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@theanthonymark.bsky.social
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Chaos with a veneer of calm. Autistic with ADHD. Cis man (he/him) 📍Birmingham UK

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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The future is digital 🙂‍↕️
Screenshot of dominos_uk on Instagram:

OFFICIAL STATEMENT
In response to trends in the gaming industry, as of 1st April 2027 Domino's UK will cease production of physical pizzas and shift to production of digital pizzas only.
Consumers will be able to download our full range of delicious pizza codes and, using the power of the imagination, enjoy them in an entirely virtual sense.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I left the windows open overnight for ventilation and it’s still oppressively hot and humid inside at 9am. Bring on the thunderstorms!
A digital room thermometer is showing a temperature of 29.5°C and a relative humidity of 63%
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
ben the coolest temperature overnight in Birmingham last night was still warmer than the hottest temperature today in Douglas 😭
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“On 8 May 2025, a car previously owned by the prime minister was found on fire on a street he previously lived on in Kentish Town” It’s highly unlikely he was in the car at the time - so how did you get to “tried to burn him alive in his car”?
On 8 May 2025, a car previously owned by the prime minister was found on fire on a street he previously lived on in Kentish Town.
Three days later, a fire was discovered at flats linked to Sir Keir in nearby Islington. He had lived there years before.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Remember, they’d rather vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour!
Reform campaigners for Rob Kenyon in the by-election holding a sign that says “I would rather vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Music sounded better on a hi-fi system, didn’t it?
A modular hi-fi system with speakers
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Post a photo from 2019 Back when I had an active social life 😬
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Would rather be there than here 😔
A high level map of the Isle of Man
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
But it’s the Left who do purity politics
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The way they pretend like they didn’t buy the business with the express aim of closing it down and stripping it for assets. Honestly, their business isn’t investment, it’s scavenging.
The TGJones restructure comes after another brand owned by Modella Capital ceased to operate in the UK and Ireland.
Claire's stopped trading last month, closing all 154 standalone stores and making 1,300 staff redundant.
Modella Capital had purchased Claire's in September 2025 after the business fell into administration, but later placed the jewellery and accessories chain into administration itself after an "alarmingly" low Christmas trading period.
Modella Capital also owns Hobbycraft.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This happened in my feed 😒
A screenshot of a giant sausage with a pile of sauce, appearing in the post after Jon’s in my feed
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Zack Polanski: I was lost in propaganda over Jeremy Corbyn
The Green Party leader says he has apologised to Corbyn for a remark he made in 2018 about the handling of antisemitism in Labour

Zack Polanski said of Jeremy Corbyn: "I just don't think it passes the smell test to believe that he's an antisemite"
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I’m old enough to remember their 2024 manifesto
An excerpt from Labour’s 2024 manifesto:

“Labour will restore confidence in government and ensure ministers are held to the highest standards.
We will establish a new independent Ethics and Integrity Commission, with its own independent Chair, to ensure probity in government”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE:
(SEE: A/C CHARGERS, CHARACTER ENCODINGS, INSTANT MESSAGING, ETC.)

SITUATION:
THERE ARE 14 COMPETING STANDARDS.

14?! RIDICULOUS!

SOON:
WE NEED TO DEVELOP ONE UNIVERSAL STANDARD THAT COVERS EVERYONE'S USE CASES.

YEAH!

SITUATION:
THERE ARE 15 COMPETING STANDARDS.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Always the way. When you spend your life being bitter and hateful it shows up on your face.
Ugly Thoughts
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
- Written by Roald Dahl, The Twits
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ok that’s enough social media for this year… 😒
A screenshot of a post from Threads, reading: “I'm guessing Madonna is more for older people? Cuz I've never heard of her before Sabrina brought her out at Cochella earlier 🤷‍♀️”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Eggs are part of a healthy breakfast
A “mini eggs” packet, sitting empty on a plate
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What is that damned owl trying to teach me now? 👀
A screenshot from Duolingo showing the Oscar character looking very serious. The English phrase is “He has the average”, with the Irish translation below.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Sick of this war against motorists! 😡
A minibus parked on the footpath at the side of the road, between two sets of railings, leaving very little room for pedestrians to get past. Viewed from the front. A minibus parked on the footpath at the side of the road, between two sets of railings, leaving very little room for pedestrians to get past. Viewed from the side.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
An office desk with a toilet instead of a chair
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It could be worse
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Chilling!
A crop of the poster showing part of the hand, five stars, and the word “chilling”. 
The thumb visible in the image looks like a deformed phallus of some kind.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A three-panel cartoon strip:
Panel 1: a small dog is sat on a rock thinking to himself: “I like to con people, and I like to insult people”
Panel 2: the dog continues to think: “if you combine con and insult, you get “consult”.”
Panel 3: the dog is now stood on a desk looking at a man in a suit. The dog says, “I’m here to consult you.” The man replies, “it sounds expensive and demeaning… okay.”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
When are the proud and patriotic people who put up all the lamppost flags going to come back and replace them now that they’re ragged and torn?
A wet and ragged UK flag, half wrapped around a lamppost
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Ta shenn Oie Houney, Hop-tu-naa! T'an eayst soilshean, Trol-la-laa! Hop-tu-naa as Trol-la-laa, Ta shenn Oie Houney, Hop-tu-naa! 🇮🇲🎃🇮🇲
Hop-tu-Naa banner [Culture Vannin] 
An image created for hop-tu-naa, comissioned by Culture Vannin.A moot with Hop tu Naa carved on its side (2021) 
A turnip carved for Hop tu Naa in the Isle of Man, 2021, by James Franklin.Hop tu Naa turnip lantern (Jane Oates 2019) 
A turnip carved for Hop tu Naa in the Isle of Man, 2019.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Love it 🤣
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Ugly Thoughts
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
- Written by Roald Dahl. The Twits
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New map of the UK just dropped.
A map of the UK showing the locations and populations of Greater Manchester, Greater Birmingham, and Greater London. 
Greater Manchester seems to occupy the entire north east. Greater Birmingham stretches from the midlands to the south coast and seems to include Bristol and London. Greater London has migrated to France. 
Cornwall also now appears to be called Dudley.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Imagine being a landlord and not replacing the carpets for 15 whole years and then asking your tenant to replace them 😬
A reddit post in r/LegalAdviceUK
Posted By: u/Ashen_One86

