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@mikins.bsky.social

created November 19, 2024

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

"we shouldn't be policing toxic culture war debates." Complain police having to arrest someone for threatening to attack anyone he views as "not female enough in a female place." Alright then. So free reign for bigots it is again then. Fuck me this country is shite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3/9/2025, 12:28:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Oh look, must be a day of the week ending with Y, Reform lying about something - this time claiming parents are faking their kids disabilities just to get a free taxi! I mean this from a man who moved to Dubai so he doesn't have to pay his taxes 🤣🤣 www.bbc.com/news/article...

3/9/2025, 8:29:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Come on now Zack. You can't go out in front of the media and tell them the actual truth. You know how they feel about that. You need to make up completely baseless accusations like Reform do every week. Like: "Green party claims it's a deep state plot to stop immigration and destroy the NHS."

3/9/2025, 8:14:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Monbiot (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social) reposted

Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

3/9/2025, 6:56:43 AM | 865 321 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Reform making up more accusations without evidence?

3/9/2025, 8:08:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Notice the media tone change since the supreme court ruling: First he was a transphobe (he is) then it was "gender critical" Now it's just"Father Ted creator. Linehan and his ilk are just bigots, that's it. But it's easier to punch down on Transfolk than be honest. www.aol.co.uk/father-ted-c...

3/9/2025, 7:59:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

He could rejig by leaving and giving the job to someone with some kind of spine or belief system representative of the actual labour movement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/9/2025, 4:40:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Jobbie X Jobbie X, Jobbie Jobbie eeexxxxxxxx. Someone's gotta get squashed in every tourney and it's in his name.

28/8/2025, 1:35:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Apparently I'm supposed to feel pride and be patriotic because some dipshits have climbed up lampposts to hang flags up. Funny the only place they've done it is outside the mosque though. Purely coincidental I'm sure. There's sod all to be proud of in this country and flags won't change that.

27/8/2025, 7:14:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

People like that should be named and shamed at every opportunity.

24/8/2025, 9:09:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Nothing about spamming English flags in very diverse areas is about patriotism. Nothing about spamming flags anywhere in the UK is about patriotism. Don't be fooled, don't be lied too. This is just another piece of thinly veiled racism by more arseholes who are hiding their identities.

24/8/2025, 9:07:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Instead Starmer hires their former editor. You can't make this shit up

23/8/2025, 9:50:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

The Farage playbook works as follows. 1.identify small problem 2.enlarge small problem over time by constantly mentioning it 3. Claim everyone else is now ignoring *massive problem* 4. Claim credit when other parties have to respond 5. Make up wild solution and claim only he has the balls to do it

23/8/2025, 12:57:17 PM | 12 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Your key problem here is believing Reform voters think.

23/8/2025, 12:53:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's not forget this is the same paragon of virtue who both had to step down as housing minister for taking bribes and is largely responsible for the exact thing he's now complaining about.

23/8/2025, 12:52:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

"Greatest nation on earth." "Home of the Free." "Freedom of speech." "Sanctioner of Judges." Wait, what? Oh yeah. I mean how dare Judges indict people for crimes, bloody cheek of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

21/8/2025, 12:23:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, yeah I can imagine that one not panning out so well 😅

20/8/2025, 3:33:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Can work surprisingly well in some curries though...

20/8/2025, 3:26:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Normal Island News (@normalisland.co.uk) reposted

BREAKING: The far right have not called for all white men to be kicked out of the UK after a white British Labour councillor was convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl 🤷‍♀️

19/8/2025, 2:11:01 PM | 1247 397 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

The resignation letter, written in badly chewed crayon is reported to have said: "Dis Job is hard, I was told counilers do nuffink, but I had to go to meetings abat flags and shit, not one was about stopping da boats or getting are cuntry back so I quit." www.bbc.com/news/article...

20/8/2025, 3:22:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Why is the government broke? Well, local government and central government keep suing each other over shit like planning applications they don't like and Tory councils not wanting brown people living near them. You know, normal reasonable adult stuff. Lot of lawyers probably getting rich though.

20/8/2025, 12:18:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he still unemployed? Last from him I heard was a pity party about how no one wants to employ a failed fascist,- sorry, former Tory MP.

20/8/2025, 8:53:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Tory logic 101 Robert Jenrick proudly announced using hotels to house asylum seekers whilst immigration minister as a great solution. Now he's joining protests with members of combat 18 and the BNP against a policy he brought in. And these idiots fall for it and think he's one of them.

20/8/2025, 8:49:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

buffets generate more waste than regular services so we should get rid of them. Or you could check what people aren't eating and stop serving that instead? Because if we're getting rid of things just because they're wasteful wait until you find out about CAPITA... www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

20/8/2025, 8:08:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeremy Parish really tied the room together, man (@jparish.bsky.social) reposted

The word selfie was invented in 2002, but in 1999, Final Fantasy gave us the RPG character most likely to take/post selfies in the history of video games, and her name was Selphie. And yet somehow some people still don’t think that the world is a beautiful miracle

17/8/2025, 4:52:25 AM | 687 188 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

It'll end up being Muta, comes out of retirement to face the greatest challenge of his life, surviving 5, with the best wrestler alive.

17/8/2025, 10:27:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Every time I see this guy he just looks like a rotting tomato I once found at the back of the Fridge.

17/8/2025, 10:26:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Don't think I've ever seen a happier looking police mugshot in my life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

17/8/2025, 10:24:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

And today in Labour's playbook of shooting itself in the foot at every turn, telling scientists to make weaponised AI instead of the projects they were hired to do. Unsurprisingly gone down like a lead balloon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

17/8/2025, 10:15:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

"No two tier policing in the UK." Meanwhile, in the real UK.

Police ignore a racist carrying a banner calling for immigrants to all be murdered. Police arrest a pensioner for protesting against an obvious genocide campaign.
17/8/2025, 6:58:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Biggest drain on the UK economy for the last decade have been the Tories like this racist fuckwit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

14/8/2025, 6:04:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean the right wing media were lying again?

14/8/2025, 2:14:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Parody Keir Starmer (@parodypm.bsky.social) reposted

Please don’t worry if you don’t get the A level results you were hoping for. Liz Truss is proof that you can rise to the highest office in the land even if you have the brains of a haddock.

14/8/2025, 7:12:45 AM | 1563 277 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Tory twat tells people to grass on other people over a problem the Tories caused with their shit management of everything. Nah your alright mate, but if you want grassing I'd start by suggesting you've got a face I'd report if I saw you hanging about outside a school. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

14/8/2025, 2:05:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

In response, Jenrick said listeners had been told that "if you're concerned about the threat of illegal migrants to your kids, you're racist". Thanks for clearing up that you are in fact a massive racist bellend there bob. As usual though the BBC show moral cowardice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

13/8/2025, 7:09:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Coward. Grow a spine and stand by your words. Fuck the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

13/8/2025, 6:33:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

I'm confused by how badly this article is written. It starts off saying the error was including butter in with spaghetti, parmesan and pepper and then half of it is talking about cream? BBC, do better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12/8/2025, 10:52:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Some 'don't know the full nature of' Yvette Cooper, Palestine Action warns. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

11/8/2025, 6:19:58 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

America: We're the best in the world! Also America: Don't sell things to other countries so they can catch-up to us, that's not fair! it's a national security threat for us not to be the bestest! Oh alright, give us 15% and we'll call it even. www.bbc.com/news/article...

11/8/2025, 2:55:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Kind of people who'd happily sign up for a Farage-ICE if he gets in.

10/8/2025, 7:22:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Well it does, but theyre all the kind of people who spent the last 20 years doing their best to keep the Tories in power whilst working for the Mail, sun etc.

10/8/2025, 6:25:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Gonna look great for the mayor's office when they can put out the annual arrest statistics though, I mean who cares if hundreds of the streets they made were retirees holding signs and not actual people committing real crimes?

10/8/2025, 6:20:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Stopped reading at them calling Lammy left wing. Whoever wrote this probably thinks most Scandinavian parties are communists. Utter bollocks from about a centrist wankstain bootlicking a fascist and made to sound like it's two mates having a pint. www.bbc.com/news/article...

10/8/2025, 3:38:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

A big part of the issue being the GPs vacancies are often in areas the graduates don't live in and don't want to live in. So there are vacancies for sure but no attraction for people to move too and live in those areas. - its why you get so many surgeries with locum staff in deprived areas.

10/8/2025, 9:41:05 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

He's the living embodiment of social media monetising algorithms, say stuff to wind people up and react, get paid for it.

9/8/2025, 7:01:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Why am I not shocked Don is still posting on X. It's the perfect place for him.

9/8/2025, 6:55:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

There's only two genders! Shout morons who unironically believe shite like this 🤣

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9/8/2025, 6:51:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mystery Wrestling (@mysterywrestling.bsky.social) reposted

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9/8/2025, 3:08:58 PM | 39 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

A bad actor who is also a bad actor.

