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Mark Slater

@markslater.bsky.social

If you see me posting here, remind me I have too many books, BluRays, DVDs, comics & games to get through to be wasting time on socials. Those backlogs aren’t going to clear themselves. Occasional maker of THINGS. @MarkSlater42 on Letterboxd (He/Him)

created October 12, 2023

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Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

How had I missed this? Anyhow, this post has garnered you at least one sale. 🙂

2/9/2025, 7:15:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

These desperately need to be reissued by some enterprising soul.

2/9/2025, 6:57:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

He appears to spend 18 hours a day doing nothing but obsessively spewing hate on X - he’s absolutely broken.

2/9/2025, 5:44:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Disgusting the way his defenders are characterising this as him being arrested for ‘making a joke’. Suggesting that people should verbally attack and physically assault trans women in bathrooms isn’t a joke unless you’re sick in the head (which at this point I suspect he is)!

2/9/2025, 4:57:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Anytime. Always more the merrier in my home cinema.

2/9/2025, 1:53:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Many people don’t even know a lot of their favourite films were originally in 3D. I did an anaglyph screening of ‘The Creature From The Black Lagoon’ at a British SF Convention in Bradford in 2009. I also dressed as the Creature with rubber mask and claws and ran around the audience.

2/9/2025, 1:46:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

You can still easily get projectors with 3D capability. My TV and projector both have it, but despite have a *lot* of 3D blurays (including a lot of old stuff as well as MCU) I find I rarely use it - but yes, it should be available. This has happened following every generation of 3D ‘fad’.

2/9/2025, 1:43:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social)

Anyone still using Facebook(or have it installed) - you need to get on this *immediately*.

2/9/2025, 1:16:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social)

www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgoo...

2/9/2025, 1:08:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social)

@severinfilms.bsky.social delivery has arrived.

‘Kill List’ 4K & Bluray along with a ‘Kill List’ enamel pin from Severin Films.
2/9/2025, 8:20:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

And when they started releasing dis tracks between each other. youtu.be/0iRTB-FTMdk

2/9/2025, 7:52:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

And Professor Elemental youtu.be/eELH0ivexKA

2/9/2025, 7:51:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I assume you’re familiar with Mr.B youtu.be/Bj7J7vXCf5w

2/9/2025, 7:50:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted

You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

1/9/2025, 9:59:19 PM | 499 235 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Back before Tony Parsons completely lost his mind and became the tedious old right wing bore we always suspected he had lurking within him.

2/9/2025, 7:31:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

OMG! It’s real!

1/9/2025, 2:29:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Ironically, the British people pointing out your idiotic nonsense are far from being nationalists as you choose to put it. The nationalists are as ignorant and racist as you appear to be and would have wanted the creators of Chicken Tikka Masala deported.

1/9/2025, 2:25:44 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

A sort of prototype for ‘Drop The Dead Donkey’ with newspapers rather than TV News.

1/9/2025, 7:34:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Simon Threadgold (@dimwittedly.bsky.social) reposted

#DoctorWho

Dr Who Logopolis: Dr Who, lying on the grass under the steel struts at the base of the radio telescope. Caption: Ow. Dr Who Logopolis: Dr Who, lying on the grass under the steel struts at the base of the radio telescope. Caption: Ow. Ow. Ow. Dr Who Logopolis: Dr Who, lying on the grass under the steel struts at the base of the radio telescope. Caption: Fucking ow. Dr Who Logopolis: Dr Who, lying on the grass under the steel struts at the base of the radio telescope. Nyssa, Tegan and Adric kneeling beside him. Caption: I meant to do that. Didn't hurt.
1/9/2025, 7:23:14 AM | 89 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Same. Also with BluRays. I still occasionally end up with duplicates I have to eBay or gift to people.

31/8/2025, 9:54:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe a Bluetooth transmitter with phono inputs? Then use a Bluetooth speaker with decent max volume? amzn.eu/d/fV3hq55

31/8/2025, 7:15:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Does it have an external line out? Is it one of those modern things with Bluetooth capability?

31/8/2025, 6:50:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Fair enough. Sometimes the flippers drop their price and have to wipe their nose a couple of weeks down the line. The other thing is that someone might be upgrading to a slipcase and be offloading their standard edition.

31/8/2025, 6:48:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Might be worth keeping an eye on eBay for the next couple of weeks in case anyone is flipping it.

31/8/2025, 6:28:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I have an alarm set on my phone for 5pm (UK time) for the next few days to avoid FOMO.

31/8/2025, 6:25:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

No worries.

31/8/2025, 6:14:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Although they’ve currently got a massive sale on - so beware as their website is potentially dangerous.

31/8/2025, 3:21:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a VS subscription so get free shipping, so happy to buy it for you and post it on - you can pay me when you receive it. I’m happy because I get loyalty points.

31/8/2025, 3:20:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Let me know if you want to order the VS version - I can save you a lot on postage.

31/8/2025, 3:18:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

The VS edition has 4K, and two region free blurays and includes the 3D version in proper modern 3D or anaglyph (glasses included).

31/8/2025, 12:14:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Even the very fancy Vinegar Syndrome release is half price at the moment (and I can get it to the UK for you with free shipping).

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31/8/2025, 12:12:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

£17.99 hmv.com/store/film-t...

31/8/2025, 12:09:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Alive yes. Well? 🤔

31/8/2025, 12:05:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social)

Has anyone checked the White House roof?

30/8/2025, 3:11:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep - his idiot supporters would really go for something like that.

30/8/2025, 1:28:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

For fun? Some cracking posts this morning. I don’t think anyone genuinely believes it, but the collective energy of people wishing for it is spicy. If any of it gets back to him it might do the job. People should start posting obituaries (or fuck-eulogies as John Oliver used to put it).

30/8/2025, 1:28:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

😆

30/8/2025, 1:17:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 (@indiegamesooc.bsky.social) reposted

Undertale

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30/8/2025, 4:43:16 AM | 10887 3222 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Aargh - no it didn’t. Stop anthropomorphising this shit - even in jest.

30/8/2025, 9:02:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

People should start publishing their Fuck-eulogies anyway. That’d piss him off. The spike in blood pressure might do the job.

30/8/2025, 8:19:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social)

@arrowvideo.bsky.social Three months since you were arsed to post anything here - but I’m betting you’re still posting regularly in the Nazi bar.

29/8/2025, 4:46:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eleanor Morton (@eleanormorton.bsky.social) reposted

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

29/8/2025, 10:47:44 AM | 992 437 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

bsky.app/profile/mfur...

29/8/2025, 7:36:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Roger Corman was a man with his eye on the budget, but would probably be shaking his head in disappointment at his former protégé.

28/8/2025, 10:16:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Last nail in the Cameron coffin.

28/8/2025, 10:12:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Malcolm Furnass (@mfurnass.bsky.social) reposted

From this week’s Beano.

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28/8/2025, 10:28:28 AM | 1560 561 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no. That’s absolutely tragic. His contributions to Hammer documentaries were great - he was a British eccentric in all the very best ways.

28/8/2025, 9:34:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peg_Erman 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 (@pegerman.bsky.social) reposted

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Screen shot of Neil Fish posting
28/8/2025, 9:22:49 AM | 2335 730 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m reminded of Hunter S Thompson’s glorious eulogy for Richard Nixon.

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
27/8/2025, 10:53:57 PM | 121 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I personally tend to advertise my literary and/or artistic preferences via the medium of *incredibly* niche t-shirts (which will as a side effect generally display my complete lack of biceps). 😆

27/8/2025, 6:53:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Whether you cheated to get them is another thing - but nevertheless you still have them, and this is about immediate attraction, so pretty much amounts to the same. But fakers get found out eventually.

