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Mark Brown
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Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
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markoneinfour.bsky.social
I think 2026 will be the year when wild ultra right wingers really go for it and also the year where they absolutely fuck it. Their ideas are wrong and don't work and undermine any structures and support that would be needed to prop them up. They're going to go end of season finale then collapse
January 1, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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im.a.whole.damn.town
Twin Peaks: Julee Cruise performing on stage at the Roadhouse.
Julee Cruise performing on stage at the Roadhouse. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Happy new year love Morcar
A game of heroquest in progress.
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
The modern experience is people who aren't good people telling you that you aren't a good person
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday One of my favourite weird Christmas tales, the classic account by Jean Hingley of Rowley Regis, Birmingham, of being visited on the 4th of January 1979 by three fairy-like UFOnauts who discussed Jesus, the Queen and Tommy Steele with her before she offered them some mince pies.
Drawing of a small UFO pilot with large sparkly wings, a head encased in a glass helmet with a light on top, large black eyes and dangling limbs
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Well, that was a festive migraine aura! Like having tinsel but IN MY EYES.
December 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
This is worth your time. I find myself at a similar impasse in my late forties. There's actually not that much available to do that makes it possible to make new friends rather than being acquainted with people. Further education doesn't really exist as a hobby, volunteering is another job
December 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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samwhyte.bsky.social
And maybe it's been kinda nice knowing our work wasn't being judged on whether or not some dude wanted to bang us, idk.
youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
It's kind of weird seeing everyone in the world attack the places people go to talk to each other about how everything in our material lives fuckin sucks but not attack all the material aspects of our lives that fuckin suck like where's the black box warning on our cops, bosses & landlords lol
New York to require mental health warning labels on social media platforms (META:NASDAQ)
New York to require mental health warning labels on social media platforms. Read more here.
seekingalpha.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Has anyone banging on about Britain being full ever actually visited the British countryside? It's massive and sparsely populated. Similarly how come being English is both the strongest unbreakable thing people know about themselves but also so fragile it can't survive contact with any other culture
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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ballardbot.bsky.social
The sight of the Renault burning in the night had excited me.
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Who the fuck decided there wasn't enough creative people to go around rather than there wasn't enough people paying creative people to go around?
December 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
One of the best songs ever and one of the best videos ever. Merry Christmas everyone

youtu.be/x3XW6NLILqo?...
New Order - The Perfect Kiss (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]
YouTube video by New Order
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Nightmares On Wax - A Word Of Science (The 1st & Final Chapter)

www.discogs.com/master/80229...
December 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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markoneinfour.bsky.social
There's lots of free libraries around mine. Out on a walk today I picked up a history of school uniform 'Blazers, Badges & Boaters: a pictorial history of school uniform' by Alexander Davidson. It contains this account of a 'City restaurant' beloved of 'City gents'
Very popular amongst City gents is School Dinners, the central London restaurant. Here waitresses dressed like schoolgirls except for their black tights dole out school meals. In the background, a mock schoolmaster in gown and mortarboard flexes a cane. Customers are sent into the corner wearing a dunce's cap, and may be forced to do lines. This restaurant is often full. What a feast misty-eyed old boys are in for, as they scramble into the cellar restaurant whose walls are crammed with school photos, story book covers and other such tributes to the school classroom. As you sit down at the table to order, for example, Matron's Secret Recipe and St. Trinian's Choice, service is provided by delightful young waitresses with striped ties, tight grey pleated skirts, half-cocked boaters and lacrosse sticks, who attend to every (reasonable) whim. They will even rebuke customers for sneaking, or for bad table manners. In the true school spirit PeePee the little black waiter dressed like a schoolboy, passes amongst the tables causing merriment. The menu consists of nostalgic dishes such as apple crumble, spotty dick and all those old school favourites, only this time marvellously cooked and extremely appetising. Meanwhile the waitresses lean over the table suggestively, and crack naughty jokes. But the real fun starts with a 'Headmaster's caning'. The hapless victim, usually a birthday boy or bridegroom-to-be on his stag night, is hauled before the 'Headmaster' - School Dinners' general manager in a mortar board and gown. He is bent over and given a mock caning by two 'schoolgirl' waitresses, while the Headmaster beats a gong to accompany every stroke. The caning last long and appears hard. The diners ex-public school City people, and, increasingly others, are in a seventh heaven! What a delicious trip down memory lane this is! Of course, it is fun, not real perversion, and many business deals are swung in this atmosphere.
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
There's lots of free libraries around mine. Out on a walk today I picked up a history of school uniform 'Blazers, Badges & Boaters: a pictorial history of school uniform' by Alexander Davidson. It contains this account of a 'City restaurant' beloved of 'City gents'
Very popular amongst City gents is School Dinners, the central London restaurant. Here waitresses dressed like schoolgirls except for their black tights dole out school meals. In the background, a mock schoolmaster in gown and mortarboard flexes a cane. Customers are sent into the corner wearing a dunce's cap, and may be forced to do lines. This restaurant is often full. What a feast misty-eyed old boys are in for, as they scramble into the cellar restaurant whose walls are crammed with school photos, story book covers and other such tributes to the school classroom. As you sit down at the table to order, for example, Matron's Secret Recipe and St. Trinian's Choice, service is provided by delightful young waitresses with striped ties, tight grey pleated skirts, half-cocked boaters and lacrosse sticks, who attend to every (reasonable) whim. They will even rebuke customers for sneaking, or for bad table manners. In the true school spirit PeePee the little black waiter dressed like a schoolboy, passes amongst the tables causing merriment. The menu consists of nostalgic dishes such as apple crumble, spotty dick and all those old school favourites, only this time marvellously cooked and extremely appetising. Meanwhile the waitresses lean over the table suggestively, and crack naughty jokes. But the real fun starts with a 'Headmaster's caning'. The hapless victim, usually a birthday boy or bridegroom-to-be on his stag night, is hauled before the 'Headmaster' - School Dinners' general manager in a mortar board and gown. He is bent over and given a mock caning by two 'schoolgirl' waitresses, while the Headmaster beats a gong to accompany every stroke. The caning last long and appears hard. The diners ex-public school City people, and, increasingly others, are in a seventh heaven! What a delicious trip down memory lane this is! Of course, it is fun, not real perversion, and many business deals are swung in this atmosphere.
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
May be time for you to have another Matchmaker before they are usurped at sunset by their savoury half brother: Twiglet
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Go on, have a Matchmaker
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
I hope you all get to have a Matchmaker and a nice sit down
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
I wonder what people would've watched at Christmas if streaming had been available in 1979? England had a whole culture and sense of 'the world' built around what was on the telly in the 1970s and now there is no chance of that happening ever again and I don't think it knows how to handle that
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Blimey. That's been a year of work. Last newspapers of 2025 are off to print. I spent the year selling advertising in them. We increased our page count, sold enough ads not to go under AND brought our communities thousands of news stories in print and online. Ask me anything about local newspapers
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
I think the MCU is a very expensive way to give the soap opera experience to people who maintain they don't like soap opera
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d
I would finesse this only to add a 'Marvel and DC' ahead of 'comic books'. What is satisfying about most non-Marvel and DC comic books is that they are stories with a beginning, middle and end.
amrk.bsky.social Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 8d
Ok here’s my moderately spicy take - most of the 2019 MCU’s problems are because it’s too much like comic books now. And most people (not all but most, including me) just prefer films to comic books and always have
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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galopuk.bsky.social
We hope everyone is able to be their authentic selves over the festive period, but we know this isn't always possible 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Whether or not you change your behaviour or how you dress, please know that your identity is still valid and you're not to blame for any anti-LGBT+ abuse you experience.
Bold text on a lilac background emphasising how it's not your fault if you experience anti-LGBT+ abuse or violence. Above the text, there is a heart with the pride progress flag colours.
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
markoneinfour.bsky.social
Barry Cryer
Diana Dors
David Frost
Alan Whicker
Bernie Winters (and his dog)
Tony Slattery
Ken Campbell
Mike Yarwood
Wendy Richard
Frank Bough
Micheal Winner
Lew Grade
Mary Millington
Mary Whitehouse
Mary the punk off of Eastenders
Dean Sullivan
preachypreach.bsky.social Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9d
Just starting a running thread for “once famous figures now slipping into recondite knowledge now that they’ve died and society moves on” to come back to as and when I remember

=1 Peter Cook and/or Dudley Moore
December 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM