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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Aug 06, 2026

Your regular reminder that it's too bad stupidity isn't painful:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Aug 05, 2026

Today's inspirational message:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Aug 05, 2026

Replying to @toddbuddy@4bear.com

@toddbuddy@4bear.com I'm sure I'll be back - this wasn't my first visit - although not until the orange fascist shitbag is either dead or in prison.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Aug 04, 2026

Twenty-one years ago: (Actually, twenty-one years ago last week. I was there for a conference.)

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 31, 2026

It just wants to focus on your salad. (The bargain-brand version is made from Cybill Shepherd.)

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 28, 2026

My God, what she must have gone through.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 28, 2026

An "act capable of outraging public decency" with a six-foot-tall fibreglass sculpture of an elephant. I think I need an aspirin.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 24, 2026

The climate crisis, encapsulated in a single picture. (The photograph is by Maximilien Lamy, for Agence France-Presse.)

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 22, 2026

Tragedy, When the feeling's gone and you can't go on It's tragedy, When the morning cries and you don't know why It's hard to bear, With no-one to love you, You're going nowhere... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/sculptor-charlie-kirk-statue-new-york

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 20, 2026

Many thanks to the Toronto Star for inadvertently showing us why we should all use the Oxford Comma. Apparently Sylvia had some, let's say, complicated hobbies:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 18, 2026

Today's inspirational message:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @toddbuddy@4bear.com

@toddbuddy@4bear.com They're a kind of soft, flat-ish (but leavened) bread roll. Very common in the part of the UK where I grew up, but not always easy to find where I live now. They don't really resemble anything you'd call a muffin - they're softer than "English muffins", which are not English, and they aren't cooked on a griddle. They're called oven bottom muffins because traditionally they were cooked on the floor of the oven - and in that part of the UK, 'muffin' is a generic term for a bread roll.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 17, 2026

You can take me out of Oldham, but...

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 17, 2026

Elephants! (…invading my neighbourhood.)

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 15, 2026

And Trump wonders why the EU and the UK import almost no meat/dairy/produce from the USA. We can't sell food products that don't meet our food production standards. Not coincidentally, we also have a vastly lower per-capita rate of food poisoning. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2jl23k2l2o

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 12, 2026

How fortunate for us all that there were cameras nearby to capture the magic. (And really, what a group. Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest, and Off-the-fucking-charts. Looking at this lot, you'd be forgiven for wondering if Darwin was wrong.)

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 10, 2026

Art. https://www.instagram.com/p/DanbdWQhlPk/?hl=en

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 08, 2026

Random travel flashback: the Tokyo Skytree, which I didn’t go up because I don’t like heights, seen from a train:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 08, 2026

Feel the burn.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 06, 2026

Depressing, though not surprising, to see Mr. Wrong DeSantis parroting the arrogant and inaccurate myth that the USA single-handedly saved Europe from fascism in World War Two. And grimly ironic, given that Mr. DeSantis himself now represents a fascist regime.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 05, 2026

No, this is not about his bowels. OK, OK, we should clarify: this is not JUST about his bowels.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jul 04, 2026

When you have to chop and de-seed two fresh and two dried/rehydrated chillies…

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jun 27, 2026

Today's inspirational message:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · May 15, 2026

Here's the United States Ambassador to Greece, doing her best to show the world that in 2026 satire is redundant:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · May 05, 2026

Apparently the Torygraph's Charles Moore isn't getting any.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @toddbuddy@4bear.com

@toddbuddy@4bear.com Going across it on a train is weirdly anticlimactic, but there are places on both sides where you can get a good view. There are also sightseeing boat tours, though I've never done that. (And it's far too long since I was last in Edinburgh.)

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · May 04, 2026

Yes, it’s that time again...

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2026

It shouldn't be possible to be THIS stupid:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Apr 09, 2026

Don't say I never bring you anything highbrow:

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Apr 01, 2026

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Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online

Somehow this detail had passed me by. The death penalty - in any country, for any crime, under any circumstances - is morally repugnant. Any politician who wears something like this is unfit for public office. Any human being who wears something like this is morally repugnant on a level that is off the charts. This is vile.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Mar 31, 2026

Goals...

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jan 30, 2026

Boosted by

Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

I don't think he liked it.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jan 22, 2026

Boosted by

Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

Mmm. Whirled peas.

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · Jan 12, 2026

Boosted by

Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

If any of the MAGA/Reform idiots who bombard social media with posts about how "London has fallen" could actually read, this would probably make them spontaneously combust. Better fetch some popcorn, just in case. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/london-homicide-rate-drops-to-lowest-in-more-than-a-decade?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwY2xjawPSIj9icmlkETFZcE1ZZW9UWUYwS1RjdkFRc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgJHIgcDh-4Hw22q-nI26L8utTIbg0uP1ZgfIfspOEDzBpTjtrnFsAPgcTBO&brid=2DFHouVQcw8L08xau-BMDg

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow@mstdn.social · May 16, 2025

Yep. I can go from zero to block in under four seconds.

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