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A. J. Stoin

@andystoin.bsky.social

Chemistry โš—๏ธ Geography ๐ŸŒ Astronomy ๐ŸŒŒ Hiking ๐Ÿž MTB ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Gaming ๐ŸŽฎ UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Attempting to find a modicum of humour in the current geopolitical ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐ŸŒฉ

created December 21, 2024

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Profile picture Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted

If Nigel Farage really loved Britain he wouldn't talk it down at every opportunity to a bunch of ill informed right wing American fuckwits who know sweet FA about the reality of this country.

2/9/2025, 10:02:42 PM | 1364 274 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Private Eye Magazine (@privateeyenews.bsky.social) reposted

โ€œIโ€™m not sure I want to give way to the rightโ€ From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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3/9/2025, 10:54:13 AM | 492 132 | View on Bluesky | view

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Norman D.

2/9/2025, 9:03:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee Healey โœ๐Ÿป (@leehealey.bsky.social) reposted

"I am an exceptional delivery rider, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more generous with your gratuity." #DieHard #HansGruber #UberEats

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2/9/2025, 12:18:23 PM | 264 90 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:29:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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British poo, mind ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ’ฉ

2/9/2025, 12:28:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Tbf we did rule the waves. It's only logical for us to put the flag on ice too.

2/9/2025, 12:27:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social) reposted

"It can be irritating to feel like your national identity is one of the few itโ€™s unacceptable to take pride in: itโ€™s not as though France and Spain and a dozen other countries donโ€™t have their own imperial-atrocity strewn history to contend with." With a heavy heart, I have written about flags.

2/9/2025, 11:03:02 AM | 151 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Parody Keir Starmer (@parodypm.bsky.social) reposted

Who says I havenโ€™t achieved anything positive during my first year in office?

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2/9/2025, 10:52:22 AM | 1314 204 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep digging Bill...

2/9/2025, 6:35:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

Every UK retail corporation, with annual profits in the hundreds of millions, who ask for a charity donation at the till should be required by law to match each and every donation.

1/9/2025, 8:55:07 PM | 429 40 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 6:13:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Naomi Smith (@pimlicat.bsky.social) reposted

Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.

1/9/2025, 11:44:00 AM | 947 284 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where do you think Scotland is?

1/9/2025, 9:24:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good boy with a gob

1/9/2025, 9:17:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

I can't imagine they taste very nice though tbh? Something like boot-leather & lachrymator i guess

1/9/2025, 9:16:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

It kind of is British though tbf. Developed by British-South Asians during post-colonial immigration to the UK. It's effectively a British-Bangladeshi hybrid cuisine dish.

1/9/2025, 7:26:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To make matters worse, you probably owe her tuition fees too...

1/9/2025, 7:20:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

"In our flat we have a roundabout. I think they're patriotic. A great symbol of our nation."

1/9/2025, 7:16:35 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

To leave the ECHR would be deeply regressive & pave the way to human rights abuses.

1/9/2025, 5:00:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

What? That's weird. So people can't hang a flag in their own home? I'm not even a Starmer fan but come on.

1/9/2025, 4:20:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

In his flat, exactly. Not on public infrastructure

1/9/2025, 1:23:33 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social) reposted

*sighs, taps the sign

1/9/2025, 10:18:38 AM | 19 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like a mini roundabout in my town that has the Icelandic flag on it ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ

31/8/2025, 4:53:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clearly she's never been to the Big Tesco

31/8/2025, 1:21:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clearly she's never been outside and gone to Tesco

31/8/2025, 12:10:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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๐Ÿ’ฏ They don't really care about white working class people

31/8/2025, 9:56:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

If the Telegraph wasn't mentioned, I'd almost be convinced this was written by a Socialist. Perhaps someone should tell them chronic Tory underfunding and deregulation are to blame.

31/8/2025, 7:23:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 7:21:01 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Katie Shopkins, surely?

31/8/2025, 6:32:53 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it a Britaining wall?

31/8/2025, 6:18:00 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cunt Executive Officer

30/8/2025, 10:28:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 9:56:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 8:27:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martin Calladine (@uglygame.bsky.social) reposted

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

30/8/2025, 8:24:54 AM | 668 416 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did she die?

29/8/2025, 11:40:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Have You Ever Seen the Ukraine" ๐ŸŽถ

29/8/2025, 11:39:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

"Spiderman, spiderman, drinks out of a, Stella can. Sits around, all day long. Refugees, hates those guys. Look out! Here comes the Spiderman" ๐ŸŽถ

29/8/2025, 11:19:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Being an absolute cunt is sooo in this season

29/8/2025, 11:13:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She is a chippy lass

29/8/2025, 11:08:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 11:02:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LibDems

29/8/2025, 10:38:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

That's probably only even a Conservative estimate... I really think Starmer is going to Labour the point on concerns around immigration. It can't go on indefinitely though, they're eventually going to require a Reform of strategy. Either way, the Govt will be Green with envy at these statistics.

29/8/2025, 10:38:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably playing far out on the right-wing

29/8/2025, 10:17:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LibDems

29/8/2025, 9:34:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's probably only even a Conservative estimate... I really think Starmer is going to Labour the point on concerns around immigration. It can't go on indefinitely though, they're eventually going to require a Reform of strategy. Either way, the Govt will be Green with envy at these statistics.

