Mike
@mikeisincognito.bsky.social
Fan of cats, baseball, and aniseed twists. Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist. The luddites were right. 🇵🇸✊
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
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As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.
Loving Miriam Toews’ new memoir (of sorts), “A Truce That Is Not Peace”
September 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Loving Miriam Toews’ new memoir (of sorts), “A Truce That Is Not Peace”
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I think it's time to admit that our entire planet is at active war with fascism. And that the war is existential, not just for minorities, for everyone.
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I think it's time to admit that our entire planet is at active war with fascism. And that the war is existential, not just for minorities, for everyone.
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we need a label for UK politicians who endlessly "empathise" with fascist concerns - let's try a US one
my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
we need a label for UK politicians who endlessly "empathise" with fascist concerns - let's try a US one
my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.”
It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.
Trump? Hardly a peep.
When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.
It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.
Trump? Hardly a peep.
When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.
July 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.”
It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.
Trump? Hardly a peep.
When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.
It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle.
Trump? Hardly a peep.
When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it.
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Abolish the Home Office.
UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Abolish the Home Office.
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This is what all mainstream coverage of A.I. sounds like, to me
June 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is what all mainstream coverage of A.I. sounds like, to me
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They are so unbelievably and terribly desperate. You don’t do things like this unless you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue and adoption. This is the ultimate form of the tech industry: a despicable, wretched, entitled, destructive, abusive digital despot that wants to con your kids.
So, uh... I just did a Google search which was not about homework... because I haven't been in school in decades, and I got this pop up from Google. And, like, I actually think there are ways to use AI in school properly, but this kind of advertising from Google seems... super sketchy.
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
They are so unbelievably and terribly desperate. You don’t do things like this unless you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue and adoption. This is the ultimate form of the tech industry: a despicable, wretched, entitled, destructive, abusive digital despot that wants to con your kids.
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If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
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it's published! finally! in this week's newsletter: my attempt to go through every single reason why I both dislike and distrust generative AI: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/11-things-... [free to read!]
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
it's published! finally! in this week's newsletter: my attempt to go through every single reason why I both dislike and distrust generative AI: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/11-things-... [free to read!]
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The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
April 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
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The level of injustice is just so extreme
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
April 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The level of injustice is just so extreme
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
Coming home late to house cats is like coming home to judgmental parents.
“What time do you call this, young man?”
“What time do you call this, young man?”
March 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Coming home late to house cats is like coming home to judgmental parents.
“What time do you call this, young man?”
“What time do you call this, young man?”
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Using blind faith in deeply flawed and environmentally disasterous tech to gut the public sector? Sigh. AI isn't the answer to everything.
Why Starmer and Reeves are pinning their hopes on AI to drive growth in UK
The PM and chancellor believe AI will help British workers produce more, raising wages and releasing spare capital
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Using blind faith in deeply flawed and environmentally disasterous tech to gut the public sector? Sigh. AI isn't the answer to everything.
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There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
January 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
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I think we're gonna find the limits of right-wing populism in 2025
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/americans-ar...
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/americans-ar...
Americans Are Looking Strongly Into Pitchforks
The limits of right-wing populism are going to be tested in 2025.
bad-faith-times.ghost.io
December 31, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I think we're gonna find the limits of right-wing populism in 2025
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/americans-ar...
bad-faith-times.ghost.io/americans-ar...
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All of these kinds of schemes, Rwanda included, are just displacement activity for facing up to the world as it actually is.
No amount of detention centre building will stop people seeking a better life elsewhere
No amount of detention centre building will stop people seeking a better life elsewhere
December 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM
All of these kinds of schemes, Rwanda included, are just displacement activity for facing up to the world as it actually is.
No amount of detention centre building will stop people seeking a better life elsewhere
No amount of detention centre building will stop people seeking a better life elsewhere
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Actually kind of shocked that so many on the so-called "left" on here would celebrate the death of the CEO of the Shorten People's Lives Factory.
December 4, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Actually kind of shocked that so many on the so-called "left" on here would celebrate the death of the CEO of the Shorten People's Lives Factory.
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transphobia is the result of a fascist mindset that, if applied to the real world, requires fascistic state control to enforce
November 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
transphobia is the result of a fascist mindset that, if applied to the real world, requires fascistic state control to enforce