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We all make choices, in the end our choices make us.

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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reform promised different politics, I don't think people expected "refuses to answer questions from journalists and bans them." As one of their policies for more 'common sense'
bbc.co.uk
Derbyshire County Council's Reform leaders block local reporter
Party bosses said the move followed what it called "a prolonged period of concerns".
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If this had passed Switzerland basically would have become the neutral planet from Futurama. "If I don't survive, tell my wife hello."
aljazeera.com
Swiss voters reject tighter neutrality rules in referendum
About 71 percent of voters oppose initiative to impose stricter limits on neutrality.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because it's quite normal to think someone is a terrorist about to bomb a military base, but then you just release them on bail the next day. Funny that.
independent.co.uk
Men arrested over RAF Fairford ‘bomb plot’ released on bail
The suspects, who are all British nationals from London, will remain under police investigation
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the largest group purchasing powers on earth, the ability to reform over 2 dozen governments approaches and could push back on the profits of oil and gas companies, but what do they do? Ask people to turn the street lights off and try not to use much power. Spineless.
euronews.com
EU tells capitals to cut gas demand amid rising supply concerns
Although the EU is not facing immediate gas shortages, Energy Commissioner Jørgensen warned capitals that soaring prices driven by rising global demand could lead to shortages as winter approaches, ac...
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PACs passing has hit like a ton of bricks this morning. Another absolutely wonderful person taken from us far too soon in a year that has taken so much already. Rest in peace man. I just don't have the words to do this any justice.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Turns out I've been put on a blocklist for "wanting to see Americans destroy themselves." I didn't realise mild critique was an incitement to civil war but hey-ho, you learn something new every day.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why is it governments can't bring themselves to stop giving money to clearly incompetent companies that exist solely to extract profit from public money. They're basically tax vampires. Someone fetch some damn garlic and a stake already.
computerweekly.com
Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs | Computer Weekly
The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committees calling for the Capita run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you don't want our pervert vision glasses, here get our creepy always listening glasses instead, because glasses need to listen to everything you say and do!
techradar.com
Perv glasses no more? The Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses have Dolby Atmos, and no cameras at all
The new best Meta smart glasses?
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tories are now suddenly worried about education standards, after seeing the biggest decline in a generation by defunding education for over a decade and still trying to claim/lie they improved things. Get straight into the nearest sea. Do not pass go, do not collect £200
bbc.co.uk
New vocational GCSE subjects to be introduced in schools
New GCSE subjects could include child development and building and construction as vocational courses are being introduced.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's funny how cutting delivery staff makes companies faster and more Efficient. How exactly, by making everyone left work harder and be grateful they have a job? If a company suddenly needs to find £100m in savings then you have a serious failure of leadership, who should be first to go.
bbc.co.uk
Admiral UK insurance to cut 500 jobs to save £100m
The proposals relate to Admiral's UK insurance business, and will affect about 5% of its workforce.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reforms main voter base are angry old white people. I wonder how they'll handle the economic platform of "we're scrapping the state pension to pay for tax cuts for rich people?" #Reformarenotyourfriends
theguardian.com
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reform "we want immigrants to integrate." Also reform "we're pulling out of this free scheme to help immigrants integrate to save the no money it costs us, and we're instead spending money on that most disadvantaged group, white men."
bbc.co.uk
Bradford's 'sanctuary' status could be ditched by Reform UK
Bradford's Reform UK leaders propose pulling out of the current “Local Authority of Sanctuary” status.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We keep a very strong united front on the sanctions on Russia,” Except now when we want some rich people off the list so we can work with them again, because billionaires are more important than stopping Russian invasions.
politico.eu
Azerbaijan frees French prisoner after EU lifts sanctions on Russian billionaire
Martin Ryan had been convicted of espionage charges earlier this year.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just upset someone on Facebook again "they come in, force their beliefs and their laws on you, take what they want and attack anyone who disagrees with them." He meant Muslims. I said it was the American government. He did not appreciate my answer.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thurrock have no cash but apparently they have time and space to make new councils roles for "veterans and heritage." And then had these portfolios over to the same idiots who were around when the council went belly up the first time. Vote reform, get Tories and ukip *again*.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ah the cesspit of Facebook, where crimestoppers gets abuse for *checks notes* pointing out a scum bag right wing racist with a criminal record as long as my arm has probably committed another crime.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reform: "We're not racist, but we won't support anti racism organisations that point out our membership tends to be pretty racist."
bbc.co.uk
Sunderland's Reform Council ends Show Racism the Red Card support
Reform ends Sunderland Council support for Show Racism the Red Card in a row with the charity's head.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you ever want proof letting sponsors name trophies is ridiculous, here we have it.
bbc.co.uk
EFL Trophy: Jersey Mike's signs five-year sponsorship deal
American sub sandwich brand Jersey Mike's is the new sponsor of the EFL Trophy.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good to see Jon Jones is worried about his Frie-oh no wait, it's a sex offender he's worried about being knocked out like he so richly deserved. Better get in the sea as well then Jon, and most of the rest of the UFC while you're at it.