9/8/2025, 6:43:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Bad actor in being a bad actor non shocker. I'm sure this definitely won't influence the lack of work you'll get in the coming years Dean. Not because you're a fascist, because you were always a shit actor. search.app/XARNR

8/8/2025, 10:07:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Eh. He did finally use spike on someone. I mean it was always going to be mox or Darby. Plus no one ever said it'd be a face Edge & Christian reunion.

8/8/2025, 8:54:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

"The danger for Reform is that the more former Tories they welcome into their ranks the more they become the party they said they wanted to destroy." That's because like everything else with reform, it was a lie. New Tories, same as the old Tories, taint your brand, make a new one. Nothing changes

8/8/2025, 8:53:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, but Wes Streeting said people would be angry that doctors are demanding pay restitution and he's clearly never been wrong so I'm sure he'll be out wishing them all well in whatever country pays them a proper wage with his plans to *checks notes* sell more of the system off to his donors.

7/8/2025, 5:22:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah but it's gonna end with the Edge and Christian retirement run. Gotta slow burn that shit.

7/8/2025, 5:18:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Someone might want to tell her that being the minister for homelessness doesn't mean it's her job to make more people homeless. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

7/8/2025, 4:48:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Had to recall butter... Because they didn't know it contained milk. Please, make this world make sense?

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7/8/2025, 11:16:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

But remember folks, it's the foreign nonces tiny tommeh wants to "protect" kids from. So his mates can abuse them instead.

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6/8/2025, 6:46:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

"a large dagger" Or as it's usually known, a Japanese gardening trowel. Quite a grand overreach and gross misidentification from the police once again. And they wonder why public trust is so low? www.bbc.com/news/article...

6/8/2025, 10:15:06 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Spending on infrastructure is paid for by the public > power infrastructure is needed by AI companies. = You're paying for more bullshit you didn't ask for and doesn't benefit you one iota. Capitalism! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5/8/2025, 6:10:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

It beggars belief that in an "advanced" democracy people can just change parties and keep an elected position with no issues. Vote for whoever you want because it doesn't matter if they can just join the new national front at will. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

4/8/2025, 6:10:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Corbyn asking for public opinions on naming his new party? Party McPartface it is then. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3/8/2025, 11:24:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

My labour MP stuck a card through my letterbox asking what she could do better. I'm going to respond with "Grow a spine."

1/8/2025, 11:30:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Because they're fascists. Just fucking look at Goebbels MK2 giving his speech here. But people's whose grandparents died fighting arseholes like this will vote for them because they don't like having brown / foreign /gay people living near them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

1/8/2025, 10:40:09 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Sky news interviewing the Tories "we think the government should close all migrant hotels." Sky completely fail to point out that the Tories caused this mess and backlog and let them get away with referring to asylum seekers as "migrants" once again othering people.

31/7/2025, 7:21:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Always amuses me the media call him "Far right activist Tommy Robinson." Few issues. 1. He's not an activist 2. He's not called Tommy So an accurate report would say "Far Right racist and known violent cokehead Stephen Yaxley-Lennon." Bit of a mouthful actually, maybe just "that tiny bellend."

30/7/2025, 7:42:48 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

More embarrassing kowtowing. The EU "hail" a deal where they "only" have to accept American goods tariff free and get 15% slapped on all exports. Utterly embarrassing spinelessness again, literally no world leader apparently has a backbone right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

28/7/2025, 2:30:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Just Fascist things www.bbc.com/news/article...

27/7/2025, 5:53:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

BBC getting their scaremongering in before the party even has a name. Ironic considering they've also historically said Corbyn is a vote loser and deters people from voting for a party, can't have it both ways. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

26/7/2025, 3:31:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ewar Woowar (@ewacat.bsky.social) reposted

Hulk Ho-gone

24/7/2025, 3:47:16 PM | 53 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Every world leader who kowtows to this stupid orange rapist needs to be kicked out of office at the earlier opportunity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

24/7/2025, 9:51:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

24/7/2025, 6:23:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

It's almost like us selling them all those weapons might *not* have been a good idea like all those pesky protesters kept telling him!

24/7/2025, 6:21:54 PM | 23 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Somewhere on the other side of the veil the Iron Sheikh is cracking his knuckles and getting ready to make a bitch eternally humble.

24/7/2025, 4:13:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Who knew trying to fashion yourself as a punk outlier but then having a massive bellend as a CEO and teaming up with piss water brewer Budweiser would be bad for business? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

24/7/2025, 10:51:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

I dare say because we keep electing people with zero experience of the jobs they're given. I mean you wouldn't hire an 18 year old to be chief exec, but you can vote one in who can sack and replace a council chief exec. They need advisors because they genuinely have no clue how to run councils.

24/7/2025, 6:28:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm all for more political engagement and involvement from young people - but I dare say putting someone in charge of a council who quit the Tories for not being racist enough might be a weird choice for 'change' But hey, he'll need to bring meetings forward to end before his curfew though.

24/7/2025, 6:26:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

We should offer hope, I also model myself on a complete prat who fights his own party and fucks about with chainsaws and bring hope by talking about cutting services even more than we did last time! Yep, the Tory reinvention is going well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

24/7/2025, 6:22:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

"We must listen to the genuine concerns of Ill informed racists who get their news from block capital comments in Facebook groups." Yeah I mean don't try and show them why they're wrong, just roll over for them so they'll believe they were right and labour are running scared.

23/7/2025, 11:51:08 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

I make Yungblud right on this one. The music was enough for all of us. Rest well Ozzy.

22/7/2025, 9:23:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

The sad thing is he's still representative of the way a lot of people think and wish they could still act in public.

20/7/2025, 7:35:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

BBC in transphobic biased reporting non shocker. Every day they've got an article about how hard done by this poor TERF is and barely a word about how she, like all other Terfs can't help but go and compare trans people to rapists and abuse them because they're scum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

20/7/2025, 7:32:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Instead what it'll involve is some vague legislation and a requirement for them to *really pinky promise* to stop siphoning money out of the system and fix a few leaks.

18/7/2025, 1:28:45 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Make up bullshit. Get called out by residents for lying. Call it a personal attack. Reform are definitely just new Tories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

18/7/2025, 12:06:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

14 solid years of lying and incompetence and people are still electing Tories. It's like the people in this country want it to go to shit.

18/7/2025, 9:25:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

I'm not sure how one company can be so incompetent. Openreach installed a broadband box on the wrong side of my house, so it needs moving before the sky engineer can finalise the connection. Since then they've sent the wrong engineer 3 times to look at it and go "can't fix that mate." Ridiculous

17/7/2025, 8:42:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Somewhere on twitter right now there's someone going "good, it's all a scam anyway! We'll make more money drilling in the north sea!" Without a hint of self awareness.

17/7/2025, 8:09:06 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy.

16/7/2025, 7:32:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, Plan stupid thing > be warned about stupid thing > U-turn on stupid thing > find immediate media distraction. Is pretty much his top teams entire policy since they got in.

16/7/2025, 7:29:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Bigger question is why just these ones? Because I'd say if you're being singled out for punishment for something 40 other people did and aren't punished for you're on very, very shaky ground.

16/7/2025, 7:25:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

Ahem. HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA. HA. oh, the irony. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15/7/2025, 11:48:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

You're an oddly angry individual. Perhaps a little less social media and arguing with strangers would be a better idea, because I answered your question in my second comment and you completely ignored that and made some weird link to trump? Either way, I think I'll leave talking to you there.

15/7/2025, 7:55:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't begrudge the idea of paying to support children, because they're children and shouldn't be punished for their parents decisions, income or status in life, in the same way I don't take issue with my taxes being used for methadone, obesity treatments et al. A rising tide lifts all ships.

14/7/2025, 10:01:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Again, your logic is spurious. By your logic intentionally childless people should be exempt from paying towards child benefit, especially if they're poor, no taxation system on earth operates on a system of "I can't have it so neither should you." That again is Tory attitude's.

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

But your logic is spurious, it's the same logic that says why should I pay NI that might be spent on someone's addiction related illness because that was their choice If you start boiling everything down to "I don't want to pay for other people to have something." Then we'll end up like the Tories.

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

ELMO HAS NOT BEEN HACKED. ELMO IS SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT. TICKLE THIS YOU ORANGE FUCK!

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social)

PC Gamer on the money once again. Best browser game, ever. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I suppose income doesn't match outgoings, I mean if you live in London you're probably paying double or triple the rent than if you lived up north (because the city is a piss take) so means testing would mean you'd need to know all the outgoings as well as incoming.

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure where you go that from, the IFS puts it at around 40% but mental health issues can include severely debilitating illnesses as well, because it's an umbrella term. The media just love to focus on anxiety and depression like these wouldn't be side effects of other illnesses anyway.

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Because every government will say the process of means testing benefits costs more than issuing blanket payments. The idea is UC *should* already cover additional need for lower income families, but it doesn't.

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Profile picture Michael (@mikins.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's see, you've got economic issues causing redundancies, unexpected health issues stopping you from working. Unwanted or unexpected pregnancies, actual population decline when immigration is taken out. Oh and the fact that we can afford billions on corporate subsidies each year.

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