MJ
@msmindstrike.bsky.social
Born complainer, channelled into political nerdism/activism. Disabled single parent.Recovering child Mensa member. Probably AuDD. Flower photographer, 90s grunge lover. My school report said “idiosyncratic/contradictory”, interpret that as you will.
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MJ
@msmindstrike.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hi, how’s you? I like flower photos,politics, campaigning,crisps. I also volunteer manage as an older job switcher, fascinated by narrative and making change.. Proudest moment walking by my old Jobcentre who wouldnt give childcare when youngest was a baby- helped fix that.’deaf’ single mum of teens
Is my maths awry or have I just worked out need 80+ days Annual Leave this year to cover school holidays?
Even if ex did 50% I’ve 29 days leave,so need 40 days min to cover -parental leave is still unpaid.
I can’t afford not to work, somethings gotta give…what about parents with no support!
Even if ex did 50% I’ve 29 days leave,so need 40 days min to cover -parental leave is still unpaid.
I can’t afford not to work, somethings gotta give…what about parents with no support!
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Is my maths awry or have I just worked out need 80+ days Annual Leave this year to cover school holidays?
Even if ex did 50% I’ve 29 days leave,so need 40 days min to cover -parental leave is still unpaid.
I can’t afford not to work, somethings gotta give…what about parents with no support!
Even if ex did 50% I’ve 29 days leave,so need 40 days min to cover -parental leave is still unpaid.
I can’t afford not to work, somethings gotta give…what about parents with no support!
Never forget this. Never let it disappear.
February 7, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Never forget this. Never let it disappear.
Reading some of the reported email exchanges around Epstein, around how his friends and associates rally around him, makes me sick as someone who has experienced SA.
Words like “hysteria” “vultures” “trumped up charges” “didnt say no” “manipulative girls” are typical MO of gaslighting abusers
Words like “hysteria” “vultures” “trumped up charges” “didnt say no” “manipulative girls” are typical MO of gaslighting abusers
February 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Reading some of the reported email exchanges around Epstein, around how his friends and associates rally around him, makes me sick as someone who has experienced SA.
Words like “hysteria” “vultures” “trumped up charges” “didnt say no” “manipulative girls” are typical MO of gaslighting abusers
Words like “hysteria” “vultures” “trumped up charges” “didnt say no” “manipulative girls” are typical MO of gaslighting abusers
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For those keeping score at home:
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
For those keeping score at home:
This has to be stopped.
Ideas on how to be a good ally in the UK please?
My Grandad didnt fight WW2 to see this rerelease
Ideas on how to be a good ally in the UK please?
My Grandad didnt fight WW2 to see this rerelease
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
This has to be stopped.
Ideas on how to be a good ally in the UK please?
My Grandad didnt fight WW2 to see this rerelease
Ideas on how to be a good ally in the UK please?
My Grandad didnt fight WW2 to see this rerelease
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#Arsenal playing the old Arsenal way: "we're a goal up, it's not like the other guys are going to score".
Cos that's never bitten them on the arse, oh no.
Cos that's never bitten them on the arse, oh no.
February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
#Arsenal playing the old Arsenal way: "we're a goal up, it's not like the other guys are going to score".
Cos that's never bitten them on the arse, oh no.
Cos that's never bitten them on the arse, oh no.
Looking forward to Tommy & his band of flag fellas & roundabout decorators outside Sandringham shouting “deport”
Yet again prime risk to young girls boys women & even men who like social justice it seems,has always been power holding white men
Drain the swamp eh Don, root out a secret network?Oh…
Yet again prime risk to young girls boys women & even men who like social justice it seems,has always been power holding white men
Drain the swamp eh Don, root out a secret network?Oh…
February 4, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Looking forward to Tommy & his band of flag fellas & roundabout decorators outside Sandringham shouting “deport”
Yet again prime risk to young girls boys women & even men who like social justice it seems,has always been power holding white men
Drain the swamp eh Don, root out a secret network?Oh…
Yet again prime risk to young girls boys women & even men who like social justice it seems,has always been power holding white men
Drain the swamp eh Don, root out a secret network?Oh…
News reporting on smartphone ban in schools
Where is the absolute drive for metal detectors in school?!
Harvey Wilgoose’s Mum on the radio told lad was known- “it is about the reputation of the school” that action isn’t taken she said.
The school haven’t contacted her after failings established.
Where is the absolute drive for metal detectors in school?!
Harvey Wilgoose’s Mum on the radio told lad was known- “it is about the reputation of the school” that action isn’t taken she said.
The school haven’t contacted her after failings established.
February 3, 2026 at 8:41 AM
News reporting on smartphone ban in schools
Where is the absolute drive for metal detectors in school?!
Harvey Wilgoose’s Mum on the radio told lad was known- “it is about the reputation of the school” that action isn’t taken she said.
The school haven’t contacted her after failings established.
Where is the absolute drive for metal detectors in school?!
Harvey Wilgoose’s Mum on the radio told lad was known- “it is about the reputation of the school” that action isn’t taken she said.
The school haven’t contacted her after failings established.
He deserves the world
February 1, 2026 at 9:21 PM
He deserves the world
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Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans – add interest and another 6% for postgrads.
£25,000: 37%
£50,270: 51%
£100,000: 71%
£25,000: 37%
£50,270: 51%
£100,000: 71%
February 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans – add interest and another 6% for postgrads.
