Michael Havard
@michaelhavard.bsky.social
A human, on a dying planet, trying to change that. Never give up, stay angry & smash this system. Oh and my brain, doesn't seem to see words the same way others do, sometimes, Soz, hope you get what I mean.
Peace and swizzle sticks. 💚
Peace and swizzle sticks. 💚
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social on taxing the rich: "This is about inequality. For decades now poor people have got poorer and rich people have got richer... the money [raised] is important but the real point is about tackling inequality.. we need to get those assets flowing around the economy"
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on taxing the rich: "This is about inequality. For decades now poor people have got poorer and rich people have got richer... the money [raised] is important but the real point is about tackling inequality.. we need to get those assets flowing around the economy"
Never forget this.
While COP30 descends into farce
and UK fossil companies still get
£millions in subsidies helping their profits soar,
food banks desperately appeals for funds
to help poor, old & sick people
facing another winter of eat or heat
#SocialistSunday
Trussell donations
www.trussell.org.uk/wintermeta?u...
and UK fossil companies still get
£millions in subsidies helping their profits soar,
food banks desperately appeals for funds
to help poor, old & sick people
facing another winter of eat or heat
#SocialistSunday
Trussell donations
www.trussell.org.uk/wintermeta?u...
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Never forget this.
It already is, this just concentrates it even more, if that is even possible.
This raises the worrying prospect that overwhelming media power in Britain could be concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of very wealthy, extremely nasty and very right wing crackpots who will use it for malignant ends
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It already is, this just concentrates it even more, if that is even possible.
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Dr Assal Rad—
"If Ms Rachel has to keep saying stop killing kids DURING a ceasefire, it’s not really a ceasefire."
"If Ms Rachel has to keep saying stop killing kids DURING a ceasefire, it’s not really a ceasefire."
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Dr Assal Rad—
"If Ms Rachel has to keep saying stop killing kids DURING a ceasefire, it’s not really a ceasefire."
"If Ms Rachel has to keep saying stop killing kids DURING a ceasefire, it’s not really a ceasefire."
Laughing,
Crying.
Crying.
Makes as much sense as this goofy peace plan!
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Laughing,
Crying.
Crying.
I personally wonder if the reform lot actually believe in this (at the moment) they're just about the scam, the grift. However, give them a few months/years and they will, they'll convince themselves.
The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.
The worrying rise of US anti-abortion rhetoric is in full force - how deep is Reform UK's involvement?
Money is pouring into anti-abortion campaigns in Britain, and it seems Nigel Farage’s party isn’t pushing back…
www.cosmopolitan.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I personally wonder if the reform lot actually believe in this (at the moment) they're just about the scam, the grift. However, give them a few months/years and they will, they'll convince themselves.
Proper good.
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Proper good.
Hear bloody hear.
On the day its announced that the owner of the right wing Daily Mail has taken over the right wing Daily Telegraph, we should question why right wing propaganda is so highly subsidised in U.K
Newspapers hardly make any profit… but that’s not the point…
…is it?
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-dont-h...
Newspapers hardly make any profit… but that’s not the point…
…is it?
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-dont-h...
You Don't Hate The Mass Media Enough
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hear bloody hear.
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a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)
*my interpretation
*my interpretation
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)
*my interpretation
*my interpretation
My fav thread of the week. Top bants. 🤭
Let’s be honest: nothing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have done in the last 56 years justifies the tremendous cost of bringing them back from the moon. NASA should’ve spared the long-suffering taxpayer and left them up there
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My fav thread of the week. Top bants. 🤭
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Given that 20 Palestinians are being killed on average every day by Israelis in Gaza (37 on Wednesday), it seemed a little premature for the UN Security Council to give its approval to Trump’s real estate grab / ethnic cleansing plan for the Strip.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Given that 20 Palestinians are being killed on average every day by Israelis in Gaza (37 on Wednesday), it seemed a little premature for the UN Security Council to give its approval to Trump’s real estate grab / ethnic cleansing plan for the Strip.
Hands up who surprised?
Ryan Bridge key figure behind the Raise the Colours movement is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group according to The Mirror
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Flag campaign chief praised by Tommy Robinson facing jail over ‘holiday scam’
Ryan Bridge, ringleader of the Raise the Colours movement heralded by ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson, is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain
www.mirror.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hands up who surprised?
Nice.
Interesting.
Quite accurate.
Interesting.
Quite accurate.
I love it when everybody is talking about something horrifying but no sign of the source is on my feed, it's like using the gravity of unseen objects to make speculation about bodies in space
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Nice.
Interesting.
Quite accurate.
Interesting.
Quite accurate.
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11/22/1819 — b. Mary Ann Evans, British author, poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Pseudonym "George Elliot," one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. One of few female writers during this period to experiment with realism #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
11/22/1819 — b. Mary Ann Evans, British author, poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Pseudonym "George Elliot," one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. One of few female writers during this period to experiment with realism #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
Looks at reform ltd. 🤔
Left-wing vs right-wing populism in one picture.
This couldn't have been more perfect. Ignoring tradeoffs and blaming the main outgroup as the solution to every societal problem.
This couldn't have been more perfect. Ignoring tradeoffs and blaming the main outgroup as the solution to every societal problem.
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Looks at reform ltd. 🤔
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hear hear!
Trump is finally showing his true colours over Ukraine! Betraying a country that is fighting for their right to maintain their independence & freedom against an unwanted & unprovoked attack by aggressor & war criminal Putin is the greatest betrayal. History will not be kind to Trump the traitor!
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hear hear!
Boom, in your face, cowardly over privileged white people.
Sorry, having a moment..
(Not sorry 🤭)
Sorry, having a moment..
(Not sorry 🤭)
Listening to World Service today
Turns out a fairly left wing ruling party in Denmark only tagged right on immigration thro' of pressure from far right parties
Did it work? No.
Is it humane? No.
Are UK + Denmark comparable? No
Is Labour dead? YES
Greens just won Copenahgen mayoralty
#RefugeesWelcome
Turns out a fairly left wing ruling party in Denmark only tagged right on immigration thro' of pressure from far right parties
Did it work? No.
Is it humane? No.
Are UK + Denmark comparable? No
Is Labour dead? YES
Greens just won Copenahgen mayoralty
#RefugeesWelcome
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Boom, in your face, cowardly over privileged white people.
Sorry, having a moment..
(Not sorry 🤭)
Sorry, having a moment..
(Not sorry 🤭)
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Whose side are they on?
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Whose side are they on?
Wow.
Extremely rare White Auroras like never before spotted in the skies of Alaska last night👀 🌌✨
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Wow.
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Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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Transparency International on Nathan Gill's bribery sentencing:
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Transparency International on Nathan Gill's bribery sentencing:
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
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What you saying then, Nigel?
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
What you saying then, Nigel?