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Michael (Jingle) Bell
@mbellcoop.bsky.social
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Used to be a bigwig in the Co-op Party

UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs

Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington

FPL team: Bellwich Albion

(he/him)
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mbellcoop.bsky.social
Just a reminder for you all out there
mbellcoop.bsky.social Michael (Jingle) Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · Dec 5
I've run the numbers, and the maximum length of a Christmas playlist is exactly 600 hrs. So if yours is over that, then you need to work out what you wanna cut
Screenshot of a mobile calculator app showing 24 X 25 = 600
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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jorisbinned.bsky.social
You are 15 years old chill the fuck out
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
It's the first day of advent, so here's the first door on the Christmas bangers advent calendar, and the Weather Girls are at it again

youtu.be/Ko3yBFoTm5c?...
The Weather Girls - Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man This Christmas)
YouTube video by TheWeatherGirlsVEVO
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December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
I'm going to the fucking Toon v Spurs game!
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
I'd totally forgot that Plastic Bertrand was at Eurovision in '87, and was like "oh shit, I need to go back rewatch that!" and then on watching it back realised why I hadn't bothered to remember
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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missingfinger.bsky.social
Big Nick only scores filthy goals.

#NUFC
nufctrust.bsky.social Newcastle United Supporters Trust - NUST @nufctrust.bsky.social · 1d
Big Nick Energy - He can do it all 🖤🤍 #NUFC
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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heatonstan.bsky.social
We’re underway against Grimsby Borough at The Willow Park! It is very wet!
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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hollybrigstocke.bsky.social
Predictably Your Party continues to be a shitshow. Bad management, policy, and public engagement from day one before they even went public. Transphobia is hardwired.
rickwookie.bsky.social Richard @rickwookie.bsky.social · 2d
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ucucommons.org
Exciting news! We have transitioned off Substack and Wordpress and onto Ghost for both our website and newsletter. We're delighted to be on an open platform for our newsletter, which comes out every other Wednesday. You can check out our shiny new site via the same URL: ucucommons.org
UCU Commons
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
ucucommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
It's the new Barbenheimer or whatever they called it last time
chrismohney.bsky.social Chris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 3d
really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
What the actual fuck Nick Pope
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Q Thank you. You say that -- in your 3 declaration that "There was an incidence where 4 somebody was pulling the face mask and personally" 5 -- "and forcefully ripping off an officer's beard." 6 Do you see that? 7 A Yes. 8 Q What does that mean? 9 A Well, there was an officer that was 10 wearing a gas mask and a protestor had ripped the 11 gas mask off. This officer had a large beard. They 12 grabbed it and forcefully ripped the beard out of 13 his chin. 14 Q His beard was ripped off of his face? 15 A Yes, a good portion of it. 16 Q Okay. Did you take any pictures of it? 17 A I did not. 18 Q Did somebody else? 19 A I'm not aware. 20 Q How do you know that this happened? 21 A From the officer reporting it. 22 Q Okay. Who is he? A I don't recall the officer's name. 2 Q Was it somebody that you were familiar 3 with before you began work on Midway Blitz? 4 A No. 5 Q Do you know whether a report was written 6 about this incident? 7 A I don't know that. 8 Q Do you know whether or not the person who 9 allegedly ripped off an officer's beard was charged 10 with a crime? 11 A I don't know that specifically.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
Inheritance tax is good! Tax income and people might earn less. Tax consumption and people might spend less. Tax death, and they're not going to *die* less and also, y'know what, if they did, that would *also* be good. It's one of the best taxes!
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
I don't see how this is a gotcha tbh. Everyone knows who he is, he's been forced down our throats since about 2013. Same as the stuff about him not being in and around Clacton. The people in Clacton who voted for him don't want a constituency MP. They want someone who'll be racist at PMQs
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 7d
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
Just heard my god daughter's Christmas present is being delivered by Evri. Such a shame, she'd have really liked it too.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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avaoftyne.bsky.social
Bone joor! Ha!

#pokemon
August 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students
sgfmann.bsky.social George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 7d
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
Holy fuck, just realised that "No way, José" and "Not tonight, Josephine" are essentially the same phrase.

🤯🤯🤯
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
It's all kicking off in the group chat
Don't go to the specialist Yorkshire pudding place in Carlisle. We saw loads of boxes of Aunt Bessie's in the back Fraud! Do they do Yorkshire pudding wraps? Yes, and other Yorkshire pudding dishes Shouldn't be allowed
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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greyeyemagpie.bsky.social
Sandro in 2021 comforting Elanga after he was racially abused by an Italian U21 player #NUFC
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
The Holy Trinity
horrowfide.bsky.social horrowfide @horrowfide.bsky.social · 9d
Mags win ✅️
Mackems Lose ✅️
Isak shit again ✅️

Quality weekend.

#NUFC
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
mbellcoop.bsky.social
Beginning to think that Golden Boot 2025/26 award is slipping away from Alexander Isak
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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abradacabla.bsky.social
God I adore it, absolutely adore it when he saws off the branches his sycophants have climbed out on. It’s the one thing he does I can appreciate.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?

TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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littlehen.bsky.social
Dwellbeing Shieldfield are hiring!

We are looking for a part time Organisational Development Worker Member. For more information visit www.dwellbeingshieldfield.org.uk/news/job

#Vacancies #Jobs #SocialChange #CommunityDevelopment #SocialJustice #CooperativeWorking #Newcastle #Tyneside
The view from the back of a full room, people are raising their arms voting at a cooperative agm
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM