Reposted by John Michael WhiteDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 23hWhen someone tells you who they are, believe them 44610
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 18hAnd that you think only one side is responsible for that is telling. 100
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 18hThat's not what you said, is it? bsky.app/profile/faul... 100
Reposted by John Michael Whitesam @sambiguous.bsky.social · 20hI assume it's just the wind and he doesn't actually have hair like Kim Jong Un 033
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 20hSo that would include Irish, Scottish, and Welsh nationalism, right? 140
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As an advocate of the two state solution, I'd obviously like to see a democratic Palestine, freed from Hamas, fitting next to Israel as a friend and partner in their shared future prosperity. 110
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Probably as good a time and place as any to make something very clear, despite it being summat that shouldn't need saying: I'm a Zionist. 110
Reposted by John Michael WhiteKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 04/10/2026This is a very good piece that explains what Zionism is, why it's so fundamental to Judaism, and why this Green conference resolution is so utterly toxic and racist to its core www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan FreedlandThe resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 1336
Reposted by John Michael WhiteDanielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Full Zionism is Racism motion passed by 1022 votes to 813. The Greens are now officially an antisemitic party. 24810
Reposted by John Michael Whitelicia @astra99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Roman Space Telescope's pointing is next-level. Imagine aiming a laser at a dime from 150 miles away – that's its stability! This precision just let its coronagraph grab its first cosmic light, truly opening up our search for exoplanets.sciencedaily.comNASA's Roman Space Telescope Opens its Planet-Hunting Coronagraph to the Cosmos for the First TimeNASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed a series of tests, demonstrating its exceptional pointing stability and allowing its powerful planet-imaging coronagraph to capture 0175
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think it's a mistake to suggest I said otherwise, I'm not claiming to have solved the hard problem of consciousness. 000
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nobody I've ever seen has made the hardest thing in football, sticking the ball in the net, look easier than Harry Kane does. Genius. #EngCro #ThreeLions 000
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Children may well be the future, but that doesn't preclude them being irritating little shits in the present #EngCro #ThreeLions 010
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's a bold strategy to deal with youth crime, but not entirely without its merits. 000
Reposted by John Michael WhiteJohn Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Being hit with Iranian missiles and drones might have undermined their appetite for all sorts of things, but still, the RAF was there for them when they needed help recently... bsky.app/profile/laur... 001
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Being hit with Iranian missiles and drones might have undermined their appetite for all sorts of things, but still, the RAF was there for them when they needed help recently... bsky.app/profile/laur... 001
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Granted this won't be everyone's cup of tea, but dammit, if they won't build one, real or otherwise, I'll do the closest thing I can. Now, to get this in VR... 010
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see. Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be." 100
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I feel it's profoundly irrelevant to any point raised so far. 110
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you can't understand why this poster was effective, nor imagine a future one with the Burnham and Polanski, then we've very different political instincts. I don't think it's "astronomically arrogant" to imagine such an image, both physical and conceptual, would render a poll assuming FPTP moot. 100
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Imagining a Green Party I'd find acceptable as coalition partners involves imagining a Green Party that so far removed from the current one it's an entirely different party. If extremists get elected I'll fight them, but not by enabling different extremists. 010
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No, it *is * the point. I'm not going to vote for extremists, and I'm not going to vote for those who say they'll stand with extremists. I've never voted Tory, but if they rule out working with Reform I'd do so rather than Lab/Green, so current polling is out the window. 100
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's not about hating or not hating Polanski, I didn't say anything about him here. It's about not finding it acceptable to sit in government with crank extremists of any description. Reform or Greens? They're equally unacceptable to me. You either have principles, and red lines, or not. 320
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It isn't as simple as "add up the polls done under expectation of FPTP". There being a realistic prospect of Labour going into government with the Greens would be one of the things that would ensure I wouldn't vote Labour. 220
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sod charity, that's not the standard we hold politicians to: "when a man with a long history of making stuff up because he thinks it makes him look good in the moment is caught in another lie, assume he made it up, and repeated it, because he thinks it made him look good in the moment". 000
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A few years ago I would have loved to visit the US, I've dear friends there. Now? Under this regime? Absolutely no chance. 091
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A fella with his history of success built on drug cheating isn't going to have his moral compass, should he have one, twitch at this. 020
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah, but would you find it so hard to believe that someone who evidently cares little for the actual football, but wants the soft power/sportswashing goals, wouldn't just delegate to those running day to day with a budget, approving extra cash if asked, without caring a jot how it's spent? 101
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026TBF I doubt he's much aware of Man City from one year to the next. He's only been to a couple of games ever. If he cared about the club enough to follow anything approaching the day-by-day running he'd be over at least semi regularly. 100
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The overwhelming, vast majority of Americans either actively voted for Trump at the last election, or were happy to see him get elected. We can't unring that bell. 150
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There should be a phrase for the specific trepidation you feel when you sit down to watch a TV/film adaptation of a book you really adore. 100
Reposted by John Michael WhiteMark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration 322242
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it was historically accurate to portray Rome of the first centuries BC and AD as containing tits. 110
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm listening to some Jewish friends of mine, and their current fears. They're, shall I say, not so sure. While they're not so sure I won't be leaving it at that. 000
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You might not think the historical lessons of the first half of the 20th century are relevant today, I think they're astonishingly, frighteningly relevant. 000
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There aren't I hope bits of my history someone could use to declare me culturally antisemitic. That you aren't so sure about yours is revealing. 100
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't think countries are inherently anything, regardless of nationalistic rationalisations. I believe countries are made up of individuals with agency and responsibility for their actions. Yes, yes it's clear that antisemites are emboldened in many places, yes it is clearly the root of so much. 110
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We know that the Good Law Project wasn't Man City's defence team, they'd have put out press releases describing getting them a not guilty on that one charge as a stunning legal victory. 060
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That's very true. #TelegramSadHitlerDead 210
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In the Southern hemisphere, because of the coriolis effect, footballers are only ever described as having "a wand of a right foot". 010
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney fucking sweepers, come to dust. 010
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I so remember the twitter spat Helen talks about, man alive there were some unpleasant characters in that. One was a then mutual who personally and repeatedly attacked a former significant beloved of mine who absolutely did not deserve the pile on instigated her way. Nasty folk. 010
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You'll know when Helen Lewis is aged because it'll be when it's almost universally agreed she's a national treasure. 070
Reposted by John Michael WhitePatrick Hurley @patrickhurley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Harry Hill's TV Burp is better than almost all of these. 1155
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 26/09/20262020? Hope they're socially distanced #MadForItIsntIt 010