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Mike from the UK. True.
@michaelfrom.uk
I invented unsocial networking. Soon, we'll all be doing it! I also like tea. I have never been in a quiz team with @RevRichardColes
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Me, watching #Hijack series 2: "that's Martha!"
#Dark
January 19, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Rankle #370 2/4
“Long road to Rouen”

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Rankle – a daily ranking puzzle game
Rank 6 things in 4 guesses. There's a new puzzle every day.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Connections
Puzzle #953
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January 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Wordle 1,675 4/6*

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January 19, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Rankle #368 3/4
“First do no harm”

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Rankle – a daily ranking puzzle game
Rank 6 things in 4 guesses. There's a new puzzle every day.
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January 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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January 17, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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January 17, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Every defector Farage unveils, swears up-and-down that they made no deal.

Farage cocked up today and pulled back that curtain. A huge unforced error.

Incredibly, when - rightly - pressed about it, he pretended, to journalists' faces, that he had never said what he said TO THEM an hour earlier.
January 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
China can really gain from Russia and the US's current situations. It looks like many countries are eyeing them up as the more reasonable of the 3 superpowers to deal with.
All China needs to do is not invade anywhere. This is the level the world is currently at.
January 16, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Rankle #367 4/4
“Big footprint”

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Rank 6 things in 4 guesses. There's a new puzzle every day.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Connections
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January 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Wordle 1,672 5/6*

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January 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM
From the guy who actually started an insurrection.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act to quell anti-ICE protests in Minnesota
The rarely used law allows the president to use active-duty military personnel for law enforcement.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Literally can be swayed by any bright, shiny, thing.
Brain the size of a walnut; ego the size of a wall.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Hugh Janus still waiting for his latest birthday card.
January 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Watching S1 of #Hijack and enjoying it, although it's (accidentally) similar in some regards to #NightSleeper which isn't helping me.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Reposted by Mike from the UK. True.
Jenrick on Farage:

"I don't think Nigel is the bloke you want to have running your kids' schools or running your local hospital or... trust your savings, your pension, your small business to." (Sept 2025)

"I don't think he's a serious politician. I don't think he's got the answers." (Oct 2024)
January 15, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Reposted by Mike from the UK. True.
Robert Jenrick asked why he lied last week when he told the Telegraph that he would "never, ever" defect to Reform.

Jenrick replies that joining Reform was "the most honest thing" he could have done.
January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Johnson's cabinet were a rum bunch, and it's little surprise that they've continued their pursuit of personal ambition (Jenkyns, Dorries, Jenrick, Zahawi, ...)

Quite how Farage can say his party is different from the rest when it's becoming stuffed with ex-Tories, is ... ... predictable.
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Man who broke Britain says he'll fix Broken Britain.

Among a group of duplicitous, conniving, slimy, wastes of space, Jenrick is perhaps in the top one.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives - live updates
Nigel Farage introduces Jenrick at a news conference in London, hours after he was sacked as shadow justice secretary by Kemi Badenoch.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
And finally, a game has reached 3-3!
#Masters
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Mike from the UK. True.
Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The reporting on this is quite odd, as when you look at the details, altho still very poor, have all improved in the last year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 15, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Mike from the UK. True.
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
6-2. Again???!???!?? #MastersSnooker
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ALT: a man and a woman are standing outside of a house
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January 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM