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Mischa Mischakoff
@mischakoff.bsky.social
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Socialist immigrant. Union rep. Bad poet. NHS worker. Interested in mediaeval economic history; want to befriend a crow. LUFC | Orioles.
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mischakoff.bsky.social
This is possibly the worst infographic I've ever seen.

www.dumptheguardian.com/society/2025...
Guardian graphic 'How councils use a legal loophole to issue families with no-fault evictions' It's somehow a circular flowchart where 'local authority' leads to 'arms length management companies', which leads to 'rental properties'. At the management companies there's a branching choice between 'can charge full market rent' and 'can issue section 21 notices' - both choices lead to 'manages' anyway.
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
The main 'centre-left' paper in the UK does not appear to have reported separately on the Church of England's criticism of the NF's hate plans.
The NF 'clapping back' at the Church of England for that criticism is the top headline on the Guardian website.
'Centre-left' journalists enjoy this stuff.
Guardian headline: 'Politics: Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy' Underneath, there's a normalising photo of that fascist appearing to speak calmly in a tv studio in front of a generic tv news background.
August 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
A still of Hank Hill from King of the Hill standing in front of his garage with the text '"Son, you don't get to be running back just because your dad was. We fought a whole war with England over that."' Dale and Bill look on disapprovingly in the background.
August 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
An illustration from Charlotte's Web of a piglet standing under a spider web, with the web altered to show the words 'DUMP HIM'. by @wolfygangg
August 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
"A sane voice (based on his record)"

This is a Democrat talking about noted far-right freak Marco Rubio, of all people.
[reply skeet] "CharM‬ ‪@artemis46.bsky.social‬ Voting for Rubio was a calculated risk that a sane voice (based on his record) would curb some of the worst excess of the administration. It was a lost bet. And of course he's the ONE nominee that received all Democratic votes, so he's brought up ad nauseum: "All Democrats voted for all nominees!""
August 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Back when shame existed in public life, this would be a scandal Coun. Peacock would be expected to resign over.
How is 'both sides-ing' genocide and transphobia serving the people of Newark and Sherwood District?
[skeet]: "Councillor Paul Peacock @paulspeacock.bsky.social Or media narrative which satisfies the extreme views of left and right and alienates sensible people and sensible debate. 6 July 2025 at 10:34"
July 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Dear British columnist. I am sad that you are thinking about domestic politics, because it relates indirectly to Palestine. Please send your attention across an ocean, to where real people live.
skeet: "dragonite.bsky.social When America is burning I am glad you still care about something half earth away and part of the reason why America is burning today"
July 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Fucking beautiful.
[Skeet text]: "Denali Gulf of Mexico (He/Him) @ecocentric.bsky.social Willful ignorance doesn't solve any problems. Ownership of land is natural. All animals do it. And the tragedy of the commons is a fact. It's the reason we need government and regulations. 14 June 2025 at 11:44 2 comments, 0 likes"
June 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Not to mention this isn't true.
The FA announced that as a result of they-wanted-to.
[Text]: 'Last month the Football Association announced that trans women would no longer be able to compete in women’s football as result of the supreme court’s ruling on 16 April that the terms “women” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer only to biological women and biological sex. This is believed to affect 28 FA-registered trans women.'
June 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Honestly, what's your fucking point.
Doing the right thing is illegal now. Fine. Risk arrest or don't: that's your choice.
Skeet: "John B @johnb78.bsky.social A friend's relative spent 15 years in prison for doing what Shah is asking randos to do online here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafil_A... Quote skeet: 'Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social If you have a bank account in one of these countries and want to help people in Gaza- receivers are'"
May 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
A literal professor with just dogshit level analysis. I feel like this is just bait to make me think I could have made it in academia.
Skeet: "Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social Replies to complaints and comments from young white men, at least on social media, are not sympathetic. WM "It's hard to build intimate relationships" - > it's your fault, do better incel BW "it's hard to build intimate relationships" - > I understand your pain (something something sexism/racism) 27 May 2025 at 17:42 1 like"
May 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
It's always nice to know that your feelings are reciprocated, even when your feeling is utter, utter hatred.
Keir Starmer's cunt face in front of a union jack. Above it, text from Guardian website: "UK politics live. Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done 'incalculable' damage to UK, economically and politically. PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament"
May 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Champions again olé olé!! #LUFC
Junior Firpo & Jayden Bogle with a bottle of champagne on an open top bus with the LU smiley badge
May 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
The latest in "he was no angel."
[Text]: 'When you said that the people being picked up are not "heroes and martyrs," what did you mean by that? I mean some of the people, and I'm not going to get into any specific cases, but some of the people who have been detained or cited are people who have obstructed entrances to universities, have taken over buildings, have broken the regulations of the university. I'm not talking about speech. I'm talking about action.'
April 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
I wrote this on the way to a funeral.

katabaweb.wordpress.com/spiders/

#poetry #poem #writingcommunity #writing #spiders
[Text]: I am a tiny spider spinning dew-web in the grass You are another; they are others When the sun is at the right angle you can see all of our work millions of us across the field turning the green grass grey A joyful child could destroy it all without malice Its exuberant running could kick us irrevocably into drear penury At other times when it’s cloudy or late evening we are safer in our invisibility but still not safe A happy dog might bumble through your life’s work after a stick and a noble crow might eat me There are so many of us and we are so irrelevant and we love and create and make babies and eat flies I am a tiny spider spinning a web in the dewy grass Your are another tiny spider spinning dew-web in the grass They are all tiny spiders: see how their webs catch the light
April 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
I love wasting a day off on a wiki hole.

"Some Kyrgyz worship the cow, others the wind, others the hedgehog, others the magpie, others the falcon, and others the mahogany trees."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_...

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social #wikipedia #KyrgyzKhaganate
[Text]: "The Persian historian Gardizi in the XI century wrote the following about the Yenisei Kyrgyz:[27] Some Kyrgyz worship the cow, others the wind, others the hedgehog, others the magpie, others the falcon, and others the mahogany trees. They have a special measured speech that they use in prayer. When they pray, they turn towards the south. They worship Saturn and Venus, and Mars is considered a bad omen. They have a prayer house.… Lamps (lit) they don't go out until they go out by themselves."
April 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Hi I wrote a poem with nesting footnotes because nerds rule.

katabaweb.wordpress.com/monstrous-ph...

#poetry #poem #writing #booksky #writerbluesky
The monstrous philosophy pt. II The only solution to the problem of evil is to worship Judas An omnipotent g-d would create nothing that he didn't want But no, that can't be right Nils Runeberg made one critical assumption In asserting the divinity of the despised He didn't guess at what the Manichaeans guessed at: That our ruler might just be kind of a dick Death seems like a poor invention by the Creator: 3 stars out of 10 I'm unconvinced Video game designers have done better With absolute knowledge, would you regen on the spot Or through a birth canal? Empson said that young Christians were genuinely ignorant of the moral objections to their creed Was he right? Are there any sages left asking these questions? We seem to have abandoned religion to the believers And any cadre of true believers is a dangerous proposition* Judas in his sainted beatitude Smiles on me, and guides my shaking hand *I am an ecumenical socialist: quis custodiet, alea jacta, summum bonum†, and the rest. But I do believe in people, as far as I can punt them †The Latin fragments here are meant to hand-wave humorously towards the Utilitarian mantra
March 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
I'm just a wikkle shadow minister...
Guardian headline: Money: Miliband urges energy watchdog to act
February 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
The top two divisions of men's football, coded for where their women's team plays.
Key:
Yellow: WSL
Blue: Championship
Green: National League Prem
Orange: National League D1
Purple: regional leagues (including Welsh Premier League)
Premier League table: Liverpool-yellow Arsenal-yellow Nottm Forest-green Chelsea-yellow Man City-yellow Newcastle-blue Bournemouth-orange Aston Villa-yellow Fulham-purple Brighton-yellow Brentford-purple Crystal Palace-yellow Man Utd-yellow Tottenham-yellow West Ham-yellow Everton-yellow Wolves-green Leicester-yellow Ipswich-green Southampton-blue Championship table: Leeds United-orange Sheffield United-blue Burnley-green Sunderland-blue West Bromwich Albion-green Blackburn Rovers-blue Middlesbrough-orange Coventry City-purple Norwich City-orange Bristol City-blue Sheffield Wednesday-purple Watford-green Queens Park Rangers-orange Millwall-purple Preston North End-purple Oxford United-green Swansea City-purple Portsmouth-blue Stoke City-green Cardiff City-purple Derby County-green Hull City-green Luton Town-purple Plymouth Argyle-green
February 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
I wrote this in 2017 about the rise of fascism in America.

