Margot Power
@megryan49.bsky.social
Dangerously close to having lived in Manchester longer than Ireland. Mum, stepmum and foster carer. Reformed archaeologist and recent canine convert.
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Hearing media people call it an 'unfortunate gesture'. We saw it. WE SAW IT. It isn't like he hides his white supremacy / nazi views online. He is so open about it. And yet, outside social media, people are still suggesting that maybe it wasn't what it absolutely was. I feel like i am going insane
January 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Hearing media people call it an 'unfortunate gesture'. We saw it. WE SAW IT. It isn't like he hides his white supremacy / nazi views online. He is so open about it. And yet, outside social media, people are still suggesting that maybe it wasn't what it absolutely was. I feel like i am going insane
Shocked myself and some young colleagues (in their 20's) today as I recounted my uni days when essays were submitted hand written, my dissertation-also hand written and typed up by my friends brother for £20. Mobile phone made calls and had snake but didn't send texts!! @ucc.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Shocked myself and some young colleagues (in their 20's) today as I recounted my uni days when essays were submitted hand written, my dissertation-also hand written and typed up by my friends brother for £20. Mobile phone made calls and had snake but didn't send texts!! @ucc.bsky.social
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There comes a point in your life where you have to accept that whatever smells good that someone else is cooking- is probably garlic and onions. It is a right of passage as an adult. It is only once we accept this that we are truly free.
January 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There comes a point in your life where you have to accept that whatever smells good that someone else is cooking- is probably garlic and onions. It is a right of passage as an adult. It is only once we accept this that we are truly free.
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Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
Starmer's best moment as PM
And the Powellisation of conservative thought
open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
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Badenoch has proved much more pathetic than I had originally anticipated and I thought she would be an unmitigated disaster. Not one solitary fibre of moral substance to her.
January 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Badenoch has proved much more pathetic than I had originally anticipated and I thought she would be an unmitigated disaster. Not one solitary fibre of moral substance to her.
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In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 AM
There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Scarlet for her!
Left: Kemi Badenoch, "I grew up in a middle class family but I became working class when I was 16 working at McDonalds"
Right: Kemi Badenoch, "I was born into a relatively wealthy family.. My dad was a doctor who had lots of oil company patients.. He got paid very well"
Right: Kemi Badenoch, "I was born into a relatively wealthy family.. My dad was a doctor who had lots of oil company patients.. He got paid very well"
December 15, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Scarlet for her!
Does everyone know that to take a selfie on android (even a very old one) you can simply raise your hand between your face and the screen, which sets a short timer and then takes a pic,without you needing to touch the screen, or are you all finding this out for the FIRST TIME TODAY LIKE ME?
December 5, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Does everyone know that to take a selfie on android (even a very old one) you can simply raise your hand between your face and the screen, which sets a short timer and then takes a pic,without you needing to touch the screen, or are you all finding this out for the FIRST TIME TODAY LIKE ME?
First outdoor run in a few weeks and this happens, that'll teach me ...
December 1, 2024 at 5:41 PM
First outdoor run in a few weeks and this happens, that'll teach me ...
My little dig Mol is genuinely the sweetest little creature that ever there was, don't know what we did to deserve her 💖
November 30, 2024 at 6:50 PM
My little dig Mol is genuinely the sweetest little creature that ever there was, don't know what we did to deserve her 💖
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Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
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At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Good news: Twitter is collapsing.
And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.
There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.
If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.
And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.
There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.
If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.
November 12, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Good news: Twitter is collapsing.
And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.
There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.
If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.
And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.
There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.
If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.