Mike Greenhalf
@mikegreenhalf.bsky.social
Local Government Officer (UK). All posts in a personal capacity and unrelated to my employer
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I’ve blocked a lot of illustrators, cartoonists and comic people. You seem perfectly nice people, so sorry and no offence intended, but I’m trying to reshape a different sort of timeline. Be happy in your world, and please don’t take this as a criticism.
This is both chilling and inevitable.
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
January 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
This is both chilling and inevitable.
If this is real, and happening at the scale that the statement suggests, this could radically reshape the entire region, and create global ripples.
Iranian soviets. Just the headline is enough to make every despairing radical's heart skip a beat www.anarchistfederation.net/statement-of...
www.anarchistfederation.net
January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
If this is real, and happening at the scale that the statement suggests, this could radically reshape the entire region, and create global ripples.
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What happens when your cognition partner goes insane? Or starts spouting deeply biased or incorrect information, when they were where you had offloaded that particular cognitive function? How much of (gestures at the world) can be explained by Google being evil?
January 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM
What happens when your cognition partner goes insane? Or starts spouting deeply biased or incorrect information, when they were where you had offloaded that particular cognitive function? How much of (gestures at the world) can be explained by Google being evil?
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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From 11 years ago: www.politico.com/magazine/sto... and www.ted.com/talks/nick_h...
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
www.politico.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
From 11 years ago: www.politico.com/magazine/sto... and www.ted.com/talks/nick_h...
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This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Genuine question: do they make themselves believe this stuff or do they say it simply for the clicks and attention or to further a political agenda? Anyway, to Americans and others, it's complete and utter bollocks.
October 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Genuine question: do they make themselves believe this stuff or do they say it simply for the clicks and attention or to further a political agenda? Anyway, to Americans and others, it's complete and utter bollocks.
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I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Announcing my next book!
“Frank Zappa’s America”
An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.
Publishing by Louisiana State University Press.
June 2, 2025.
More info: lsupress.org/978080718392...
“Frank Zappa’s America”
An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.
Publishing by Louisiana State University Press.
June 2, 2025.
More info: lsupress.org/978080718392...
November 14, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Announcing my next book!
“Frank Zappa’s America”
An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.
Publishing by Louisiana State University Press.
June 2, 2025.
More info: lsupress.org/978080718392...
“Frank Zappa’s America”
An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.
Publishing by Louisiana State University Press.
June 2, 2025.
More info: lsupress.org/978080718392...
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It doesnt seem to be getting much coverage (I see only this one pay walled Telegraph article), but the BBC removed and censored today's Thought for the Day section after the speaker, a PHD theologican and refugee charity founder, correctly identified Robert Jenrick as xenophobic. Disgusting.
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It doesnt seem to be getting much coverage (I see only this one pay walled Telegraph article), but the BBC removed and censored today's Thought for the Day section after the speaker, a PHD theologican and refugee charity founder, correctly identified Robert Jenrick as xenophobic. Disgusting.
Strangely prescient point of view from the great Frank Zappa in 1986.
TMH (@thememoryhole)
Frank Zappa on the Threat of Fascism in the United States (1986)
substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Strangely prescient point of view from the great Frank Zappa in 1986.
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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
April 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
May 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
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today is international engagement bait day. please repost to raise awareness
April 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
today is international engagement bait day. please repost to raise awareness
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It was all so predictable, and indeed predicted.
April 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It was all so predictable, and indeed predicted.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.
April 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.
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Breaking News: Elon Musk & Bill Gates joined forces
to make a penis enhancer.
They’re marketing it as ELONGATES
to make a penis enhancer.
They’re marketing it as ELONGATES
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Breaking News: Elon Musk & Bill Gates joined forces
to make a penis enhancer.
They’re marketing it as ELONGATES
to make a penis enhancer.
They’re marketing it as ELONGATES
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Please watch this over the weekend and help spread the word.
It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone.
More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other.
youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...
It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone.
More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other.
youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...
How Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo
YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Please watch this over the weekend and help spread the word.
It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone.
More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other.
youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...
It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone.
More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other.
youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...
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Having exausted all other options — having seen all other defenses fail — all our hopes for being rescued from one of the most deranged and stupid national leaders in history now rest with the highest and final authority in this country: the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
April 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Having exausted all other options — having seen all other defenses fail — all our hopes for being rescued from one of the most deranged and stupid national leaders in history now rest with the highest and final authority in this country: the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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Wow! I had seen the still image of this and I wasn’t sure if it was real or not… it’s real! #teslatakedown #dontbuyatesla @teslatakedown.com @niedermeyer.online @alexwinter.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Wow! I had seen the still image of this and I wasn’t sure if it was real or not… it’s real! #teslatakedown #dontbuyatesla @teslatakedown.com @niedermeyer.online @alexwinter.com