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Michael

@michael-fox.bsky.social
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Posts about my life and what interests me including: gardening, cooking, cats, defence, the Lib Dems, politics in general and construction.

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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 2h
Turkey is not dry, you just can’t cook. Also, you only have it once a year any way so just suck it up
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 2h
This post is barely cold and y’all started another round of food discourse already?!?!
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 4h
Goat
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 5h
This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 7h
Jo Swinson was the PM we needed, but not the one we deserved.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 9h
Please stop reposting the flying rodent and his garbage takes into my timeline. He’s claiming defence spending increases are mandatory in UK politics. In reality, over my lifetime, defence spending is down in real terms and has halved as a share of GDP. Totally unmoored from reality.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I see Elon launched a broken rocket into space and it just blew up after hitting the water. Another triumph!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Labour’s policy on Europe remains garbage but it should be deeply embarrassing for Lib Dems that Miliband can speak with with more conviction about the EU than we seem to be able to muster. I am a European! The Lib Dems should speak for me. So I will always do my best to make that happen
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s funny to see in graphs just how weird I am for still wanting to buy and own music.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My Lib Dem feed is a great way of churning up transphobes into my timeline as they attack us for our support for lgbt people. Then you click on their profiles and of course it’s all right-wing racist, pro-Trump, pro-AfD, pro-theocracy, anti-EU slop. Then they still claim to be former Labour etc
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suggestion for @conference.libdems.org.uk These would be a nice idea!
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just keep stoking the demand. Simple. It might work this time. Any day now. Just one more scheme. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham announces scheme to help first-time buyers
The prime minister says he wants people without support from the "bank of mum and dad" to receive help.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So none of these guys have read a book since the age of 8 then. I wasn’t expecting much but that’s pretty embarrassing #DragRaceUK
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The second attack in two weeks on an LGBT+ bookshop in Glasgow. STV posted this story on Facebook and there is an endless stream of comments underneath suggesting the answer is for them to stop using the word "queer", stop supporting trans rights, and stop being so visible. Mainstreamed hate.
news.stv.tv
Queer bookshop vandalised again two weeks after targeted attack
Category Is Books in Govanhill has been targeted twice within two weeks
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I used to be all in favour of Heathrow expansion and you will not be surprised that I have zero time for the NIMBYs but these days I find it impossible to square the urgent need for net zero increasing airport capacity.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The NHS diagnosed my mum with haemorrhoids and ‘treated’ her for 11 months (telling her to take paracetamol) when what she actually had was stage 3 cancer. She was hospitalised in April 2023 and died 2 months later, aged 69. I’m never going to get any justice for her. I’m so sorry, mum.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
gymnasium picnic park hospital library
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
happy bi visibility day i guess www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just learned that it’s bi visibility day today! I’m bi (at least I identify as bi to satisfy society’s insatiable lust for labels). Biphobia sucks - don’t do it please. I’m looking at you, gay men. If you have any questions please let me know. P.S. Denying that biphobia exists is biphobic.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s 2026 and there are still leftists going on with their crackpot theories that Corbyn lost in 2019 because of a secret conspiracy of journalists to support the Lib Dems too hard. Completely and utterly divorced from reality. I suppose the delusion must help them somehow 🤷‍♂️
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oh I'll see if I can find it, it's brilliant - - here, this is a variant of it, at least!
The Lord's Prayer in Old English (ca 1000), Middle English (ca 1400), early Modern English (ie, Elizabethan era, ca 1600), and modern contemporary English. You can read back to 1400 pretty easily but the break between Middle and Old English is where you can see the Normans coming through like a freight train. I might transcribe it all later but not right now.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Honestly it was a breath of fresh air having @nigella.bsky.social on the bake off! Not least because she set a technical challenge that was just asking the bakers to prove they could bake a good cake instead of testing their knowledge of obscure recipes. What the technical should be!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Everyone deserves to live in safety and with dignity. We urgently need new, workable and inclusive guidance that protects the rights of women and trans people alike. These rights are not in competition – both are essential to a fair society.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Probably worth a read
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A gem from the bad place
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just checking in with the Bad Place to see what “Father” Calvin Robinson is up to these days.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I simply refuse to learn what will stancil.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well that can only be good news
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m sorry but this level of reporting from the BBC is just unhinged and a complete waste of the license fee. Are they not embarrassed? This would be a joke if it was about somebody alive but Diana died 30 years ago - Get a sodding grip.
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Paul Hindley 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @paulhindley2210.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re potentially only 12 hours away from the Lib Dems voting to end privatisation in the water industry by mutualising failing water companies. It’s time to stop greedy private shareholders extracting wealth from our water industry and put the water companies into the ownership of their customers.
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Lisa Smart MP @lisasmartmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have written to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, urging her to create a “Westminster Crime Unit” within the National Crime Agency, to investigate political finance. The legislation in the Representation of the People Bill does not go far enough. We need a fair playing field. buff.ly/dNK1h35
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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every year, it's just the same. 3 articles in 19 hours. Get fucked you absolute babies.
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ed Davey stands with trans rights by backing our motion at Lib Dem conference!
Ed Davey stands with trans rights
Reporter: You want the conference motion [Restoring Trans Rights] to pass?
Ed Davey: I do - I'll be voting for it if I'm in the hall!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In addition - the sketches are not racist, and it is a sign of a broader malaise that we now treat “jokes about racists and racism” as indistinguishable from “racist jokes”.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
YouTube tried to get me to watch an hour long close-reading of capitalism in Harry Potter and I’m just like… it’s a silly little wish fulfilment book for school boys. Boy can’t afford sweets, boy finds himself in a world where he’s rich and can buy all the sweets! It’s not rocket science, people
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some days you feel like British politics couldn’t get any worse and then you log on, find the Americans have melted their brains again and then you can breathe a little sigh of relief
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some people seem to think I'm referring to, I don't know, Coldplay's later works not hitting the same way, no, I mean this. This objectively sucks!
A chart showing GPD per head in the UK flatlining after the financial crisis.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m sad that I seem to have killed my rosemary bush. I’m not sure if it was just the heat/drought or because I pruned it too hard. 🙁🌱
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To celebrate conference, please enjoy this photo of my cat
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I want to remind people that Britain is an island and the best way to ensure it can be defended is through a large and capable navy and air force, not through a massive conscripted/reservist army. But politicians would rather do literally anything else instead of investing in military capability.
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For truly, what is a bicycle but the means through which bread achieves its kinetic potential.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I strongly oppose cutting fuel duty. This amounts to an un affordable and regressive taxpayer subsidy for drivers that will encourage fuel use and hasten climate change and the resulting damage to our country. I will not support such an embarrassing policy for the sake of a cheap headline.
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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dylan tells us that not enough people are reading about the Lib Dems
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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