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created March 4, 2025

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Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Putin's man on the inside. One of.

2/9/2025, 4:55:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

Surprised the American president isn't there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2/9/2025, 4:53:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Young American white men, maybe. This problem is just not prevalent in the UK. There is racism, yes, but not on the scale seen in the US.

2/9/2025, 6:12:01 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Crikey, you guys barely get any holidays as it is!

1/9/2025, 7:07:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I read this morning on the BBC that China has 200 times the shipbuilding capacity of the US. The loss of goodwill is the most damaging thing for the US. Not everything can be bought.

1/9/2025, 4:08:12 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

Sarawak, July 2025.

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31/8/2025, 7:52:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

Whip Scorpions and Wallace's Flying frog. Sabah, July 2025.

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31/8/2025, 4:07:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I think that the dangers of exposure to the sun have been overstated. The sun always cleared up my skin as a teenager. It makes the skin produce vit D and it just makes us feel better and happier. Too much of it, like with a lot of things, is bad.

31/8/2025, 4:05:15 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. Off you fuck with your misandry. ๐Ÿซต

30/8/2025, 7:05:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok

30/8/2025, 7:02:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

If you want to ensure that Reform doesn't gain power, the boats will have to be stopped. If labour do that, then Reform won't gain power. I don't want Reform to gain power.

30/8/2025, 6:40:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

With the greatest respect, you're not reading the room.

30/8/2025, 6:37:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

You know what you need to do. But it won't happen.

30/8/2025, 5:35:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Chinese idea.

30/8/2025, 4:25:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a difference between what you may want to happen and what actually will. Unfortunately.

30/8/2025, 4:24:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

We'll

30/8/2025, 4:24:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Well that's not going to happen so well have a Reform gov as a result.

30/8/2025, 4:23:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Israelis feel the same about citizens of Palestine.

30/8/2025, 11:21:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

30/8/2025, 10:43:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. Put Musk and his mates in a rocket and send them to Mars and wash our hands of them.

30/8/2025, 10:08:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Although vit D has been proven to have prophylactic properties against coronaviruses amongst others.

30/8/2025, 8:13:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

100%. Like it our not, anglers have been caring for our rivers for centuries.

30/8/2025, 8:09:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Grey squirrels?

30/8/2025, 8:08:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

The UK will have a Reform gov unless Starmer stops the boats as promised.

30/8/2025, 7:40:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

There is

30/8/2025, 7:38:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

They're nothing fair about this situation. Israel is committing genocide and the US is supporting it. The UK and the EU are hopelessly inadequate in their responses. France, at least, is going to recognise the state of Palestine.

30/8/2025, 7:38:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

You have to love them. A few weeks back.

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29/8/2025, 8:27:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, but America is not the greatest country in the world. It may still be the wealthiest, but money means fxxx all when you're morally bankrupt and at war with yourself. Rule of law breaking down, no love for the poor and dispossessed. No offence intended to you people, but USA is a bully too.

29/8/2025, 6:00:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Saul Staniforth (@saulstaniforth.bsky.social) reposted

@zarahsultana.bsky.social in June: "In Gaza we are witnessing in real time a genocide, a destruction of a people, not as a consequence of war, but as a deliberate strategy of extermination, as state policy of this Israeli government"

29/8/2025, 5:20:48 AM | 71 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Saul Staniforth (@saulstaniforth.bsky.social) reposted

Overnight Israel killed people as they slept in their tents in Al Mawasi. Israel calls Al Mawasi a safe zone.

29/8/2025, 5:37:36 AM | 48 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

There's no good reason for anybody to own a handgun either.

29/8/2025, 5:47:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, Trump's voters don't like smart people.

28/8/2025, 8:36:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

'I'll stop this war in 24 hours'. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†

28/8/2025, 8:32:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm just glad I'm in the UK. US looks like a very fxxxing scary place to be tbh.

28/8/2025, 6:21:15 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Ditto UK. Can't see the Americans being able to do that though ๐Ÿคท

28/8/2025, 11:06:55 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

If you cannot see that banning guns is the only measure that will stop this then you are blind. The right to bear arms is fxxxing nonsense.

28/8/2025, 9:22:42 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

It loves guns. You can't ban maniacs.

28/8/2025, 9:20:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

It won't whilst people rate the 2nd amendment above common sense.

28/8/2025, 9:17:45 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

The rest of the world long ago gave up on understanding how and why Americans put up with this kind of thing. Talking about mental health checks and magazine sizes is just fiddling around the edges; rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. The 2nd amendment may well destroy all.

28/8/2025, 5:46:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:26:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:21:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:20:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing will happen. Most Americans don't seem too bothered by it as far as I can tell.

27/8/2025, 3:55:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

Real pic ๐Ÿ˜†

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27/8/2025, 3:50:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Most definitely. But we all have agency, and it does no harm to let cannabis users know that it is not a substance that carries an insignificant risk to mental health. In fact, it can be pretty devastating to some.

27/8/2025, 11:31:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

My breakfast in Kota Kinabalu a few weeks back. In case you're wondering ๐Ÿ‘

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27/8/2025, 9:31:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

It's shocking that the victims of atrocity can so easily become the perpetrators. Those who tie together antisemitism and antizionism as one are morally repugnant and knowingly disingenuous.

27/8/2025, 7:03:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 7:03:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Cat and giant cicada, Sarawak, Borneo.

26/8/2025, 6:49:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Well thought out response.

26/8/2025, 6:30:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Sucks to have earned the tag doesn't it. ๐Ÿ˜˜

25/8/2025, 2:02:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

You will argue that there's a minimum but are unable to comprehend that there is a maximum. You sound like every other self-hating handwringing far left fool, and you are too dim to realise that you are taking us towards a far right government. You shout 'racist' and the dialogue stops there. Grim.

25/8/2025, 2:02:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Asking sensible questions is 'bad faith' in your jambon de gauche world. You are handing the reigns of power to Reform. Take your inability to answer a simple question elsewhere.

25/8/2025, 1:51:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the 'jambon de gauche' coming out of you. I asked a simple question. There's a desirable minimum amount of inward migration, so there is also a desirable maximum, surely. Warning, there could be maths involved.

25/8/2025, 1:49:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes I do. Which is why I didn't question the need for immigration. And it's not me talking about 'native population', it's you. Freudian.

25/8/2025, 1:46:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I did ask a simple question. Obviously not that simple if you are a virtue signalling 'jambon de gauche'. Cheers

25/8/2025, 1:44:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Predictable. Anyone of even meagre intelligence understands that there is a minimum level of desired immigration. It doesn't take that many (you would have thought) more brain cells to postulate that there could be a maximum, especially if we have no idea who they are or what skills they bring.

25/8/2025, 1:43:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Cryptic. What's your answer?

25/8/2025, 1:40:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Apologies, I block the rude and ignorant.

22/8/2025, 10:18:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, how many refugees are welcome? 1 million? 20 million? 100 million? Serious question. Is there a limit?

22/8/2025, 10:02:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure I agree. Wool is a natural product with superb insulation and anti moisture properties. Its production isn't carbon intensive and it is a renewable commodity that I don't agree is cruel or harmful. ๐Ÿคท

22/8/2025, 7:48:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

The US protects and empowers war criminals and attacks the rule of law now. Why the fuck do we pay any attention whatsoever to it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

21/8/2025, 7:38:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

You instinctively know the truth when you read it.

20/8/2025, 6:25:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

The greatest crime of our generation has the complicity of those who previously fought against evil and tyranny. UK, EU and US governments are complicit in a genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

20/8/2025, 12:03:28 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, Israeli murderers are responsible for this horrific statistic. Dragging the world back to genocide as they ate doing.

19/8/2025, 3:38:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strong Libtard and Proud ๐Ÿ’™ (@jillwills.bsky.social) reposted

I B loving this man!! โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’™

19/8/2025, 3:17:34 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

No it won't. US's military power remains, but there is no soft power left. Zero.

19/8/2025, 6:22:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Crocodile Spanky ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ๐Ÿค๐Ÿจ๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿบ๐Ÿซ–๐ŸŠ (@spankymccracken.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The Best Little Whorehouse In DC

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19/8/2025, 5:16:36 AM | 504 73 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I can, because you answered in the question.

18/8/2025, 6:45:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

The betrayal of allies is total

18/8/2025, 6:32:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like an eighteenth century Parisien brothel.

18/8/2025, 4:52:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope you're right.

18/8/2025, 11:56:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Predictable bollocks by the American leader. Leader of the free world my arse.

18/8/2025, 7:08:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture It isn't just me. (@shirleyanng.bsky.social) reposted

Another arrest warrant from the #ICC required www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

18/8/2025, 6:19:42 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

The USA has lost its moral compass completely. Very sad to see and very dangerous for the world. Trump and the USA are comforting the enemy.

17/8/2025, 5:55:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the mood of the people around me.

16/8/2025, 12:48:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't disagree. But I predict a reform government that can be stopped if Starmer does what he said he'd do.

16/8/2025, 12:48:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Uk electorate will put in power whoever will stop the boats. This is just a fact. Everyone I talk to is fed up ๐Ÿคท Starmer said he'd do it but predictably he hasn't.

16/8/2025, 11:53:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Well democracy put him there, so the people of Israel broadly support him. And I say fuck you Israel.

16/8/2025, 11:38:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Annastasia (@annastasia77.bsky.social) reposted

And now to the important news of the day. Release the Epstein files!!

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16/8/2025, 11:06:48 AM | 37 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Total betrayal of European allies. Lots of genuine anger towards America in the ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง. What the fuck has happened to you lot.

16/8/2025, 11:34:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Putin didn't even chew, just swallowed him whole.

16/8/2025, 9:55:55 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Americans can't seem to understand how their once great nation has fallen into infamy and disgrace.

16/8/2025, 9:26:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Not surprised. Israelis are savages.

15/8/2025, 4:43:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

No disrespect to normal Americans but the US has become largely irrelevant in this debacle and just a side show. Trump couldn't organise a pi55 up in a brewery. Art of the deal, my arse. ๐Ÿ˜‚

15/8/2025, 4:38:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Never thought I'd live to see America become a vassal state of Russia.

15/8/2025, 4:31:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

Don't expect anything other than complete bollocks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15/8/2025, 4:28:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

This isn't real surely?

14/8/2025, 8:54:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately, most Americans don't really care, or the guy wouldn't be in power. Most of them wouldn't be able to point to Ukraine on a map, and half of them probably don't even know where Europe is.

14/8/2025, 8:51:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

To be fair, Jeremy Bowen is doing a good job, under difficult circumstances, of shining a light on that most loathsome of entities, Israel.

14/8/2025, 8:31:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to back anybody you can who can effectively push back on Trump. And from the outside this guy is the only person doing so.

14/8/2025, 6:53:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm all out of WTF

13/8/2025, 7:27:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Those who refuse to learn about the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. The further back you look the further forward you can see.

13/8/2025, 7:13:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Latest in a very long line. Israel is a genocidal state.

13/8/2025, 5:48:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social)

Truth.

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13/8/2025, 5:48:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

This is correct.

13/8/2025, 5:47:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

How dare she speak sense on the Internet.

10/8/2025, 11:37:54 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, each club has its own stadium. This new one was built on an old dock on the Liverpool waterfront. I'm a Liverpool fan but, hats off, this looks like a great theatre.

10/8/2025, 7:11:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Get out of Dublin quickly and visit the real Ireland. Get over to Galway, for example, and the myriad of smaller, more friendly, CHEAPER towns, cities, and villages. โค๏ธ Also, take a look at the towns and cities in the north.

10/8/2025, 6:37:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@mike-0568.bsky.social) reply parent

Life's too short for books you can't finish. I abandoned the 'I always finish a book' thing a few years back.

10/8/2025, 6:15:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view