Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Vaccines make people old
Just a dad/carer who spends his spare time trying to photograph birds. Widower, nerd, LFC since 1974, old gamer, no longer writing. UK Long days and pleasant nights Sorry, no DMs. I don’t play well with others. No AI
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Vaccines make people old
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe they’ll be happy when everyone looks like this
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
To me this “race race” is the cause of almost every global problem we have. We already don’t have enough food and air for everyone on the planet but these people are encouraging more breeding/consuption in order to compete in a make believe genetic war.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s a fair enough point.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Barring in mind I was being childish and argumentative before, let me carry on for a minute. Would self-loathing make a trans person transphobic? Wouldn’t that require hating other trans people too? You don’t have to answer it’s a stupid question.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I’m taking the piss. I really shouldn’t, but nobody’s perfect. Accept my apologies.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
You think so? You said you can’t have one without the other. So by your definition a racist trans person would also be transphobic.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you saying there are no racist trans people? Because I very much doubt that’s true.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure 👍
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe you didn’t exactly use the words I did, but it was close
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I got lost in your threads and stumbled on you and someone else discussing how much better than Starmer, Thatcher and Major were.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
That is supposed to be his primary concern, being British Prime minister and all that. I assume you immediately thought he meant white British families.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
This is someone who was saying Thatcher was left wing and socialist a few posts ago.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure. Feel free to make shit up.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Well you didn’t block me, so I assume I’m muted. It’s been a long afternoon I’m sure. At least you don’t have a fortnight to stew on it.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Give over. It was cynical but hardly a red card. Love your posts this afternoon, it was tense game and a good laugh has done me the world of good.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree with the first part of that. I just feel like this is how they need to deal with Farage and his lot. Make it clear, make it unarguable.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is it worse? It’s clear this has nothing to do with Asylum seekers and everything about the government shutting up their political opponents. They been accused of something and simply put it the solution in writing.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like a kid who’s just woken up on Christmas morning and realised I have no toys.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually just sent it to my 73 year old mum and then read your comment.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Seems like the only thing you don’t get is enough attention.
Steve Everitt (@steve-everitt.bsky.social) reposted
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t care what you think
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
lol, you do jump to some ridiculous conclusions. Me and you have been down this route before. You try to lead me into an argument, but you’re boring and irrelevant. Then I tell you that I don’t care what you think. So, I’ll go first. Up to you if you want to continue I don’t care what you think.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
And that’s relevant to me how?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Fair enough. It’s certainly not a hill I’m even thinking about dying on. If the leaf fall wasn’t so uniform, I might argue.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
It checks out as real on an ai detector
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool story
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Strange how you know details like sexuality yet haven’t got a single name.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
This seems to be very important to you. Would it make you feel better if I admitted you’re right?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Half the team tracked back, half didn’t. That’s exactly what happened.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
They looked lively enough in the previous 9 minutes. The Newcastle fans roared when they showed 11 minutes on the board. Anyway, glad we agree that I’m right.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Behave. He scored a great goal in a classic match, let’s not get carried away.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Underhanded how? They bid for a player, what else?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sure they were. Those are the moments they should be remembering their 6 figure salary. It’s a tough one, Liverpool were second best. If we win the league this season, I’ll count tonight at bonus points.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d be looking at the four Newcastle players strolling in midfield in the last minute of the game
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Have a good night :-)
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Cry much? Newcastle fans behind the goal looked happy enough when they were winning corner after corner.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Most of that ten minute were spent in the Liverpool box.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks
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Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social)
Emmett Till lynching records unveil government response www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t care what you think
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t care what you think
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t care what you think
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t care what you think
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t think I was at all vague when I told you to shut up. I’m not debating you. Your opinions mean nothing to me, fuck all. I don’t care what you think, in the slightest.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh shut up you twat
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
It doesn’t matter how confidently you state bullshit as a fact, it remains bullshit.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social)
Call me glass back. Guess I’m spending the day in my chair. #old
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, it’s real
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently it was pointless building the James Webb telescope. All they had to do was drop a camcorder on Mars. This shit is so fake.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I just… I can’t… guns at the beach? These people are insane.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m amused by the “stay at least 100m away” line. I’m pretty certain, after I get in the water, that it’s the dolphin who decides this, not me.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Out of interest, what do you consider a long wait in A+E? I’m British and we usually get triaged immediately but then we can wait 2-4 hours or so before we see a doctor.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
A waste of breathe. They’re one of those attack first, think later types.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m wondering what an armpit attack looks like.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Qatar, Russia, USA, it’s all the same corruption.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
She lives on the beach?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social)
What a fantastic story. This is what AI should be used for. The accent and inflection are wonderfully humanising www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
As long as the last guy standing is a good guy, we can go out knowing we’ve won :-) My money is on climate change, but war feels like a close second.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay, I’ll admit it. If we wipe out the human race we might, might wipe out nazis.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope you’re right, I honestly do. But, if Americans knew better, how did they end up in this mess? Hatred finds a foothold. You can crush it for a bit, but it always finds the weak spots.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Italy currently has their most right wing government since WW2. Georgia Meloni is a post fascist who runs a party called Brothers of Italy. The AFD in Germany is far right, and supported publicly by JD Vance Spain I know less about. As I said, always there.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Getting rid of fascism for good feels like an unachievable goal. People always hate. World war 2 didn’t achieve it otherwise we wouldn’t be where we are now. Slavery was replaced by control and suppression of parts of the population. Left wing authoritarianism might work but who wants that?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Got to love the ignorant anger
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
futuremaps.com/blogs/news/t...
