M
@magsd.bsky.social
Reader, gamer, arguer, overly curious. Failer of CAPTCHAs.
In all things, look to love.
In all things, look to love.
Insane that Blake's 7 doesn't appear to be available to stream ANYWHERE. Stick to your own media, people.
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Insane that Blake's 7 doesn't appear to be available to stream ANYWHERE. Stick to your own media, people.
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Very important to note that benefits weren’t stopped because of evidence of fraud, but because HMRC thought it saw something that *might have been* evidence of fraud. They didn’t check. They just stopped paying.
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very important to note that benefits weren’t stopped because of evidence of fraud, but because HMRC thought it saw something that *might have been* evidence of fraud. They didn’t check. They just stopped paying.
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Did strike me as pretty nasty on the news earlier.
Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed.
Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going.
Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going.
Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Did strike me as pretty nasty on the news earlier.
Mounting evidence that Morgan McSweeney may actually be the densest person in UK politics, fighting off some very stiff competition.
At what point does everyone around him have to accept that his fantasy version of politics isn't real?
At what point does everyone around him have to accept that his fantasy version of politics isn't real?
The crucial bit of this tactical 'only Labour or Reform can win here' VI poll, though, is that Labour and Reform would be tied.
Not enough Lib Dem or Green voters are (right now) prepared to tactically vote for Labour to offset the number of Tories willing to tactically vote for Reform.
Not enough Lib Dem or Green voters are (right now) prepared to tactically vote for Labour to offset the number of Tories willing to tactically vote for Reform.
Inspiring campaign messages of our time
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Mounting evidence that Morgan McSweeney may actually be the densest person in UK politics, fighting off some very stiff competition.
At what point does everyone around him have to accept that his fantasy version of politics isn't real?
At what point does everyone around him have to accept that his fantasy version of politics isn't real?
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Cripes - #celebritytraitors
Absolute bus-throwing action from all of our traitors and they haven't got anywhere near the round table yet.
Absolute bus-throwing action from all of our traitors and they haven't got anywhere near the round table yet.
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Cripes - #celebritytraitors
Absolute bus-throwing action from all of our traitors and they haven't got anywhere near the round table yet.
Absolute bus-throwing action from all of our traitors and they haven't got anywhere near the round table yet.
Also in Guardian based own goals: quote from the Chancellor that makes her look quite astonishingly cruel and callous.
Can't be making the right decisions for the right reasons when we can just do stuff for the sake of having done stuff.
Can't be making the right decisions for the right reasons when we can just do stuff for the sake of having done stuff.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Also in Guardian based own goals: quote from the Chancellor that makes her look quite astonishingly cruel and callous.
Can't be making the right decisions for the right reasons when we can just do stuff for the sake of having done stuff.
Can't be making the right decisions for the right reasons when we can just do stuff for the sake of having done stuff.
The Guardian with the wild take of 'no, actually we should let violent football fans descend on Birmingham because of politics' is...a choice.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Anger at Maccabi ban shows power of sport and why fans now expect more from its leaders | Paul MacInnes
As politicians increasingly struggle to connect with their electorate, sport continues to expand its reach, raising questions for those in charge
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Guardian with the wild take of 'no, actually we should let violent football fans descend on Birmingham because of politics' is...a choice.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Police: Make decision for public safety based on clear evidence
Starmer: We can't let you do that!
Starmer: We can't let you do that!
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Police: Make decision for public safety based on clear evidence
Starmer: We can't let you do that!
Starmer: We can't let you do that!
I'm sorry, but you fucking what
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm sorry, but you fucking what
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.
It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.
Pretty sure everyone told them this before. It didn't actually need a lengthy investigation by a taskforce to point out the bleeding obvious.
Keir Starmer's Child Poverty Taskforce has concluded that lifting the two-child benefit cap is the "best way" to alleviate child poverty
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cabinet ministers to recommend lifting two-child benefit cap
Starmer to be urged by taskforce before the budget to make the change — but it will cost £3bn a year when Rachel Reeves is trying to plug a spending gap
www.thetimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Pretty sure everyone told them this before. It didn't actually need a lengthy investigation by a taskforce to point out the bleeding obvious.
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
This is wildly insane.
'Oh no! A prospective shred of consumer protection! Based on a petition to...er...have a discussion'.
This is, it should be said, a bad take.
Also, the hilarity of 'the EU isn't that big, it's only the 3rd biggest market' as opposed to 'oh gosh, it's the 3rd biggest market'
'Oh no! A prospective shred of consumer protection! Based on a petition to...er...have a discussion'.
This is, it should be said, a bad take.
Also, the hilarity of 'the EU isn't that big, it's only the 3rd biggest market' as opposed to 'oh gosh, it's the 3rd biggest market'
The Brief – Geek petition risks turning Europe into the Havana of the game world
The Brief – Geek petition risks turning Europe into the Havana of the game world
Latest from Euractiv
www.euractiv.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is wildly insane.
'Oh no! A prospective shred of consumer protection! Based on a petition to...er...have a discussion'.
This is, it should be said, a bad take.
Also, the hilarity of 'the EU isn't that big, it's only the 3rd biggest market' as opposed to 'oh gosh, it's the 3rd biggest market'
'Oh no! A prospective shred of consumer protection! Based on a petition to...er...have a discussion'.
This is, it should be said, a bad take.
Also, the hilarity of 'the EU isn't that big, it's only the 3rd biggest market' as opposed to 'oh gosh, it's the 3rd biggest market'
This feels pretty abusive and like a slam dunk for misconduct, and yet...
I'd like to live in a city where the cops took bike theft as seriously as they take "being rude to your cop ex-boyfriend". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Met arrested woman after Facebook posts about ex-partner – a serving officer
London force sent three officers at 4.45am, who put her in the back of a van and seized her phone and computer
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This feels pretty abusive and like a slam dunk for misconduct, and yet...
You do wonder about people who go 'I'm in favour of people dying horribly'.
I wouldn't want to meet them in a pub, though.
I wouldn't want to meet them in a pub, though.
RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving lives in English Channel
RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving lives in English Channel
It says it has saved the lives of 58 people crossing the Channel "in their most distressing times".
www.bbc.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
You do wonder about people who go 'I'm in favour of people dying horribly'.
I wouldn't want to meet them in a pub, though.
I wouldn't want to meet them in a pub, though.
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NEW: Bob Geldof lets rip over Gaza genocide.
PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"
GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”
PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"
GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”
July 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NEW: Bob Geldof lets rip over Gaza genocide.
PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"
GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”
PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"
GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”
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There are so many more important things to worry about but if you cannot watch Metropolis without being absolutely floored by it I kinda judge you 😂
July 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
There are so many more important things to worry about but if you cannot watch Metropolis without being absolutely floored by it I kinda judge you 😂
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Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!
July 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!
Oh my God the Hulkenpodium just happened! #f1 #britishgp
July 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Oh my God the Hulkenpodium just happened! #f1 #britishgp