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#poetry #poem #writingcommunity
[Text]: There is something in the deep, there See it! It is breathing It is louring, pulsing, threatening, exploring with its tongue Its tongue is like a sea snake, a dark, atavistic sea snake It is coiled, cold, and scale-covered, and tasting in the crevices See it! It is fascinating: like Belle Epochal filigree It is intricate and scared and cruel secure in the deeper caves Mark it; it is on the move It is walking on its tentacles Its hulking form has crushing-weight Its teeth are foul and venomous Kill it! Stab it where it stands Kill it with a harpoon gun If its death-throes crush you dead, what comfort has the martyr
February 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
I wrote this.

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#poetry #poem #writingcommunity #animals
[Text]: I wish I could stay like this with you forever hands blent with paws your hot breath in my face I would crush a second into such fine powder that it would take an age to glue it back together and maybe a few fragments of time would roll to the corner of the room or under the bed where we could hide forever But sadly, I need to fidget burp scratch my nose look up an etymology wonder about the Greco-Bactrians use the toilet and make a tea and you like to be top-and-tail anyway But even if I weren't like this time moseys on The waters in the dull bends of the floodplain were once the wild headwaters that we remember Time is the undefeated champion but I'm dedicated and for you, I'll try to find a way to kill it
January 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Mood.

#Brontë #Shirley
Text on p. 269 of Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Shirley’: CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED
January 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Hello, I wrote this about how forgiveness doesn't mean anything if you're expecting the person you're forgiving to end up in Hell.
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#poetry #poems
The monstrous philosophy I am starting to understand universal forgiveness now, I think Jesus was a French poststructuralist philosopher in the 1960s and only G-d can judge him Or mayber every evil person is a prince and princes are not subject to the morality of the Jews I joke, but who can tell how real cruelty is to those who perform it I joke, but sins must be punished I'm joking of course If I could be completely serious for a moment, I would say that Christian forgiveness of all by all is a dangerous joke not thought through unless they intend to to live in Heaven with their sister's murderer insipid unless they intend to invite evil into the godhead If I could... adopt an earnest deadpan but with an occasional gentle wink suggesting that I'm aware of the negation of anything I might say I would... accede to the utility of general forgiveness but maintain that I don't believe in it
December 26, 2024 at 8:51 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
Details, details
“Constantine VIII’s successor, Emperor Romanos III Argyros, proposed the hand of one of his sisters to Henry, but Conrad’s envoy, Count Manegold of Donauwörth, refused the offer since she was already married.[32]”
December 25, 2024 at 11:26 AM
mischakoff.bsky.social
A happy solstice to the working class heroes who are at a low ebb but will come good as the light grows.
katabaweb.wordpress.com/sol-invictus/

#solstice #wintersolstice #poem #poetry #NoWarButClassWar
Sol, In-forever-victus, holds his head very low right now. He’s crouching down there by the horizon, or safe in his curtained cave at night. He wakes up in twilight and goes to bed still in twilight, without troubling daytime, and, like the other crepuscular creatures, the foxes and badgers and so on, is skittish: here comes a cloud — WHOOSH — Where’s he gone? They don’t know, Sol In-forever-victus, anything that they don’t know. They don’t know that one day you’ll rise; you’ll climb the stairs up the side of that great big blue dome to the very top, and you’ll shine out aha and burn them. They don’t know but I do. They think you’re craven congenitally. I know that circumstances — oh man, circumstances — can make even a great person huddle down by the horizon, and fail to warm his fellows, or provide any succour or solidarity, or even some mornings, to nod and say hello good morning. I know, Sol In-fucking-forever-victus, that one day, and that day’s not far away now, you’ll have shaken off those pesky clouds, and you’ll grin down from the very apex of your cupola, while you help us grow plants for food, and warm our skin, and you’ll be so proud to think that while once you were a horizon lurker, and a sneak who was no help to anyone, yet once you’d had enough and gathered your strength, you climbed up all those stairs with our hands on your back, and shone light on everything, Sol In-forever-victus.
December 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM