Reposted by Michael JM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist. 15632207
Reposted by Michael JCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When mobs of people are burning immigrants out of their homes: legitimate concerns When people vote against you: mob rule 18024
Reposted by Michael JSb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You do realise that scrapping the pension triple lock will fuck us over and not current pensioners 3146
Michael J @mjcycle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Getting closer to £27m now but still a way to go, would be great if they can still buy the majority of the Rothbury estate 020
Reposted by Michael JWillard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess. 641822419
Reposted by Michael JSpookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Useful to reflect on how absolutely opposed Comfortables were to someone throwing a milkshake on this man. 09623
Reposted by Michael JCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious. 42318593
Reposted by Michael JDara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's hard to read this as anything other than complaining bitterly about having to do one's job. 1937182
Reposted by Michael Jรℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 11/09/2026this won’t get the same level of outrage from our commentary class that covid lockdowns have bcos it would require them to acknowledge that climate change is a serious problem. also the push to end lockdowns was really just a push to get ppl back to work regardless of how dangerous it might be. 34516
Reposted by Michael JIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026SO pleased that this Brainrotted By X tv presenter & professional phobe has an unelected lifelong appointment as an upper house lawmaker 86912
Reposted by Michael JKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026In this thread from a few months back I had a stack of replies from Claude addicts explaining how they can basically now generate a new piece of software every time they need something, and they did not see that as a bad thing at all As always: they're making digital single-use plastic 936691
Reposted by Michael JKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026All the other issues aside, this attitude is a big part of why I see genAI coding in particular as a very material climate / fossil fuel threat A chatbot blurting out tens of thousands of lines of code each time instead of a person designing one efficient, good, smart app once = wild energy bloat 934273
Reposted by Michael JVob @vob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Then remember that this is a man who was leader of the opposition, has held multiple high offices in government and is currently the foreign secretary. If they can treat him like that, with ZERO pushback from even his own government, imagine what they can do to your average person if they want. 15917
Reposted by Michael JGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 753080808
Reposted by Michael Jsasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I won't post the video, but this weekend, three leaders of an anti-migrant protest in Bicester held down and choked a Black guy until he was barely conscious, and only stopped after the cops told them to. None of them were arrested, and they were allowed to lead a march through the town afterwards. 12216
Reposted by Michael JPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns. 201782453
Reposted by Michael Jflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just so: the last police chief who barred fascist football thugs from attending a match was subjected to six months of screaming abuse in parliament and the National press, he was hounded into retirement and he’s now being investigated to find out whether he’s secretly the catspaw of Islamists. 113643
Reposted by Michael JGledster @gledster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just so it's clear where England stands right now. The lady in the photo below, retired vicar Sue Parfitt, who is 84 years old, is considered a terrorist and was arrested 6th July. The masked group in the photo below are not considered terrorists & were allowed to roam freely. 312784
Reposted by Michael JLiz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #FBPE @lizcrosbie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Didn't climate change protestors get sent to prison for holding up the M25? Just asking 🤷 12311
Reposted by Michael JMicroplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ratfucked his way to power, furthered the rise of the far right, crashed out of leadership in two years, can't even be bothered to finish the term as MP. Absolutely farcical. 14412
Reposted by Michael JGunner Regretit @gunnerregretit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I’ve been wondering this. Sadiq Khan gets massive grief about ‘lawless London’ even though its crime rate is relatively low. Middlesbrough has the highest crime rate in the UK but nobody points the finger at Ben Houchen. 17661335
Reposted by Michael Jthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026most embarrassing guy of all time 37693561031
Reposted by Michael JNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I begged Woman’s Hour to cover Gamergate in 2014, when it was the NYT front page & UK women in games were living in terror. Gamergate became the model for MAGA. They said they didn’t think it was an important story. That week they covered women mountaineers of the 19th C & new ways with aubergine 71563367
Reposted by Michael JLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Yeah, cos their every talking point & crackpot bugbear, that largely originate with a handful of hate-filled crackpot weirdos in the political media class, is megaphoned back at them across all channels, all day, at maximum volume, with the strapline that this is what the silent *majority* thinks 1141
Reposted by Michael Jelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"I would do that myself but I'm too busy going after trans people" 049977
