Coronation Street star reveals serial killer Stephen’s ending was changed – and why

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/coronation-street-star-reveals-serial-killer-stephens-ending-changed-24675536/

Fionn mac Cumhaill

" ... he heard far off in the deepening gloom the first notes of the fairy harp. Never such music was made by mortal hand, for it had in it sorrows that man has never felt, and joys for which man has no name, and it seemed as if a man listening to that music might burst from time into eternity..."

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston

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Episode 5.3: Solarpunk, Lunarpunk, Crypto, & Web3 with Stephen Reid

Disclaimer: Neither Christina, Ariel, nor the Solarpunk Presents podcast agree with nor support the use of cryptocurrencies or web3. For sound critiques (as well as explanations) of these technologies, check out the videos Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs from @FoldingIdeas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g) and Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia from @Munecat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0) as well as the website https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/.

In Season 5 Episode 3 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina chats with transdisciplinary technologist Stephen Reid about the relationship that solarpunk and lunarpunk have to crypto and web3. If lunarpunk is what solarpunk gets up to in the shadows of a moonlit night, that suggests that lunarpunk is inherently more interested in privacy, security, and anonymity, especially from the watchful eye of the state. Further, that means that where solarpunk is interested in renewable energy, sustainability, appropriate technology, and social justice, lunarpunk is interested in the tools, like cryptography, cryptocurrencies, and web3, that safeguard our privacy and anonymity and potentially protect us from tyranny. Do we need lunarpunk’s fixation with using tech to protect our privacy to counterbalance solarpunk’s sunny optimism that everything will all be fine to break through to a better world?

To learn more about Stephen, his philosophies, and his work, check out https://stephenreid.net/

https://youtu.be/c0pDT5f2R9E

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...he searched hither and thither for a fortnight, till at last he found that island, which was an island indeed with the sea over it and around it and beneath it. There dwelt the red-haired ocean-nymphs in glittering palaces among the sea-flowers...

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston, et al, Illustrated by Stephen Reid

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"No road or comfortable way ran across that plain, and Cuchulain could not have made his way across, but that the young man with the face like the sun had given him a wheel to roll before him, and told him to follow wherever the wheel led."

From Eleanor Hull's "The Boys' Cuchulain." Image by Stephen Reid (1904)

https://archive.org/details/boyscuchulainher00hull/page/n78/mode/1up

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