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Michael Birtwhistle
@salfordmh.bsky.social
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Consultant Community and Rehabilitation Psychiatrist. Rides bicycles. Politically engaged. Likes a good discussion. http://mas.to/@SalfordMH just in case. And here.
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The OP, cropped at the c of back, and the first l of Shell.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Ah, found it
English (uk)
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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just English
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#BonfireNight
Picture of the park scene through a fence and line of trees with waste in the foreground. Swings can be seen in the park. You could smell from down the road that the bonfire had gone ahead, all the sofas burnt, a wisp of smoke from the medium density embers, the uPVC window frames jilted by the park gate, the shopping trolley ferry discarded, a community effort, collecting and unloading the industrial and domestic waste over the preceding week, fun for all the family, it didn't make the MEN live blog.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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#Venngabus
A Venn diagram with two circles "incubus" and "succubus" and the overlap is "venngabus".
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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You could smell from down the road that the bonfire had gone ahead, all the sofas burnt, a wisp of smoke from the medium density embers, the uPVC window frames jilted by the park gate, the shopping trolley ferry discarded, a community effort, collecting and unloading the industrial and domestic waste over the preceding week, fun for all the family, it didn't make the MEN live blog.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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As the assumed Labour leader designate, Wes is on maneuvers and it will be interesting to see what lessons he, a grifter, takes from Mamdani, given that Cuomo was his closest equivalent in this campaign.
Wes Streeting Tweet @wesstreeting "Inspirational campaign and victory for @ZohranKMamdani in NYC. Lessons for progressives the world over." Quoting inset: The Washington Post @washingtonpost • 3h In his first speech since winning NYC's mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, 34, noted he is young, Muslim and a democratic socialist - and said he won't "apologize for any of this." wapo.st/44bz2Np
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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a tiger, elephant and giraffe
low resolution MOCA variant with a giraffe, bear and hippo
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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#Autumn
A piece of yellow playground equipment made of interconnected bent bars just above lush but tufty grass with a few autumn leaves and the dull light vaguely suggesting Autumn.
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Nick Tyrone, passant, with an enhanced testicular jowl.
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I wonder how it's going on X - the everything app?
An account called @bowtiedgerman QT's to say: Finding Dua Lipa attractive means you don't have the epigenetic europid blood memory of distrusting gypsies. I look at this woman and my DNA tells me she's just distracting me so her brothers can steal my livestock.
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It fucks you up, a giant schlong, It may not mean to but it does, by filling all the clothes you own, and swinging just above your toes. But it fucks others in its turn, and though it's fun you mustn't gloat, when half the time it's floppy-firm, and half down someone else's throat. Cock hands on ecstasy to man, a burden in the library, so come as quickly as you can, and leave some time for poetry.
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Not in 2022
Fish & Chips shipping container, without the pun.
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Villanelle for Hypnotits
It's good the Greens have got a hundred K, As disappointment turns to replacement, That Hypnotits has come to save the day. He's lines prepared for what they have to say, And we infer that what is said is meant, It's good the Greens have got a hundred K. With wonky teeth; a former actor; gay, He changed his name and that must mean he's bent, That *Hypnotits* has come to save the day? Where Labour spoke of change, we'll make them pay, Their sole enthusiasm was for rent, It's good the Greens have got a hundred K. A faith in human progress back in play, Where hope can topple disillusionment, That Hypnotits has come to save the day. Inclusion comes to corporate dismay, The beat of eco-populist intent, It's good the Greens have got a hundred K, That Hypnotits has come to save the day.
October 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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This one near me was an error, I'd say.
A streetname sign combo on a 60s orangey brick wall, reading "Moorcock Ave, Late Moorfield St."
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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You'll never guess what
Northern places pronunciation guide: Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, Pronunciation Mithumroyd.
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I was going to highlight this to @regretteruane.bsky.social on the other thread, but this seems relevant.
Tweet from @_rach_ael: I saw this on someone's tattoo page last night and I can't stop thinking about it. Picture is of a rope-bound s&m style Mr Blobby with a multicoloured blobby scarf gag and blue & purple hearts around him on a green cloud background.
October 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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same
op liked at 32m
October 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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this is fine
unpopular opinion man
October 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I saw this preposterous tweet from a Starmer fan.
A gushing post beginning "Feckin fab Sir Keir Starmer!!" and ending #LabourGetsThingsDone
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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hullo pretty lady
James Frayne
September 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Well exactly, the peak of the boom was 1965, a more aptly named Boomer cohort would be, 1955-1975, if you wanted to slice either side, or 45-65 if you wanted the decade of increasing birth rate. But there may be other more important factors to name a cohort after & different start & end points.
Graph of UK live births per thousand people from 1950-present, from: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/gbr/united-kingdom/birth-rate It shows a peak at 1965 (18.8), 1990 (13.9) and 2010 (12.9).
September 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Fun BlueSky evaluation.

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September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The late red steel framed Odeon cinema in Barker's Pool, Sheffield.
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A naked Helena Bonham Carter in a compromising position with a tuna fish.
September 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM