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Mike Cormack

@bucketoftongues.bsky.social

High school principal. Book reviewer/opinion writer/cultural essayist. Scottish. My book "Everything Under The Sun: The Complete Guide To Pink Floyd" out now https://t.ly/JbwNl. My Substack on culture and politics https://t.ly/5hKp_

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Major will get a lot of abuse for this. Mainly because he's right.

21.11.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Major will get a lot of abuse for this. Mainly because he's right.

21.11.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It scans your emails to classify them into inbox, spam, social etc.

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Elon is a deeply, deeply, deeply pathetic man

21.11.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the things that the β€œimmigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

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The growing problem with China’s unreliable numbers Beijing’s GDP figures have drawn scrutiny for years but the questions have become more acute

www.ft.com/content/5b9e... "Rather than addressing past concerns about its data, China has instead increased opacity by discontinuing a number of data series and further restricting access for researchers."

19.11.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know there's a million things for which Trump should be removed from office, but that just instantly revealed how repugnant a human being he is.

19.11.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shouldn't you mention that he was lying?

18.11.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We can yank out their gold teeth too

17.11.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Britain is in a hole. Real wages have barely risen in 17 years, and the public realm is fraying. Our politics is increasingly fractious as a result. The underlying reason? The biggest productivity slowdown in the G7.

17.11.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

International war crime (alcoholic drinks vision)

17.11.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"What we've seen this week" - what we've seen for 10 years

17.11.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Christopher Aldana

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At age 22, as a first year teacher, I engaged in a consensual encounter with a 16 year old who was not my student. There was no force, coercion, or predatory intent. Because I was employed as a teacher, the conduct was classified as a tier 3 sex offense and requires lifetime sex offender registry placement.

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Christopher Aldana @chrisaldanaLLC Follow At age 22, as a first year teacher, I engaged in a consensual encounter with a 16 year old who was not my student. There was no force, coercion, or predatory intent. Because I was employed as a teacher, the conduct was classified as a tier 3 sex offense and requires lifetime sex offender registry placement. 5:31 AM 11/15/25 152K Views 67 106 23 37

hey man, let me help you out here with a little tip in the form of jingle *you don't win friends with salad voice* you don't EVER fuck your students! you don't EVER fuck your students

17.11.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 629    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 36

They could also ply out their gold teeth and shave their heads

17.11.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Galaxy brained nonces unable to see beyond their echo chamber. It's chronic.

17.11.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a real "I Am Spartacus!" "NO! *I* AM SPARTACUS!" "I Am Spartacus, Too!" moment for the entire pedophile movement...

bsky.app/profile/junl...

17.11.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Epstein Files are the new government shutdown are the new 2024 elections are the new indictment for mishandling classified documents are the new indictment for election interference are the new indictment for campaign funding violations are the new conviction for defamation and adjudication of

13.11.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handleβ€”that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil.

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and the parodies:

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Remembering this classic

12.11.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

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Pollution is mostly gone, apps make everyday life convenient, street scams have disappeared, cities is being re-greened, even toilets are clean. Still good cheap restaurants everywhere and lack of crime. Quality of life in cities is good.

10.11.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

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Alongside banks, they remain one of the areas where China has seen no improvement since I first came here (18 years ago now). Still the same insane pressuring of doctors, people walking in when you're being attended to and demanding they be seen. Still no incentives for efficient care.

07.11.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just like when I had an eye infection and a hospital prescribed a bunch of horse shit, and when I'd a scalp problem they claimed I'd eczema when all I needed was coal tar shampoo. Chinese hospitals are the worst accumulation of every significant national flaw.

07.11.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Have a horrible chest infection. No medicines doing anything so went, as last resort, to hospital. What do they do? Prescribe me this. I look it up, and it's honeysuckle, forsythia, ephedra, rhubarb, and menthol. Fucking TCM.

07.11.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"You mean all those people just pretended to like me because I was king?"

07.11.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding . Alt: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
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