Mike Robbins
Former journalist, aid worker and climate researcher. Writer. Blogger on books and history. Bike nut. Not a Tory. Read my ramblings at https://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com and https://mikerobbinswrites.substack.com/.
#climate #writing #books #bikes
- 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
- Share one of your favourite movie posters
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsThis is the President of the USA. Living in the 1800's.
- The voting system for Westminster elections makes a nonsense of Britain's democracy. It could also be a conduit to power for the extreme right. We need to change this, and we easily can. #UKpolitics #democracy
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsWouldn't surprise me at all if Trump's Brown Shirts are sent to intimidate voters in November "Steve Bannon calls for immigration agents at polling sites during midterms"
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsThe three-day event is a chance for the top 10 skating countries to bring home a medal — and for viewers to get acquainted with the sport's different disciplines and biggest names. n.pr/3M9aChi
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsDems should be explicit that when they retake Congress and the White House they will be stripping his name off of everything. The ego damage would be significant
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsRepublicans have agency and journalists should not let them off the hook because people like Katie Britt are trying to act like they're not evil monsters. "Tone" doesn't matter. Actions do. Katie Britt and other Republicans could end this at any time. But they don't.
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsPretty much how every New Yorker is feeling about this unrelenting winter! Our resident Great Blue Heron dreaming of spring in the Central Park Loch. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsLittle Ouse, Santon Downham, Norfolk. #norfolk #photography
- 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsWhat is up with the media willfully ignoring the absolute corruption in this administration - even worse, why is Congress ignoring this as well.
- Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Short fiction: Belonging Do you belong? Where? Is it still there? #shortstory #WriteSky
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsIf a five-year-old in a bunny hat doesn't melt your heart, there is something seriously wrong with you! Below, an excerpt from "Cold War: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift" highlighting the role children played in turning enemies into allies. www.bublish.com/bubble/strea...
- Reposted by Mike Robbins"10 years on from Brexit. In a world that has changed so profoundly. Europe and the UK need a new way of working together It is time to exorcise the ghosts of the past, reset our partnership and find solutions together We cannot ignore the reality of the times" - @president.europarl.europa.eu
- 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsBorn #Onthisday 1870 in #Dublin, Florence Ada Stoney who was the first female radiologist in the United Kingdom. During #WW1 she served abroad as head of the X-ray department and of staff in makeshift hospitals www.dib.ie/biography/st...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsNow let's hear a correspondingly positive response from the UK government.
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsNigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer... The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit. This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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- This is rather worrying. Under what circumstances should a government be able to get mandatory access to your email? There could be some (if you were involved in plotting terrorism, for instance) but they clearly did not apply here.
- Reposted by Mike Robbins🚨BREAKING: The UK economy would be 3.6% smaller by 2040 if net migration fell to zero, forcing the government to raise taxes to combat a much bigger budget deficit, a thinktank has predicted. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- 🚨Gorton and Denton by-election JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsThere's the Epstein list. But I also want the crisis comms agencies and boutique law firms helping these invertebrates weasel out of culpability list.
- On this day in 1945: During an air raid, Roland Freisler, President of Germany's People's Court, is crushed under a falling masonry column. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, really. #WW2 #History #OTD
- Christ albloody mighty #corruption #epstein
- On life inside... Two striking books by prison doctors, one in the US, one in the UK #BookSky #Books
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsThat suppressed report, a thread abt secrecy, military assessments, climate change and so forth. New Conversation piece - "A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before" theconversation.com/a-uk-climate... 1/n
- Reposted by Mike Robbins🚨 European EV registrations end 2025 with a bang. 22.6% of new cars in the EU were pure battery electric vehicles in December. With plug-in hybrid vehicles included, the share rises to 33.3%. Discover the latest data in Bruegel's European Clean Tech Tracker: european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsPossible Banksy appears on Wetherspoons pub #Norfolk 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsMPs urged to stop promising sea defences to voters #Norfolk 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsOh the gleeful bluster of Farage calling for Starmer to go for his association with Mandelson given his own close association with Epstein thro his close friend DonaldTrump &Bannon both of whom he backs to the hilt #NigelFarage is a hypocrite with a closet full of skeletons @skynewsrss.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsDo tune in to Parliament now if you need a reminder of how little the Tories care about poor children. Looks like there is actually a Reform speaker here too, come to justify plunging kids into poverty to cut the price of beer a bit.