29/8/2025, 9:34:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

What a fucking turnip

29/8/2025, 9:23:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like true socialism has often been outside the scope of the Overton window of British politics, but I guess Galloway et al represent their more socially conservative but economically left-wing contingent

29/8/2025, 7:35:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RG Poulussen (@rgpoulussen.bsky.social) reposted

#OTD in 1943. A rather relaxed picture of Eisenhower and Montgomery. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Profile picture Rose ๐ŸŒน (@rose.bsky.team) reposted

she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...

29/8/2025, 5:25:55 PM | 10910 1580 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Caroline Lucas (@carolinelucas.bsky.social) reposted

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying โ€ฆ

29/8/2025, 8:01:41 AM | 2766 1461 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

... The enjoyer of furls - Nodoffenheimer

28/8/2025, 10:49:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely- couldn't agree more with your synopsis! It had the whole package imo; atmosphere, gameplay, music score and decent graphics for mid 90s.

28/8/2025, 7:46:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Well played. No need to confess either, you're solidly in the right here. Perhaps diarrhea sufferers should start a mass movement.

28/8/2025, 5:53:06 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social)

The original mid-90s Tomb Raider on PS1.

28/8/2025, 5:43:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Never had the N64 but remember playing a demo of Mario on one in a "Game" shop. Even from that I saw something pretty special. The seminal one for me was the original Tomb Raider on PS1.

28/8/2025, 5:42:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An original twist on the classic stag chant...

28/8/2025, 5:40:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Merrick (@johnmerrick.bsky.social) reposted

Very proud this week to be publishing this terrific essay by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social on the long and complex history of far right involvement in the British countryside in this week's @the-breakdown.bsky.social newsletter

28/8/2025, 12:41:36 PM | 36 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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He looks like a voodoo witchdoctor has reanimated a putrid leg of ham.

28/8/2025, 3:44:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha yeh. Do they want to be seen, or not?

27/8/2025, 5:42:53 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 4:49:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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JFC as if London pubs aren't expensive enough already

27/8/2025, 4:43:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 4:40:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

If your news content teaches you that Keir Starmer is somehow personally responsible for a woman committing a crime, pleading guilty, and going to prison then it's probably not news at all, it's propaganda.

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Profile picture Henry Mance (@henrymance.ft.com) reposted

YouGov (Aug 26-27): Reform: 29 (-1) Labour: 19 (-1) Taliban: 40 (+40)

27/8/2025, 9:14:22 AM | 724 140 | View on Bluesky | view

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Orwellian stuff

27/8/2025, 7:43:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) reposted

Sir Anthony Seldon, "It is extraordinarily raw and frightening for a country that has championed respect for human rights, to be even contemplating this" "It is a failure of government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer not to get ahead, none of this couldn't have been foreseen"

27/8/2025, 7:36:41 AM | 610 226 | View on Bluesky | view

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Give this guy a poo-motion

27/8/2025, 6:41:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Odense Aarhus-holes ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ

27/8/2025, 6:40:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) reposted

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage helped cause this problem in the first place" "Brexit has meant we're not able to force the French to take illegal immigrants coming over on small boats back"

26/8/2025, 11:39:00 PM | 799 287 | View on Bluesky | view

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Turns out we actually DO negotiate with terrorists...

27/8/2025, 6:26:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fucking hell. Who made the satireverse reality and where's the reset button?

26/8/2025, 6:17:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

OK fair enough, but you still owe us for those Panamanian colonies that went tits up ๐Ÿ˜‰

26/8/2025, 5:39:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) reposted

10 years since the first Syrian refugees arrived in Bute, it has become a home for people who fled war ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ'My best time I spent here, with very good people' Read the full story: www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

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Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

We need some 1970s style price controls. A litre of petrol should cost no more than 53p and a pint of beer should never exceed ยฃ2.19p.

26/8/2025, 1:55:05 PM | 57 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social)

Where's the centre-right gone? Could've sworn I left it on the hall table...

26/8/2025, 3:44:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed! Various REM & RHCP albums for me ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐ŸŽถ

26/8/2025, 12:01:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Suggest you don't go on a couple's weekend to Rome.

26/8/2025, 11:22:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Which country? That could apply to a lot of places these days.

26/8/2025, 7:22:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a strange chap

25/8/2025, 10:49:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A. J. Stoin (@andystoin.bsky.social) reply parent

Tbf North Korea is probably the most authoritarian country on the planet, so i suppose that's why it's used as a low bar for comparison. For balance, there are obviously plenty of beautiful and democratic nations in Asia overall of course

25/8/2025, 10:38:58 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Credit where credit is due, the Spanish invented concentration camps, in Cuba.

25/8/2025, 10:36:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I heard Joe Pasquale twice on TV yesterday. Perhaps we're also in some kind of Pasqualeverse too?

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It was a mandatory A-level back in the early 2000s. Thought it was still the case?

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He's still trying to wind us all up isn't he?

25/8/2025, 7:59:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or a couple of nukes...

24/8/2025, 9:41:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Social class in Britain is a bit of a Blur nowadays

24/8/2025, 8:01:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Social class in Britain is a bit of Blur now anyway

24/8/2025, 7:59:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The endless bickering of Cockneys ruined it for me some time ago...

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"And prepare to enter, The Darkman..."

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Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

Nothing says I love my country more than a shitty polyester flag, bought on an American tax dodging website, made in China

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Profile picture BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) (@bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social) reposted

BBC Radio 6 Music Radcliffe and Maconie Now Playing Todd Terje Inspector Norse

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Technically you could go to Scotland, but I doubt they'd want you there either

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We should strive for a world with Dreamcasts and C5s

23/8/2025, 11:47:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing makes sense outside of the British Commonwealth, you can't even get a decent cuppa for love nor money

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