Mike
@mikehm.bsky.social
Green activist, RNLI Governor, housing landlord, husband, father, collector, spacefan, shipfan, amateur librarian. Occasional historian, author, broadcaster.
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BIG NEWS for any pedestrians fuming at e-bike riders
Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says:
Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says:
September 16, 2026 at 11:04 AM
BIG NEWS for any pedestrians fuming at e-bike riders
Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says:
Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says:
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Since becoming president again, Trump has promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."
September 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Badenoch brands Labour as the welfare Party.
Welfare means health, happiness, & well-being, or financial & social aid provided by the government to people in need.
The Greens are a welfare party too, nothing wrong with those values.
Badenoch shoots herself in the foot, Tories the misery party🤬💚
Welfare means health, happiness, & well-being, or financial & social aid provided by the government to people in need.
The Greens are a welfare party too, nothing wrong with those values.
Badenoch shoots herself in the foot, Tories the misery party🤬💚
September 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Badenoch brands Labour as the welfare Party.
Welfare means health, happiness, & well-being, or financial & social aid provided by the government to people in need.
The Greens are a welfare party too, nothing wrong with those values.
Badenoch shoots herself in the foot, Tories the misery party🤬💚
Welfare means health, happiness, & well-being, or financial & social aid provided by the government to people in need.
The Greens are a welfare party too, nothing wrong with those values.
Badenoch shoots herself in the foot, Tories the misery party🤬💚
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So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit
Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit
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The backdrop to the horrific scenes in Dover and Portsmouth is Reform encouraging fear and division and the Home Office helping with hostile policies.
So now we have massed fascists dressed in black on our streets. The Govt must name hard right fascism and then stand up to it.
So now we have massed fascists dressed in black on our streets. The Govt must name hard right fascism and then stand up to it.
September 8, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The backdrop to the horrific scenes in Dover and Portsmouth is Reform encouraging fear and division and the Home Office helping with hostile policies.
So now we have massed fascists dressed in black on our streets. The Govt must name hard right fascism and then stand up to it.
So now we have massed fascists dressed in black on our streets. The Govt must name hard right fascism and then stand up to it.
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A selection of Donald Trump's Truth Social output over the past hour...
September 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
A selection of Donald Trump's Truth Social output over the past hour...
Police have made 2,700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This can't go unchallenged. The UK’s chief pr... www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
End the prosecution of peaceful protestors in the UK
Police have made 2,700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This can't go unchallenged. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide...
www.amnesty.org.uk
September 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Police have made 2,700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This can't go unchallenged. The UK’s chief pr... www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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and the cat's in the cradle and the
September 1, 2026 at 9:19 AM
and the cat's in the cradle and the
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autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast
September 1, 2026 at 9:14 AM
autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast
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It looks like Iran is forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East
open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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It looks like Iran is forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East
It’s fair to say US military bases and intelligence assets across the Persian Gulf and West Asia have taken an absolute hammering during Operation Epstein Fury. The damage is so bad the Pentagon is no...
open.substack.com
September 1, 2026 at 7:55 AM
It looks like Iran is forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East
open.substack.com/pub/councile...
open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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When will weekly headlines of Farage's fraudulent dealings will make members realise he's a liability ...
"Reform have lost 4 out of the 5 seats defended only August:
🔶 2 lost to Lib Dems
🌹 2 lost to Labour
➡️ Reform are losing defended seats at a loss rate of 60% since LE2026."
via Barry Howard
"Reform have lost 4 out of the 5 seats defended only August:
🔶 2 lost to Lib Dems
🌹 2 lost to Labour
➡️ Reform are losing defended seats at a loss rate of 60% since LE2026."
via Barry Howard
August 30, 2026 at 7:08 AM
When will weekly headlines of Farage's fraudulent dealings will make members realise he's a liability ...