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- Reposted by Mike Robbins3 February 1917: The US broke off diplomatic relations with Germany because of their policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. #History #WW1
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsKennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted over the last year under Trump management, no one wants to perform there. After over 50 years of continuous operation, Trump is closing the Kennedy Center for two years! Is the problem a lack of marble and gold or Trump mismanagement?
- 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsColonoscopy anyone?
- Reposted by Mike Robbins"far from being a drain on the country’s social services as critics claim – migrants play a crucial role in keeping the country’s welfare state standing.Bringing half a million workers into the formal economy will only strengthen the country’s social security system" www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
- 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsI was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
- Melania the movie: A big fat bribe from Bezos. And he's not the only business leader kissing Trump's ass, says @rbreich.bsky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/melania-th...
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- Reposted by Mike RobbinsI may have posted this before, but it's one of my favorites - colorful mountains of Denali National Park - #landscapes #outdoorphotography #pdxphotographer #beautifulEarth #photography
- Essential reading for UK politics geeks. #UKPolitics
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsRumer Godden was a huge success as a writer in her lifetime. Her novel Black Narcissus has never been out of print. A number of her books were set in India. But her memoirs of the country are also striking, and often overlooked. A look at who she was, and how India made her. #books #India #history
- I have wondered whether one or two States might start thinking along these lines...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsRemembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
- A climate change story. Sort of. #shortstory #climate
- A short story... How Ned Fiddler defied the whip. #shortfiction #NetZero
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsDiana Athill - a remarkable writer and editor. An appreciation, written just a few weeks before she passed away in 2019 aged 101. #BookSky #Writing
- 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen #30DaysBooksByWomen
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsAs we know, much of the opposition to traffic measures in Oxford was whipped up by a bunch of climate change and Covid deniers who don't live here. Kind of similar to the racist flag types importing a bunch of their extreme mates from as far afield as Sheffield this weekend to put up more flags. 😡
- Reposted by Mike Robbins"Britain should embrace Chinese renewable energy tech. Critics have warned of the dangers of relying on Chinese energy technology but the upsides are persuasive, says Octopus CEO." observer.co.uk/news/busines...
- I think Beard and Robinson are probably not unhappy to be missing dinner with Goodwin.
- You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsWhat a good song. That was made in 1941 so it's about something from then. If you're attaching it to something from now that's on you. This is a song from 1941. I can't stress enough 1941. Good song by Irving Berlin though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsAn accurate portrayal of why Putin can't afford to end the war. Putin has turned Russia into a 'nation of war', with nothing positive to show for it. The ceasefire talks are likely to fail. bsky.app/profile/wari...
- Reposted by Mike Robbins✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any. It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future. Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith 🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsUnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsNew to Bluesky! I'm Adrian - late-diagnosed autistic author from Reading, UK. Just completed my first draft of my debut novel BREACH PROTOCOL (urban fantasy/sci-fi thriller). Portals in London. Dark matter creatures. A barista who becomes an operative. #WritingCommunity #UrbanFantasy #DebutAuthor
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsI just have this feeling that the staff in this hotel don't try very hard.
- Reposted by Mike Robbins🐻💛 S M I L E S Anyone 💛🧸
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsAnd on a similar note... The rise of post-factual politics. mikerobbinswrites.substack.com/p/post-factu...
- Reposted by Mike RobbinsGavin Newsom, social media team, not given an inch to Trump and I’m here for it 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🎯
