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Mike

@chapfromstaffs.bsky.social
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Sporadic commenter. Shouter into the void. Tumbleweed enthusiast.

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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Shunning technology like a luddite. Back when the FOMO kicks in.
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Scoobtoobins @scoobtoobins.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I've added leftover Middle-Earth zines to my shop. I signed my Galadriel pieces and each book comes with a Galadriel postcard. Scoobtoobins.com
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Maybe I’m not in the mood to work through a new industrial revolution?
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Angry Mob
Alt: An angry mob
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Me in my Bluesky bubble:
Still from the film What we do in the Shadows
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Despite my best efforts, and the best efforts of a brilliant specialist. My baby Alfa is not seeing another summer on the road, her engine is dead. :(
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My beautiful Alfa Spider is soon to be no more. Catastrophic mechanical failure which means the engine is toast - too rare to get a replacement easily and too difficult to fix cheaply enough to be worth it. Bah!
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18
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Patricia Arquette & Christian Slater Smiling
Alt: Patricia Arquette & Christian Slater Smiling
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
That’s right - vote Green. It doesn’t have to be a shitshow of unequal struggle and blaming “small boats” for the outcomes of an endlessly growing wealth divide. We can do better. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 😜
Bloke in a UK Green Party tee
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I’m tired of AI-generated copy. It just reuses best practice learned with no context until the structure is burned into your retinas from seeing it so often. But it’s also made me tired of non-AI content that uses that same best practices. Tired of the stuff my own profession puts out. 😭
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. INSANE MODE: NO Franchises, NO sequels.
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a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman is wearing a green dress
Alt: Scene from the Ice Pirates, the crew are riding through a desert with a green alien lady with a long tongue
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Nobel Foundation should organize a football competition.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump has gone Full Hitler and I'm expected to do just still do my little shows, eat well and go to the gym. I should be just mainlining whisky and banging babes.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The longer this decade goes on the more I wonder about the Boltzmann Brain hypothesis: given infinite time random quantum fluctuations could spontaneously assemble a fully-formed conscious brain, complete with false memories of an entire life, a universe, history, everything.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Listening to radiohead and enjoying some high quality existential dread.
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a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign .
Alt: a cartoon character from the emperor’s new groove is giving the ok sign
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Finally woke it from its winter storage - getting the gang back together! Tomorrow a good clean though…. #alfaromeo
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
All of the weather in 5k, started out sunny, wind picked up to the point it felt like running with lead weights, then light hail, back to sun by the last kilometre. Wild. But so much more fun running outdoors.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now
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Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’
A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Extra points if you spotted the random guy in the second photo… I saw movement and thought “oh gosh is someone stuck and waiving for help” so used the zoom and..
Guy doing martial arts moves on a cliff
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In mid Wales, and it has been too long since my last visit. It’s so familiar as soon as I drive past certain landmarks I can feel my stress levels dropping.
Aberystwyth seafront looking towards the castle Aberystwyth looking across the beach and cliffs.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
What now?
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Kaye Inglis @kayeinglis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
They're brilliant. Today I am number three. Which folliate head are you?
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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Some examples of the folliate heads found in St Edith's church, Eaton under Heywood, Shropshire. Aren't they wonderful? The Nave roof dates from the 15th century and the chancel roof about 1600. This is such a remarkable church! #Shropshire #Folklore #Churches #Folliateheads #Greenman #Folk
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
If you see this, post a robot, meatbags 🤖
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Maybe it’s extreme, but I feel that the tech bros and chums know AI will mean they don’t need a huge population to make their stuff, maintain their lifestyles and as a large section of society will become economically inactive as a result, climate change is a way to cull/suppress the masses.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Ran. Different fabric conditioner. Feels like I sandpapered my nips. 😅
Tired, sweaty fifty year old man with sore nips. YEAH I SAID THAT.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Migraine today. Wiped me out. Woke up with it, crashed and burned at lunchtime - still not ok but operational again. I felt it coming. I think it’s work related? Or maybe I need an eye test. Meh. That’s two so far this year.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In other news, after a hiatus of many years I have reinstalled #Fallout 4.
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a poster that says prepare for the future with vault-tec * apply today *
ALT: a poster that says prepare for the future with vault-tec * apply today *
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Omg
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Anyone else feeling rage when they read a 99% AI generated post? Because they are *everywhere* and I recoil from them now. When does the clap back against this slop start? I use AI to organise myself, I’m not saying it’s the worst - but generated content? It is the worst.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I have to use linkedin because of my job. But oh my god the AI-written posts are worse than the copypasta about giving a homeless man a job. From supposedly serious people. The structure, everything. It’s painful.
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a man in a suit and tie with the words stop it above him
Alt: Very well-used meme of a man in a suit and tie saying “stop it, get some help”
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Did anyone run that by legal?”
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Well she’s still there, tucked up until probably April… wonder if she’ll come out of hibernation easily when I plug the battery back in and try to rouse her? 😬 #AlfaRomeo
A silver Alfa Romeo Spider - 916 series 3 variant, parked in a dark lockup garage
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Dog decided I should get up extra early today and now my alarm has gone off and I failed to get back to sleep. I will be annoyed about this all day. ALL DAY. The dog? Oh she’s just curled up and will be asleep for hours.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Brave Sir Kier
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a group of people are standing in a forest with the words `` bravely ran away away '' written on the screen .
Alt: Scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail of a knight kipping through a forest with a bard singing `` bravely ran away away '' - from the “Brave Sir Robin” song
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026
If you were around in the 80s you'd frequently come across this as a padding in TV schedules (in the replies there is a video of them playing live which is much freakier than the animation)
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand (\_/) (°-°) /🫶\
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
YES I JUST SPREAD TRUFFLE PESTO ON BUTTERED TOAST LIKE AN ANIMAL WHAT OF IT?
A jar of Truffle Pesto
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Is the Royal Mail having a crisis? I have an outgoing tracked delivery that has been sat as a sorting office for over a week, an incoming one that was supposed to be delivered days ago and genuinely can’t remember when I last had regular mail through the door. Is it personal? #RoyalMail
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Had to visit an office in Birmingham today. A city I am a big fan of - part of the city I haven’t walked through, saw some fun Victorian era things on my way back to the station.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The ratio here absolutely slaps.
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is a grownup. Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Quote from BBC report sharing content from a letter from Donald Trump to the Norwegian Prime Minister:

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood Gives my age away a bit…😅
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Radiohead marathon this morning. Tunes that originally felt like dystopian extremes, like the systematic persecution and moral panic of Burn the Witch, suddenly hitting like anthems for what’s happening right now. On that joyful note, off for a run. youtu.be/yI2oS2hoL0k?...
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Radiohead - Burn The Witch
YouTube video by Radiohead
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Not my house, but I know my way around
A screenshot of the inside of the Copper Coronet, from the game Baldur’s Gate 2
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Scoobtoobins @scoobtoobins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Doing an early spring cleaning. 50% off all originals until March 5th. I have no more drawer space. I'd rather they get good homes. Code: 50P0FF0R1G www.scoobtoobins.com/category/ori...
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Mike @chapfromstaffs.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I'm a Buell XB12R Firebolt.
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