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Stephen Johnson
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Snark, sarcasm, whimsy. Since 1967.

Also https://mastodon.online/@stephenjjohnson
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The Empire Strikes Back
(1980)
Dir. Irvin Kershner
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Spectacularly good.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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#ALL50RTS

Day 38

Nik Kershaw - Roses (The Riddle, 1984)

You can't say we weren't warned. Nik warned us back in '84.

youtu.be/Qgz1V4PDDM0?...
Roses
YouTube video by Nik Kershaw - Topic
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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FIFA is asking for volunteers for the 2026 World Cup.

VOLUNTEERS!

FIFA is a $6 billion USDollar company.

It can and should pay wages for the labour to put on its biggest revenue-generating event.

People of Vancouver, don’t fall for this nonsense.
Inside FIFA
The official site of the international governing body of football with news, national associations, competitions, results, fixtures, development, organisation, world rankings, statistics, the Internat...
inside.fifa.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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If you’re simply indifferent or actively hostile toward the rights of trans people, believing the EHRC ruling is just ‘common sense’ that ‘brings clarity’ as Starmer suggests, or think it’s provisions won’t affect you as a cis person … think again.

catherinebutler-32080.medium.com/the-ehrcs-co...
The EHRC’s Code of Practice will Hurt Cis People Too
It’s a sad but unsurprising fact that most people don’t care all that much about trans people’s right to participate in society. Of course…
catherinebutler-32080.medium.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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No Kings in LFK.
June 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Know Your Rights: Encountering ICE
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Know Your Rights: Encountering ICE
Quick references and resources for navigating encounters with ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer.

21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences.

Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
June 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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from today's Memorial Day post, on the shameless hypocrisy of Republicans who claim to love our troops and then vote to let them die.
link to the whole enchilada is here: bit.ly/44PgvqP
please and thank you for reading it!
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
May 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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+BBC CLOCK COMPETITION+

We won't be making a run of these but this Bank Holiday weekend you can win a one-off 90s inspired BBC ident clock. Follow, Like & RP to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. We've also restocked our 'Radiophonic' inspired signs & other items.

hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"An Orgy of Corruption"

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
May 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations.

Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
April 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.

1/
March 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Jfc, check out what Trump has done to the White House site. It won't take long. It looks like he had Pimply Broccoli Hair Jr. slap together some pages between classes.

www.whitehouse.gov
The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, a...
www.whitehouse.gov
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Sorry, Mexico and Canada, we elected a dimwitted shitheel
January 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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If you are in the Manchester area, like comedy and are “Intellectually curious”, give these folks a follow and try one of their gigs. Academics doing short comedy routines about their work. Much fun.
Updated poster for Monday
November 18, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
November 2, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Watching The Mandalorian and wondering why nobody thought to call it "Walker, Tusken Raider".
September 10, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Happy Rice Truck Saga Day to those who celebrate it
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
September 4, 2024 at 5:35 PM
I woke up this morning with the chant from "The Roof Is On Fire" on a loop in my head.

That can't be good...
August 18, 2024 at 3:56 PM
I have arrived.

As you were.
February 8, 2024 at 3:04 AM