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Mike

@lpoolmike.bsky.social

📍 Liverpool, UK X refugee in the UK 🏳️‍🌈 Passionate about politics,science, history, amphibians, horticulture, carnivorous plants, film (esp. horror) and LFC.

created November 11, 2024

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Especially one so early in the new season when no one is fully up to match speed. Asking for injuries

8/9/2025, 11:25:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem we have is that vaccines are so effective that most of us don’t remember the days when these diseases caused terrible consequences and grifters/demagogues have taken advantage. My great aunt lost two kids in a week to diphtheria and a great uncle had a withered leg due to polio #vaccines

8/9/2025, 10:33:44 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is the international break over yet? #LFC #YNWA

8/9/2025, 10:24:29 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tonight’s film viewing is a classic and one of my favourites - Theatre of Blood from 1973. Vincent Price at his best. Brilliant supporting cast. Camp, horrific and brilliant #horror #horrorsky #VincentPrice

Vincent Price dresses as a chef holds a spoon of food as Robert Morley in a pink jacket looks on horrified
7/9/2025, 9:48:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those sort of hard strokes will get you a lifetime ban from the tennis club

7/9/2025, 9:40:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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¡Vamos Carlos! What a player

7/9/2025, 9:38:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listening just for isn’t the same

7/9/2025, 9:27:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having to listen to it on 5Live. Wish I could be watching - sounds amazing . Love watching Alcaraz play

7/9/2025, 9:18:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listening to the US Open final on 5Live. Wish I could be watching it. Love watching Carlos Alcaraz play

7/9/2025, 9:17:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry to hear about your mum. Hope she gets better soon. Ashamed to say whenever I hear Grieg’s Piano Concerto the first thing that comes to my mind is this…

Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe and Andre Previn in formal dress all looking at a piece of sheet music
7/9/2025, 6:57:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/9/2025, 6:42:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Is it safe?”

7/9/2025, 4:01:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Emergency Alert seemed to work fine. Personally I think we should petition the government to use it to warn people when a new series (inexplicably) of Mrs Brown’s Boys starts on the BBC

7/9/2025, 3:10:43 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me, for a split second during that alert.

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7/9/2025, 3:02:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Recipe here:

7/9/2025, 2:45:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sunday baking today is making use of some very overripe bananas - @nigella.bsky.social wonderful recipe for banana bread. Rum soaked sultanas and nuts (recipe calls for walnuts but I was out so I used pecans)take it up a notch. Very moist + great with a cuppa. Recipe in post below #bakesky #cakesky

Banana bread batter in a lined loaf tin Sliced banana bread
7/9/2025, 2:45:18 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or this banger….

7/9/2025, 12:54:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you see this QTP with a cartoon with an awesome theme song !🎶

7/9/2025, 12:54:03 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The glee with which these people celebrate extrajudicial killings and unfathomable cruelty and at the same time claim to be faithful Christians makes me throw up in my mouth

7/9/2025, 1:41:01 AM | 67 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

7/9/2025, 12:02:02 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s going to be a very common occurrence unfortunately. And will get half the coverage than if the racial roles were reversed

6/9/2025, 11:15:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 10:40:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 8:20:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah I’ve done that many times. Apple can get like the centre of the sun in the oven lol

6/9/2025, 7:07:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you see this, post a vampire that is not Dracula

6/9/2025, 7:05:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yummy! I’ve been lazy and had a caramel Magnum. Enjoy!

6/9/2025, 7:03:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She is absolute gold.

6/9/2025, 2:14:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Without saying Earth Girls Are Easy, fav Geena Davis Film?

5/9/2025, 11:59:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thick as mince

5/9/2025, 8:53:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Proud of that one lol

5/9/2025, 8:32:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👍

5/9/2025, 8:30:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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👍

5/9/2025, 7:36:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me last month during that heatwave…

5/9/2025, 7:35:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👍

5/9/2025, 7:21:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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👍

5/9/2025, 7:11:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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5/9/2025, 6:54:04 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice 👍

5/9/2025, 6:43:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well it doesn’t look good terrorising normal people just because of who they are. If you tag them as an activist it seems in some peoples eyes then all bets are off and they are fair game. All of it is bullshit of course.

5/9/2025, 6:39:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love how people like him use the word “activist” to refer to people who just want to be able to exist without persecution from the state and trolls like him

5/9/2025, 6:30:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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5/9/2025, 5:40:49 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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They always drag

5/9/2025, 5:36:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/9/2025, 5:33:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/9/2025, 5:32:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks. Now I want a lolly ice though

5/9/2025, 5:31:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He knows exactly what he’s doing lol woof @karu1402.bsky.social

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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5/9/2025, 5:12:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joanna 💫✨ (@joannat.bsky.social) reposted

Thought he plays football ! 😂🔥🔴 #kerkez #lfc #Fridays

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🤣🤣

5/9/2025, 5:10:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/9/2025, 5:05:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Concentrate on what the bull is doing, the man in front of the notices and where the compass is pointing

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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Name the ex LFC player. Instead of the name, leave a thumbs up when you get it, so others can keep having a go. 👍 #LFC #YNWA

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Font size and contrast affect readability more than stacking order. #graphicdesign #typography

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My thoughts exactly!

