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Marsh/Mike P.

@marsh-p.bsky.social
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Karateka (stiff), strongman competitor (novice), I.T Manager (reasonable).

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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 18h
If you're aggravated by inheritance tax, understand that even those few of us in line to pay it, will hardly pay it. It's aimed at those of us with wealth passing in a family trust, and with really clever accountants. FFS let us pay it. In fact remove loopholes.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't know exactly how many people #jeremyclarkson employs. But our family business employs 70 people and I call bullshit on him. If you can't make a business work while paying living wages and your fair share of tax, you're shit at business. #toryconference
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thinking about _when_ the Tories became an electoral irrelevance/joke party. It's tempting to think it was at #LizTruss. But she was a symptom. It was when they chose Boris Johnson. That's I think when the nation said, meh if you're not taking this seriously, why should we? #toryconference
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This photo belongs firmly in reddit.com/r/compoface
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A subreddit dedicated to compo face!
Quick and dirty sub for more compoface local press botherers. What is compoface? Generally, a mere picture of people with a funny headline doesn’t cut it. Compoface in a nutshell is “I believe that I...
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When Milburn says, they'll still be on the disability benefit 10 years later! (The horror!) Hear it as, disability benefits tend to go to people with long term disabilities. (Shocker.)
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tice needs to understand why "sleepy Joe" or "chyyynah" works even for those of us taking the piss. Then he'll know why confections like "net stoopid zero" and "drill Britain drill" make him sound like such a dumb twat. #bbcaq #aq #anyquestions
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Normally watching Americans comment on... well anything is agonising. But the few intelligent ones seem to have come to Blue Sky. This one reminds me so much of my parents' neighbours when they lived in New Jersey. (In Princeton which was lovely, btw.)
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh god, I'm basically neurotypical so I think this is age related. Common ones that fire off in our house then I must complete: um bongo, r White's, breakaway, red car blue car milky way, ya catch my drift Drifter, super fresco wallpaper (what goes up), and many many more.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Or are there canals?
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How do they get from (presumably) Great Ouse to Thames? Do they need to go out to sea?
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wish but doubt. Reform obviously won't do anything they say because they're grifters. No mainstream party who wins under fptp will change it.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ZX81 flight simulator. 1982. Not the Spectrum mind you. The ZX81 (I think the TS80 in America).
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is he the bloke that gets the pointless wanky think piece half hour on radio 4?
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BTW you can join the RNLI for a few quid a month. If that's too much they have an online shop already selling suitable Xmas gifts and jumpers.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The only thing more mad than one family being so undeservingly privileged is the public fawning and interest in them. It really is time to treat monarchy like the king's best friend, Jimmy Saville.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I assume there'll be no power, water or bin collections to #pidington until there's a trade deal?
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No wonder Dolly was worried about her.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In related news, I want to know why new shoes have their laces so close to the ground and so far away from me. 😂
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Americans: it's okay to say you don't know stuff. Or you end up with this. Look, the conflict of The Troubles between various paramilitary groups, opposing ones in one state too, some state sponsored, plus a nation, is really complex. Don't fucking guess the actors and relationships.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh god even the rewritten version is awful. "Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland agreed to end their conflict, culminating in the signing of the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ in 1998." No that's... Where do I even...? This is not subtlety. It's macro-wrong. Just... stttttop.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I love this guy's writing. But that explanation of the history is wildly, incredibly inaccurate. It'd be like me saying, "After its long civil war between North and South, America won its independence from Britain." I.e the conflation of two entirely separate conflicts.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh yeh. I always assumed anyone involved in Black Books or IT Crowd isn't to be trusted.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sorry to be dense but I'm going to need a bit more narrowing down. Person in public life did something bad? A man, you say? I'm shocked! Who is it this time?
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All mainstream politics is persuading people to hate themselves or each other so they won't organise against the ruling class.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
DOGE cheques, tariff cheques, cheaper petrol, cheaper eggs. You guys have never had it so good! /S
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ooh someone needs to tell the gent third from left that a form fitting clingy fabric tee is not for him.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
LOL look at the one whose Mum washed his uniform on a boil so it came out gray.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Apparently it was all pub boasts. Remember when Farage said Trump's "Grab then by the..." was just "locker room talk"? Same vibe. Was a slippery little shit.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
*recentish *humorous
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I decided to watch an episode of #taskmaster from a recentisg season, to see what the fuss is about. People, if this ever had comedy value, it ran out at least 3 series before what I saw. It wasn't just slightly numerous. It was _tired_. As an elderly sheepdog.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can add this to my obviously vampire playlist. Alongside e.g The Real Thing and Surprise You're Dead by FNM. And maybe Snowed in at Wheeler Street by Kate Bush. Moon Over Bourbon Street.etc.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I tried @libro.fm for my latest audiobook buy and it is as advertised. DRM free access to download and listen in the odd apps and players that I use in various machines and O/S
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You will never regret investing in yourself. It doesn't matter if a degree leads to career progression or even if you finish it, nor even what age you start it. Learning adds depth to your experience of life. Enjoy the process.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Proof: I went to the hashtag after posting, and discovered godawful advertising decisions I didn't even know about.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I love the #OpenUniversity with all my heart. So it's been hard to see them fuck up every academic, policy, financial and organisational decision since 2010. At this point they can be relied on to make a wrong decision, apropos nothing, where no decision is called for.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No I already got it from the address. But only to see how near I guessed.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Okay, from the photo I tried to guess the location geoguess style knowing it was on the Atlantic in the chunk you gave me. I got damn close just by scanning the map. I picked a place and only then went and looked it up. Was near, in Canada terms. I should play geogessr.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What's the body of water there? It looks amazing.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sounds like a big step. Well done.
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Had just enough time to plant these drought-resistant beauties before staring at the eclipse and tonight's meteor shower. See you all in the morning.
A couple of BBC era Triffids outside a very nice house which is sadly not ours.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Good spot. They always are. Except this comp there was one person my size or smaller, which is super rare.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Enjoy these pics which are going to feature prominently in all my future boasts.
A medal made of glass or crystal in a box with a small plaque saying "masters strong man men's open second place 2026".Three strongman competitors on a wooden podium with events organisers in the background.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The thumbnail here makes _n_ seem tiny. If you're in comments to yell actually go look. This MetAn is ten cohorts comprising 751 adolescents.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yaml is dumb person's JSON which is why I love it.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I had the right pattern but the wrong bee. I thought the queen was the one horizontally proboscis to tail with her.
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Is she halfway down and a third of the way in from the left with a tiny bit of clear space left and below her?
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Doesn't he elbow the xenomorph?
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