Michael Batey
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Michael Batey
@mbatey.bsky.social
Content Director at If Collective.
The written word; house, disco and Balearic vinyl; active travel, running and cycling; Sheffield United
Nice to see 'mither' being used by the bar owner
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Reposted by Michael Batey
Labours grotesque new asylum policy will fail to move the polls an inch, unless there are a few progressive voters yet to lose. They can't outflank Reform on the right, you can't out-cruel actual fascism.
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reposted by Michael Batey
In 2018, Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz was waiting outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in their car while Khashoggi was murdered by the order of MBS, cut up into pieces and stuffed into a bag.

Trump and Kushner were paid to coverup MBS' crime.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The 1930s original carried the cheesy-but-charming name of the 'Penguincubator'
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Not ignored – stolen, ground up and reconstituted into this foul pabulum
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our shitposting is exponentially better than yours
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
AI search is like chatting with an expert!*

*who is prone to talking bollocks
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Do they even know what the word 'hoax' means?
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Sack briefer for being unloyal - disloyal”
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The Home Bargains League Cup:
Doncaster 0, Rotherham 0, Barnsley 0 aet
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Makes a nice change to see 'exceptional hardship' *not* accepted by a court – every defendant seeking to avoid the consequences of their actions seems to chance their arm with it
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It's always the ones you most expect
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not infighting, and not trying to win the next election by going a bit fashy – just making stuff work better
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM