/Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSF
So much progress has been made in my 7+ decades. But in the last 15 years it's being beaten back by the far right & Christian nationalists.
I block fake 'Gaza accounts'
Avoid personal attacks or demeaning posts (unless they are really really funny!) Mai=My
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFBaroness Finn, stating that this would "risk a disproportionate intrusion into civil society", asks minister to confirm that the "current arrangements" will not change, but gets a strong response from Anderson:
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFBoris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFUsed the NHS for the third time in the space of a few mnths, different depts. This time I went to minor injuries hospital. Rang at 12pm Got a call back 30 mins later. Got an app for 2:30pm Seen at 3:00pm X-ray at 3:15pm Seen again at 4:00 Out in 1 hr 45 mins. Our NHS has really improved. ♥️
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFSo the Epstein files (that contain no mention of Starmer) could quite possibly end his premiership but a man across the pond (whose name is mentioned 34k in the files that have been released so far), & who is arguable the most powerful man in the world (but probably compromised) gets to keep his job
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFNEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you. Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked! But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊 1/
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFstrong agree get Palantir out of NHS heath data
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFGet Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFMandelson's firm, General Counsel, covered-up Mandelson's relationship with Epstein. Here's Global Counsel's CEO and co-founder, preparing to tell the press that Mandelson barely knew Jeffrey Epstein. Who did he check that line with? Jeffrey Epstein.
- Horrific!
- A UK government action plan on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sets out a softer approach to managing the persistent chemicals than other European countries and opts for extensive monitoring projects rather than immediate regulatory action. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFA UK government action plan on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sets out a softer approach to managing the persistent chemicals than other European countries and opts for extensive monitoring projects rather than immediate regulatory action. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSF🇺🇸🇨🇺 Trump has declared a state of emergency over what he described as a “national security threat” posed by Cuba. Cuban regime cooperates with “hostile countries and terrorist groups.” Trump included Russia on this list. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/trump-lists-...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFThat‘s the spirit.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFThe scientific evidence is absolutely crystal clear: We are certain the world is warming because we're burning fossil fuels and putting more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere So we have to stop doing that We also need to adapt to the changes we've already caused www.channel4.com/news/uk-alre...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFDaily Briefing: EU ‘rethinks’ COP strategy | ‘Flawed’ economic models | Solar geoengineering ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/6luGK6A ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO
- @carbontracker.bsky.social please come back to Bluesky. You're being referenced and we need the details.
- William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFTrump to NBC on the Fed: “I mean in theory it’s an independent body. But I think, you know, I’m a smart guy. “I know the economy better than almost everybody.” Too stupid to know he’s stupid. A prime example of Dunning-Kruger, like many of his followers.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFBTW, that's not a quote from Chris. It's how I'm feeling about the impact of this - not so much on the Labour government and its chances of re-election but on British democracy itself. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and is an open goal for every tin-pot populist out there.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFWilliam Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Well the same playbook used to smear all immigrants based on the actions of one.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFBut far-right voices & some on the left are using his words as evidence of how "Jews" think. A sex trafficker becomes the spokesman for all Jews. That is the oldest move in the antisemitic playbook: find the worst example, make him representative, collectivize the guilt.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFJeffrey Epstein used "goyim" casually in private correspondence. He joked about Jewish financial stereotypes. He made crude ethnic generalizations. This was a predatory, powerful man whose private language reflected contempt for many people. Nobody disputes that.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFIsabel Oakshop: “Yesterday there was such a febrile atmosphere in the House of Commons, obviously I wasn’t there…” NO BECAUSE YOU CHOSE TO LIVE IN DUBAI! “Obviously I wasn’t there but I’m quite close connected to people who were.” IN OTHER WORDS YOU WERE WATCHING IT ON TV! 🤔😤
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFThe NHS sites alone are expected to make almost £30m a year in savings resulting from the upgrades. Sites include + Lincoln County Hospital + Harbour mental health hospital, Blackpool + RAF Lossiemouth + RAF Waddington + RAF Marham + HMP Channings Wood, Devon 2/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFIt's presented as a "ban on using taxis", because of course asylum seekers are bad people who mustn't be given "luxuries". It's not presented as adjusting uncaring procurement contracts which were designed never to give a few quid here and there to asylum seekers for practical reasons. #R4Today
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSF#R4Today does a thing about asylum seekers travelling by taxi - obviously corrupt at a low level - and actually talks to somebody who knows how stupid the contracts were. It's not just the Home Office.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFIf Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files Their toxic immigration plans must go with them. NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!
- Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFJeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFBig Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFIt’s so cruel - and what next? People are housed in hotels (& barracks) often out of town, bus routes are scarce & the weekly allowance is pitiful. Charities can step in, but are people now just going to get sick? What is the plan here?
- Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFDo they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFYou’re only 90 years late for this particular argument Andrew. It’s important to note that the incident was in the context of the black & tans having recently ravaged Ireland and the attempted culturicide of Wales a few decades earlier. But RT won’t acknowledge any of that.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFNo progress in Poland to ease the strict abortion ban because of anti-choice politics or reluctance in the gov't - but five years after Poland's top court gutted abortion rights, access to legal abortion has expanded a bit – only for women who learned to work within a system designed to say ‘no’.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFA quick small update from my teaspoonless serviced apartment in Manchester. Long and short of it, I have a new job! Whoop whoop! 🐻
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSF"It's not sexist. Roger Ailes used to tell us that." 😭
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFDark red line along the bottom of graph is CA, the place some misinformed folks say has expensive elec due to all its wind, solar, and batteries. (Counting RA cost doesn't chg the story) Our high rates pay for response to what climate change is already doing: wildfires. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFThis seems significant. Compromising the investigation into Mandelson tomorrow would be a stupid price to pay for humiliating Starmer today.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFReally proud of New Mexico! www.koat.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFFantastic that we are trying to restore areas of sea grass which are so good for fish stocks and CO2 levels. Appalling that we are still allowing bottom trawling to tear up other areas of the sea bed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFWhen we asked Reform if they used NationBuilder, Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, denied it. That denial was signed with a ‘statement of truth’. But we can now reveal that in July 2025, Tice and Reform had to make an embarrassing admission – Tice was wrong and Reform does use NationBuilder.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFUK PM - We cannot disclose documents that will prejudice the affairs of another country US DoJ - Wheeeeeeeeee!
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFSo the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFFor those keeping score at home:
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFThis isn't on. Quoting academics without their permission sounds like an endorsement. And that's not a political point - it's just common decency. And don't quote me on that.
- Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFAnd here is what I had to say yesterday about the god-awful graph on this leaflet, a crime against data viz which they have made it look like I endorse.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFJust a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFEvery time Trump praises Putin as wanting peace, Putin bombs the living shit out of Ukraine to make Trump look like the lying, compromised old fool that he is. Isn't it time for Trump to send real tough negotiators to Moscow instead of pansy boy Jared b/c Putin devours weakness.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFThis should be a resignation matter for the Minister.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFA truly hideous right wing smear campaign against these six activists for exercising their free speech rights to protest - and confronted with the evidence all six have been acquitted.
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFSorry for the double NEW! For further context on VAERS and the uses to which anti-vaccine activists put the useful but unvetted material in it, this story by @annamerlan.bsky.social and @shaylalove.bsky.social is worth your time:
- Reposted by /Mai/ Opine 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺♂️ #WCNSFNEW: NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to analyze VAERS—a database of vaccine injury claims to which anyone can make submissions—and "generate hypotheses." This is from @emilymullin.bsky.social:
