Michael
@michaeljsc.bsky.social
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love it when you watch a film for the second time, at home rather than the cinema, and it’s as good as you remember (The Holdovers)
December 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
love it when you watch a film for the second time, at home rather than the cinema, and it’s as good as you remember (The Holdovers)
also now 3-0 at Articulate with my husband, someone has to stop me before it goes to my head
(narrator: but it was already too late)
(narrator: but it was already too late)
beat my mum at scrabble, she’s never going to let this stand
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
also now 3-0 at Articulate with my husband, someone has to stop me before it goes to my head
(narrator: but it was already too late)
(narrator: but it was already too late)
beat my mum at scrabble, she’s never going to let this stand
December 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
beat my mum at scrabble, she’s never going to let this stand
that’s me fully up to date on the priests of the west of Scotland then
December 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
that’s me fully up to date on the priests of the west of Scotland then
husband said “go and play something from that” and tell me why this is a Christmas song?
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
husband said “go and play something from that” and tell me why this is a Christmas song?
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Did lung cancer write this skeet
Hot take: I would rather have smoking come back than whatever’s going on with vaping and Zyn. Smoking’s honest about what it is, constantly consuming nicotine in “safe” ways is lying to yourself about your crippling addiction.
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Did lung cancer write this skeet
did a big anthropomorphic cigarette type this?
Hot take: I would rather have smoking come back than whatever’s going on with vaping and Zyn. Smoking’s honest about what it is, constantly consuming nicotine in “safe” ways is lying to yourself about your crippling addiction.
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
did a big anthropomorphic cigarette type this?
brains are funny. this year is the first time as an adult that I’m living in a house with stairs, and I just did a double take because I was fully, implicitly expecting the top of the banister at my parents’ to feel exactly the same as mine, and horrified that it doesn’t.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
brains are funny. this year is the first time as an adult that I’m living in a house with stairs, and I just did a double take because I was fully, implicitly expecting the top of the banister at my parents’ to feel exactly the same as mine, and horrified that it doesn’t.
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Lots of chat about Labour being on course to lose in Wales for the first time in over a century.
But here's something: this constituency vote share (16.6%) would be their worst vote share in a national election in Scotland since *1910*.
But here's something: this constituency vote share (16.6%) would be their worst vote share in a national election in Scotland since *1910*.
Final Scottish Parliament poll tracker of the year, before the Christmas holidays start in earnest. SNP projected one short of a majority.
Seats (+/- 2021):
SNP: 64 (-)
Lab: 18 (-4)
Ref: 18(+18)
Grn: 12 (+4)
Con: 9 (-22)
LD: 8 (+4)
Alba: 0 (-)
20 marginals: 16 SNP, 3 Labour, 1 Conservative.
1/3
Seats (+/- 2021):
SNP: 64 (-)
Lab: 18 (-4)
Ref: 18(+18)
Grn: 12 (+4)
Con: 9 (-22)
LD: 8 (+4)
Alba: 0 (-)
20 marginals: 16 SNP, 3 Labour, 1 Conservative.
1/3
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lots of chat about Labour being on course to lose in Wales for the first time in over a century.
But here's something: this constituency vote share (16.6%) would be their worst vote share in a national election in Scotland since *1910*.
But here's something: this constituency vote share (16.6%) would be their worst vote share in a national election in Scotland since *1910*.
you can tell Kemi hasn’t cut through because what do you mean only 7% think she’d be most likely to start an argument?
🎄Got a spare seat at the Xmas Dinner table? Well if you're looking for a politician to invite (why wouldn't you be) Then Brits say:
Boris would be the most fun
Fancy an argument go for Farage
Kemi makes the best xmas dinner (no sandwiches)
Keir would bring the most stingy gift
Boris would be the most fun
Fancy an argument go for Farage
Kemi makes the best xmas dinner (no sandwiches)
Keir would bring the most stingy gift
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
you can tell Kemi hasn’t cut through because what do you mean only 7% think she’d be most likely to start an argument?
the paradox of packing for Christmas: you know someone will give you socks, but do you *know* it?
December 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
the paradox of packing for Christmas: you know someone will give you socks, but do you *know* it?
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When you’ve gone to this place, it’s time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesn’t exist
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
When you’ve gone to this place, it’s time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesn’t exist
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Great news. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Pro-Palestine prisoners pause hunger strike as their health deteriorates
Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib, on remand at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, had refused food for almost 50 days in protest at the ban on Palestine Action
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Great news. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
so what’s going on here?
- just subsamples not being representative?
- Labour voters are younger and older ones struggle to engage with the hypothetical?
- Labour voters are more likely to be actively religious? (not sure this is true but there’s some correlation with ethnicity iirc?)
- just subsamples not being representative?
- Labour voters are younger and older ones struggle to engage with the hypothetical?
- Labour voters are more likely to be actively religious? (not sure this is true but there’s some correlation with ethnicity iirc?)
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
so what’s going on here?
- just subsamples not being representative?
- Labour voters are younger and older ones struggle to engage with the hypothetical?
- Labour voters are more likely to be actively religious? (not sure this is true but there’s some correlation with ethnicity iirc?)
- just subsamples not being representative?
- Labour voters are younger and older ones struggle to engage with the hypothetical?
- Labour voters are more likely to be actively religious? (not sure this is true but there’s some correlation with ethnicity iirc?)
society if Rachel Reeves had just increased income tax last year
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
society if Rachel Reeves had just increased income tax last year
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This is pretty obviously entirely the correct approach.
The Government should not be intervening in judicial decisions, or setting policy on the basis of whether people are prepared to self harm in protest.
The Government should not be intervening in judicial decisions, or setting policy on the basis of whether people are prepared to self harm in protest.
December 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is pretty obviously entirely the correct approach.
The Government should not be intervening in judicial decisions, or setting policy on the basis of whether people are prepared to self harm in protest.
The Government should not be intervening in judicial decisions, or setting policy on the basis of whether people are prepared to self harm in protest.
the words “inspired by” have never been so evil and intimidating
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
the words “inspired by” have never been so evil and intimidating
I need the most Labour story you have. No, that’s too Labour.
Ex-council leader Cammy Day used fake name to lodge complaint about colleague
The former Labour leader of Edinburgh City Council has issued an 'unreserved apology' after the Sunday Mail uncovered evidence of the bizarre ploy.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I need the most Labour story you have. No, that’s too Labour.
it must be a good time to be a gender critical lawyer. “yes of course I’ll help you sue the University of Bristol because students protested your talk. oh by the way, my rates have gone up 50%. you know, inflation.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
it must be a good time to be a gender critical lawyer. “yes of course I’ll help you sue the University of Bristol because students protested your talk. oh by the way, my rates have gone up 50%. you know, inflation.”
then: Super Mario Galaxy 2
now: probably same, haven’t replayed it since it came out on Switch
now: probably same, haven’t replayed it since it came out on Switch
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2010, if you had one, and what you would say your favourite game of 2010 is now, if it differs
Localisations and early access count, remasters and ports don't. Remakes depend
Refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations and early access count, remasters and ports don't. Remakes depend
Refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
then: Super Mario Galaxy 2
now: probably same, haven’t replayed it since it came out on Switch
now: probably same, haven’t replayed it since it came out on Switch
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Any potential Labour leader who says UK taxes are too high will just repeat the mistakes of the current leadership.
Tell me you’re positioning for a leadership bid without telling me :….Taxes too high as opposed to poorly structured?
December 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Any potential Labour leader who says UK taxes are too high will just repeat the mistakes of the current leadership.
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The thing that all the contenders need to explain is what they would do differently. The problem isn’t just appalling communications, it’s policies that don’t cohere to deliver what they claim to deliver.
December 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The thing that all the contenders need to explain is what they would do differently. The problem isn’t just appalling communications, it’s policies that don’t cohere to deliver what they claim to deliver.
I think I am less instinctively anti-Streeting than most on here, but this is the second recent interview he’s talked about taxes being too high, and it’s just Reeves all over again.
Tell me you’re positioning for a leadership bid without telling me :….Taxes too high as opposed to poorly structured?
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I think I am less instinctively anti-Streeting than most on here, but this is the second recent interview he’s talked about taxes being too high, and it’s just Reeves all over again.