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Anthony
@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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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
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Love it 🤣
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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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?
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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!”
August 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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😔
A screenshot from Duolingo. German: “Ich bin allein und das ist OK!” English: “I am alone and that is OK”
August 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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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.
July 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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And just like that, a good weekend is fucking ruined.
My favourite sunglasses, scratched to buggery.
July 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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
July 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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.
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
May 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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.
April 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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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.
April 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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 Nazis The 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 fascism The 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
March 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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.
March 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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“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”
March 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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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.
March 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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“Should’ve gone to Specsavers”
February 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club
A screen grab of Keir Starmer stood talking at a podium in the USA in February 2025, with US flags behind him. The on-screen captions read, “there’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom”
February 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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It’s crazy that Apple Intelligence Writing Tools will straight up refuse to edit text that contains the word gay.
A screenshot showing that asking Writing Tools to edit the sentence, “it’s crazy that Apple Intelligence Writing Tools will straight up refuse to edit text that contains the word gay,” results in an error message that says “Writing Tools aren’t designed to work with this type of content”
February 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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It’s a lovely clear night tonight
Bloody cold though 🥶
A view of the clear night sky, with hundreds of stars visible and silhouettes of trees at the bottom of the image
February 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Always scapegoating the ways targets so they can get away with robbing the working classes
A man on one side of the table with a single cookie gazes thoughtfully at a man sat across from him with no cookie, as a man in a suit sat atop a huge pile of cookies tells him, “Careful mate… that foreigner wants your cookie!”
February 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM