Dru Stephenson
@dru-step.bsky.social
UK actor. Regularly distracted by my child.
Occasional proofreader.
www.drustephenson.com
Occasional proofreader.
www.drustephenson.com
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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I don't understand why people won't stop buying stuff!! Just stop
By 'stuff' I don't mean food and books etc. I mean Teslas, crap from Temu and £50 water bottles
By 'stuff' I don't mean food and books etc. I mean Teslas, crap from Temu and £50 water bottles
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don't understand why people won't stop buying stuff!! Just stop
By 'stuff' I don't mean food and books etc. I mean Teslas, crap from Temu and £50 water bottles
By 'stuff' I don't mean food and books etc. I mean Teslas, crap from Temu and £50 water bottles
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Look at Facebook:
Advert, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper other side of U.K., Advert, Advert, Reel, Magazine Article About Comic Book, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper the other side of U.K. but in a different direction to the last one, Advert, Status posted by Friend.
Advert, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper other side of U.K., Advert, Advert, Reel, Magazine Article About Comic Book, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper the other side of U.K. but in a different direction to the last one, Advert, Status posted by Friend.
October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Look at Facebook:
Advert, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper other side of U.K., Advert, Advert, Reel, Magazine Article About Comic Book, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper the other side of U.K. but in a different direction to the last one, Advert, Status posted by Friend.
Advert, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper other side of U.K., Advert, Advert, Reel, Magazine Article About Comic Book, Advert, Newspaper story from local newspaper the other side of U.K. but in a different direction to the last one, Advert, Status posted by Friend.
There's definitely been an uptick in AI interference in WhatsApp & beyond. My spell check is 'correcting' fully correct words for entirely different (& inappropriate) ones. Losers becomes lovers; Rosanna becomes Hosanna - in a Contacts name field?!
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
There's definitely been an uptick in AI interference in WhatsApp & beyond. My spell check is 'correcting' fully correct words for entirely different (& inappropriate) ones. Losers becomes lovers; Rosanna becomes Hosanna - in a Contacts name field?!
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
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Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.
Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show
Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.
www.ok.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
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'[...]the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen & you’ll pay an average of 25% more than you would for your best match – which [...] is located 17 places down in a [...] search result.'
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
'[...]the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen & you’ll pay an average of 25% more than you would for your best match – which [...] is located 17 places down in a [...] search result.'
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Confused about Netanyahu inviting racist convicted fraudster, stalker and Luton Town and low-quality cocaine fan Steven “Oh Tommy Tommy Robinson” Yaxley Lennon to 🇮🇱?
Don’t be.
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Don’t be.
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October 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Confused about Netanyahu inviting racist convicted fraudster, stalker and Luton Town and low-quality cocaine fan Steven “Oh Tommy Tommy Robinson” Yaxley Lennon to 🇮🇱?
Don’t be.
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Don’t be.
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.
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If you want to know what actual racism looks like, what conflating a whole ethnicity and culture with the actions of a foreign government look like, then look no further than Starmer using the horrific event in Manchester to attack the pro-Palestine marches. The absolute shame.
October 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If you want to know what actual racism looks like, what conflating a whole ethnicity and culture with the actions of a foreign government look like, then look no further than Starmer using the horrific event in Manchester to attack the pro-Palestine marches. The absolute shame.
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So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.
September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.
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Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
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Saying that the St George flag waved at a far-right march is a symbol which “belongs to all of us” is like calmly discussing the elegance of Sanskrit symbolism and design during a Nuremberg rally.
September 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Saying that the St George flag waved at a far-right march is a symbol which “belongs to all of us” is like calmly discussing the elegance of Sanskrit symbolism and design during a Nuremberg rally.
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You don't have to be Lebanese but it helps
July 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You don't have to be Lebanese but it helps
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If you don’t know how cooked we are. This is where we are at. This pot is boiling, frogs, and we’d better put out the fire and fast. Because that man is not alone in thinking this way. We are all about to be served on platters for oligarchs.
July 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you don’t know how cooked we are. This is where we are at. This pot is boiling, frogs, and we’d better put out the fire and fast. Because that man is not alone in thinking this way. We are all about to be served on platters for oligarchs.
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Sorry, WHAT?!
Wow! Scientists engineered E. coli to convert plastic waste (PET) into pain medicine paracetamol (acetaminophen or Tylenol) in under 24 hours with up to 92% yield.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#medsky #pharmsky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#medsky #pharmsky 🧪
Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli
Study highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol.
www.nature.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sorry, WHAT?!
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God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
June 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
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Legislate. No one needs these cars.
Research with @transenv.bsky.social finds that average bonnet height in newly-sold cars is increasing by 0.5cm a year, reaching 83.8cm in 2024, up from 76.9cm in 2010.
This increases severity of crashes & reduce drivers’ visibility. Clear need for regulation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
This increases severity of crashes & reduce drivers’ visibility. Clear need for regulation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
High-fronted vehicles are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe with the UK an extreme example
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Legislate. No one needs these cars.
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Right. Tax it to the fucking skies.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
That's a long time in the microwave.
mashable.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Right. Tax it to the fucking skies.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.
Make it cost what it costs. Make it unfeasible to use.
Then stop using it.