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@rmcl82.bsky.social

Work in politics. Here to provide political and societal witticisms…or the closest equivalent I can manage. Mainly UK, European and US politics, although I’m an equal opportunities satirist. Also an amateur - and slightly experimental - cook.

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Under rocks - where Republicans and other invertebrates naturally feel at home…

05.03.2026 10:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m assuming each post is a fixed term appointment of about five days, after which the post-holder is expected to defect to one of the other right-wing nutjob parties, or to stand down in disgrace for racism/misogyny/fraud…?

05.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, well he might take vast donations from shady billionaires to sell out every single aspect of British life, but he sometimes wears a flat cap and goes to the pub for a pint, so I think it’s clear whose side he’s really on…

05.03.2026 08:35 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Codspeed with both your research and your poetry, and I’ll take all the sanity I can get!

Have a fintastic day and sending warm wishes from Scotland!

05.03.2026 08:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bravo - love it 👏🏻

04.03.2026 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

King Charles I vibes. Would be just *terrible* if his reign were to end the same way…

04.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All the charisma of one of his ashtrays, and a used one at that.

04.03.2026 20:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Very sad news, but such an incredible legacy with the work of art that is Red Dwarf 🫡

04.03.2026 16:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“I’m devastated about how this has turned out for ordinary investors. Not devastated enough to give them any money, but devastated nonetheless.”

04.03.2026 16:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If only there was some other way to generate energy in these windy, windy isles of ours, that didn’t leave supplies at the mercy of geopolitics.

If only…

04.03.2026 09:10 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Since Churchill’s name is being used and greatly misused a lot at present, here is a photo of him visiting FDR’s grave to remind us all of how great Presidents once were, and how great and meaningful a partnership between leaders and nations can be.

Both must be rolling in their graves.

04.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The US President casually threatening to invade a European ally. Just one of the allies that the same US President said he didn’t need.

With friends like these…

04.03.2026 06:58 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And not content with being a cowardly piece of shit himself, apparently he is now saying that Barron would be “too tall” to serve as well.

Absolutely pathetic.

03.03.2026 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If they need evacuation to somewhere out of the warzone, I hear Rwanda is completely safe.

03.03.2026 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You not only told us that you don’t need allies, you actively threaten to invade your allies, and insulted the war dead of those who answered an American call in your country’s time of need.

If you’re unhappy, we’re delighted. Fuck you.

03.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0

Tell us more about the tool…and what he had to say on this subject so we can all have a good laugh.

03.03.2026 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you think AI doctors will have a better bedside manner, or will it be pretty much the same…? 😋

03.03.2026 11:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The question of why the UK isn’t involved in America’s latest war can be answered with a single image.

It can also be answered by reminding the current US Administration that insulting our war dead, and questioning their heroism, has consequences.

03.03.2026 09:14 — 👍 72    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 0

Well this is awkward because on one hand, stock market performance is Trump’s key measure of success but on the other, he’s Netanyahu’s bitch.

Decisions, decisions…

03.03.2026 09:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cognitive dissonance seems to be very much en vogue these days.

03.03.2026 07:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh come now, we’re not monsters who’d make them go to a war zone.

Rwanda, on the other hand, is absolutely, positively safe 👍🏻

02.03.2026 21:52 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You there - outstanding work 🫡

02.03.2026 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And now let’s have a sneak preview of tomorrow’s narrative…

02.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Absolutely avoidable deaths of service members, who - through no fault of their own - were put in harms way as part of an illegal war fought for illegitimate reasons.

02.03.2026 14:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump open to talks with Iran as conflict deepens in Middle East US president signals willingness to engage with Tehran’s surviving leadership as strikes and retaliatory attacks intensify across region

Actual headline: “Trump open to surrender talks. Tells Iran he’s willing to Venezuela them up real nice”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

02.03.2026 08:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry, what? I can’t hear you over the deafening noise of tumbleweed…

02.03.2026 06:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Summary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks Summary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks

A lawful request to support unlawful action is not only contradictory, it’s complicity.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

02.03.2026 06:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And now for the advice on the lawfulness of the original Israeli and US attack that prompted the request to use British bases?

We’ll wait…

01.03.2026 22:29 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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UK will allow US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites, says Starmer The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will

Not in our name. This is not our war.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

01.03.2026 22:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0