Mick Brooks
@mick666.bsky.social
Anything but Mike. Poole-based, retired from the NHS, with birdy, movie, music and politics interests 🏳️🌈🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️. Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). PhD in neutron physics.
Full bird list on eBird.com
Films: https://boxd.it/mBT
Full bird list on eBird.com
Films: https://boxd.it/mBT
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Building a Simple Ribbon Synth
Building a Simple Ribbon Synth
Hackaday Article
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November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Building a Simple Ribbon Synth
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Pretty much the best definition of a cult you'll ever see.
#FarageTheCult
#FarageTheCult
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Pretty much the best definition of a cult you'll ever see.
#FarageTheCult
#FarageTheCult
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You killed two children, f#ing scum
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
You killed two children, f#ing scum
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Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
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I don’t understand why every list I’ve seen is completely overlooking Kae Tempest’s Self-Titled. His best album yet and an absolute tour de force.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I don’t understand why every list I’ve seen is completely overlooking Kae Tempest’s Self-Titled. His best album yet and an absolute tour de force.
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2/10 Panic Shack by Panic Shack
ridiculously fun pop punk, every song is a banger, a song called he gives me the ick perfection! 2/10
ridiculously fun pop punk, every song is a banger, a song called he gives me the ick perfection! 2/10
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
2/10 Panic Shack by Panic Shack
ridiculously fun pop punk, every song is a banger, a song called he gives me the ick perfection! 2/10
ridiculously fun pop punk, every song is a banger, a song called he gives me the ick perfection! 2/10
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Retired Navy Commander Phil Ehr on reports that Pete HAGUE-seth ordered a second deadly strike on a pair of survivors clinging to wreckage in the water.
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Retired Navy Commander Phil Ehr on reports that Pete HAGUE-seth ordered a second deadly strike on a pair of survivors clinging to wreckage in the water.
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Turns out the simplest way to abolish the police here in the UK is to have Graham Linehan commit every crime under the sun and then let him off the hook for it. Police will then announce they're no longer investigating 'frivolous' claims of x, y and z, until they're no longer doing anything.
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Turns out the simplest way to abolish the police here in the UK is to have Graham Linehan commit every crime under the sun and then let him off the hook for it. Police will then announce they're no longer investigating 'frivolous' claims of x, y and z, until they're no longer doing anything.
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Helena (NoJusticeMTG) is a good political analyst but didn't impress on 'Bold Politics'. Talked too much and too fast. Needs a makeover if she goes mainstream.
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Helena (NoJusticeMTG) is a good political analyst but didn't impress on 'Bold Politics'. Talked too much and too fast. Needs a makeover if she goes mainstream.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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BBC denies telling staff to describe trans women as ‘biological males’
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
BBC denies telling staff to describe trans women as 'biological males'
The BBC has denied giving any specific instruction or directive to editorial staff on using the phrase "biological males" to discuss trans women in their stories.
www.thepinknews.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
BBC denies telling staff to describe trans women as ‘biological males’
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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No response from the Conservative party to my questions about this and the post still remains on her account.
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
The Conservative Party's leader in London, Susan Hall, just shared this Islamophobic disinformation about Sadiq Khan, after it was posted on X by a racist troll
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
No response from the Conservative party to my questions about this and the post still remains on her account.
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
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Calling it 'the little switcheroo' from now on 😭
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Calling it 'the little switcheroo' from now on 😭
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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I’m going to do a thread of my top ten albums of 2025. Starting with my number one fave Moisturizer by Wet Leg. sexiest love letter ever. Amazing vocals, hooks for days. 10/10 no notes! 1/10
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’m going to do a thread of my top ten albums of 2025. Starting with my number one fave Moisturizer by Wet Leg. sexiest love letter ever. Amazing vocals, hooks for days. 10/10 no notes! 1/10
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this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie
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Apologizing up front, so sorry…
But Ravi is posing so nicely this morning I can’t help myself, so a few photos 😄 this time of year he seems to be on an every other day schedule if not raining.
#birds
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But Ravi is posing so nicely this morning I can’t help myself, so a few photos 😄 this time of year he seems to be on an every other day schedule if not raining.
#birds
1 of 2
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Apologizing up front, so sorry…
But Ravi is posing so nicely this morning I can’t help myself, so a few photos 😄 this time of year he seems to be on an every other day schedule if not raining.
#birds
1 of 2
But Ravi is posing so nicely this morning I can’t help myself, so a few photos 😄 this time of year he seems to be on an every other day schedule if not raining.
#birds
1 of 2
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smug ass 'your party' advocates have spent a couple months now brushing off our concerns of transphobia while condescendingly saying 'get involved! have a say at the conference!'.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
smug ass 'your party' advocates have spent a couple months now brushing off our concerns of transphobia while condescendingly saying 'get involved! have a say at the conference!'.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
most of us knew better but this is what's happened to someone who actually took that advice and tried to participate.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Piss off the animal abusers and get our calendar for 25% off this weekend only! protectthewild.shop/products/pro...
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Piss off the animal abusers and get our calendar for 25% off this weekend only! protectthewild.shop/products/pro...
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Ben Gvir just promoted their commander…
A hidden camera captured Israeli soldiers executing an Innocent Palestinian to Death
No trial, No indictment, Nothing, The Crime - Being a Palestinian.
No trial, No indictment, Nothing, The Crime - Being a Palestinian.
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ben Gvir just promoted their commander…
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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THEY WERE CHILDREN!!!!!!
10 AND 12 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!
THEY WERE MURDERED FOR WALKING!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10 AND 12 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!
THEY WERE MURDERED FOR WALKING!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The suspects were eliminated to remove the threat"
The suspects: Fadi and Jumaa Abu Asi, aged 12 and 10, who crossed an imaginary yellow line and were bombed from the air by the IDF
(Credit: Alon-Lee Green)
The suspects: Fadi and Jumaa Abu Asi, aged 12 and 10, who crossed an imaginary yellow line and were bombed from the air by the IDF
(Credit: Alon-Lee Green)
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
THEY WERE CHILDREN!!!!!!
10 AND 12 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!
THEY WERE MURDERED FOR WALKING!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10 AND 12 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!
THEY WERE MURDERED FOR WALKING!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pete Hegseth, you in danger, girl.
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Pete Hegseth, you in danger, girl.
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Another super haul of Caspian Gulls on North Scrape tonight, at least seven (maybe eight) birds in to roost including a minimum 5 1cy birds. All of the birds tonight were new individuals. The turnover at the moment is impressive & (still) exciting. Just love these!
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
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#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
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November 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Another super haul of Caspian Gulls on North Scrape tonight, at least seven (maybe eight) birds in to roost including a minimum 5 1cy birds. All of the birds tonight were new individuals. The turnover at the moment is impressive & (still) exciting. Just love these!
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
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#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
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