"Reform have lost 4 out of the 5 seats defended only August:
🔶 2 lost to Lib Dems
🌹 2 lost to Labour
➡️ Reform are losing defended seats at a loss rate of 60% since LE2026."
via Barry Howard
"Reform have lost 4 out of the 5 seats defended only August:
🔶 2 lost to Lib Dems
🌹 2 lost to Labour
➡️ Reform are losing defended seats at a loss rate of 60% since LE2026."
via Barry Howard
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Experts believe a glacier collapse in Nepal's mountains near Tibet appears to have triggered yesterday's flooding disaster.
How a glacier collapse may have caused Nepal-Tibet floods
A huge piece of ice that fell thousands of metres from a glacier into a river below may have unleashed the flooding disaster in Nepal and Tibet.
www.rte.ie
August 27, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Experts believe a glacier collapse in Nepal's mountains near Tibet appears to have triggered yesterday's flooding disaster.
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When a character's eyes align with the Golden Ratio
August 26, 2026 at 7:22 AM
When a character's eyes align with the Golden Ratio
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“Under the blue sky, the orange, yellow, red patches of flowers take on an amazing brilliance, and in the limpid air there’s something happier and more suggestive of love than in the north” ~ in a letter to brother Theo, Vincent celebrates the colours of a flower garden in Arles (1888)
August 26, 2026 at 6:33 AM
“Under the blue sky, the orange, yellow, red patches of flowers take on an amazing brilliance, and in the limpid air there’s something happier and more suggestive of love than in the north” ~ in a letter to brother Theo, Vincent celebrates the colours of a flower garden in Arles (1888)
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August 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
August 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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As the Little Girl's Aunt settled into the village, she had begun to very much enjoy collecting snippets of local Dorset folklore and old customs which lingered like summer thistledown in the lanes and beamed parlours and school-yards.
August 18, 2026 at 7:41 AM
As the Little Girl's Aunt settled into the village, she had begun to very much enjoy collecting snippets of local Dorset folklore and old customs which lingered like summer thistledown in the lanes and beamed parlours and school-yards.
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And this is just the beginning.
Mamdani makes childcare free for 22K NYC families gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Mamdani makes childcare free for 22K NYC families
The Mamdani administration is covering the weekly co-pays for families who receive subsidized childcare.
gothamist.com
August 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
And this is just the beginning.
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Temperatures have now reached >36°C 🌡️
Provisionally, this is the 4th day in 2026 that temperatures have reached 36°C or higher, and this would make it the most days in a single year to reach that threshold
Provisionally, this is the 4th day in 2026 that temperatures have reached 36°C or higher, and this would make it the most days in a single year to reach that threshold
August 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Temperatures have now reached >36°C 🌡️
Provisionally, this is the 4th day in 2026 that temperatures have reached 36°C or higher, and this would make it the most days in a single year to reach that threshold
Provisionally, this is the 4th day in 2026 that temperatures have reached 36°C or higher, and this would make it the most days in a single year to reach that threshold
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hope the tardigrades on the moon are having a good time
![On April 11, 2019, the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the Moon during a failed landing attempt.[1] Its payload included several thousand tardigrades (also known as water bears). Initial reports suggested they could have survived the crash landing. We believe the chances of survival for the tardigrades... are extremely high.— Nova Spivack,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreiam4mhj2usawiz5frx6optryk3qhvl65uqguyt6uf7yvbtytdolha)
January 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
hope the tardigrades on the moon are having a good time
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"Let's be clear - the reason we are facing extreme heat, wildfires, drought is because of governments & corporations expanding fossil fuel production.
If we are to limit the worst of climate breakdown, Andy Burnham must REJECT the Rosebank oil field & all new fossil fuel projects. "
via Stop Cambo
If we are to limit the worst of climate breakdown, Andy Burnham must REJECT the Rosebank oil field & all new fossil fuel projects. "
via Stop Cambo
August 6, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"Let's be clear - the reason we are facing extreme heat, wildfires, drought is because of governments & corporations expanding fossil fuel production.
If we are to limit the worst of climate breakdown, Andy Burnham must REJECT the Rosebank oil field & all new fossil fuel projects. "
via Stop Cambo
If we are to limit the worst of climate breakdown, Andy Burnham must REJECT the Rosebank oil field & all new fossil fuel projects. "
via Stop Cambo