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Michael Birtwhistle
@salfordmh.bsky.social
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Consultant Community and Rehabilitation Psychiatrist. Rides bicycles. Politically engaged. Likes a good discussion. http://mas.to/@SalfordMH just in case. And here.
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Shit patter replies from the OP https://bsky.app/profile/ayshaufarah.bsky.social/post/3m7gk5f4ndc2t "Well you know what they say, live by the sword, cry by the sword" "Bravo" "Drunken Amazon purchases be like" "You can never have too many!"
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Disposable Pulp Male Urinal
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Spotify Recently Played screenshot. Nothing has been played and an error message "Something went wrong, have another go? prompts to try again
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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You might like this picture: a priori
Lindisfarne Priory
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Co-op camembert & black garlic in the foreground, with Pigs in Blankets flavour lurking in the dark recesses.
December 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Woke contemplating all my failure in the December darkness.

But also, "and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name."
THESEUS More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 5 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold— 10 That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth 15 The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, 20 It comprehends some bringer of that joy. Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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"Shouting slogans, or saving lives?!"
A picture of Kier Starmer behind a podium with the US and UK flags behind him. The Closed Captions read 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'...
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Time for the bright expectant faces of young whips, and the gradual unravelling of promises by the adults later, over some port and stilton.

Twas the noon of the budget...
Twas the noon of the budget And all through the House Nothing was stirring Not even a mouse A cheer from the corner "The Chancellor's here!" Bringing gifts that will end our austerity tears. A freeze in fuel duty, a penny off beer, Some complex reforms - effective next year, Order papers wave and Conservatives scoff, It won't be 'til evening we know we're worse off.
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This is my go to.
Book: Cliff Richard's favourite bible stories
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The OP, cropped at the c of back, and the first l of Shell.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Ah, found it
English (uk)
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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just English
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#BonfireNight
Picture of the park scene through a fence and line of trees with waste in the foreground. Swings can be seen in the park. You could smell from down the road that the bonfire had gone ahead, all the sofas burnt, a wisp of smoke from the medium density embers, the uPVC window frames jilted by the park gate, the shopping trolley ferry discarded, a community effort, collecting and unloading the industrial and domestic waste over the preceding week, fun for all the family, it didn't make the MEN live blog.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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#Venngabus
A Venn diagram with two circles "incubus" and "succubus" and the overlap is "venngabus".
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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You could smell from down the road that the bonfire had gone ahead, all the sofas burnt, a wisp of smoke from the medium density embers, the uPVC window frames jilted by the park gate, the shopping trolley ferry discarded, a community effort, collecting and unloading the industrial and domestic waste over the preceding week, fun for all the family, it didn't make the MEN live blog.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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As the assumed Labour leader designate, Wes is on maneuvers and it will be interesting to see what lessons he, a grifter, takes from Mamdani, given that Cuomo was his closest equivalent in this campaign.
Wes Streeting Tweet @wesstreeting "Inspirational campaign and victory for @ZohranKMamdani in NYC. Lessons for progressives the world over." Quoting inset: The Washington Post @washingtonpost • 3h In his first speech since winning NYC's mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, 34, noted he is young, Muslim and a democratic socialist - and said he won't "apologize for any of this." wapo.st/44bz2Np
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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a tiger, elephant and giraffe
low resolution MOCA variant with a giraffe, bear and hippo
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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#Autumn
A piece of yellow playground equipment made of interconnected bent bars just above lush but tufty grass with a few autumn leaves and the dull light vaguely suggesting Autumn.
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Nick Tyrone, passant, with an enhanced testicular jowl.
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I wonder how it's going on X - the everything app?
An account called @bowtiedgerman QT's to say: Finding Dua Lipa attractive means you don't have the epigenetic europid blood memory of distrusting gypsies. I look at this woman and my DNA tells me she's just distracting me so her brothers can steal my livestock.
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It fucks you up, a giant schlong, It may not mean to but it does, by filling all the clothes you own, and swinging just above your toes. But it fucks others in its turn, and though it's fun you mustn't gloat, when half the time it's floppy-firm, and half down someone else's throat. Cock hands on ecstasy to man, a burden in the library, so come as quickly as you can, and leave some time for poetry.
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Not in 2022
Fish & Chips shipping container, without the pun.
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Villanelle for Hypnotits
It's good the Greens have got a hundred K, As disappointment turns to replacement, That Hypnotits has come to save the day. He's lines prepared for what they have to say, And we infer that what is said is meant, It's good the Greens have got a hundred K. With wonky teeth; a former actor; gay, He changed his name and that must mean he's bent, That *Hypnotits* has come to save the day? Where Labour spoke of change, we'll make them pay, Their sole enthusiasm was for rent, It's good the Greens have got a hundred K. A faith in human progress back in play, Where hope can topple disillusionment, That Hypnotits has come to save the day. Inclusion comes to corporate dismay, The beat of eco-populist intent, It's good the Greens have got a hundred K, That Hypnotits has come to save the day.
October 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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This one near me was an error, I'd say.
A streetname sign combo on a 60s orangey brick wall, reading "Moorcock Ave, Late Moorfield St."
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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You'll never guess what
Northern places pronunciation guide: Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, Pronunciation Mithumroyd.
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM