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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 18h

Is there any way we could effectively tax ignorance and stupidity and use the proceeds for the public good? Going by the posts on here there is a rich seam entirely untapped …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The confected hysteria over a change proposed for three years hence - which if it had been introduced from next year would have meant a difference of less than 20p a week - is indeed something to behold …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just waiting for someone to start screeching about ‘gold plated’ public service pensions which increase every year by - wait for it - inflation …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I shall be mainly blocking people of my own generation whining about the fact that Andy Burnham may have the temerity to suggest that the triple lock should be reviewed …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@bbc - you need to get your shit together on your online weather forecast. How does today’s graphic of sunshine and thunderstorms tie in with the actual forecast showing clouds til 1700, with a bit of sun for an hour, then rain and a thunderstorm at 1900?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I discovered that canned condensed cheddar cheese is a thing in Amurica. No wonder Trumpleshitstain got a second term as President …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You have to live out the remainder of your life in a British soap opera - which are you going to choose and why?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Am I the only one to be totally aghast and affronted when someone offers 20% less than the asking price on Vinted? I should stress that most of the things I offer for sale are priced below a tenner …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder if Trumpleshitstain’s minions realise that - come the day of reckoning (if the grim reaper hasn’t got him first) - he is going to pull a Ponochet and claim that his dementia means he can’t be tried. Meanwhile they will have nowhere to hide …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Has anyone heard from Young Bob after his roasting at the hands of two of Liverpool’s finest? I feel sure he will be ruing the day he took that ferry across the Mersey.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Will anybody ever now be able to request statistical information without slipping into full scouse mode?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We see a lot about the ‘fact’ that the UK state pension is one of the lowest in Europe but does that take into account things like free travel, prescriptions, discounted entry etc? Not banging any particular drum, just curious …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m not quite old enough to remember but before the cult of Thatcher were we in the UK really that obsessed with the leaders or was the party line more important?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good to see Ed Sheeran speaking from the heart - I mean autocue - on Gaza …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just had the misfortune to catch Laura K’s ‘programme’. Has she given up any pretence at being a serious political journalist? FFS - Giles Brandreth and Sting had way more airtime than Ed Davey!

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I want to go back to a time when villages kept their own idiots and grumpy old men just shook their sticks at kids instead of beating young women over the head with them.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Am I the only one wondering how Fartrage will manage to keep busy during the HoC conference recess seeing as the Reformistas have already had their bash?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone taking bets on how long it will be before there are actual fistfights between Reformista politicians like their Ukipper forbears?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are there really no rich Americans willing to put their heads above the parapet and pledge funding to the Kennedy Centre on condition that Trumpleshitstain’s name is NEVER allowed to deface it?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I sometimes feel that my sparkling wit and sarcasm are wasted on social media …

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good to see Fartrage’s cult putting that £72million to good use …

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Casaf rholbren wyd gennyf "To me you are the most vile rolling pin" Need a laugh? Here's Dafydd ap Gwilym's "Cywydd y Gal", in which the poet castigates his penis for its bad behavior. (choose Poem 85 for full text and translation) dafyddapgwilym.net/eng/3win.htm #medievalsky

A copy of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poem to his penis, in National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 49, fol. 101v. The latter part of the poem has been struck out with a single angled line.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some days I wish I belonged to the cult of Fartrage where everything wrong in my life - and the world - is someone else’s fault, and that the simple solution is to get rid of everyone who doesn’t look like me or speak like me or believe in the same things as me. Am I the only one?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wonder if they’re going to make Mitch McConnell a nice case like Jeremy Bentham …?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just catching up on Last Night of the Proms - thank the Lord for Beverley Knight saving the Dolly Parton tribute by actually being able to sing …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can someone explain how pensioners and those on minimum wage jobs (or unemployed) look at who funds Reform UK and think that it’s a party (business) that’s going to make their lives better? To my mind it takes a special kind of stupid …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Anyone who posts ‘good old days’ content should be required to live as they would have done at that time (if it is actually identifiable and not AI slop) but without cakeism - so internet access is the first to go. Let’s see how that goes …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is it me or is this an odd way to say thank you for paying £1.65 for the product for which the producer received 17p? Yes I do realise that there are on-costs in bringing it to the shelf but ‘given back’ rather than paid?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Am I the only one who is totally repulsed by A.I. generated event posters? Every one I’ve seen seems to have some sort of perverse retro theme going on with 1950s graphics and 1970s oranges and browns …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hannah Arendt called it 75 years ago - ‘Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.’ This is how civilised society will end …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dear rest of Germany - please do not be like Saxony-Anhalt. Sincerely yours, the civilised world.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Why do airport departure areas and coach stations work on the basis of one seat for every ten passengers?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Am I the arsehole for allowing 2 hours before my flight to get through passport control and then refusing to let some whose flight is in 30 minutes push in front of me?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fartrage & Co PLC, trading as Reform UK, is an absolute cult. Prove me wrong.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s interesting how Fartrage & Co PLC got away with so much for so long and yet now the storm clouds are gathering all at once. What’s changed that the mainstream media seem suddenly to have grown some balls and are willing to challenge the frog faced fraud?

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Poor old 30p Lee looks like he’s going to cry on BBC Breakfast just now - I feel so happy for him 😆😆😆😆

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Facebook is the Daily Mail of social media. Andy Burnham is planning to murder pensioners by scrapping the triple lock and taxing pensions! Woe betide you if you point out that the tax would only be 20p of every £1 increase or that there were pension increases before the triple lock existed

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Has the person/company that came up with these lids ever actually tried drinking from them? They have a strange taste and the texture is most unpleasant. I’ll take my chances with getting scalded thanks!

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dear #easyjet - sending an e-mail headed ‘important travel update’ about a flight on Monday which just regurgitates stuff you’ve already told me at least 3 times before is not a way to endear you to your customers. I was expecting a time change or cancellation and now have to change my underwear!

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well fuck you very much 2026 - Bonnie Tyler, Dolly Parton and now Tim Curry. I’m not sure how much more I can take …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Imagine being Donald Trump right now and knowing that people all over the world are wishing that it had been you and not Dolly Parton …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wish I believed in heaven and that Dolly Parton and Bonnie Tyler are up there rocking God’s socks off with their music and humanity. Two genuine people who never forgot their roots. RIP ladies.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There is definitely no God when Dolly Parton is taken from us and Trumpleshitstain lingers on like the most putrid of bad smells. RIP Dolly.

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