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Born into a Christian world so my expressions often derive from such, but with no religious meaning. Like FGS!
I try to avoid personal attacks or demeaning posts (unless they are really really funny!) 🚫DMs. PS: Mai is purely a homonym (My)
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maiopine.bsky.social
Seems that if you mention the N word* @support.bsky.team hides it. Seems a bit unnecessary? Sure some people use the term far too much but effectively censoring it seems a bit over the top?

*the National Socialist(sic) German Workers Party, not the other n word!
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
- 74 children including 58 babies have died in temporary accommodation in the last five years -

@antoniabance.bsky.social this is shocking. Where is the data from please?
74 children including 58 babies have died in temporary accommodation in the last five years - often because there is nowhere safe for babies to sleep with no cots and the whole family in one room
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Citizens Advice is on Bluesky yay!

And their reaction to the budget

While welcoming the end of the 2 child limit they point out that the rising cost of renting means the freezing of LHA could have a devastating impact on many families.

@citizensadvice.bsky.social
This briefing from Citizens Advice's Families, Welfare and Work team looks at two key Budget 2025 decisions: freezing Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates, and abolishing the 2 child limit. The rising cost of renting means freezing LHA could have a devastating impact on many families. In contrast, the end of the 2 child limit is very welcome - but the briefing considers how the benefits could be undermined by a failure to also uprate or abolish the benefits cap.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Is this false? Fake news?

Or is it correct?
The iPaper front page from 3rd December 2025. Main headline: OBR chief forced out after contradicting Chancellor over Budget black hole
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Fake account (s) alert

These people are disgusting. Using a tragedy to make money. Not trying to make, actually making money. Because they know that at least some people will fall for it and send them money.

Even in the remotest of possibilities some aren't fake, don't send money to individuals.
An account asking for money. Claiming to be an individual from Gaza. With a family.
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Ok but the post was about retiring early.

Now I have read it I'm not sure if there isn't a conflation of 'economically inactive' and 'retiring early' as they seem to be mentioned in the same paragraph.

Also, not sure where the data comes from. A source would be useful.
the key statistic to keep in mind is that while one in three UK workers is over 50, four million people in the 50-65 age bracket are “economically inactive”. An estimated £31bn per year is lost to the economy from people retiring before 66: that’s 50 per cent more than the entire policing budget.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
IPSOS November voting intention poll showing 33% to Reform
IPSOS poll bar chart showing Reform.on 33% voting intention
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
maiopine.bsky.social
via sciencealert.com
Crucially, the dusty weather in which these events appeared reveals the specific conditions required to generate electricity in the thin, bone-dry atmosphere of Mars – long suspected but never directly demonstrated until now. Lightning is thought to occur when turbulent conditions in an atmosphere jostle particles around, rubbing them together to generate charge. Eventually, so much charge builds up that it has to go somewhere, producing a discharge.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
He is also a Person with Significant Control of Fortinus Global Ltd, which appears to be a bigger outfit and has, or had, contracts with the Home Office. Glyn Williams, also a former Director General of the Border Force, was found to be in breach of the Appointment Rules by working with Fortinus
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
That's not AI

This is AI
An image of an AI data centre showing banks upon banks of computer hardware.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
maiopine.bsky.social
Fuck eBay!
Search entry from eBay Looking For 135 Swastika Flag? We Have Almost Everything On eBay etc
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Oh yes I can!
Screenshot. You can't hide forever. Hello pervert, This message was sent fro...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
He's not the only one. If this is to be believed?
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
What a cesspit this is. The more you read, the more horrific and downright frightening it is.

On a side note I was also quite disturbed by the claim that some teachers were fans of Kirk and some voted for Trump!
The photo only spread from there. One conservative commentator on X posted the photo alongside names and phone numbers of the teachers. That post has received more than 20 million views.
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Play store updates includes the X app with "What's new" notation.

According to Sky News what's new is a perversion of the algorithm to promote far right content

bsky.app/profile/news...
Screenshot of Play Store entry for X saying What's new
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
A message from the National Library of Medicine
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November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
maiopine.bsky.social
Message from Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health regarding fhe federal funding freeze

community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/70044020
Support The Nutrition Source With financial challenges from Harvard’s federal funding freeze, we are depending on philanthropy more than ever. Thank you for your support! MAKE A GIFT https://community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/70044020
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
maiopine.bsky.social
Thank you for that. I didn't really know who he was. Wikipedia says,
Up to 2016, Chinn donated to the office or campaigns of a number of Labour politicians, including MPs Tony Blair, Ruth Smeeth, Liz Kendall, Tom Watson and Dan Jarvis.[10][11] Since 2016, he has additionally financially supported the MPs Ivan Lewis, Owen Smith, Lisa Nandy, Tristram Hunt, Jack Dromey, Ian Austin, Rachel Reeves, Liam Byrne and Wes Streeting.[12][13][non-primary source needed] In February 2020, he donated £50,000 to support the Labour party leadership election campaign of Keir Starmer. In 2015 Chin helped fund and was a director of Labour Together, an anti-Corbyn think-tank. Chinn has been president of United Jewish Israel Appeal since 1993.[7] The UJIA funds trips for British Jews to go on birthright to Israel. The organisation faced criticism in 2022 for housing participants in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
October 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Photo of Boris Johnson with a caption below, When I was a boy I wanted to be King of the World Photo of Donald Trump with a caption below, Hold my Beer
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
maiopine.bsky.social
Sorry I just went off the 'Followed by' note on their account profile. Another account using your name and profile photo? Or Bluesky getting it wrong?
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
Keir Starmer’s appointment of Minouche Shafik as Chief Economic Adviser is not quite the progressive appointment you might think.

From Professor Richard Murphy
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
When Shafik spoke of a “new social contract,” it was most definitely within those boundaries. She might have proposed more generous education and training schemes, portable pensions, and stronger safety nets, but she did so based on the assumption that the government must first of all demonstrate its fiscal credibility; in other words, social reform is always conditional on first reassuring the bond markets.
September 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
It's the last sentence that really strikes home. Have previous presidents had their portraits hung up in public buildings all over the States? Trump really is a King isn't he.

BBC News - He's accused of trying to assassinate Trump. At trial, he's going it alone
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Now as president, his (Trump's) portrait hangs in the entrance to the federal courthouse, just over the metal detectors.
September 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
I have BBC and Met Office apps
Venn diagram showing Met Office weather app and BBC weather app overlapping only on a small section
September 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
maiopine.bsky.social
"What the president wants most is power and conflict"

From Scott Sumner
What the president wants most of all is power and conflict. He’ll support any monetary policy that leads to those objectives. Thus, he’ll support low interest rates when he’s in power and oppose low rates when his opponents are in power. People who analyze presidential statements from a traditional analytical perspective don’t understand the game he’s playing. As an analogy, when TikTok was popular back in 2020, Trump tried to ban it. After Congress banned it, he refused to enforce the law. “Is allowing TikTok to operate good public policy?” is a question that has no meaning to Trump. “Should a public official that lied on a loan application resign?” has no meaning to Trump. “Should Covid vaccines be encouraged?” has no meaning to Trump. He doesn’t think in terms of optimal public policies. Everything is conditional—what’s in it for him at this moment in time?
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
maiopine.bsky.social
So it's all hype and hyperbole from the media and right wing politicians. Who'd have thought.

We need more high profile media pushing back against this onslaught of misinformation and disinformation.

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Since 1980, the European Court of Human Rights has found against the UK in only 13 removal cases, and just four of those concerned family life. In relation to immigration rules more broadly, the Court has only three times ruled that the UK’s immigration rules violate the ECHR in the past 45 years.
September 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM