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Stephen Graham

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PhD researcher: identity and development in University Service Unit cadets. Also historian, rake and villain.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · Nov 15

Y'know what's huge right now? Fascism!
Who knows what it is? Nobody!

Why not get a handle on it with a fascinating and fast-moving biography of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco? Written by me!

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191549014...

The Faces of Fascism - Mussolini, Hitler & Franco: Their Paths to Power: Amazon.co.uk: Graham, Stephen: 9781915490148: Books

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28m

"Well - no. Twitter stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not."

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 25m

That's the exact reason I left, and the boiled frog effect has blinded a lot of people to how utterly awful the user experience on there has become.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 33m

Anyway, it's a foggy, grey and drizzly day in Edinburgh and there's a fire drill scheduled for 10:10am. The most Monday kind of Monday you can get.

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 37m

My uncle was blind and campaigned against pavement clutter, so this sort of thing absolutely boils my piss.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1h

I hate these things.

Got mobility issues? Pushing a pram? Simply need to walk down this pavement? FUCK YOU - GET IN THE ROAD YOU PIECE OF SHIT, WE NEED THIS SPACE FOR SCOOTERS

A load of electric scooters completely blocking the pavement outside the Victoria Gallery and Museum at Liverpool University.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 41m

Always amused by the 'Why is [celebrity] doing [this I don't approve of], they're already wealthy' opinion on here, as if rich people famously set themselves an upper limit.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1h

Aah, for a moment I thought it might have been an actual historian.

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1h

My 'Still Hate Lord North' t-shirt has raised many questions already answered by etc.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1h

Who dis?

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1h

On the Up.

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1h

Swinney is evoking her in his speech later. Lord knows how they'll react when they find out she isn't PM anymore.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky would give Der Stürmer a pass if they did enough gags about JK Rowling.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 13h

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 2h

*sucks air through teeth*

Yeah luv, that's a feature on that model.

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 2h

Sending positive vibes and hoping the car gets a jump-start.

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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 13h

Pretty sure that meme was created by actual white supremacists so congrats to the Onion person for being trash

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 13h

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 2h

Looking great, though 👍

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 11h

Here's a little something for when randoms turn up in your mentions demanding you explain what you're posting about

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 3h

American here, I demand full context for this and an explanation as to how it is about me personally.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 3h

Had a very vivid dream that I had kidnapped Farage. Which I would obviously never do as that would involve being in the vicinity of Farage.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 3h

Monday

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 13h

Ten years younger than me, that lad.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, I put that in.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16h

Parky about to experience the Emu of the week ahead

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16h

Call me a heretic and birch my naughty bottom, but I feel like Only Murders gets boring whenever Meryl Streep turns up.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16h

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 19h

I like this pope.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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