Reposted by Michael JReal Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 26/08/2026No. We need to enable more walking and cycling, not just encourage. Swapping car trips for active travel reduces emissions & is healthier. The UK isn't doing enough. With a lot of councils being Reform controlled there is a real risk of backsliding. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comHeatwaves show UK must do more to promote cycling and walking, campaigners sayCivil society groups argue climate crisis means transport sector needs to urgently reduce its carbon emissions 816131
Reposted by Michael JR. Fuckminster BOO-ller @uhlume.bsky.social · 26/08/2026i'm beginning to understand why these specific guys think LLMs are such capable writers 0155
Reposted by Michael JPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026…and the big problem is, once you start accepting nazism as part of the furniture, they’re going eventually to Do What Nazis Do, and you won’t be able to say you didn’t know it was coming. 073
Reposted by Michael JPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There’s no internal logic. The defences are bad. The richest guy in the world - heavily involved in politics, defence and security - is an open and enthusiastic Nazi and apparently that’s not very remarkable. 194
Reposted by Michael JPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Yet again, Musk incites and endorses white supremacist terrorism, and there is no response from governments, least of all withdrawing from Twitter. 13212
Reposted by Michael JLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/08/2026All these people ever do is put feelings before facts! 1137458
Reposted by Michael JPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 19/08/2026Labour wanted kids breathing that pollution purely to try and get more votes. It’s a national direction they’re sticking to with oil and gas drilling, and it won’t be a popular one just because the media over-platforms right-wing cranks. 0182
Reposted by Michael JIain Hepburn @iainhepburn.me · 22/08/2026Again, the focus of this on Harry as the main figure by the media siding with the Mail (as Press Gazette always does) is to obscure what the other allegations were: trying to out someone; using someone’s medical records; spying on the mum of a murdered boy. Making about Harry puts a blanket on it. 1126
Reposted by Michael JA.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It's extraordinary how bent the upper echelons of British society are—from the floating duck island MP to the heated stables guy, whose ultimate punishment was to become Chancellor and a regular pundit on TV news. Meanwhile, the benighted serfs are hauled into court for watching TV the wrong way.news.sky.comDisabled mum's 'terrifying' prosecution over non-payment of TV licenceThe BBC is looking to broker a new funding deal with the government in the next three years - and critics of the current licence fee model argue it is hard to justify how non-payment is still seen as ... 1335
Reposted by Michael JJack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Imagine, just image the fucking vitriol an average retiree would get from the press if they claimed PIP while calling themselves 'BoozeNFagz' online. The amount of think pieces we'd hear about the public paying for lifestyle choices. 4326
Reposted by Michael JHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The thing about neoliberalism in the public sector is that anybody, and that includes you reading this, could social engineer your way into any state data file you like, via blagging a job with the arms-length service provider, and you could do this by the end of this week. 25327
Reposted by Michael JDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026THEY DIDN'T EVEN EDIT OUT THE "HERE'S WHAT YOU ASKED FOR" BIT AT THE START OF THE TEXT... 0104
Reposted by Michael JProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy. 221963616
Reposted by Michael JMagic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Lol you fucking what 1831235
Reposted by Michael JKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026I know journalists at right-wing outlets are physically incapable of introspection but I hope everyone else around them realises how direct a role they played in hounding a man with two kids to suicide 311130307
Reposted by Michael JAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Let’s get back to the actual news, eh? This is horrific, and also our future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...bbc.co.ukMultiple fires in West Midlands have caused 'extensive devastation' says fire chiefIn Stourbridge, around 100 firefighters tackled a huge grass fire that spread to several homes, engulfing them in flames. 54212
Reposted by Michael Jflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Looking back at the files, and I’d say this turned out to be exactly on the money. But then if you had paid attention in the previous 20 years or so, you didn’t have to be Nostradamus to predict it. 04317
Reposted by Michael JThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462752
Reposted by Michael JThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026By February this year, @london.gov.uk's TfL had spent £66.5m replacing the #GallowsCorner flyover and re-aligning the traffic lanes below. This should have been a once in a generation opportunity to future-proof the junction for walking, wheeling and cycling. Instead, it's a failure. 56010
Reposted by Michael JAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it 1862662738
Michael J @mjcycle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026From a thread last year, after Rod Liddle wrote a column about bombing Glastonbury. Thread also reminds us that these types can get put in the House of Lords and become legislators for life, like Toby Young 020
Reposted by Michael Jmarykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It’s so solipsistic that the media does this. A columnist and former editor of the Today programme dying of natural causes does not merit the kind of full page spread that a former prime minister would get! 121
Reposted by Michael JStefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026perfect illustration of how these people will ignore all sorts of horrible bigotry - often towards women, including domestic violence - if the bigot in question demonstrates the correct level of transphobia 820571
