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Mike J
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Tech industry burn out, pigeon protector, sea gull whisperer and abysmal erhu player.
LGBTQ+, intersex, insulin & hrt should be free and accessible
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Got to make a good first impression with this post..... Or do I?.......
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My penny thought, there's nothing tidy about mental health, the systems of support are poorly managed and lack proper care unless you have money to throw at it. It's not your fault if it fails, but sadly, it becomes your responsibility to persevere. Use spite if you have to, get the help you need
For World Mental Health Day, I wanted to share a bit of my journey.

Two years ago, I came off anti-depressants. Things were going well for me and I was in a better position to deal with life's challenges. Over the last half-year in particular, my situation has changed.

I made an appointment 1/5
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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We need a party of the progressive left, but this really isn't it. We don't want transphobic ego driven schmucks pushing the same shtick as every other party. Jeremy and Zarah are decent people, but this is 9 circles of Dante's divine shit show. So, mine and every one else's response....
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Unless you're Trump, Netanyahu or any of the other people making the world significantly worse every day. In which case the opposite of this....
September 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Red flags are flying everywhere and we need to speak up.
These things aren't happening separately, if you are LGBTQ+ you have to speak up for Palestine, the same people coming for us are providing cover for a genocide too. This is solidarity, wake up and start marching ✊

#palestine #LGBTQ #UK
September 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Crabs

Only needed one word, I win ✊😁
September 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Always worth keeping receipts.
September 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Shameful
September 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Nick Clegg, the guy who failed upwards and now wants you to validate his career by paying to read his solution to something he defended, promoted and should have done himself.... He's part of the Giga-Gobshites, now that he's polluting book shops.
September 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Bold Politics is coming. See you at 4pm.
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Seeing right wing gays jumping on the reform uk stop the boats bandwagon is funny because they’ll be the first to moan about not getting their marmite runways rattled because of the lack of varied trade on grindr and in saunas.
September 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
When you wield the tools & speak the words of your enemy, how are you any different? I get the idea of playing rougher and with fewer rules for these fascist pr*cks, but you don't need to lose your integrity and insult your supporters to do that. Take a lesson from IHIP, no slurs required there...
Our fat retard president Donald Trump just signed an executive order punishing flag burning with a year in jail. What our fat retard president doesn't know (or doesn't care about) is that the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is freedom is speech in FUCKING 1989. He's a bloated fascist bitch.
August 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Sister Act is always a traumatic film to watch, you see Harvey Keitel pop a cap in Rom as Guinan walks in, she has to flee to the nunnery run by Wendy after Peter Pan went awol, and befriends Mary Sanderson on break from her sisters. Only to put them all in danger, without Molly Jenson this time...
August 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I found the video too broad, it would have been better if it had three tracks, medical, historical and recreational. And break down the pros and cons for each. As is, the video jumbles them together, recreational effects on general populations being entangled with medical applications to groups
Amphetamines feel like shortcuts to superhuman performance… but nothing comes for free. Our latest video explores why these stimulants are so appealing, what they do inside your brain, and why the story isn’t that simple:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4LU...
The Drug That Works TOO Well?
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Thanks to "health influencers" and fear mongering organizations like Environmental Working Group, every summer, people ask me if sunscreen is actually bad for you. NO. WEAR SUNSCREEN! YOUR SKIN WILL THANK YOU 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/08/suns...
Sunscreen is Safe. Stop Listening to Fearmongering TikTok Quacks
It’s summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere, and you know what that means: falling asleep on the beach and waking up cooked like a lobster, which you then attempt to alleviate by stumbling over…
skepchick.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Israel harbours and defends criminals with the aid of its US vassals. Corruption at this scale cannot be ignored, not when the price is deep trauma to the living victims, genocide and impunity/empowerment of the most reprehensible people our world has produced

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Israeli government official arrested in Nevada sex crimes operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the employee was arrested and said he returned to the country ‘as scheduled’
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August 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The genocide must stop, what a horrible price the world will pay for it's cowardice...
Rest peacefully little one
Israel killed infant Rawan al-Batta and wiped out her entire family.
August 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I wish ill upon billionaires, bigots and those comitting and assisting in genocide 💅
August 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Recovering from surgery. Attempted some art and thought it was good enough to share.
Please be kind.
August 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Israel murdered five al-Jazeera journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif.

They did so because they're now liquidating Gaza City, and want to silence the remaining witnesses.

To Western journalists silent about the slaughter of your colleagues:

Their blood is on your hands, too.
August 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Solidarity to these awesome people. They are standing taller than the rest of us, so we have to make sure we support them.
Kier Starmer, Yvette Cooper and every shill taking money to silence us are cowards, frauds & accomplices. These protesters aren't standing for it ✊

youtube.com/watch?v=Mw3N...
‘I’m retired, and I’m not scared’: hundreds arrested at Palestine Action protest
YouTube video by The Guardian
youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Poor poppets, who could do this....
I'm lucky to know people who care for tarantulas and they shape their whole lives around them, they'd do everything for them. This would horrify them, tarantulas have lives, fears and joys. I hope the survivors are ok. (BBC = Bleh)

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Tarantulas discovered abandoned at Salford flat in unsecure tubs
The RSPCA rescues four of the arachnids after finding dozens of others dead in the Salford flat.
www.bbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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It happened again
August 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM