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Mick Brooks

@mick666.bsky.social

Call me anything but Mike. Poole-based, retired from the NHS, with birdy, movie, music and politics interests πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ. Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). PhD in neutron physics. Full bird list on eBird.com Films: https://boxd.it/mBT

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Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.

09.03.2026 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4269    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 10
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Everyone including the USA knew this the second it happened it's disgusting they are still pretending it might not have been them.

09.03.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Study Finds Mourning Loved Ones A Huge Waste Of Time PHILADELPHIAβ€”Hailing the discovery as a major step forward in the understanding of human psychology, University of Pennsylvania researchers published a study Monday revealing that mourning loved ones ...

β€œContrary to past assumptions, our work suggests grieving a lost family member or friend is really just throwing away precious time on someone who is dead and isn’t even around to know that you’re sad,” said lead researcher Liam Cassidy

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Footage from Northern Israel is being heavily censored, but testimonies from people who live there expose the reality

Hezbollah has turned Northern Israel into Gaza

Half of the houses and buildings are completely demolished, and most people are not coming back to the city after the war

09.03.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
US president speaks in Florida after a call with Putin, who said he wanted to be 'helpful' on Middle East war

US president speaks in Florida after a call with Putin, who said he wanted to be 'helpful' on Middle East war

US president speaks in Florida after a call with Putin, who said he wanted to be 'helpful' on Middle East war https://aje.news/9uzuru

10.03.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 7
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birdie A daily bird species identification game quiz for birders, birdwatchers, bird lovers, and bird enthusiasts. Similar to wordle, birdie is a daily birding ID quiz based on small crops of each bird and s...

Again, looks nothing like any of the ones in Sibley!

birdie πŸ¦ƒ #1389: πŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯πŸŸ©β¬›

birdiegame.net

10.03.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2.9 million ppl already gave you your answer, @darrenpjones.bsky.social.

there's no way this panel will be legit. they already know the public doesn't want this. this is just them continually badgering ppl until they fluke the answer that they want.

in reality only tony blair wants this.

09.03.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Narrator: No. Iran does not.

09.03.2026 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mary Wollstonecraft: the radical thinker who shaped modern feminism Mary Wollstonecraft argued women were rational beings deserving education, independence and freedom – ideas still contested today

Mary Wollstonecraft, who published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, is often called the mother of modern feminism.

But her ideas were far more radical than many realise.

#IWD2026

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

09.03.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there is not a timeline where I would have been an effeminate gay man.

1. I was never a man, even in the 17 years between my egg cracking and my coming out. I refused that identity, and it hurt to bear it.

2. accepting that I like girlish things would have meant realising I was a girl.

09.03.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No, effeminate boys aren’t being β€˜transed’ | Xtra Magazine Hiding my transness nearly killed me. Let’s work to build a world where trans people’s lives aren’t quite so hard

A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

09.03.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 859    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 18

One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.

09.03.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

09.03.2026 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6610    πŸ” 1727    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 74

People in Britain need to be really clear that the reason they are about to be worse off is Donald Trump and his enablers.

09.03.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump: "No transgender mutilizshiation surgery for our children"

09.03.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 404    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 27

Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.

09.03.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5078    πŸ” 888    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 38

And just like that, Trump seems ready to TACO.

Today, he said β€œthe war is very complete, pretty much.” He said β€œthey have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force,” which, even if true, far short of β€œUNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”

Iran predicted this would happen. Then it did.

09.03.2026 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

This is the most blasΓ© admission of a war crime by a US president in history.

Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.

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Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

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'Eins, Zwei, Drei': Brain-frying banger could finally end UK Eurovision drought 'Eins, Zwei, Drei' by Look Mum No Computer is brain-fryingly bizarre, and exactly what the UK should be bringing to Eurovision 2026.

'Eins, Zwei, Drei': This brain-frying synthwave banger could finally end the UK's #Eurovision drought
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/06/eins-zwei-drei-uk-eurovision-look-mum-no-computer-review/?utm_content=1773092400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

09.03.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So he’s surrendering without accomplishing any of his stated objectives while declaring victory. Exactly what we said would happen.

09.03.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5585    πŸ” 1563    πŸ’¬ 850    πŸ“Œ 169

Coming from you, great praise! Pure doggedness, doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a good result! It works occasionally!

09.03.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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President Trump, "No other president can do some of this sh*t I'm doing"

09.03.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 4
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The tatoo
"Unless it is necessary for the defense of the homeland, every war is a crime." A quote from Mustafa Kemal AtatΓΌrk

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If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we've learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can't endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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In other words, the exact reverse of any lesson the US might have wanted to teach Iran. Meanwhile the Iranians would have learned that when Trump says help is coming to rise up against the regime, it really isn't.

If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we've learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can't endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage... 110 105 100 95 Brent crude 90 Crude oil 85 80 75 Oil Prices Tumble After Trump Says Iran War 'Very Complete' Oil futures, which surged as much as 31% Sunday night to more than $100 a barrel, hav... β€’ www.wsj.com 3 10 10 40 贝 ... Gaby Hinsliff O @gabyhinsliff.bsky.so... β€’ 6m In other words, the exact reverse of any lesson the US might have wanted to teach Iran. Meanwhile the Iranians would have learned that when Trump says help is coming to rise up against the regime, it really isn't.

I imagine the urgent lesson it’s taught the Iranian leadership is: get nuclear warheads ASAP, or die. Which is incredible, slapstick stuff, when you consider the situation when Trump took over.

09.03.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"

treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"

As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute

(mini 🧡)

09.03.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

SchrΓΆdinger's War

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Introducing the campest katydid of all time. πŸ¦„πŸ’…πŸ½πŸ‘ΈπŸ’ž Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n

08.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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New evidence challenges Trump claim about deadly girls school strike On 28 February, a missile hit Shajareh Tayyebeh School - a girl's primary school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran. Iranian authorities have said the strike killed at least 165 people, many of them children.

New evidence challenges Trump claim about deadly girls school strike

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What Does the Green Party Really Want? Will Zack Polanski's party become the main political vehicle of the radical left?

In this brand new #ACFM @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle and I examine the Green Party's shift to the left under Zack Polanski and assess it's prospects by looking at both the history of Green Parties and what's specific about our present moment.

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