27/8/2025, 6:50:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

The downside being that people can fake liking art and literature, whereas you are actually wearing the jeans and have the biceps. You might affect a taste for highbrow literature without actually reading it (though you may come rapidly unstuck if questioned on it).

27/8/2025, 9:30:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s called context. If you’re unable to figure that out then maybe that’s why you’ve tried to hijack someone else’s post to make your own unrelated and frankly incoherent point.

27/8/2025, 9:03:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Erm … ok 🤷🏻‍♂️

26/8/2025, 8:53:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Shouldn’t really have to ‘pick up on it though’ - it should be so unequivocal that the media (including the Mirror) don’t have the opportunity to frame the response as a weak version of the same so-called ‘legitimate concerns’.

26/8/2025, 3:05:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

A lot of it is hyperbole for sure, but that leaves a lot of headroom for genuinely awful stuff still to be done if he persuades enough people to get him into a position of power - something I once thought was total fantasy and now am not so sure about.

26/8/2025, 2:48:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Had a little look and despite the headline, this reads less like ‘hits back’ and more like ‘nodding along’. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

26/8/2025, 2:27:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you have any useful links?

26/8/2025, 2:25:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

“Don’t worry - they won’t let it happen” has been proven time and again to be hopelessly optimistic.

26/8/2025, 2:21:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

They were told that Brexit would increase food prices. They didn’t understand that either. The connection here is even more complex & nuanced. They won’t understand the impact it will have on them until it’s too late. Sorry to be a downer but my faith in human nature & basic intelligence is failing.

26/8/2025, 2:20:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

In the current climate, it’s all they’ll need.

26/8/2025, 2:18:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Top item on the BBC News website as well. Whatever shit we may face in the future, it’s a tragedy that the BBC will be absolutely culpable.

26/8/2025, 1:55:14 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

An awful lot of the people who are going to vote for this do not have a pension, a mortgage or savings.

26/8/2025, 1:38:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

People were warned time & again that it would be a self inflicted blow to their individual financial circumstances and do untold damage to the wider economy and the welfare state. They chose not to believe it. Why is this any different? Same snake oil salesmen, same gullible people, different day.

26/8/2025, 1:36:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Best for Britain (@bestforbritain.org) reposted

Very on point from bjennings90.bsky.social ...

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26/8/2025, 12:23:46 PM | 165 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Brexit <\cough>

26/8/2025, 12:34:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Funny you should say that!

Guardian article; Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI GNM press office Fri 14 Feb 2025 14.05 GMT Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open Al, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian's high quality journalism to ChatGPT's global users. Under the partnership, Guardian reporting and archive journalism will be available as a news source within ChatGPT, alongside the publication of attributed short summaries and article extracts.
26/8/2025, 8:22:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

So, does your partnership with OpenAI make it necessary for you to appear to have lost your fucking minds? Seriously - this stuff serves only to torch what reputation you may have left. Is it worth it?

26/8/2025, 8:20:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

No - they’re specifically talking about the United States. So what they mean is exactly what they said and doesn’t require any whataboutery.

26/8/2025, 8:04:33 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

But sadly - Jared fucking Leto!!

25/8/2025, 8:45:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not sure how you ‘reclaim’ it exactly though. Putting up a rainbow flag next to it is fine, but I don’t think it’ll serve to in any way detoxify them and is just liable to end up in an arms race. I couldn’t give a stuff about the Union Flag or St George’s flag. I don’t want to see them at all.

25/8/2025, 4:49:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I think that ship has largely sailed. You really cannot have a rational conversation with many of these people. If I see them, they’re coming down and a notice attached to the lamp post saying if they return, they’ll be removed, sold on eBay and the proceeds donated to an asylum seekers charity.

25/8/2025, 3:49:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Contains the *really* good bits from ‘The Keep’ soundtrack.

25/8/2025, 1:43:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I blocked him first before he had the chance.

24/8/2025, 9:41:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep clutching those pearls.

24/8/2025, 9:35:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe you should get Max Headroom off your profile. It’s producers and Matt Frewer would probably think you were a cunt. But that’s just my belief.

24/8/2025, 9:31:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed she did - but that didn’t stop her launching an appeal, nor has it stopped her planning a case against the police.

24/8/2025, 8:18:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely. The horror!!!

24/8/2025, 8:04:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social)

@finger-post.blog Signed copy of ‘Heart of the Antarctic’ on tonight’s ’Antiques Roadshow’.

24/8/2025, 8:04:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Her absolute purity contrasted with the horror of what is about to happen to her is stark to say the least. I can understand why it might be a favourite painting for those drawn to the macabre.

24/8/2025, 7:54:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

You are such a knuckle dragger - you are beneath any further exchange. Time to block.

24/8/2025, 7:49:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Btw - ‘Yurop’ is larger than the U.S. and has considerably more history and culture. Your banner speaks volumes about what an ignorant prick you are.

24/8/2025, 7:48:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

There’s time. It’s not going away any time soon. You should be ashamed, I suspect it’ll take years though, and you’ll eventually be denying you ever supported him. You’ll have to internalise the shame, but whatever.

24/8/2025, 7:44:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Which part of ‘Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein recorded Trump with his victims’ don’t you understand? Different story now Trump is potentially able to grant a pardon. Anything else can get fucked, including your prevarication.

24/8/2025, 7:40:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Convicted people trafficker attempting to buy release says what?

BBC Headline - ‘Ghislaine Maxwell denies seeing 'inappropriate' conduct by Trump’
24/8/2025, 7:37:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Correction - her suggestions of further legal action against the police need to end in additional reputational and financial ruin.

24/8/2025, 7:21:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

She needs her appeal to flounder spectacularly and publicly with some heavy costs (although I expect her costs will be picked up by the usual suspects).

24/8/2025, 7:04:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re awesome. I would have absolutely complemented if I saw them in person.

24/8/2025, 6:48:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

But your defacing is *exquisite*.

24/8/2025, 6:46:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolute horror.

24/8/2025, 6:42:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

If they appear near me, I will cut the fucking things down in the wee small hours with little or no resistance.

24/8/2025, 6:40:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s sadly making its way up the BBC News agenda.

24/8/2025, 5:53:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Just replace them with rainbow flags. Absolutely!

24/8/2025, 3:11:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

If they appear near me I’ll be quietly cutting them down.

24/8/2025, 1:29:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

^that 🙄

24/8/2025, 12:28:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

My iPhone frequently wants to correct real words to gibberish - presumably based on my past typos or something?! 🤷🏻‍♂️

24/8/2025, 11:49:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

This really worries me. It occurs to me that it’s something the could easily be being financed and driven through astroturf groups by dark money, and looks almost designed to make things kick off in the streets.

BBC News headline - “National flags have started lining our streets. They may say something more.”
24/8/2025, 11:26:18 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

What really concerns me, is this sort of thing could be very easily financed on a massive scale through astroturf groups using willing idiots via dark money. The people who also finance Reform et al & numerous so-called think tanks really want it kicking off in the streets & this is how you’d do it.

24/8/2025, 11:21:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

Seen this shit? This worries me, because this is the sort of thing that could be quietly financed through astroturf groups to willing idiots with dark money and result in things kicking off in the street. I know if they appeared in my street I’d be pulling them down.

BBC News headline - “National flags have started lining our streets. They may say something more” - with article about groups of blokes around the country attaching Union Flags and St George’s flags to lamp posts.
24/8/2025, 11:04:38 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Slater (@markslater.bsky.social) reply parent

I was going to do that once they were down. Don’t want to damage any lamp posts - that would be *actual* criminal damage. 🙂

24/8/2025, 10:13:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view