fate    (translated by me)

If God, one day, looked down upon the earth and saw my status,
he would surely understand my desperate journey,
and having the rudder of fate within His hands,
He would not leave me like this, making these mistakes.

It's painful, but unfortunately it's the truth.
I shouldn't even think of happiness that I cannot have.
Though I feel rebellion within my breast.
It's very sad not to have the right even to live.

I have never managed to see a dream realized.
However modest and dull, it has always been denied to me.
So, my God, frankly I must give up. 
I must not insist on pushing against the whims of fate.

I want to escape the torment to which I am condemned.
I want to leave this life where I have been defeated.
I am a coward, I know perfectly well, the right thing to do is to carry the cross till the end.
But I cannot.  It is too heavy for me.

It's painful, but unfortunately it's the truth.
I shouldn't even think of happiness that I cannot have.
Though I feel rebellion within my breast.
It's very sad not to have the right even to live.

Caprichos do destino
Se Deus um dia olhasse a terra e visse o meu estado
Na certa compreenderia o meu trilhar desesperado
E tendo ele em suas mãos o leme dos destinos
Não deixar-me-ia assim, a cometer desatinos

É doloroso, mas infelizmente é a verdade
Eu não devia nem sequer pensar numa felicidade
Que não posso ter
Mas sinto uma revolta dentro do meu peito
É muito triste não se ter direito nem de viver

Jamais consegui um sonho ver concretizado
Por mais modesto e banal sempre me foi negado
Assim, meu Deus, francamente devo desistir
Contra os caprichos da sorte eu não devo insistir

Eu quero fugir ao suplício a que estou condenado
Eu quero deixar esta vida onde eu fui derrotado
Sou um covarde, bem sei que o direito é levar a cruz até o fim
Mas não posso é pesada demais para mim

É doloroso, mas infelizmente é a verdade.....

[truncado para caber]
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Long waffle from the lunatic ruining America with excuses for why he's going to postpone genocide he was promising, for two weeks.  

Armageddon, isn't cancelled, just on hold.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Watching the coming of the end of the Constitution of The United States of America and America's transition into a fascist dictatorship. #USA #Fascism
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Left: Mike Johnson criticising Iran, "We do want to encourage a version of freedom" Right: ICE agents jump a dancing fox at an ati ICE protest (From @implausibleblog Farrukh on X) #DHS #USA #ICE #Fascism #ExcessiveForce #Brutality #FreedomOfSpeech #firstamendment #Minnesota
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The UK has sent ONE military officer to the multinational force in Greenland following concerns that poodle Starmer's orange pedo protector boss might send a hostile invasion of a NATO ally's sovereign territory. britbrief.co.uk/politics/def...
Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder in UK WWI army outfit.
UK has sent a total of one military officer to Greenland to participate in a multinational military exercise.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Ele acredita que os EUA são poderosos demais para serem obrigados a cumprir o direito internacional. Ele é um valentão psicótico com mísseis nucleares.
Imagem do Shutterstock de mísseis nucleares com uma bandeira dos EUA ao fundo.
Shutterstock image of Nuclear missiles with an American flag in the background.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
George Orwell anticipated this, but it was meant to be a warning, not a handbook.
quotation from George Orwell's novel Nineteen-eighty-four.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I thought NewsThump's take was very apt
cartoon from NewsThump satirising how farcical the UK Parliamentary rules are following a recent rebuke within the UK House of Commons of MP Dawn Butler for complaining that Reform Party MP Sarah Pochin's racist criticism of 'tv adverts featuring black and Asian people makes her angry', a blatantly racist remark, made her a racist.

Dawn Butler was obligated to retract her accusation of the Sarah Pochim being a racist because it's unacceptable in parliamentary rules to call an MP a racist, even when it's totally understood that what they said or did was indeed racist.  

