Stephen Farrow

Writer, reader, grammarian, shower singer, theatre addict, news junkie, eyeball-roller. European. Powered by Vimto. Love language, hate sushi.  Void where prohibited. Cannot be successfully delivered to your location. Please think responsibly.

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2026-05-24 00:34:03 UTC

It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years.
Seven years ago tonight, at just about this time, my mum died. I know I’ve said this before, but she had the most beautiful smile - and an extraordinary ability to find joy, even when illness made her life very difficult.
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2026-05-16 19:18:56 UTC

I think what I love most about Eurovision is the subtle, restrained aesthetic.
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2026-03-28 13:28:42 UTC

Today on Duolingo, crabs. Lots and lots of crabs.
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2026-03-09 18:54:11 UTC

Balls.
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2026-02-01 21:35:00 UTC

These people are incredibly brave.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ice-agents-minneapolis-protest-minnesota-b2910626.html

2026-01-30 20:23:12 UTC

I don't think he liked it.
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2026-01-22 19:03:55 UTC

Mmm. Whirled peas.
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2026-01-06 21:07:39 UTC

Use-up-stuff-in-the-fridge dinner (and also tomorrow's lunch): rigatoni with a simple sauce made from fresh tomatoes, bacon, garlic, oregano, and cream. Well, Elmlea.
Fun fact: however good it might taste, until you dress the pasta with it, it is very difficult indeed to make a tomato-cream sauce look attractive.
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2025-10-01 17:47:29 UTC

It's October 1st. Fuck off.
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2025-09-27 17:09:49 UTC

Today's inspirational message:
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2025-09-18 15:55:06 UTC

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, fuck off.
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2025-08-26 19:10:19 UTC

Note to self: buy crumpets.
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2025-07-27 09:24:24 UTC

If you don’t want to get cancelled, Gregg, maybe try not to let people in your workplace see you walking around naked except for a sock covering your penis.
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2025-07-26 15:18:39 UTC

Let me say this as nicely as I can:
Fuck off, you brainless orange fascist gobshite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkiKpMDEREE

2025-07-15 18:52:36 UTC

ICE, ICE baby...
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2025-07-10 17:20:47 UTC

Don't all groan at once:
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2025-07-03 16:38:48 UTC

The US government just built a concentration camp in the Everglades.
And since that in itself evidently isn’t morally putrid enough, Florida Republicans are hawking tie-in merchandise for it in their online store:
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2025-06-24 22:26:29 UTC

This could easily be read as inciting harassment. Ms. Rowling, I'm afraid, has moved firmly onto the (short) list of people who are so thoroughly vile that it is impossible to enjoy their work.
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2025-06-23 17:51:45 UTC

Given that her detention was significantly extended thanks to your inability to read your briefings, Boris, if I were you I’d keep Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s name out of my mouth. You’ve already caused that family far too much suffering.
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2025-06-02 00:06:40 UTC

Oh dear. The Trussterfuck, who was PM for just seven weeks and at the last election lost a seat the Tories had held since 1964, wants to "create a Trump-style revolution across Europe".
Better stock up on lettuce.
https://www.tiktok.com/@implausibleblog/video/7511095400145751318

2025-05-31 14:35:59 UTC

Today's inspirational message:
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2025-05-27 20:40:41 UTC

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Unpaywalled link:
https://archive.ph/rqLss

2025-05-27 20:39:32 UTC

From a former Prime Minister of Israel:
"What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. We're not doing this due to loss of control in any specific sector, not due to some disproportionate outburst by some soldiers in some unit. Rather, it's the result of government policy – knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated. Yes, Israel is committing war crimes."
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2025-05-16 21:53:44 UTC

Yep. I can go from zero to block in under four seconds.
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2025-05-08 12:52:16 UTC

The US Embassy in Stockholm apparently demanded that the Stockholm city planning office cancel any DEI initiatives, and that Swedish companies working with the embassy should not participate in any DEI programmes.
Unsurprisingly, the response from Stockholm was a hard no.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-demand-stockholm-antidei-embassy-b2746859.html

2025-05-01 05:41:43 UTC

Beep beep.
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2025-04-15 00:03:01 UTC

Rolling Stone, pulling no punches:
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2025-03-25 22:40:26 UTC

"Do you like being shackled and strip-searched? Absolutely no judgment if so, but anyone who isn’t into that sort of thing may want to avoid a holiday to the US at the moment."
Today's Guardian. I think we're going to see a lot more columns like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/dont-visit-the-us-it-just-isnt-worth-the-risks-right-now

2025-03-22 22:35:34 UTC

A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin.
So in other words, the US state department is deleting evidence of Russian war crimes. Is this supposed to Make America Great Again?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-kidnapping-evidence-b2717730.html

2025-03-13 15:10:04 UTC

She’s clearly massively stupid and entitled and has no concept of empathy. I think we can all guess who she voted for last year, can’t we?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d8m4vk0e9o

2025-03-12 17:18:22 UTC

Once again, heute-show - the German equivalent of The Daily Show - nails it:
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2025-03-06 16:43:24 UTC

The latest entry in the ongoing series, Reasons Our Decadent Civilisation Is Probably Doomed:
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2025-02-21 13:56:47 UTC

Disgusting.
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2025-02-14 21:49:30 UTC

The official, verified White House account in the foetid cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
This is utterly childish and pathetic. It demeans the US on the world stage, and it demeans every American.
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2025-01-29 22:04:32 UTC

Horrendous. Mindlessly cruel. Utterly indefensible.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/ukraine-trump-suspension-us-foreign-aid-usaid

2025-01-22 02:07:48 UTC

They cover up the gesture itself because under German law showing it is illegal in most contexts, but Die Zeit’s headline is absolutely unambiguous. And you don’t need to be a German speaker to get the message:
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2025-01-20 16:53:55 UTC

Because today is also the wonderful, much-missed Janey Godley’s birthday.
Sing it, Janey:
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2024-12-27 16:08:24 UTC

Fuck, and I can't stress this enough, off.
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2024-12-23 11:30:21 UTC

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Yes. And also from Waitrose.
I like the one with cranberries, but this is a step too far.

2024-12-23 11:28:39 UTC

NO, Waitrose. NO. Now go and sit on the naughty step and think about what you’ve done.
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2024-12-02 20:59:59 UTC

Science, innit?
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2024-12-01 13:14:25 UTC

Today's inspirational message:
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2024-11-04 00:07:07 UTC

I was today years old when I learned that the French for 'mansplaining' is - delightfully - 'mecsplication'/'mecspliquer'.
('Mec' basically = 'bro'.)
And the French-Canadian variant - 'pénispliquer' - is even more direct.

2024-11-03 12:16:18 UTC

Amen.
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2024-11-02 11:55:46 UTC

We knew it was coming, but this still stings.
RIP the brave, hilarious, wonderful Janey Godley. Fuck cancer.
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2024-11-02 11:21:03 UTC

Because of course they did. This does, at least, finally settle a question: apparently the party membership’s innate fascism trumps the party membership’s innate racism.
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2024-10-09 20:09:02 UTC

It's official. The next leader of the Conservative Party is going to be a foaming-at-the-mouth fascist loon:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje343q1zy8o

2024-09-28 16:37:05 UTC

Putting this front page together gave someone at the Daily Mail an orgasm.
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2024-09-28 16:28:34 UTC

“Manly”?
Excuse me while I dry-heave.
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2024-09-09 21:34:23 UTC

A stunning image.
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2024-08-15 11:59:49 UTC

This dropped into my timeline on Threads, and it's too special not to share:
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