Michael Bell

Geordie, bartender

Playlists, conlangs, politics, chess, NUFC

Labour Party member. Co-op Party NEC rep for England North

Learning Esperanto, Norsk, & Klingon

I love discovering music and sharing it with others

Supports trade unions, trans rights, & co-ops

2024-03-01

So in a by-election that had no good option, we got the worst possible one

#UKpol
#UKLabour
#Rochdale

2024-03-01

Ah wait, it's still 12. I hadn't realised that Andrew Bridgen had resigned from Reclaim

2024-03-01

So is 13 parties in the Commons (including Sinn Féin) a record now?

#ukpol

2023-12-15

Watching Slade on telly singing in the 70s with loads of fake snow flying about and just thinking "I bet that's asbestos"

2023-12-09

My end of year playlists here, some of my favourite new releases from 2023 by genre: a thread/

#Music
#Playlists
#MusicRecs
#Music2023
#NewMusic

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2023-11-15

I can’t help feeling that the Bexley residents dressing up as dinosaurs to obstruct mobile ULEZ cameras have not thought it through properly. I presume they’ve had to take time off moaning about smoking bans, face masks, vaccines, health and safety and seat belts to interfere with charging drivers for polluting the air.

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Four protestors wearing eight foot high T-Rex costumes stand in front of an Ultra Low Emission Zone camera van.
2023-11-13

Gove must be absolutely fuming after spending all weekend briefing the press that he was gonna get one of the four Great Offices, and then to be snubbed for David bloody Cameron

#UKPolitics

2023-11-13

Got the point now where I think #Tory MPs are saying stuff in the WhatsApp group *because* they know it'll be leaked

#UKPolitics

2023-11-13

The Autumn Statement was already in danger of not passing, given that Truss says her backbench Growth Group of headbangers is almost the size of Sunak's ever-diminishing majority. But given that the 2019 intake largely despise Cameron, I think they'll also be itching for a protest vote in Parliament, and the Autumn Statement seems like a prime opportunity for that. The ERG have been doubly slighted with the sacking of Braverman and the appointment of Cameron.

#UKPolitics

2023-11-13

Nothing says "forward looking government rebranding itself" like bringing David Cameron back into the Cabinet.

Nothing says "Government with its finger on the pulse of the nation" like bringing David Cameron back into the Cabinet.

Nothing says "We definitely haven't run out ideas" like bringing David Cameron back into the Cabinet.

Nothing says "We fully expect to still be in government this time next year" like bringing David Cameron back into the Cabinet

#UKPolitics

2023-11-13

#UKPolitics in the group chat today

WhatsApp message. One person says "Just set a weekly rota and each MP have a turn at each job including PM". The next person says "What do you think they've been doing"
2023-10-27

@knud Yeah that sounds amazing

2023-10-27

@Chess_Olympus omg that's horrible

2023-10-27

@knud I watched most of Round Two live (the stream I was watching selected about ten tables and moved between them) and it was great!

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