Mike from the UK. True.

@michaelfrom.uk

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I invented unsocial networking. Soon, we'll all be doing it! I also like tea. I have never been in a quiz team with @RevRichardColes (he/him)

Chris Mason: "Nigel Farage - as so often in the last couple of years - has managed to upstage Sir Keir Starmer again, albeit via what his critics see as a self-serving stunt. "Speaking to his allies this afternoon, his aim is to clearly frame this as 'the people versus the establishment' as one friend put it."
Einstein user (yep): "The establishment don't want him in number 10 where he'll expose years of corruption like Trump is doing in the US."
An open floppy disk case with a number of 5¼ inch disks inside, with 'Elite' as the first disk shown.
Brent Crude price over the last six months, starting around $62.5, leaping to over $110 at the beginning of March, then hanging around $98 from thereon.
Collection of some BBC Micro 5¼ disks from the mid 80s, including "Backup 01" "Utils 04" and "Quest Paint".
Seaside view with sea to the left and rapeseed covered fields in the background. To the right foreground is the top station to the cliff railway lift. The sky is blue with fluffy clouds.
A pint of old peculiar on a pub table
"Watch: Reporters shout questions at ministers leaving No 10"
LAB loss of 1230; CON gain 1348; LD 90.
GB News Breakfast on weekdays averaged 103,000 viewers, with Sky News on 54,500 and the BBC News Channel on 29,700 (at a time when BBC One airs BBC Breakfast).
Email with subject "Seamlessly pick up where you left off, with more room". It's a phishing scam but the link is to a googleapis domain.
Trump being a twat, as usual. Brandishing a weapon, to compensate for his tiny tiny tiny pee-pee.
"Dr Neil Buttery, a chef and food historian, ..."
Drawing of a hand, with Fresh, Frozen, Tinned, Dried, Juiced written on each digit, and "1 Handful = 1 Portion" on the palm. Image from British Heart Foundation literature.
Liz Truss image.
Image showing the lowest 5 places in the English Premier League, ordered Nottingham Forest, West Ham, Tottenham, Burnley, Wolves, top to bottom
Tweet from May 2019: "I'm sure I have more testosterone than Caster Semenya but I don't think I'd beat her over any distance. It's not the testosterone, it's her hard work and dedication, through training.
"...Kharg Island, an 3-sq-km (8-sq-m) slice of land..."
Cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" album.
Lancaster: Due to works the stop at School Lane Forton is out of use. Passengers are advised to use the stop at the Mammoth Onion.
Capture of iPlayer screen with Ed Davey being interviewed, above a caption reading "Liberal Democrats to raise Andrew in Parliament".
Youtube video clicky thing from Daily Express with title "High Alert!" and subtitle "ALL OUT WAR? WW3 fears EXPLODE as Trump deploys DESTRUCTIVE US fleet to Iran". Image shows an Ayatollah, a nuclear mushroom cloud, and an open-mouthed Trump.
email NOT from Hargreaves Lansdown asking for confirmation of a tax form for the year. Looks convincing but the link to click is dodgy site.
Monthly data on 12-hour waits is published by NHS England. In 2024, 10.5% of patients waited 12 hours or more at major A&E units from arrival to the point where they were treated and discharged or found a bed on a ward if they needed to be admitted. In 2025 it was 10.1%. Waits are measured slightly differently elsewhere in the UK, but the other nations are all experiencing problems too. Figures have also been published on the waiting list for planned hospital treatments, such as knee and hip operations. At the end of November 7.31 million patients were on the waiting list - down from 7.4 million the month before - the lowest it has been since February 2023. And NHS England has published an evaluation of its programme of support for areas with the highest rates of economic inactivity. NHS trusts in the 20 areas with the worst joblessness have been given extra support with specialist teams of doctors and managers sent into to try to get the waiting list down. Over the past year the waiting list has fallen by 4.2% - three times faster than elsewhere.
GROK saying "Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers" with link to how to subscribe.
Image of Trump with his hands folded on the desk in front of him. On his left lapel are two badges - one of the US flag, and a second a cartoon image of himself. Egotistical fucker.
Twitter notification page with lots of fake looking Argos accounts all asking to DM me.
Young woman giving eulogy for boy: "WHO WAS HE THEN, THAT WE GATHER TO MOURN HIM? WHO AM 1? A FOUR-EYED, FLAT CHESTED. BRAT, CHICK, BRAIN, HEBE, STUCK-UP XAVIER'S SNOB FREAK! DON'T LIKE THE WORDS? I COULD USE NICER. I'VE HEARD WORSE. WHO HERE HASN'T? SO OFTEN, SO CASUALLY, THAT MAYBE WE'VE FORGOTTEN THE POWER THEY HAVE TO HURT. NIGGER, SPIC, WOP, SLOPE, FAGGOT MUTIE THE LIST IS SO LONG. AND SO CRUEL. THEY'RE LABELS. PUT. DOWNS. AND THEY HURT. BUT USUALLY WE LAUGH IT OFF OR HIT BACK-- WITH WORDS OF OUR OWN, OR FISTS OR WE SUFFER IN SILENCE. NO BIG DEAL THIS IS THE ROUGH EDGE OF REALITY, RIGHT? WHY MAKE A FUSS? TROUBLE WAS, WHEN SOMEONE LABELED LARRY BODINE A"MUTIE" THEY HIT HOME BECAUSE HE WAS. HIS POWER CREATED BEAUTY. THAT'S IT. HE DID WITH LIGHT AND COLOR WHAT MOZART DID WITH MUSIC. AND HE WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE ACCEPTED BY HIS PEERS, AND POSSIBLY EVEN LIKED.. AND ISN'T THAT WHAT ANY OF US REALLY WANT? TO HAVE FRIENDS. PEOPLE TO CARE FOR US? NOT TO BE ALONE? IF WE'RE LUCKY, WE HAVE SOMEONE TO TURN TO. LARRY DIDN'T. HE THOUGHT, IF PEOPLE KNEW THE TRUTH, THEY'D STOP SEEING HIM AND SEE ONLY THE LABEL, THE BRAND, HIS PERSONAL SCARLET LETTER." SO HE HID THE TRUTH AND LIVED IN TERROR OF BEING DISCOVERED. HE EVEN JOINED IN WHEN OTHERS PUT MUTANTS DOWN. WHAT MATTER THE COST TO HIS SOUL IF IT MADE HIS LIFE A LITTLE BETTER. THAT'S THE TRAGEDY, THAT'S OUR SHAME. THINK OF WHAT YOU SAY. IMAGINE IT BEING SAID ABOUT YOU. IT'S EASY TO MAKE FUN, REAL EASY TO BE CRUEL. TRY SOMETIME BEING ON THE RECEIVING END. IF WE'RE TO LEARN ANYTHING FROM LARRY'S DEATH, IT SHOULD BE THIS... YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO I AM? I'M KATHERINE PRYDE. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS. THE REST ARE JUST LABELS."
Panel from Daredevil #283 (Aug 1990), showing Captain America reacting angrilly to a newspaper: "Not again! We broke international law invading Panama! Now we're breaking the law again with this fabricated 'Drug War'. Why can't we leave Latin America alone? Haven't we exploited them enough?!"
A large mince pie on a plate with a star shape cut out and smaller star shape decorations in pastry on top. On a black work surface.
"After VAR review, the referee overturned the original decision of no penalty to Newcastle United." Referee announcement: “After review, Tottenham number 30 makes a holding offence at the back post and clearly does not look at the ball. My final decision is penalty kick.”
List of 'Payment Date' sorted descending, except it's sorted by the number of the date dd/mm/yyyy i.e. 28/11/2025 followed by 28/11/2024, 28/11/2023, then 28/10/2025, 28/10/2024, etc.
Nigel Farage tweet on 23/9/22: "Today was the best Conservative budget since 1986."
Poster for movie "Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare" - a variety of gruesome heads with a big top tent, bizarrely.
Badenoch: "I have never seen this level of chaos, this level of irresponsibility"
Pool table with 7 reds alone on it.
Bay view
A pint of beer sits on a black table top, with a harbour behind it. A headland juts out from the right with the sea in between.
A bay at sunset. The foreground shows a lighthouse sculpted in shiny metal, the midground full of calm sea, in the distance is the far headland, sun speckling the grassed mounds.
"How about in order to be English, you have to have European blood. Literally the least controversial idea for citizenship in all of history."
Image of Arsenal defender Timber, his arms open wide
Fairly clean stainless steel saucepan.
Saucepan with burnt on blackened jam crust melted onto it :(
Pseudo-intellectual response to post criticising Farage. Text unimportant.
Ministerial code outlines Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, Leadership as guiding principles.
Telegraph article dated Augest 2025, entitled "How to avoid tax on your second home" "From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's net".
"Your parcel will be with you today between 07:00 and 22:00"