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mikemca.bsky.social
Pain is but the occasional episode in a general drama of Happiness.
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Carl Sagan was prescient.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

The flapping from our keeper at those Iceland goals is an eerie reminder of Stuart Kennedy in 1975. You can feel for the kid but he should be never be anywhere near Scotland again.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Since rail nationalisation is back in the news, here's an anti-nationalisation cartoon from the Sunday Pictorial in 1918.

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submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

We are not an island of strangers, but I have become a stranger in my own country If this is Britain, I no longer recognise what it has become: a country of cruelty, of scapegoating, of hounding minorities and the weak My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

submitted 49 days ago • 64 comments

"Even if it does work as a strategy for winning the next election, there’s a question: why bother?" A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.

submitted 53 days ago • 22 comments

But this manifestly isn't a way to "counter" Reform. It's just an endorsement of Reform. If it's what Glasman believes, then he should simply join Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 54 days ago • 82 comments

Morgan McSweeney is wrong and is now effectively a facilitator for the UK's political slide towards full fat fascism. There is a progressive, kind, tolerant majority in the UK,abandoned by Labour and hampered by FPTP. Morgan McSweeney! You are the problem, not the solution.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 59 days ago • 2322 comments

Coming soon: Labour responds to the failure of its Nigel Farage tribute act by trying even harder to be a Nigel Farage tribute act whilst closing its eyes to the evidence of where that path led the Tories.

submitted 59 days ago • 82 comments

I'm so sorry about your mum, @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social, you must be so angry at all the nonsense.

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

submitted 69 days ago • 95 comments

Maybe the real problem here is the company Thomas Erikson chooses to keep?

submitted 72 days ago • 29 comments

Excellent piece by Harrari www.ft.com/content/06cc...

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

As the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, I’d like to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Eid in London and around the world.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

“Winter is coming. It’s getting dark out there for children like ours” I speak to families of children with autism to find out about their lives They paint a harrowing portrait of discrimination, poverty and a system so broken it’s destroying their children www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502982...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

New post just out: "Amusing Ourselves to Death" On the shift from a literate to visual culture, it's impact on politics and what we can do about it. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...

submitted 99 days ago • 15 comments

Made the mistake of searching up Judge Boesberg on Twitter instead of Bluesky….they’re all ranting on about Jefferson just abolishing the circuit. Completely nuts!

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

submitted 105 days ago • 343 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 117 days ago • 1565 comments

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submitted 122 days ago • 4 comments

If you thought the Fed was safe from Trump's executive orders and actions of the new administration, read this and think again www.ft.com/content/28d0...

submitted 125 days ago • 10 comments