Cartoon shows a white man scowling and holding a tv remote control with the caption

Derek was furious, not one tv advert all evening had included an angry middle-aged sofa-bound racist.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
kinda reminds me of Diana from "V" Visitor tv series
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
just to see how it would look...
Dominar Trump the First of The United States of Trump
Merged AI image with Donal Trump and Dominar Rygel XVI from Farscape
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
but this should be more obvious
a more obvious AI image combination... Dominar Rygel the XVI and wannabe Dominar Nigel the First
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
well this was the first effort. Think you can just about make out...
AI hybrid image Dominar Rygel XVI with Nigel Farage
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
was just mucking about with AI combining images. Not something I've bothered with before and though this was fun... Some people might recognise the pompous, arrogant, selfish and generally obnoxious talking slug, deposed Hynerian ruler, Dominar Rygel XVI....
Dominar Rygel XVI, deposed Hynerian ruler from TV show Farscape
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
from Rob Moore on X. The depressing and terrible state of the UK. #UK #UKtaxes #UKfascism #UKmisery #LabourUK #UKLabour #Poverty #DigitalSlavery #Slavery #Authoritarianism x.com/robprogressi...
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
History repeats itself. This is why we now have Human RIghts legislation. ECHR, in the UK, and why, wherever we are, we must not surrender out Human Rights. America IS now a fascist nation. #HumanRights #ECHR #ICE #DHS #DigitalID #Torture #Fascism #NaziUSA #Slavery #Racism #Xenophobia
Corrected quotation:
Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
How long till digital creep? First comes Digital ID, next, the Human RIghts Act is done away. Welcome to slavery. Don't sleepwalk into slavery. Oppose Digital ID. ( courtesy x.com/JamesCa09181... ) #DigitalID #DigitalSlavery #Totalitarianism #DigitalFascism
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Tony Blair's think tank wants digital IDs to turn neighbours into informants, including for noise complaints... With each complaint contributing to your 'community impact' score. The proposal is buried in a report... from @bigbrotherwatch on the other platform x.com/BigBrotherWa... #DigitalID
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#DigitalID #UKLabour #BigBrother #SocialScoring #Fascism #Slavery #UKpolitics #DigitalSlavery #DigitalFascism
A female pensioner stands in a walking-aid frame and is holding a smartphone with the implication that it has just beeped her the message:

BRITCARD
Congratulations on completing 50 steps.
You are now offically fit for work.

This is just one risk of the abuse of Digital ID which the UK Prime Minister without any election manifesto mandate to do so, is planning to implement despite intense objections from every area of society.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
If we let the government take our freedom during an emergenct, it'll create an endless string of emergencies to take our freedom.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Once the Digital ID is in place, it's game over for humanity" The government psyops haven't really kicked in yet. So before they program the public with ludicrous excuses for Digital ID (and before they brand you far-right for opposing it) speak up now. #DigitalID
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
CEO for Sinclair Broadcast Group is Christopher Ripley. He was CFO for Jeffrey Epstein.
screenshot from Wikipedia showing entry for Chris Ripley, CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and former CFO for Jeffrey Epstein
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
in case it wasn't obvious, I was thinking of this pompous, self-aggrandizing, morally deficient, poor excuse for a human being.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
was just describing Farscape to a mate, and Dominar Rygel XVI as a pompous, self-aggrandizing talking slug with a grossly inflated opinon of himself who farts helium, pisses napalm and is generally an obnoxious disaster. It occurred to me how much he reminds me of a certain British politician.
Dominar Rygel XVI from Farscape TV show (Jim Henson)
A pompous self-aggrandizing, talking slug that causes disasters everywhere he goes.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
a simple explanation (even Republicans should be able to understand) of just how f**ked, America is going to be because of Trump's new policy (as if anyone would want to go to America any more anyway! We've ALL seen South Koreans shackled and chained). #michiokaku #h1b #h-1b #braindrain
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
young Wes Streeting and Peter Mandelson street campaigning for Labour
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trump returns to the UK for another State Visit at the UK taxpayers' expense, for a luxury banquet at Windsor Castle. (Estimated £12,000,000) Meanwhile outside, peaceful protesters are arrested for projecting images of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
from @coldwarsteve on X
Donald Trump is currently being lavished with estimated £12,000,000 UK taxpayer-funded luxury in yet another State Visit to the UK, while peaceful protesters projecting images of Trump & Epstein are arrested on questionable grounds.  
Trump is currently being fêted to a banquet with the King of England at Windsor Castle. 
Shown here: Trump, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Mandelson are in a luxury Roman style bath while Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Camillla, King Charles, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper another person I don't recognise (maybe Andrew tate) and a Nigel Farage with a mocking smile  are clad in Roman style togas are acting as servants and handmaidens.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Mandelson and McSweeney running a blackmail operation in 2001" x.com/StevePowers_... (c.f., www.spectator.co.uk/article/labo... )
claim (I have not verified from @StevePowers_ on X but traced to https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labours-new-dark-arts-strategy/ )
 