Title: Landlord trying to charge me to replace 15 year old carpets...

Subject: Housing

Post: I've just move out my rental after 15 years. ( I bought a house :) )
All carpets in the rental are ruined by moths.
Am I liable to pay for new carpets?
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Basically, the problem is capitalism.
A political cartoon shows two men sitting at a table. One has dark skin and no cookie, the other has light skin, a construction helmet, and a plate with a single cookie. Behind them, a wealthy older man in a suit sits on a massive pile of cookies, pointing at the darker-skinned man and saying, “Careful mate… that foreigner wants your cookie!”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
😔
A screenshot from Duolingo. 

German: “Ich bin allein und
das ist OK!”

English: “I am alone and that is OK”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Wearing a T-shirt that supports “Palestine Action” makes you a terrorist, but being part of a mob that physically attacks people for political motivated reasons is simply a protest - and one that gets protected by the police.
Counter-protesters from Waltham Forest Stand Up To Racism turned up but were kept l away from the hotel by police before being escorted away as tempers flared.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
And just like that, a good weekend is fucking ruined.
My favourite sunglasses, scratched to buggery.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
On the train heading into London ☺️
I sit by a window, comfortably spread out in the train seat. The camera is above me looking down as I give a reluctant smile
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I don’t think it managed to get any fish. Surprisingly difficult to photograph the bugger. Managed this awful shot of it by the canal a year or two ago. Wait, is this the same kind of bird? 🤣
A big bird taking flight against the backdrop of a murky brown Birmingham canal. The bird is almost out of shot.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
It’s astounding that there are people for whom words such as, “killing children is wrong, the war should stop”, marks someone as a terrorist sympathiser and, “the babies need to be killed so I feel safer”, does not. But I am reminded that almost every evil in history has believed itself to be good.
Today at 17:18
@nisey69.bsky.social has added you to the "ProHamas/ProTerrorist Enemies"
custom feed list
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sorry, I did reply to them but because you blocked them you’re probably just seeing my response not theirs. Have muted them now l myself.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
They’re going to use this to attack the Gender Recognition Act and GRCs, though. It’s almost like they’ve planned it out… 😡
Following on from this, because birth certificates can be amended by trans people with a GRC, this means that prima facie they are now certified sex and inadmissible for prove of biological sex. Indeed, given the caveats mentioned above, there is no current legal mechanism in the UK to definitive prove your biological sex at law.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Clearly she hasn’t looked in a dictionary recently herself.
The Collins Dictionary definition of ‘Nazi’ in British English:

noun
1. a member of the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party, which was founded in 1919 and seized political control in Germany in 1933 under Adolf Hitler
2. derogatory
anyone who thinks or acts like a Nazi, esp showing racism, brutality, etc
adjective
3. of, characteristic of, or relating to the NazisThe Collins Dictionary definition of ‘fascist’ in British English:

noun
1. an adherent or practitioner of fascism
2. any person regarded as having excessively authoritarian views
adjective also: fascistic
3. characteristic of or relating to fascismThe Collins Dictionary definition of ‘fascism’ in British English:

noun
1. any ideology or movement inspired by Italian Fascism, such as German National Socialism; any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism
2. any ideology, movement, programme, tendency, etc that may be characterized as excessively prescriptive or authoritarian
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
There’s a cheap and easy solution to that though.
A USB-C to 3.5 audio adapter, with an additional USB-C pass through port.
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“Peace for our time” — PM Neville Chamberlain in 1938
Neville Chamberlain photographed in 1938 waving a piece of paper after signing the Munich Agreement which promised “Peace for our time”
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Anthony @theanthonymark.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Fantastic photo! I tried to get a similar view with my phone last night ☺️
A 10 second exposure of the night sky, showing Mars, Castor and Pollux and other stars around them.
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