mmafighting.com
Jon Jones issues statement over Gable Steveson’s knockout loss, leaving the octagon immediately afterwards
Jon Jones takes responsibility for Gable Steveson leaving the octagon immediately after his loss
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Advertising is basically the ultimate zombie industry because it just won't go the fuck away and die.
techspot.com
Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes
The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm quite happy to say I don't pay for Disney, or netflix. Or apple TV. In fact the only subscription I have currently is paramount and that's just to watch strange new worlds and then I'll cut them off too, there is literally nothing these people are producing rn that is worth the collective costs.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Somehow the BBC still strives to make this absolute shower of shite sounds like a resilience tale by only directly speaking with freakish giant baby Llŷr Powell. Maybe speak to some other people to get some balance on how absolutely shit they are at everything rather than just asking them about it?
bbc.co.uk
Reform Wales' chaotic week - An arrest, defection and new leader
How an extraordinary seven days that rocked the party unfolded.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You can't say these companies weren't told to disinvest from Russia as soon as they invaded the Ukraine, shock horror that now Putin is going to co-opt whatever is left to try and fund the flailing war effort. Nestlé now enters the find out portion of international fucking around with dictators.
euronews.com
Russia seizes control over assets of Nestle, French firms
Russia has placed the local businesses of Nestlé, Auchan and other Western-linked companies under temporary administration. Nestlé is weighing its options, while Auchan and Lemana Pro say their Russia...
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Proof that being utterly incompetent but over confident in everything you do is no bar to landing top jobs. Think positively, if Liz Truss can keep getting work, you definitely can get that better job you're after.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No special adminstration. No taxpayer payouts to creditors No bailouts. Thames water needs to be fully nationalised and every single parasite on the board should be sent into the sewers with the rest of the human effluent. I mean maybe make them clean it, just so long as they go deep underground.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm seeing a lot of people feeling sorry for Ed Sheeran. Just remember he's a multimillionaire who had the opportunity to do something huge with his platform and push back against people limiting freedom of speech but opted to do nothing to protect his own income from the tour. Fuck Ed.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For anyone who has followed Tom Watsons career, signing up to work with Oswald Mosley's grandchild at one of the most evil companies on earth won't come as a massive surprise since he spent years undermining the party he's now about to try and lobby. If you don't know who he is, he's a shit bag.
bbc.co.uk
Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Lord Watson praises his new employers but says there are "legitimate questions" about big tech firms that "require answers".
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who knew reining in executive pay actually helps companies stay solvent? *Americans will immediately view this as communism*
gamesradar.com
Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert
"They didn't get swept up in the live-service trend, or into these mega-blockbusters with 500-person teams"
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two aspects to this. 1. Everything is already fucking expensive, its why we're all broke and more people are comfortable pinching things. 2. People will keep doing it because they know they can't get sent to prison now anyway, so it's effectively decriminalised for most thieves.
bbc.co.uk
Shoplifting forcing stores to raise prices - Poundland co-founder
Steven Smith says the problem is losing businesses £18bn a year and forcing shops to raise prices.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gammons and their ilk will moan about pubs going out of business. Then they'll collectively try and get the local family pub shut down because it's too loud when it's being used. Can't have it both ways ya bellends.
yourthurrock.com
Bull pub and restaurant say they had introduced tougher measures before licensing review - Your Thurrock
MANAGERS of The Bull pub and restaurant say they had already introduced tougher security measures before councillors approved new licensing conditions following concerns raised by residents and police...
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Crafty Darren can't hand shandy his way out of this one eh? Where's all the savings from cancelling all the EDI programs etc? What's that? Reform were talking bollocks and only made things worse?? Better call for a crypto bailout since they're such massive patriots apparently.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quelle surprise that the man who appointed Mandelson and "strategized" labours lowest ever vote share whilst winning an election wanted to avoid scrutiny of his terrible *terrible* ideas. It's amazing how tripping over into a victory somehow makes him think he's anything other than another SPAD.
politico.eu
Keir Starmer’s top aide Morgan McSweeney tried to set up a No. 10 think tank
Former chief of staff said he wanted a space for Downing Street thinking that would be “protected from the level of scrutiny” that comes with government.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's position is that he's not political so can't take a side. So why did he back black lives matter? Why did he perform Ukrainian support gigs? Why did he support Jeremy Corbyn and then Keir Starmer? Why did he then lobby the labour party? Seems pretty political when it costs him nothing.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
All support acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour. To think he could have gone down in history for pushing back against billionaire demands and controls over individual gig goers. Instead he just capitulated so he can keep getting paid money he doesn't need. Ed can kinda get in the sea now.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Quelle surprise, a reform politician who wants to spend more time on outside jobs than anything they were elected to do. Plus, imagine being someone who spent your career putting away the scum of the earth and then you decide to work for them?? We're seriously in the wrong trouser leg of time.
