Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Don’t you just love LinkedIn? The Venn diagram of Mayoral Taskforce members and those with supervisory responsibility for video cameras: O O 011
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026FFS we’ve got men in balaclavas roaming the streets, shouting “let them drown”, doxxing volunteer life-savers, but yeah let’s discuss removing the ban on alcohol at football stadia. Burnham brands ban on football fans drinking alcohol in stands as 'discrimination' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBurnham brands ban on football fans drinking alcohol in stands as 'discrimination'The prime minister opposes the law - in place since 1985 - and believes there is a case to remove it. 050
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.maptap.gg September 23 100🎯 100🎯 94🏆 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 988 Best score ever! A couple of bullseye guesses (educated however) and a 3x multiplier I’ve been tomaptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.maptap.gg September 12 86🎓 95🏅 99🎯 94🏅 100🎯 Final score: 961 Useful/useless information - I happened to look into where Gustavo Kuerten came from recently when he was at the French Open watching Joao Fonseca. Then it’s a 3x multiplier clue in MapTap! Magic island 🏝️maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 020
Reposted by Mike BestTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g... 27834393
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sorry, nearly one in three people think “masked men” is a legitimate way of protesting?? In what world is hiding your identity, presumably to avoid prosecution for any violence or other wrongdoing, acceptable? 020
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is beyond disturbing but is so normalised, people barely notice 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Great night at New Century Hall, Manchester, for the Lifes Rich Pageant 40th anniversary tour by Shannon-Narducy celebrating an @remhq.bsky.social masterpiece 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Maps in the news! Incredible that the Mercator projection has been used for almost 500 years. It’s time to use the Equal Earth projection. #mapaddicts @mikeparker.bsky.social 100
Reposted by Mike BestJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Secret Panel HERE 🐢 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/response-time-167299662 1345411150
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The neediest person in history I hope that when he’s gone, they just attach his name to a maximum security prison where his followers can be held 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026www.maptap.gg August 21 98🎯 100🎯 100🎯 95🏅 100🎯 Final score: 983 Educated guess on the last one and hit the nail on the head.maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Birmingham got a lot of stick in the first few days and attendances did seem low but, overall, it surpassed the last championships in Rome by 80,000 with a total of 218,000. The weekend sessions were full and it was captivating stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEuropean Championships attendance in Birmingham 'surpassed targets'Birmingham city council says there was "a week of bumper crowds" in the stadium and the city centre. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It’s not just young people. AI has great potential but not in the hands of the tech bros 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I don’t think it’s just a US phenomenon. My kids were doing exams during Covid and thankfully both now in face-to-face jobs in a workplace environment but so many are working from home with zero human contact other than their social life. A very different world to that I grew up in. 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Read this and weep. The statistics are horrifying. And look at the countries recognising the Taliban government. A new axis of evil. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Adaptation + Mitigation Instead the government is tough on BBQs and the causes of BBQs 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’m ok with the new PM addressing kitchen sink issues to get things moving but a COBRA on the heatwave should be concluding with more than this. Are the optics really “don’t mention climate change because part of your core support doesn’t believe it”? 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It’s 2026. The right have been telling us for years not to trust government or the media. The government and media are telling everyone not to look directly at the sun this evening. What are the chances that millions of people have sight impairment in the coming years? 000
Reposted by Mike BestR.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We’re celebrating 40 years of “Fall On Me” today (the first single from the band’s fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986). The video was filmed & directed by @michaelstipe.bsky.social 23670149
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The kiss of death www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukUS President Donald Trump issues backing for under pressure Fifa chief Gianni InfantinoUS President Donald Trump says it would be a "terrible mistake" if under pressure Fifa president Gianni Infantino was ousted. 011
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026www.maptap.gg August 9 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 91🏆 Final score: 973 4 easy ones and then you get the difficult one….maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This all sounds familiar. Who else rejects all criticism for lacking integrity, failures of governance and ignoring due process? That Peace Prize didn’t award itself…. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Some years ago I posted on the old place a weekly song from my youth - the year 1979 when new wave was all the rage. More recently I’ve realised that the one genre I keep coming back to is power pop. So I’m going to share my favourite songs. First up is Feel by Big Star youtu.be/R0CGRbCyqWw?...youtu.beFeel (Album Version)YouTube video by Big Star - Topic 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Agreed. We’ve been talking about using public land for over a decade without real progress. The public sector needs to work in lockstep with the private to marry best use of assets and resources, skills and risk profiles. With appropriate env safeguards and public support. 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I agree. AI could be an immensely powerful tool but sadly it’s controlled by immensely powerful tools…. 000
Reposted by Mike BestMatthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Everyone has a £45bn AI government savings plan until they get punched in the head economist.com/britain/2026... 512028
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What else would a corrupt organisation do other than back their corrupt president? An apology is not enough. It’s an abject failure of leadership and governance. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I was involved in the restorative justice programme, meeting someone who had broken into my house and served four years in jail for a string of offences. I’ve no issue with this guy having atoned for his crimes (if he has) but it’s another thing selecting him as an election candidate 000
Reposted by Mike BestJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis. 61931260
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026His position is untenable but when has that made any difference in football administration? A month with Trump clearly made him think he could get away with anything 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Have really enjoyed the first month of the Bluesky MapTappers league instigated by @lewisbaston.bsky.social A respectable 5th so just outside the medals and a handful of daily wins. Explains why I now spend all day staring at a globe! 🌍 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is what happens when you hollow out all experts from government and rely on OpenAI And meanwhile at home, Republicans are demonising Dr Anthony Fauci who has dedicated his career to public health All the while the US is suffering outbreaks of diseases that had almost been eradicated 010
Reposted by Mike BestRob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 30/07/2026UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm 401699437
Reposted by Mike BestVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I wrote this 👇 open.substack.com/pub/vicderby... 461136233
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Going to see Shannon & Narducy perform it in September. “We are hope despite the times” 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Just waiting for Trump to post: “You’re The Best Evil Son An Evil Dad Could Ever Ask For.” Infantino tells Fifa critics to 'meditate, pray or watch football' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukWorld Cup 2026: Gianni Infantino tells Fifa critics to 'meditate, pray or watch football'Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells critics to "meditate, pray or watch a football match" instead of "spreading hate and false rumours" about him and the World Cup. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026www.maptap.gg July 27 100🎯 100🎯 97🔥 96🏅 100🎯 Final score: 982 Lucky week. A couple of easy ones and then another place I’ve been - Port Louis in Mauritiusmaptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Currently reading the excellent The Blazing World by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social about the revolutionary 17thC and its parallels with modern times. But also fascinated to read about the other Blazing World by the remarkable Margaret Cavendish. A gap in my history knowledge filled 110
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026www.maptap.gg July 26 99🎯 98🎯 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯 Final score: 994 Best score yet. Helped by having been to Monrovia in Liberia, the triple point score!maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 010
Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It is quite staggering that the Times editor probably doesn’t get the bitter irony of a front page like this. 60% of us support net zero. The only people who strongly oppose it are Reform voters. Who are the media pandering to? 020
