Mike Wild
@social.mikewild.me
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Mike Wild
@social.mikewild.me
· Aug 18
For new users wondering about identity verification, Bluesky already has it, and it's self-administered! It comes in the form of your handle, which you or your org can easily set up to be your own web domain. It functions as proof of your identity because only you have control over your website 1/n
I just changed my Bluesky handle to one using my own web domain in just a few minutes. With all the fake accounts popping up here lately, everyone should do this to verify their account. Instructions are in the Bluesky blog in the thread 🧵 below 👇
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Told you he wanted to emulate Putin.
The danger is *because* it is by Trump’s own volition, choice and preference. He wants to emulate Putin. He wants to remake the US in the image of Putin’s Russia and shares a view of how the world should be with him and a handful of other strong-man despots.
Nobody’s forcing him. He wants this.
Nobody’s forcing him. He wants this.
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Told you he wanted to emulate Putin.
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Seen a few comments that Trump’s abduction of Maduro opens the door to Putin doing the same, so once again reminding people that Putin already attempted to capture or kill Zelenskyy in the first days of his invasion of Ukraine.
Trump is emulating Putin, his role-model, because he admires him.
Trump is emulating Putin, his role-model, because he admires him.
Even aside from the fact that it very obviously didn’t happen for the reasons below, I think it’s also worth remembering that Putin sent a snatch/kill squad to get Zelenskyy during Russia’s 2022 invasion, prompting the US to offer Zel extraction.
He replied “I need ammunition, not a ride”
He replied “I need ammunition, not a ride”
PSA: The reason Ukraine isn't targetting Putin's residences with drones and missiles are that both are finite resources and:
a) It's not clear killing him would help;
b) The residences are heavily protected by air defense;
c) They include bunkers;
d) They are huge so you can hit and still miss.
a) It's not clear killing him would help;
b) The residences are heavily protected by air defense;
c) They include bunkers;
d) They are huge so you can hit and still miss.
January 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Seen a few comments that Trump’s abduction of Maduro opens the door to Putin doing the same, so once again reminding people that Putin already attempted to capture or kill Zelenskyy in the first days of his invasion of Ukraine.
Trump is emulating Putin, his role-model, because he admires him.
Trump is emulating Putin, his role-model, because he admires him.
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God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism.
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism.
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch.
So on brand.
Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you.
(iPaper)
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That distant chuckling sound you can hear from across the cosmos is the Venusians who arrived at Mill Hill East station in search of intelligent life on 31 December 2019.
tfl.gov.uk/corporate/tr... reassuring news for anyone scared of meeting aliens while travelling in london
December 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
That distant chuckling sound you can hear from across the cosmos is the Venusians who arrived at Mill Hill East station in search of intelligent life on 31 December 2019.
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That slightly bemused look spreads across Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face as he finds himself shaking hands with 10-times Ukraine Peace Prize winner Donald Trump in the forecourt of Vladivostok station at a ceremony to officially mark it becoming the terminus of the Trans-Ukranian Railway.
Pro tip for Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
Establish the Ukraine Peace Prize already, to be awarded to the individual who returns the most land annexed by Russia to Ukraine during a 12-month period. You could even make it a monthly prize.
Establish the Ukraine Peace Prize already, to be awarded to the individual who returns the most land annexed by Russia to Ukraine during a 12-month period. You could even make it a monthly prize.
December 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
That slightly bemused look spreads across Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face as he finds himself shaking hands with 10-times Ukraine Peace Prize winner Donald Trump in the forecourt of Vladivostok station at a ceremony to officially mark it becoming the terminus of the Trans-Ukranian Railway.
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Russia will not accept any peace deal that allows Ukraine to aggressively defend itself the next time we invade it.
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Russia will not accept any peace deal that allows Ukraine to aggressively defend itself the next time we invade it.
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Merry Christmas.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Merry Christmas.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
Peace is a privilege not everyone has today.
Don’t forget Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine.
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Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
From a media law perspective: BS.
There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
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How many more kids must I accidentally murder before you realise it's deliberate?
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
How many more kids must I accidentally murder before you realise it's deliberate?
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When someone tells you complex societal challenges have simple answers, they're either stupid or hoping you are.
When they say those answers are more cruelty to a certain group, they're also evil and hoping you are.
When they say those answers are more cruelty to a certain group, they're also evil and hoping you are.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When someone tells you complex societal challenges have simple answers, they're either stupid or hoping you are.
