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Stephanie McKenzie

@stephaniemac.bsky.social

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From Belfast NI, love Bowie 🥰 classic rock, TV and films. No unsolicited DM‘s, I’m not here for dating, OK? *Being put on a list doesn’t mean you agree with the owner!*

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · Mar 22

And the reason why is @clearsky.app puts up the accounts added to a troll list before the creator was deleted and describes them as ‘subscribers’ even if you never subscribed to it. So anyone who see it months later thinks that you subscribed to it 🤦‍♀️

Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · Mar 22

So this is why I keep getting blocked, some trolls added me to lists, I didn’t subscribe to them and blocked the owner whose accounts are now deleted. But somehow I still show up on these lists and some people are massblocking 🙄 @mistyswoman.bsky.social

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 59m

Thank you David, to coin a phrase, “Curiouser and Curiouser…”

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2h

NEW

Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions

How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/trying-to-...

The more one knows about this case, the more confusing it becomes.

The CPS insists on further evidence it does not require, and the government insists it could not give that evidence, even though it could.

Neither side makes sense, and together they make no sense absolutely.

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 1h

Based on similar cases in NI, someone may have suddenly realised that proceeding with the case would compromise a source or an ongoing operation or reveal something very embarrassing for the state.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11h

Good luck to Bad Bunny, this is what he has to compete with in the Alternative Super Bowl halftime.

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 6h

14/30 #80sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusisSky

Pet Shop Boys -Always on My Mind

Another from Neil and Chris, a song that I really relate to.

youtu.be/RCHSkXFB46g?...

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Highway to the Cool Zone @skaboomizzy.bsky.social · 7h

I don't have Ed's sources but it feels to me like the entire AI industry that is propping up our entire economy is 8-10 hooting tehcbros tossing around a gigantic flaming bag of money that is losing value every second and counting it as "revenue" every time they touch it and pass it off

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

On Friday I’m going to have a premium newsletter with a generous (2600 word) free intro about the nasty demands of Sam Altman and OpenAI. They need $161 billion in the next six months - it’s the only way for them to complete any of the plans they have agreed to. A truly nonsensical time.

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 15h

Pardon in 3,2…. 🤮

Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 15h

“What happens after you die?”

“The same thing that happened before you were born, nothing.”

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ismua ᴮˡᵘᵉˢᵏʸ ᴱˡᵈᵉʳ📯 🌈⛵💜 @ismua.bsky.social · 16h

#BlueZicos 🦋
#MusicChallenge 🎶
#TheGauls 🐓

Mercredi: César et Brutus

🗣 Morcheeba
🔊 Rome wasn't built in a day

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 16h

Years ago I heard a rumour about her and Airey Neave…

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 16h

Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, claims new book

www.thetimes.com/article/a316...

Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, claims new book

Tina Gaudoin claims in The Incidental Feminist that the former prime minister had two affairs: one early in her career as an MP and one with another politician

www.thetimes.com

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BlueCrew community @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 1d

Stay strong #Portland

#BlueCrew #TruthWarriors #Resist #ResistTrump #StrongerTogether #JusticeForAll

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Stephanie McKenzie @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know what’s scarier, that he’s lying or if he really believes this…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

GREER: I think China realizes they've overstepped

CNBC: You think they realize they overstepped? Their statement says 'if forced to fight, China will fight to the end'