"Mandelson and McSweeney running a blackmail operation in 2001"

In the early 2000s McSweeney worked on Mandelson's Excalibur system, a database which New Labour used to gather information about internal political rivals and intimidate recusant party members.
Also, several Labout MPs told me how Mandelson had shown them Excalibur printouts and thereatened them with action if they stepped out of line.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
TBH I think we've clearly gotten to the point where this stage is necessary. There's a bit of a row going on with Farage and questions about tax evasion, so maybe the people are getting something right.
Performative Police Tents outisde former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's home, for a wildy excessive and protracted period with deliberately damaging optics, investingating SNP donations for over a year, at great expense to the tax payer, to find no criminal activity whatsoever.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Certainly hit the ground, running!
Keir Starmer Tweet from ten days ago following Cabinet reshuffle...
Phase two of my government starts today.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
what on Earth could Mandelson have been talking about ?
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"He has no morals, values, principles, and he'll defend Peter Mandelson up until the point he thinks he needs to for his own career." Zack Polanski pulls no punches on Keir Starmer. from politicsjoe.bsky.social in the other place x.com/PoliticsJOE_...
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell (also Keir Starmer)
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Judges Strike down the right to protest.
Incorporates a Banksy artwork denoting a judge bashing with a gavel, a protester holding a blank placard which appeared overnight outside the UK High Court.  
The UK government will eradicate this artwork which portrays them in the light of brutally denying people freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
When exposing a crime is treated as a crime, you are ruled by criminals.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister "Free speech has not been banned in the UK and we will arrest anyone who says it has."
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
well if this works for a camel, he's smaller than a camel... defo worth him trying it 😆
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
:)
Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel at the kitchen table. Ethel "you won't die without coffee"
Lucy "no, but you might"
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"NOW a warning?!"
scene from movie Death becomes her
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
if they're so keen to bring back old fashioned punishments, I'm all in favour of reintroducing the guillotine for corrupt politicians and self-serving members of the kleptocracy.
crowd of commoners around a guillotine with unspecified aristocrat destined for public execution, in front of a statue which may be Britannia
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#authoritarianism #dictatorship #government #overreach #oppression
The police and the military have always been separate for a reason.
One serves and protects the people, and the other fights enemies of the state. 
When the military does both, the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
Cmdr William Adamt
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
China is determined to continue trolling USA :)
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
just came across this and had to share. Tracked down the original to here caglecartoons.com/cartoon/293883 #empathy
Cartoon from Salt Lake Tribune by Pat Bagley... Quotes from Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Nuremberg Trial and Elon Musk examining empathy.
Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes - Einstein.  The death of human empathy is one of the early and most telling signs that a culture is about to fall into barbarism - Hannah Arndt.  It is the one characteristic that connects all the defendants - a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think is the lack of empathy.  Capt. Gilbert, Psychologist assigned to study Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg Trials. The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, Elon Musk.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
the man-baby whining that "the left is supposed to be the party of empathy" when he notices that so many people across the whole world now hate everything he represents brings sharply into focus the tolerance paradox. Respect, as far as he is concerned, only matters if it's him in the crosshairs.
Graphic demonstrating the philosophical paradox of Tolerance where a free and open society that tolerates everything, even intolerant views (such as those held by Nazis) will be destroyed by those holding such intolerant views and must therefore protect itself from intolerance by outlawing intolerant movements.
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Pretending democracy can survive in an ecosystem of non-stop misinformation, disinformation, outright lies and fake news, 24/7, with no pushback, is beyond naive and actually a boost to authoritarianism. Mehdi Hasan via BTC
quote (paraphrased): Mehdi Hasan.  Pretending democracy can survive in an ecosystem of nonstop misinformation, lies etc, is beyond naive and a boost to authoritarianism
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
an excellent prediction of where we were going, of the destination we have almost reached. #capitalism #endstagecapitalism #democracy #greed #profit #environment #healthcare #education #karlmarx #societalcollapse
Quotation: Jill Stein Quote's Karl Marx - final stage capitalism consumes everything to make a short term profit
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Stefan @stefanmacp.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy Christmas / Season's Greetings to one and all. Feliz Natal a todos, Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, Sretan Božić.
illuminated Christmas tree in room with wall hangings
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