When they say those answers are more cruelty to a certain group, they're also evil and hoping you are.
When they say those answers are more cruelty to a certain group, they're also evil and hoping you are.
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From the CWS Archives. 19th December 2021.
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
From the CWS Archives. 19th December 2021.
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Boris Johnson
What he said: 20,000 more police
What he did: 23,000 fewer people
What he said: 20,000 more police
What he did: 23,000 fewer people
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Boris Johnson
What he said: 20,000 more police
What he did: 23,000 fewer people
What he said: 20,000 more police
What he did: 23,000 fewer people
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Three generations of my family are buried in Chatham Cemetery, and I was born, raised and educated locally. I am British through and through 🇬🇧
So why is my #identity constantly questioned?
Read more in my recent @KentOnline article
www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/sl...
So why is my #identity constantly questioned?
Read more in my recent @KentOnline article
www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/sl...
‘Slowly but surely, we have been effectively boiled like frogs in a pot of hate…’
In her first KentOnline column, Gillingham and Rainham MP Naushabah Khan says the immigration debate is taking a sinister turn.
www.kentonline.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Three generations of my family are buried in Chatham Cemetery, and I was born, raised and educated locally. I am British through and through 🇬🇧
So why is my #identity constantly questioned?
Read more in my recent @KentOnline article
www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/sl...
So why is my #identity constantly questioned?
Read more in my recent @KentOnline article
www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/sl...
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Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.
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Solar panels using up all of the sun
Yup. That’s Trump’s Energy Secretary.
Have THEY ALL got dementia?
Yup. That’s Trump’s Energy Secretary.
Have THEY ALL got dementia?
BREAKING: Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announces government investigation into “so-called solar energy,” including possible heath risks of “solar radiation” from solar panels and concerns that solar energy initiatives “may use up all of the sun, leaving us dark and cold.”
October 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Solar panels using up all of the sun
Yup. That’s Trump’s Energy Secretary.
Have THEY ALL got dementia?
Yup. That’s Trump’s Energy Secretary.
Have THEY ALL got dementia?
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The Wonderful Lord Heseltine
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politics has left gen Z screaming into the void. At least...
As Labour loses support among young people, others are standing by to hoover it up
observer.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Wonderful Lord Heseltine
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
"He walked slowly to the lectern, one hand on the rail, the other behind his back. A 92-year-old Lord Heseltine at London’s Ministry of Sound isn’t an image you expect to see. But there he was at the Next Gen 2025 conference"
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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With the Budget approaching, it is clear that Brexit has damaged the economy in ways many feared it would. With reduced productivity, trade, and investment, it's a travesty that we're still feeling the impact almost a decade after the referendum.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
With the Budget approaching, it is clear that Brexit has damaged the economy in ways many feared it would. With reduced productivity, trade, and investment, it's a travesty that we're still feeling the impact almost a decade after the referendum.
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Here's Nick Griffin - British National Party leader in 2009 - complaining that the BBC Question Time audience he faced was "dominated by ethnic minorities."
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
![He went on: "That audience was taken from a
city that is no longer British ... That was not
my country any more. Why not come down
and do it in Thurrock, do it in Stoke, do it in
Burnley?
"Do it somewhere where there are still
significant numbers of English and British
people [living], and they haven't been
ethnically cleansed from their own country.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreiao5ksznkdgvtgha2b2jqxw4s3ijlyhjtiywh5l5eg6oto5hexdli@jpeg)
![He added: "There is not much support for me
there [in London], because the place is
dominated by ethnic minorities. There is an
ethnic minority that supports me: the
English. But there's not many of them left."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreiaowjfelhblesb53lk2nvkj6vmotsdtg3wl3auxeuzjukrq5tz7ni@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here's Nick Griffin - British National Party leader in 2009 - complaining that the BBC Question Time audience he faced was "dominated by ethnic minorities."
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
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There’s no such thing as the “average person”; white, or otherwise.
But if there was an actual “average white person”, they would undoubtedly hate everything that Sarah Pochin stands for.
But if there was an actual “average white person”, they would undoubtedly hate everything that Sarah Pochin stands for.
October 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There’s no such thing as the “average person”; white, or otherwise.
But if there was an actual “average white person”, they would undoubtedly hate everything that Sarah Pochin stands for.
But if there was an actual “average white person”, they would undoubtedly hate everything that Sarah Pochin stands for.