bbc.co.uk
Norfolk police commissioner considers cancelling theatre tour
Colin Sutton is due to perform his true crime show on-stage 127 times between January and November.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tories pick man who didn't even manage 400 votes in the locals as their MP candidate. Definitely taking this Very seriously then and not just phoning it in at all eh kemikaze?
bbc.co.uk
Tories pick ex-councillor to contest Starmer's former seat
Ewan Cameron, a Camden councillor from 1998 to 2002, will stand in the by-election on 8 October.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We won't cancel the contract with parasitic money wasting capita, but we will spend more money setting up a team to double check their work because they're that shit. Government genius at it's finest. Just stop outsourcing to these useless twats already!
computerweekly.com
UK government to create team to validate Capita’s data on troubled pension scheme | Computer Weekly
Cabinet Office is setting up a function to check the civil service pension scheme data provided by Capita.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Coin street community builders" now wrecking a nearly 40 year old community of businesses claiming it was only ever meant to be temporary, so they can apparently build a care home. But let's see if that happens since that was the plan decades ago and they never bothered.
bbc.co.uk
South Bank's Gabriel's Wharf traders face final weeks
Businesses at Gabriel's Wharf on London's South Bank are entering their final weeks at the site.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But the Times told me the 'Cossie livs' (as they bizarrely put it.) is over! Ergo this women is clearly making it up for the BBC because a rich person in the Times told me it's not real anymore. Nope, no poverty or struggling. Only sunlit uplands now.
bbc.co.uk
'It's cost upon cost for working families - they get no help'
The government needs to do more to support working families, a charity in Rotherham says.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And we wait two years to find out to no one's surprise which kind of melanin depleted groups get all the funding from local councillors and which ones are suddenly deemed a bad (too foreign) investment.
yourthurrock.com
Council leader spearheads change to community funding in Thurrock - Your Thurrock
IN his latest move championing ‘civic pride’ Thurrock Council leader Cllr Richard Bingley is taking a new approach to handing council cash to local communities. The Reform-led council will introduce a...
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Elect right wing governments, get right wing nonsense, as if America hasn't already proven that huge prison populations don't suddenly cut crime. And these are the same people who have said they'll let actual neo-nazis become MPs if they stay in power.
theconversation.com
Sweden’s prison population has doubled in a decade, and is set to spike even further – here’s why
Sweden’s prison population could increase to more than 30,000 in the coming decades.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was quite looking forward to the new Fable, and it still looks good But I'm not parting with £50+ for a game you can complete in 15-20 hours. That's peanuts in RPG terms. My working theory is every £1 spent should get me about an hour or more of gameplay. Yes I'm greedy because JRPGs spoilt me.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maybe start by not calling them "anti migrant protests" and call them hate marches, like people do about peace protests all the sodding time? Funny how right wing nutjobs are protestors but if you think genocide is a bit off you're on a hate march.
bbc.co.uk
Use all powers necessary on anti-migrant protests, home secretary tells police
Two anti-migrant protests took place in Dover and Portsmouth last weekend.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The BBC are spending their time hunting down individual sob stories about Brits being deported and how unfair it is like they didn't platform Farage constantly for a decade to help cause all this shit to happen to everyone. But hey. It's all impartial right?
bbc.co.uk
British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years
A 78-year-old British woman is facing deportation for failing to fill out a Brexit residence application on time.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Temu Mork giving more mirror universe nanu nanu energy. Because historically bad Argentinian leaders haven't done dumb shit here to try and look good at home.
bbc.co.uk
Argentina to file criminal case against oil company operating in Falklands
The move comes days after President Javier Milei stepped up Argentina's claims of sovereignty over the Falklands.
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Awarded without tender" Another way of saying "given to our dodgy mates because we knew everyone would oppose this." Seriously, fuck Palantir and anyone who gives them money.
theregister.com
UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award
Proprietary platform keeps incumbent in place while NESO prepares a future competition
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I can't even get AI to give me information about how to get my Tesla cannon to stop being shit in fallout 76 since they nerfed it again, let alone trust it to make a whole game.
techradar.com
I’m mildly horrified by the idea of 'the Half-Life 2 of AI', but a Saber exec thinks it’s the future — what do you think?
Saber Interactive doubles down on its enthusiasm for AI in game development — but are you sold?
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Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trust the BBC to try and turn this kind of ghoulish nightmare fuel of recruitment into an upbeat fun story. I work in recruitment and everything about this is horribly off-putting, so much so I'm struggling to even find a joke to make. Probably because we're not worth it. There we go.
bbc.co.uk
The firms turning recruitment into X Factor-style competitions
Applicants have to pitch their ideas on stage in front of a panel of judges and an audience. But is this exciting or unfair?
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