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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She's hired a self-defence instructor.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Suppose the cosmos had to balance out Dolly and Tim's passing somehow. Bye bye you fascist prick.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you're being unironically inspired by an AI video of beavers playing bagpipes I'm going to politely suggest you're not helping.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry. He finally did it.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Purveyor of shit complaining about people consuming shit is it?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It really isn’t normal for media outlets to hound minor public figures to death, just for fun, because they can. That really is a Just Britain thing.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The media deciding that releasing the hounds on a Walter Mitty professor and making it a national scandal says a fuck load about where we are.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Genuinely the only thing of his that really makes me laugh these days if The Office and The XFM Podcasts with Merchant and Karl Pilkington. And in the latter his is basically a foil.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you find yourself eulogising Rod Liddle in any way that uses words and phrases like "complicated" "controversial" "marmite" or "not to everyone's taste" you need to fuck off and have a serious word with yourself. If you also happen to be a journalist or media commentator then you're a fraud.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If the nominally left party is *roared* to power by all of this country’s most savvy, liberal Sensible Moderates and it immediately sets into a programme of extremely aggressive, belligerent Powell-esque flag-humping and anti-migrant crackdowns, then I don’t think we can blame that on nasty Nigel.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The alt text on the second photo is just...beautiful.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Good news for Trekkies though, there's a borg referee here.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I see the idiot schoolboy logic there to be fair. The logic at my school was one vent = girls blazer = massive bender.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Having shoes with laces or a blazer with only one vent in the back made you a flaming queen. Ah the arbitrary bollocks of secondary school.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

He understands. They all do. Which is what makes this relentless pro-Israel squawking all the more egregious.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The SNES game was a banger though, if incredibly difficult to clock.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And it's those who are protesting in solidarity with Palestine who are taking part in "hate marches" apparently.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is just what VAR is now. Look for drama that serves the "right" teams to create narratives. Things aren't poised as they were and I don't think that penalty shout is even checked.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10/05/2026

The hollow cynicism of this entire farce can be instantly laid bare by simply asking what specifically Farage and Reform UK have done to support the fight against antisemitism – because I'll be honest, I don't follow developments in that party beat-by-beat, but this claim is certainly news to me.

Michael Wegier, executive director of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told Haaretz that Reform UK “is a serious party with many supporters, local councillors, and an increasing number of members of Parliament from month to month, which cannot be ignored. They have also expressed very broad support for the fight against antisemitism. There was no way we would not invite them.”

He added: “We did not invite the Greens’ Zack Polanski because we very strongly do not believe he has done enough to root out antisemitism from his party.”

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Labour fans ask yourselves why you and your party spent your time campaigning against the left if Reform was the real enemy

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Ton, you give this guy a MacBook, he'll probably try to fuck it."

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"They don't like it up 'em, asshole."

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This just gives me flashbacks to the last day of term when we'd be forced to watch either Bring It On or Grease, evidently the only two DVDs our school had.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Again, "the ones that don't get shot in the head have nice lives" isn't a very strong argument. It would be more honest to just say "I like this thing and don't want it to stop" rather than trying to rationalise it.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The argument would probably be that they're put in the situation that risks broken legs. I'm not especially ardent about abolishing horse racing but there aren't many good arguments for it other than "It's makes loads of money" and "People like going to the races."

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

People aren't playing along with this apologist bullshit anymore. "Death to the ..." about any other military on Earth nobody would not be framed as racism, which just shows how it's largely deliberate weaponisation against criticism of what the IDF do.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The point I'm making is that what Bob Vylan did isn't antisemitic.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Here's the simple explanation: KW called a song "Heil Hitler", sold swastika t shirts and spread antisemitic conspiracy theories. Bob Vylan chanted about the IDF, a state military engaging in genocide where death is an occupational hazard.

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a man stands in front of a throne with the words see the difference behind him

ALT: a man stands in front of a throne with the words see the difference behind him

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Even if you did, you wouldn't vote in it.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Physically, legally, emotionally...nothing could make me able to vote for her.

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Michael Laidler @laids.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It doesn't matter how qualified she is as a candidate or my desire to not fail as a citizen with all due respect to your Dad, I could not vote for her.

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