Mikkiangelo
@mikkiangelo.bsky.social
Former cheese tamer, retired bookseller, human news scraper, and Ordained by The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Green party member, with London-centric interest in politics, social issues, Glam rock, NWOBHM, Power-pop and cats. COYGs! TMI?
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iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, has filed for bankruptcy. It has reached a restructuring support agreement that will hand control to its main supplier and lender Shenzhen PICEA Robotics, and Santrum Hong Kong. bloom.bg/49aEN06
📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, has filed for bankruptcy. It has reached a restructuring support agreement that will hand control to its main supplier and lender Shenzhen PICEA Robotics, and Santrum Hong Kong. bloom.bg/49aEN06
📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
How many more times will the Bank of England rescue Rachel Reeves? | Richard Partington www.theguardian.com/business/202...
How many more times will the Bank of England rescue Rachel Reeves? | Richard Partington
The City expects a cut in interest rates on Thursday but economic prospects for 2026 complicate the picture
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
How many more times will the Bank of England rescue Rachel Reeves? | Richard Partington www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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“If this is the level of shamelessness [Farage’s] media supporters are willing to stoop to when he is a mere fourth party opposition politician, just imagine the levels they will descend to should he ever get a real whiff of power”
It just *must* not happen.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
It just *must* not happen.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Apologists
The same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“If this is the level of shamelessness [Farage’s] media supporters are willing to stoop to when he is a mere fourth party opposition politician, just imagine the levels they will descend to should he ever get a real whiff of power”
It just *must* not happen.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
It just *must* not happen.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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UN Special Rapporteur for Counter Terrorism 👇
December 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
UN Special Rapporteur for Counter Terrorism 👇
Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead
Nine others injured in Saturday attack that occurred during finals in engineering building in Providence, Rhode Island
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Keir Starmer will hold a summit with nuclear test veterans in the New Year to discuss how to end the 70-year Nuked Blood Scandal.
Keir Starmer pledges discussion with veterans to end 70-year Nuked Blood scandal
www.mirror.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Keir Starmer will hold a summit with nuclear test veterans in the New Year to discuss how to end the 70-year Nuked Blood Scandal.
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Peace talks between Zelensky and Trump envoy end after five hours
Peace talks between Zelensky and Trump envoy end after five hours
Peace talks between Zelensky and Trump envoy end after five hours
www.independent.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Peace talks between Zelensky and Trump envoy end after five hours
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Winter vacation can’t start soon enough for Pedro Sánchez.
Spain’s governing Socialist Party is being battered by a deluge of sexual harassment scandals that is prompting the resignation or dismissal of mayors, regional leaders and even officials employed in the prime minister’s palace.
Spain’s governing Socialist Party is being battered by a deluge of sexual harassment scandals that is prompting the resignation or dismissal of mayors, regional leaders and even officials employed in the prime minister’s palace.
Spanish Socialists’ #MeToo movement puts Sánchez government in check
Either end the sexual harassment and corruption scandals or call snap elections, the prime minister’s allies warn.
www.politico.eu
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Winter vacation can’t start soon enough for Pedro Sánchez.
Spain’s governing Socialist Party is being battered by a deluge of sexual harassment scandals that is prompting the resignation or dismissal of mayors, regional leaders and even officials employed in the prime minister’s palace.
Spain’s governing Socialist Party is being battered by a deluge of sexual harassment scandals that is prompting the resignation or dismissal of mayors, regional leaders and even officials employed in the prime minister’s palace.
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Former Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said after the Ukraine war, Europe must be ready for further Russian aggression.
How Russia’s Hybrid Attacks Are NATO’s Permanent Reality
www.newsweek.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Former Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said after the Ukraine war, Europe must be ready for further Russian aggression.
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Is this the great and powerful Putin flinching now? He suddenly realizes that the re-energized EU/NATO minus the US is indeed a force to be reckoned with.
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Is this the great and powerful Putin flinching now? He suddenly realizes that the re-energized EU/NATO minus the US is indeed a force to be reckoned with.
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Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
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Minister mislead MPs on 2B cuts to disability benifits and refuses to apologise.
Labour still going after disabled 🙄.
Labour still going after disabled 🙄.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Minister mislead MPs on 2B cuts to disability benifits and refuses to apologise.
Labour still going after disabled 🙄.
Labour still going after disabled 🙄.
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"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
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Even in platforming our success - there's still more spin.
We're not backing "small boat migrants."
We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We're not backing "small boat migrants."
We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Even in platforming our success - there's still more spin.
We're not backing "small boat migrants."
We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We're not backing "small boat migrants."
We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months
Exclusive: Catherine Howard’s exit comes amid disagreements at top of government about how far to push deregulation agenda
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Brown University shooting: what we know so far about the attack in Providence, Rhode Island www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Brown University shooting: what we know so far about the attack in Providence, Rhode Island
Two people have been killed and several more critically injured, while the shooter remains at large
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Brown University shooting: what we know so far about the attack in Providence, Rhode Island www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Gateshead grooming gang members jailed for rape and sexual assaults www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Gateshead grooming gang members jailed for rape and sexual assaults
Five men who targeted vulnerable girls in park sentenced to terms of between 18 months and 14 years
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Gateshead grooming gang members jailed for rape and sexual assaults www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours | Simon Jenkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours | Simon Jenkins
The courts are a clumsy means to negotiate social relationships. Let organisations make up their own minds about inclusion, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours | Simon Jenkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...