Matt Collins
@mattophobia.ie
🛰️ Ex-video guy who complains a lot.
💚 Green Party Member.
🇮🇪 They/He |📍Liverpool, UK | 🔗 https://mattophobia.ie/links
💚 Green Party Member.
🇮🇪 They/He |📍Liverpool, UK | 🔗 https://mattophobia.ie/links
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Matt Collins
@mattophobia.ie
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Discounting my remaining LEGO sets that I still really need to sell because I'm flat broke and need to pay for food.
They're all listed in the next post, the prices displayed include postage (within the UK only) - please DM me if interested!
They're all listed in the next post, the prices displayed include postage (within the UK only) - please DM me if interested!
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If you’re in Liverpool please considering coming to the Liverpool Green Party Fundraiser! Support is NEEDED.
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you’re in Liverpool please considering coming to the Liverpool Green Party Fundraiser! Support is NEEDED.
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
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star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things
The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things
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Local parties often function pretty independently to the national party, and rely on a lot of their own funding.
If you want to help turn Liverpool Green, share this around, and buy a ticket and come if you can!
If you want to help turn Liverpool Green, share this around, and buy a ticket and come if you can!
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Local parties often function pretty independently to the national party, and rely on a lot of their own funding.
If you want to help turn Liverpool Green, share this around, and buy a ticket and come if you can!
If you want to help turn Liverpool Green, share this around, and buy a ticket and come if you can!
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BREAKING: All key measures in the Labour Budget have been published early in an 'unprecedented leak'
Rachel Reeves has not even begun speaking in the Commons
Rachel Reeves has not even begun speaking in the Commons
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BREAKING: All key measures in the Labour Budget have been published early in an 'unprecedented leak'
Rachel Reeves has not even begun speaking in the Commons
Rachel Reeves has not even begun speaking in the Commons
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The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
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November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The evolution of the BBC article on Graham Linehan's conviction and how it describes the trans victim of this crime is beyond atrocious. They actively went out of their way to dehumanize the victim here. They removed all pronouns for her and gendered honorifics such as "Ms."
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The evolution of the BBC article on Graham Linehan's conviction and how it describes the trans victim of this crime is beyond atrocious. They actively went out of their way to dehumanize the victim here. They removed all pronouns for her and gendered honorifics such as "Ms."
Under this proposal, one could be arrested for peaceful protesting and then be sentenced for up to five years solely by a judge. Absolute totalitarian insanity.
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Under this proposal, one could be arrested for peaceful protesting and then be sentenced for up to five years solely by a judge. Absolute totalitarian insanity.
If you’re in Liverpool please considering coming to the Liverpool Green Party Fundraiser! Support is NEEDED.
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you’re in Liverpool please considering coming to the Liverpool Green Party Fundraiser! Support is NEEDED.
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
⏰️ Sunday 30 Nov 2025 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Tonight Josephine, L1 3DZ
ℹ️ Open to all, non Green Party members welcome
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/poorl...
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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music.apple.com/us/album/man... may he rest in peace on the other side of that river… what a gift he gave us. will never forget his music & performances.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
music.apple.com/us/album/man... may he rest in peace on the other side of that river… what a gift he gave us. will never forget his music & performances.
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We’ve lost over 8000 doctors in the past two years. 8000.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We’ve lost over 8000 doctors in the past two years. 8000.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
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You can add exemptions to immigration rules for different groups, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. When you say that migrants are second class and "less than" others, as this government is doing, that feeds through to everyone. Migrants aren't a disposable resource to pick and choose from.
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
You can add exemptions to immigration rules for different groups, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. When you say that migrants are second class and "less than" others, as this government is doing, that feeds through to everyone. Migrants aren't a disposable resource to pick and choose from.
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Whow. Congratulations. Look at that swing.
If you want to be part of results like this: join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want to be part of results like this: join.greenparty.org.uk
Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Whow. Congratulations. Look at that swing.
If you want to be part of results like this: join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want to be part of results like this: join.greenparty.org.uk
We’ve lost over 8000 doctors in the past two years. 8000.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We’ve lost over 8000 doctors in the past two years. 8000.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.
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Europe’s cookie nightmare is finally crumbling 🍪 The European Commission wants browsers to manage cookie preferences instead of pop-ups on every website. Finally! Details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/823788/...
Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling
The seven-year nightmare is nearly over
www.theverge.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Europe’s cookie nightmare is finally crumbling 🍪 The European Commission wants browsers to manage cookie preferences instead of pop-ups on every website. Finally! Details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/823788/...
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Discounting my remaining LEGO sets that I still really need to sell because I'm flat broke and need to pay for food.
They're all listed in the next post, the prices displayed include postage (within the UK only) - please DM me if interested!
They're all listed in the next post, the prices displayed include postage (within the UK only) - please DM me if interested!
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Discounting my remaining LEGO sets that I still really need to sell because I'm flat broke and need to pay for food.
They're all listed in the next post, the prices displayed include postage (within the UK only) - please DM me if interested!
They're all listed in the next post, the prices displayed include postage (within the UK only) - please DM me if interested!
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Specifically, he says the reporter's questions are *insubordinate*. Like the press owes him deference.
Any MSM owners or editors or leaders out there with any pride at all? Any dignity? Any spine? [tap tap] Hello?
Any MSM owners or editors or leaders out there with any pride at all? Any dignity? Any spine? [tap tap] Hello?
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Specifically, he says the reporter's questions are *insubordinate*. Like the press owes him deference.
Any MSM owners or editors or leaders out there with any pride at all? Any dignity? Any spine? [tap tap] Hello?
Any MSM owners or editors or leaders out there with any pride at all? Any dignity? Any spine? [tap tap] Hello?
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...