Mike Wild

Mike Wild

@social.mikewild.me

Bluesky user #332217, @MichaelDWild@mastodon.world, used to be @MichaelDWild on Xitter.

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I just changed my Bluesky handle to one using my own web domain in just a few minutes. With all the fake accounts popping up here lately, everyone should do this to verify their account. Instructions are in the Bluesky blog in the thread 🧵 below 👇

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

For new users wondering about identity verification, Bluesky already has it, and it's self-administered! It comes in the form of your handle, which you or your org can easily set up to be your own web domain. It functions as proof of your identity because only you have control over your website 1/n

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Nigel Farage has given Reform UK candidates permission to publicly support the serial criminally convicted fraudster, thug, stalker and far-right activist who founded the English Defence League. This is who they are. Never forget it.

politico.euNigel Farage says Reform candidates won’t be banned for backing Tommy Robinson onlineReform UK leader says far-right activist isn’t his “cup of tea” but he “wouldn’t ban anyone” standing for the party who

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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Take a moment to remember what we promised Brexit would deliver: a well-funded NHS, less immigration, more jobs, flourishing businesses with no red tape, easy to get on the housing ladder, boom time for farming, fishing and steel industries... I do hope you're enjoying it.

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🥺🇺🇦 Russia killed a couple in Zaporizhzhia - a 37-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman died. Russian troops struck a private house. P.S. "Humanitarian…"

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People are not giving Obama, Biden or Merkel the credit they deserve for allowing Russia to hang on long enough for Donald to surrender to us.

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Replying to @neilshima.bsky.social

Public figures shouldn't close their Twitter accounts, just make a post saying they will no longer be posting there and delete the app. Closing accounts leaves the handle available to be taken by a Russian bot or similar but your broader point is correct

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These are the men and women who betrayed Ukraine “For the first time, the United States of America entered the battlefield on Russia’s side. That is not hyperbole. It is simply the objective and uncontested assessment of events.” Not even to GET useful diesel iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

iandunt.substack.comThese are the men and women who betrayed UkraineSome of them are fascist collaborators. Some of them are self-interested Machiavellians. Some are merely cowards. All of them have blood on their hands.

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Replying to @maks23.bsky.social

Today, Russia is choosing to starve these countries and impoverish Ukraine. We will respond to that, but it is criminal in every respect.

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26 years ago Israel shot these two civilians as they hid from the IDF as Israel invaded the Gaza Strip. Israel's killing has been going on non-stop since 1948 and even before that.

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Replying to @rolandmcs.bsky.social

I've been using the O2 network since the days when it was 'BT Cellnet' so we've come a long way together. But the Starlink relationship is beyond the pale. I hope there will be people in O2's London HQ who resign over this.

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Replying to @t0nyyates.bsky.social

Yes. You’ve suddenly got the biggest Brexit liars, both with proven links to Russia - Farage and Johnson - shouting their mouths off that Russia did not interfere with the Brexit referendum. Righty-ho, lads. Case closed.

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IMPORTANT ‼️ RUSSIA IS BOMBING KHARKIV'S TERMINAL POWER PLANT 5 RIGHT NOW ‼️ There was several missile strikes already during the last 15 minutes. Trump’s ceasefire didn't work.

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This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Sathnam Sanghera@sathnam.bsky.social

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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This is what happens when you start excusing things under the banner of “legitimate concerns”

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

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Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

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Replying to @james-bg.bsky.social

Yes, @robertsaunders.bsky.social has it exactly right. Following the precautionary principle is pragmatic, doing yet more of what got you into this crisis is not. bsky.app/profile/robe...

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Gotta hand it to the US administration, standing up for its new principles.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social

🇺🇸🚫 AP: The US, following Russia and Belarus, has withdrawn from the Group of States Against Corruption, a Council of Europe body created to monitor compliance with anti-corruption standards.

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We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

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"Amazing that there is a psychological screening test to determine whether you are up to appearing on a reality TV show these days, but you could ascend to the office of prime minister without submitting to anything similar."

theguardian.comTo the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina HydeThe Reform leader’s reaction to the RAF Fairford affair is again revealing. If what’s needed is a steady hand and cool h

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Sean Jones KC@seanjones.org

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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I can’t defeat Ukraine on battlefield. My strategy is: 1 Bomb hospitals, schools,power & stations to create refugees 2 Fund anti western & anti refugee parties in west 3 Humiliate western leaders who want appeasement 4 Repeat www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com‘This is terrorism’: daytime Russian strike hits science academy in KyivJet-powered drones are increasingly targeting Ukraine’s capital, with medical centre also hit

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Nobody ever says, “The chancellor’s going to be in trouble because of all those lost immigrants” For every 100,000 immigrants lost, it costs the UK Treasury £7bn, according to the OBR. That figure is unsurprising if you’ve been concentrating, but why is it not being shouted?

theguardian.comCutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams

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I can remember 2022 when the prices for fuel shot up. Everybody, the entire Billionaire Media, was screaming about Putin's Fuel Price increase. Now Donald Trump is rigging them even worse, all across Europe, N.America and the rest of the world. But nobody blames him.

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Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

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OTD in 1938 Hitler gave a speech demanding the Sudetenland be handed to Germany. He said his countrymen were being mistreated and needed protection. Also promised it was his last territorial demand. He was lying. Imagine that happening today.

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Worth a read:

Liberal Democrats@libdems.org.uk

Lib Dem Shadow AG @benmaguiremp.bsky.social and Justice spokesperson @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social have written to the Attorney-General to consider whether Richard Tice’s tweet is in contempt of court. See below ⬇️

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Replying to @hansgruber187.bsky.social

Go back 30 generations (say 850 years) and you have over a billion slots in your family tree. You’re descended from much of the population of Europe around that time, and no doubt several other places too. We’re all cousins, and this race shit is all bollocks.

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90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)