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StefMcDef

@stefmcdef.bsky.social

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Glaswegian emigre holed up in the County Alicante. Walks dugs, rides bikes, loves his scran. The only Tim in the pueblo.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · Jan 9

Proper jaw-dropper of a sunset on the #dailydogwalk this evening.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1h

Almost choked on my Plasticine when I read that.

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 13h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 2h

A clickbaiting, contrarian fud who managed to cook his brain during the pandemic. Spence is another wan.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 3h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry for your loss, bud. I found that, the void in the household where the unconditional positive energy used to come from, very hard to deal with, and adopted another dog within weeks.

StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 6h

Be great if they confined their recruitment to the shrivelled talent pool of the suitably staunch. I'm all for it.

StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 23h

Chiqui Arce - Player Profile & Stats

Francisco Javier Arce Rolón is a 54-year-old Football ex-player. Born in Asunción on 1971-04-02, he played as Defender. Weights 73 kg and is 178 cm tall.

www.playmakerstats.com

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 1d

So much of British policing boils down to the idea that there's no point dealing with Low Intensity Crime even though Low Intensity Crime is the crime 90% of people have to deal with

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

buff.ly

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

My da's a drain surgeon. We wouldn't give pretend oiks like Jenrick the time of day.

StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

He's not looking for a new England flag.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

If you tie it round your midriff...

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Again, I want this read in the style of Mrs Doyle naming priests

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

Reform announcing a series of Tory councillor defections as Kemi Badenoch begins her broadcast round. A sort of Rolling Chunder.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

My rule of thumb is, when the skin just falls off them when you open them. If you have to nick them with a knife to start peeling 'em, they're still in the OK zone.

StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

I thought the crowd looked pretty sparse on Sunday there, too.
It's not just the direct Champions League £££ we miss out on when we end up playing a Thursday/Sunday Europa league fixture calendar.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

The only things that will ping their radar are swathes of empty seats and shelves of unsold merch. Silences and mooching about the concourse for X number of minutes when you've already ponied up for your ticket are just variations on...

a man holds a sign that says careful now

ALT: a man holds a sign that says careful now

media.tenor.com

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 1d

Proddington Bear.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Do you notice how Israeli politicians don’t feel there’s any need to conceal how repellent their politics are? Do you see how they are correct, there is no need to conceal it, because for two years they’ve been snorting at TV interviewers and telling them LOL fuck you, often with racist remarks.

BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

One day everyone will accept Netanyahu to be pure evil. It will be a mainstream consensus. At that point he will be used as a convenient sponge for all the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in his time. As if it all started and ended with him. Always remember - it was never just him

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2d

These people need to be sanctioned until they realise vaccination is a matter of public health, and not of individual choice.

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

🧵

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

To those saying the police arresting protestors are ‘following the law’:

There are 1000s of laws, 1000s of offences, impossible to police at once. Accordingly, all law enforcement agencies prioritise where they focus effort & resource

Arresting or not arresting protestors is an operational choice

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Jan 12

Often, when paying my rent or swishing some water in a bottle of fairy liquid so it goes a little further, I am reminded of this Charles Moore spectator column from 2015, and the fact that financial hardship knows many forms.

Passage from a 2015 Spectator column by Charles Moore:

In the same column, I also mentioned how boarding-school pupils out expensive items on their parents' bill (and sometimes buy them their Christmas presents this way). I hear of an extreme recent example, suffered by a friend. Haha son went to southern Africa on a school trip, and there shot an impala and a wildebeest. Without warning, the extras in the bill at the end of term included the cost of taxidermy and delivering the heads - in the region of £600.

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StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 2d

Hate it. Also whoever invented shuffle on music playing apps and sited it so prominently it's easy to turn on accidentally will be next to be strung up.

StefMcDef @stefmcdef.bsky.social · 2d

And how is Sheena Easton these days?