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Michael

@mykl.sparkle.blue
1.6K followers 3.1K following 9.1K posts

Just a vibe, you know? From the UK, jetzt in Deutschland. Used to wrangle code, coders, and customers for a living. Now just for fun. Interested in complex systems and how they fail us. Oh, and jokes.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 13/10/2026
It’s not the chan-kids who never grew up who are the real problem there any more, it’s the nice, normal, sensible people who continue to tolerate and excuse their terrible, abusive behaviour.
Perhaps the most telling sign that staying on X has made you worse than you used to be is that, just a few years ago, if I asked you:
"Would you use a product from a company owned entirely by a man who sold child sexual abuse material?", you would have said no. You're no longer that person. I'm sorry to see it.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 13/10/2026
The set designer just sighing
Use you National ID app
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 10/10/2026
Me reading your tweet
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 09/10/2026
“Me reading your tweet”
Portrait “Girl with dead canary”
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 09/10/2026
What a Dutch bargeman shouts if you cut him up.
Donkere Basterd Suiker!
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 09/10/2026
“I want vengeance rather than justice but I’m squeamish about it.”
BBC News
Survivor of US Army base attack tells BBC he supports firing squad execution but questions livestream
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 08/10/2026
Every German toilet used to come pre-installed with this one
Cartoon showing correct use of toilet brush by means of German humour
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 08/10/2026
Easiest block of the day.
Someone who picked every gender option on the gender labeller.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 08/10/2026
Alas…
“Aww you’re sweet/Hello Human Resources” meme with them both saying “Big homie”
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 08/10/2026
Latest on the Keminaissance.
Labour are most trusted on 15 of 16 major policy areas. Guess which the 1 is.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 06/10/2026
What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? (I love how similar the angles are in these two shots despite Harry Palmer being spun as the “anti” James Bond.)
Michael Caine in the Ipcress File
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 06/10/2026
Americans, again.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 06/10/2026
Much like Google gently probing where I was going with my questions
Are you measuring this range for a specific reason, such as tracking the ** Shahed-136 drone flight paths** from a specific launch point, or planning a flight/travel itinerary? Let me know so I can tailor the details!
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 05/10/2026
Americans, sir!
Zulu: “Thousands of ’em” scene
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 04/10/2026
This reminded me of the old usenet signatures that people from the other Perth used to indicate where they meant.
Crappy ascii art showing Perth in Australia very badly.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 02/10/2026
Sometimes you just want to play the cards you’re dealt.
Biergarten Goebels.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 02/10/2026
Sometimes you just want to play the cards you’re dealt.
Biergarten Goebels.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 01/10/2026
Very close but very slightly different. How very Bluesky.
I am a Camusian Liberal Socialist apparently
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 01/10/2026
Getting flashbacks this morning.
Barnier’s Brexit Staircase
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 01/10/2026
I took this photo yesterday by the Rhine. I wonder if they get a refund.
Harbour with many boats beached due to low water
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 28/09/2026
GET ME HENNIMORE!
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 28/09/2026
Stephen is veering very close to classic columnist territory here. I hope we’re just his way of getting it out of his system, and not his test audience.
Two Stephen Bush posts stirring the “why oh why” waters.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 27/09/2026
I imagine they’re reflecting an iconic image from their own actual history.
Classic “And now win the peace” poster
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 23/09/2026
I am Simon Quinlank and I have collected YOU!
Simon Quinlank, Duke of Hobbies
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 23/09/2026
Sorry, but he would.
Stalin would be loving this.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 23/09/2026
Interesting to see the bots trying to hook politically aware but non-internet savvy section of Bluesky. Bad choice of account name to churn though.
Bot follows me:  
Seraphina
@mickeymolest.bsky.social
12.2K followers 80.3K following 37 posts
Reposts do not reflect my personal stance. I challenge authority on the West Coast and follow global affairs with a critical eye; insight matters, and humor keeps me grounded.
No pornography/No cryptocurrency.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 23/09/2026
Cor!
A school tea cup looking all sexy and that
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 21/09/2026
Has there ever been a more repellent set of words mashed together.
“Content that ranks on Google and Al search, on autopilot. Find opportunities, create content, and grow organic traffic with Al-powered SEO.”
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 18/09/2026
Disgusting
Bob Katter hating crocodiles
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 16/09/2026
Just accidentally hiked into “Carry On Wanderung”
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 15/09/2026
Modern Working Britain: you’re either at the champagne party, or you’re working in a phone box.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 14/09/2026
Ahhh…
The poster liked my QT
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 14/09/2026
Bloody hell iPhone, this *isn’t* a moment I want to be reminded of.
Gove and Johnson distraught at realising they’ve just gone out of the EU by mistake.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 14/09/2026
Non-ironically
Mandela would be loving this
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 14/09/2026
I did check to make sure there was no old man inside it.
A telephone box being removed
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 12/09/2026
I’ve never been seen one of these so early.
1/19
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 12/09/2026
I thought this was going in a very different direction.
The “This is my hole!” horror manga
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 12/09/2026
To be fair, you guys can buy a tub of 500 ibuprofen rather than a blister pack of seven at the same price. The European mind cannot conceive of this luxury.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 11/09/2026
Uh-oh
Inside you there are two wolves: Anglese and Anglish
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 11/09/2026
It made me think of a big blue cock which is a bit oo-err.
Big blue cock on the plinth
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 11/09/2026
Samsung have become so good at copying Apple that they managed to get their copy of the iPhone Duo “passport shaped” form factor out 3 months before Apple did.
Samsung Z Fold 8Apple Duo
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 09/09/2026
Poor old Robert had to.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 07/09/2026
What's an example of perfect casting?
Ken Stott as Rebus. 

Okay he was a damned good dwarf as well, but this was the role he was born for.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 07/09/2026
Oh yes
The “this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family” tweet
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 07/09/2026
I remember that.
Hugh from The Armando Ianucci Shows 
In those days, the Internet was in black and white.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 07/09/2026
I don’t think BMI is valid at that range.
I’m 14st and 6”
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 07/09/2026
Jason watching the skeletons grow
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 04/09/2026
Good to see the BBC have finally put out a breaking news alert about Reform.
Nigel Farage to give speech at Reform UK party conference after delay over security concerns
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 04/09/2026
Huh
BBC Breaking News alerts for yesterday
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 04/09/2026
Huh. I guess they know their customers.
An advert for a graphics card that spent more time showing an anime child than the card itself.
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