5/9/2025, 2:33:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There’s more water in that putrid, stinking well

5/9/2025, 2:07:26 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I got all 8 as a set for Christmas and I’m working my way through them. Like Smiley and Alec Guinness, Lamb is Oldman when I’m reading them

5/9/2025, 1:11:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cannot wait for Slow Horses season 5. Working my way through seasons 3 and 4 before it starts on the 24th. Gary Oldman is so,so good #SlowHorses

5/9/2025, 12:34:06 AM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The dogs face? Yeah amazing

4/9/2025, 8:04:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think Wes Streeting is awful but having watched that RJK Jr Senate hearing he makes Streeting look like Louis fucking Pasteur

4/9/2025, 5:40:18 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve enjoyed it more than I thought too. Been genuinely gripping

4/9/2025, 4:27:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh it’s horrid. When the blood sucker squirted the larvae into the water too

4/9/2025, 4:23:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alien: Earth is so good. Episode 5 gave me serious heebee geebies

4/9/2025, 4:18:34 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it has more to do with UEFA homegrown quota requirements in squads. Can be changed at the knockout stages

4/9/2025, 12:18:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem with Faustian pacts is that Mephistopheles never pays up. Once you bow and show your weakness no matter what you give up will never be enough.

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3/9/2025, 1:11:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Possibly. The congenital syphillis bit of a negative though

3/9/2025, 12:26:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just shows how good sportswashing and client journalism works when you see who’ve been portrayed as the good guys in all this

3/9/2025, 11:40:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it’s very dependent on the clubs involved. I’ve noticed how the Wissa stuff is mentioned now, mostly as an aside after they put the boot into Isak. The nastiness towards Isak has been on a different level and in the last day has crossed the line into just libel imo

3/9/2025, 11:20:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good on Mo for calling out this disrespectful bullshit. Too many short memories and an obsession with transfers and churn. You can celebrate our future without disparaging our past #LFC #YNWA

3/9/2025, 11:17:32 AM | 47 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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And it only didn’t escalate because Sporting saw the writing on the wall and sold him.

3/9/2025, 11:12:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wissa and Gyokeres did it. Seem to remember Gordon kicked off to get his Newcastle move. Collective and selective amnesia. Seems to only matter when a player leaves certain clubs and is going to certain clubs

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And the majority of the people don’t know or don’t care. Yet

3/9/2025, 12:42:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The spineless cowards leading our government are falling for exactly the same thing. Trying to appease the far right to gain voters which only makes it more likely the far right rises and becomes mainstream. Can see it a mile off and they are still driving us straight to it

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Yep. Most democrats are too weak and timid. Still think the electorate wants bipartisanship and totally beholden to political consultants and media talking heads. The right wing parties here and there are extremist and fascistic. You can’t negotiate with that you fight it in every way you can.

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After a few shots it’s difficult to understand standing never mind do it

3/9/2025, 12:19:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think democracy dies in the same way that Ernest Hemingway described how you go bankrupt: “gradually, then suddenly” They are well along the gradual stage and I think the suddenly bit is right around the corner. And there are lots cheering this on that won’t be cheering soon, there and here.

3/9/2025, 12:12:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they are trying to run the fine line between malicious insinuation and straight out defamation

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I’m guessing William Wilberforce isn’t high up on the list

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Knives being sharpened. We are yet to find out why Edu was suddenly put on gardening leave

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Profile picture Mari Murphy (@marimurphy.bsky.social) reposted

I will miss Ederson, who gave me one of my fave Liverpool Twitter moments:

@ aj_ajsblue1 tweets: Ederson would walk into Liverpool's midfield. @ LF_1906 quote tweets him to say: Think he tried it once and Salah lobbed the fucker
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Zombie Van Buren was unavailable for comment

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Asylum seekers are not allowed to claim benefits or seek employment yet the right wing press and talking heads have convinced a worryingly large number of our citizens that these poor people are draining our social security coffers AND stealing jobs AND lowering wages. They’ll say anything for power

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2/9/2025, 6:35:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you legitimise the policies of the far right the public are going to vote for people who they think genuinely believe those policies. And a former human rights lawyer isn’t that. It’s not difficult and anyone who has read a history book understands it

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Yes the percentage win wasn’t as spectacular as the seats because of FPTP but chasing Reform is not the way to help that. Would help if our media wasn’t so thirsty for a bit of fash

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There is a long tradition of great politicians shaping public opinion rather than being led by it. Our Prime Minister chases policies from focus groups and the right wing press like a cat chasing a fucking laser pen. And all it does it legitimise the far right to the general public.

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