£25,000: 37%
£50,270: 51%
£100,000: 71%
£25,000: 37%
£50,270: 51%
£100,000: 71%
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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I love that Prince Andrew had a codename email address to avoid suspicion and all the emails are like 'Had to spend the weekend at Balmoral, Mother wants me to look after the corgis, my brother's here too - not Edward, but Charles, you know the heir apparent.'
February 1, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I love that Prince Andrew had a codename email address to avoid suspicion and all the emails are like 'Had to spend the weekend at Balmoral, Mother wants me to look after the corgis, my brother's here too - not Edward, but Charles, you know the heir apparent.'
Love Jane 💪
JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Love Jane 💪
Having to watch news presenters pronounce “Schitt’s creek” could be a new extreme sport.
The amazingly professional Barbara Serra on Sky is doing a magnificent job of staying professional in the face of this.
The amazingly professional Barbara Serra on Sky is doing a magnificent job of staying professional in the face of this.
January 31, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Having to watch news presenters pronounce “Schitt’s creek” could be a new extreme sport.
The amazingly professional Barbara Serra on Sky is doing a magnificent job of staying professional in the face of this.
The amazingly professional Barbara Serra on Sky is doing a magnificent job of staying professional in the face of this.
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The public really aren't buying this anymore...
January 30, 2026 at 9:57 PM
The public really aren't buying this anymore...
Forgive me,the algorithm and its racial bias showed me nothing on Keith Porter being shot by off duty ICE agent.
Off. Duty.
I’d like to know what the remit of ICE are, because if they can shoot people dead on their own, off duty, they have so much power.Too much power? And what accountability?
Off. Duty.
I’d like to know what the remit of ICE are, because if they can shoot people dead on their own, off duty, they have so much power.Too much power? And what accountability?
January 30, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Forgive me,the algorithm and its racial bias showed me nothing on Keith Porter being shot by off duty ICE agent.
Off. Duty.
I’d like to know what the remit of ICE are, because if they can shoot people dead on their own, off duty, they have so much power.Too much power? And what accountability?
Off. Duty.
I’d like to know what the remit of ICE are, because if they can shoot people dead on their own, off duty, they have so much power.Too much power? And what accountability?
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Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Waiting for…checks notes…Bruce Springsteen to be shot in the streets and labelled a “domestic terrorist” any second right about now….😅
January 28, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Waiting for…checks notes…Bruce Springsteen to be shot in the streets and labelled a “domestic terrorist” any second right about now….😅
My kid just said they wanted a snack, but my house is more of an “ingredients house” than a snack house.
Music to my ears.
One thing working from home as a single mum allows is to cook, from scratch, and to look after all our health.
Its not woke,not luxury, its necessity so parents can work.
Music to my ears.
One thing working from home as a single mum allows is to cook, from scratch, and to look after all our health.
Its not woke,not luxury, its necessity so parents can work.
January 28, 2026 at 9:15 PM
My kid just said they wanted a snack, but my house is more of an “ingredients house” than a snack house.
Music to my ears.
One thing working from home as a single mum allows is to cook, from scratch, and to look after all our health.
Its not woke,not luxury, its necessity so parents can work.
Music to my ears.
One thing working from home as a single mum allows is to cook, from scratch, and to look after all our health.
Its not woke,not luxury, its necessity so parents can work.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
White men have killed people of colour for years and explained it away.
As a child I remember seeing a black man get beaten to death, the whataboutery began.
Now the protective bubble of white folk is GONE, yet they carry on the whataboutery they were trained in.
And still they cheer them on.
As a child I remember seeing a black man get beaten to death, the whataboutery began.
Now the protective bubble of white folk is GONE, yet they carry on the whataboutery they were trained in.
And still they cheer them on.
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 PM
White men have killed people of colour for years and explained it away.
As a child I remember seeing a black man get beaten to death, the whataboutery began.
Now the protective bubble of white folk is GONE, yet they carry on the whataboutery they were trained in.
And still they cheer them on.
As a child I remember seeing a black man get beaten to death, the whataboutery began.
Now the protective bubble of white folk is GONE, yet they carry on the whataboutery they were trained in.
And still they cheer them on.
If folks disliked Alex Pretti, out there protesting for peoples rights (with a broken rib from ICE assaulting him the week prior) they would definitely not like Jesus Christ either, with his radical action in face of injustice.
I imagine he got called all sorts too..and also paid with his life.
I imagine he got called all sorts too..and also paid with his life.
January 27, 2026 at 5:48 PM
If folks disliked Alex Pretti, out there protesting for peoples rights (with a broken rib from ICE assaulting him the week prior) they would definitely not like Jesus Christ either, with his radical action in face of injustice.
I imagine he got called all sorts too..and also paid with his life.
I imagine he got called all sorts too..and also paid with his life.
Alex Pretti is 2nd white,US working citizen,engaged in what appears legal bystander, slaughtered.
It was never about immigration.
It was always about the optics, the psychology, seeing how far they can push people to get on board when they see peers slaughtered publicly.
We know what this is.
It was never about immigration.
It was always about the optics, the psychology, seeing how far they can push people to get on board when they see peers slaughtered publicly.
We know what this is.
January 27, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Alex Pretti is 2nd white,US working citizen,engaged in what appears legal bystander, slaughtered.
It was never about immigration.
It was always about the optics, the psychology, seeing how far they can push people to get on board when they see peers slaughtered publicly.
We know what this is.
It was never about immigration.
It was always about the optics, the psychology, seeing how far they can push people to get on board when they see peers slaughtered publicly.
We know what this is.
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What it feels like to live in America and believe ALL people should have basic human rights.
January 23, 2026 at 2:59 AM
What it feels like to live in America and believe ALL people should have basic human rights.