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
The huge issue is the word accurate. Look into the history of map making. It’s been an issue since the first maps.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not sure anyone has ever argued that people want to leave Africa because it’s over crowded.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a huge issue. Nobody has ever been able to produce an accurate map unless it was globe shaped. The nature of reproducing a flat map of a round shape means you have to change the size of countries based on how close to the equator they are.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Not true. Get rid of him and you still have the problem of 77 million racists who voted for him.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately, most small publishers are very niche. They won’t stray from whatever they deem the latest trend to be. I hope I haven’t put you off. Writing is a joy while you’re doing it. It’s just the bits in between that take the shine off. Good luck with it all
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. As far as I’m aware, you won’t get a toe in the door with those five companies unless you go down the traditional route of getting a literary agent.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
To be honest, unless you hit the jackpot and score a deal with one of the big five publishers, you are just as likely to do all the leg work as a published author as a self-published one. The first question most small publishers will ask is, how many followers do you have?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I always try to put myself in another persons shoes. So that I can at least understand why a person thinks a certain way, even if I disagree. Then I hear something like that and I realise that there are some things I’ll never understand.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m glad to hear it. Long may it continue.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Without question. Just looking at the modernisation of large cities in the middle part of the 19th century, and where the money came from, is all the proof you’d need. Modern sewer systems, rail systems, factories and a thousand other things paid for in blood.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
People who looked different and spoke different, or did they understand what was happening and not care? I don’t suppose it matters when weighed against so much suffering, but it might help me understand modern racists a little better.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
From colonialism and slavery, but did they know that’s what was happening? I was born in Liverpool. A town that grew on slavery and made men very rich. At the same time it was a slum in the 1860s where the average life expectancy was 30 years. Did common people simply not have time to care about
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
The damage caused by The British government through the likes of the Easy India company and others is incalculable. The fact that it echoes down through the generations shows the weight of the pain it caused. My thoughts are about the common factory worker, or farm hand. They no doubt benefitted
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
That makes perfect sense. I’ve tried to understand the thoughts of common British men from the past. Did they see not know of the atrocities happening , or did they turn a blind eye and just enjoy the spoils? No doubt they knew some of what was happening but at what scale?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Same in Britain. Right wing Reform voters moan about modern politicians being too rich and out of touch. Yet, they seem to want to defend the rich, racist men of the past. Racism of the past was tempered by massive greed. These days it’s racism for the sake of hate. I don’t know which is worse.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to see these statues as a way to normalise pain and suffering. Now, I see them as a way to gloat and celebrate that pain.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Where on earth could you possibly want to do that?
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
You should be a comedian
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow. The moron who just suggested that some of the worlds most powerful leaders should try to play politics with the despot that their country have foisted on the world while dressed up like a passive aggressive boy band thinks I’m a bot. I actually take that as a compliment.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, I’m from the UK. The same UK whose prime minister you just suggested might want to put on a costume and prance around so you can win some petty point in front of the world press.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
No, it would look like a bunch of people playing dress-up when people’s lives are at stake. This is not a game. Zelensky wears it because his country is at war, just as Churchill did during WW2. Anything else is mockery.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s all the same vibe, it’s just being fed through a willing conduit
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t worry. If they have their way, nobody will be able to read by then.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
No doubt. My hope is that they all find solace on the pitch. For a couple of hours a week they can just think about kicking a ball about and nothing else. When my wife passed, watching Liverpool was a lifeline for me. I could escape my own head for a bit. I hope it works for them too.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like the healthy next step has to be letting this drift into the background now. Grief is painful. To be reminded of it every time they go to work has to be taking a mental and physical toll. We don’t need to forget, we just need to remember in our own way.
Oy of Midworld (@michaelgwhitehead.bsky.social) reply parent
Please tell me this is satire, otherwise the irony will be too much for me to handle.
Duke (@silverduke.bsky.social) reposted
And to the twat that racially abused Semenyo: Fuck off out of my club, you cunt. #lfc #redsky #ynwa