Michael

Michael

@mikins.bsky.social

We all make choices, in the end our choices make us.

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Sums it up better than any pithy bullshit I've tried to put together in the last 20 years.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

Right wing politics is legit, to be indulged, pandered to and hopefully corralled into more Thatcherism. Left wing politics is the enemy to be resisted to the fucking death.

Great idea, but at the moment a lot of us have been squeezed so much by the constant rise in bills and complete lack of pay rises (or even job losses and pay cuts) that even a potentially zero percent loan isn't going to help when you no longer have any disposable income.

inews.co.ukZero-interest loans for heat pumps set to launch within weeksThe money will cover heat pumps, solar panels and plug-in batteries to encourage more households to invest in green tech to lower energy bills

I feel like at almost any other time in history an American president siding with the Russians against their own allies would be beyond outrageous and the end of their leadership, where the hell did things go so wrong? Oh wait yeah. Social media bot farms and shit loads of dirty money.

The UK governments get a lot of things wrong and the longer they keep up the farce of calling criminal damage and protests terrorism, the more foolish they'll look when the ban is inevitably overturned. In the meantime a few brave folks continue refusing to tow the line.

bbc.co.ukSally Rooney says her books will be removed from sale in UK over Palestine Action supportThe Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.

Recovering alcoholic whiskey and boardgames sales band Metallica have opinions on other artists caring about things more than their bank balances. Shit opinions mind you, but opinions all the same. Once upon a time these were my favourite band as well.

billboard.comMetallica’s James Hetfield Has a Message for Entertainers Who Bring Their ‘Bullsh–‘ Agenda to the StageJames Hetfield doesn't seem very interested in turning a Metallica concert into a political lecture.

Now if knocking out a few Russian data centres has almost silenced the right wing outrage machine, ask yourself, what kind of absolute shite are our governments going to put through our own centres they're desperately building everywhere?

Max Caster getting the boot from TNA after one match by upsetting the blood money brigade is definitely the most Max Caster thing of the year so far. You've got 2 months left to top it, we believe in you Max!

Palantir is now suing Mopac, alleging it unlawfully blocked the deal after taking the company's "values and ethics" into account, which it said was an "irrelevant consideration. Yes that's right, Palantir is suing a British government organisation for refusing to work with it because they're evil

And Fuck Tom Watson for going to work with them and campaign for that evil whilst still sitting in the lords, he should be removed from both labour and the lords immediately.

The thing people forget when bitching endlessly about the amount of mini games in the FF7 remakes is that they're completely optional. No one is forcing you to raise chocobos. No one is making you do pull ups (thank god.) Don't like it? Just do the main story and stop moaning.

gamesradar.comFinal Fantasy 7 Revelation boss doesn't want to hear your Rebirth mini-game discourse: "I don't think that discussion really gets to the heart of the matter""I believe that how we can deliver that gaming experience is more important than whether to increase or reduce the number of minigames"

There's two sides to this. One is that Vance and co are racists who think all non-white people are bad. Two is that in this day and age a global company does not NEED to have people in its American offices. It can easily open in other countries or work remotely. So both suck, just not equally.

bbc.co.ukWhite House blocks Microsoft from foreign worker hiring programmeAn international visa programme has for years allowed US tech companies to hire highly skilled workers from abroad.

Of course they'll now use this loss to lever Polanski out and get a safe replacement in that people like Lucas approve of, who will ignore the membership and let it decline because it doesn't upset any vested interests, just like with Corbyn, because none of the other mud stuck.

I do love the easy block function on here. Reshare my post to do some right wing bullshit and try and antagonise me? Straight on the blocklist you go, no need to engage, no need to raise blood pressure, you go howl into the abyss buddy.

Peak 2026 achieved, no Epstein files released. No dodgy right wingers arrested for all their dodgier donations. But the BBC are going on raids with the police against people who are pretending to be gay to avoid getting deported. Working the hard cases once again.

Anyone remember anonymous? I feel like if that were still the big thing it was 20 years ago we wouldn't still be waiting on the Epstein files.

ASOS getting hacked and quietly freaking out about it because they laid off most of the development team for vibe coders and AI and haven't got a clue what to do (and will probably have to outsource a fix from a company with actual people in it) is very much on brand for this stupid, stupid year.

I figured with the Independent coming out full pro-Tory in recent weeks I'd have a look-see if the Guardian was worth reading again and... Nope. Just the same folks screaming about left wing parties being antisemitic if they don't give Israel a free pass just like the Corbyn era, embarrassing.

Funny how quickly the BBC et al can dig up the entire life history of anyone affiliated with the greens in minutes, but need reform party members racism literally parked under their noses before they can see it. But they're totally neutral of course.

bbc.co.ukGreen member behind Zionism motion named as 'close friend' of jailed al-Qaeda supporter in courtLubna Speitan offered to testify on behalf of Minh Quang Pham, who was jailed for 40 years after a Heathrow bomb plot investigation.

UK politics, where lying, cheating and being jailed for perjury doesn't derail your careers or stop you getting paid to sit in the house of lords for 20 more years and get glowing obituaries. Fuck Jeffrey Archer. Fuck the Tories.

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Imagine thinking a Tory would be the right person to run a nationalised service that is anathema to them and only pulling the offer because they want to go back into politics. No Tory should be anywhere near a top job in any service - public or otherwise, after their decade of incompetence.

politico.euConservative ex-mayor Andy Street out of the running for top railways jobLabour ministers have now spent more than eight months seeking a chair for Britain’s nationalized railway network — as people who have worked with Street believe he could return to frontline politi…