Mick Winnett
mickwinnett.bsky.social
Mick Winnett
@mickwinnett.bsky.social
Humanist, Socialist, may post about Ireland, Palestine, Arsenal Soccer occasionally. He/him. One race the human race.
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An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times

*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*

Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

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October 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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block this shit
October 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew
The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Amazing scenes at Dublin Airport as the first of the Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are due home! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸
Video Ruairí McKiernan
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Greta Thunberg for Nobel Prize
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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"It's possible to reverse our way out of loss and extinction; there’s nothing inevitable about it. To stay silent in the face of it is, in the end, an active choice. Hope feels like an indulgence we can no longer afford; what’s needed is people coming together to act"
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There’s nothing inevitable about extinction. It’s possible to reverse our way out
Success stories including the leaf-toed gecko in the Galápagos, the wood white butterfuly in Wales and the corncrake in Ireland give hope
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October 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Oviedo beating Barca 1-0 at half time. Oh Santi Cazorla !
September 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This is just hilerious
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
September 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Keep seeing the meme (in response to @timharford.ft.com) that White British Londoners are no less anti-immigration than the rest of the country, they are just "outnumbered". It's not true:
September 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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UN Geneva

"The Commission finds that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children."
September 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Legendary British musician Brian Eno, who helped organize and produce the Together for Palestine benefit concert, performs the poem “Oh Rascal Children of Gaza.”

Written by Palestinian poet Khaled Juma during Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, the poem mourns the 550 children killed that summer...
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Game Over Israel’ Campaign Demands Boycott of Israeli Soccer Clubs Over Government’s Killing of Palestinian Players The campaign, supported by Gary Lineker, Liam Cunningham, and Eric Cantona, comes after Israel killed some 800 athletes in Gaza in the last 23 months.
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‘Game Over Israel’ Campaign Demands Boycott of Israeli Soccer Clubs Over Government’s Killing of Palestinian Players
The campaign, supported by Gary Lineker, Liam Cunningham, and Eric Cantona, comes after Israel killed some 800 athletes in Gaza in the last 23 months.
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Well said!
September 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM