Mike Smart

Hi. Real person here…(needs saying these days) he/him, is making plans to leave this hell-site 🌈🏳️‍🌈🐘
Bigots and dodgy follows: move on elsewhere, please.

[Mike Smart @MikeThinkType]

More to the point, I guess:
if you’re a mutual and you’re on Mastodon and want to let me know your handle*, then I’ll make some notes to find or follow when I eventually get there.

*handle, username, Xominative, Tootername, whatever it’s called these days

[Mike Smart @MikeThinkType]

I’m years late about leaving Xitter, but I’m going.
Probably somewhere in the elephant-shaped fediverse.

I’ve barely touched this hell-site for ages now; haven’t missed it.

Any fedi-recommendations? From those inexplicably still here?
(I’ll check back on this in a few weeks…)

[Mike Smart @MikeThinkType]

Perhaps Colin from Portsmouth knows why (so far) I’ve not received any recommendations for Masturdon or whatever Colin said.

Any other suggestions? (SamBaps, your opinion is welcome too.)
https://t.co/GhJCJiWV6b

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

Colin from Portsmouth always had Elon Musk's number

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

An Attorney General who is a genuine heavyweight silk with decades of experience in domestic and international public law? Somebody chosen on the basis of legal acumen and merit rather than their willingness to tell the Prime Minister whatever he wants to hear?

Well I never.

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

Great news:

We're offering all Conservative cabinet members who lose their seats a free ticket to the Colin From Portsmouth tour as a consolation. Benefits start here!

We'll be in touch tomorrow🩷

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING
New PPE Scandal from @RussellScott1

Owen Paterson repeatedly lobbied ministers on behalf of Randox.
Firm awarded contracts worth up to £777m for Covid testing services
Randox made huge profits of £275m in 2021 + £190m in 2022

Paterson gets “civil penalty”

Story ⏬️

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Covid Corruption Commissioner to be appointed by Labour

I’ve been speaking to @RachelReevesMP for about 18 months about VIP PPE Lane, corruption & YOUR comments and views.

She listened

Here she is ⏬️

VOTE TACTICALLY to stop the Tories

[Hardeep Matharu @Hardeep_Matharu]

C4 did its job. But our media has failed for so long to hold power to account.

“Farage is not ‘good copy’. For minorities like me, hearing his ‘ordinary folk’ call our PM a ‘f**cking P*ki’ is terrifying”.

My reluctantly written @BylineTimes editorial 👇

https://t.co/Dme7jSd91b

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

@RishiSunak says he is hurt & angry at @reformparty_uk activist using racist language.
How did he think I felt when his top donor Frank Hester said I “made him want to hate all Black women' and I should be shot?

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

I understand the novelty of Channel 4 hiring Nadine Dorries but we need to stop MPs being rewarded for inadequacy. You were a failure, Nadine Dorries. You're deserving of no one's attention. You were a shitshow without an interval. You’re an irrelevance. Go away. Thank you.

[The Jo Cox Foundation @JoCoxFoundation]

Eight years ago today, on 16 June 2016, Jo Cox was tragically murdered while on her way to a constituency surgery in Batley and Spen.

In the days that followed, the global wave of grief and solidarity demonstrated that her values were widely shared.
(1/7)

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

Today on Father’s Day, a Dad in Coventry is mourning the loss of his 12-year old son, Keaton Slater, killed by a hit and run driver.

But road violence is something society doesn’t seem to want to tackle, despite road crashes taking more lives than murder and terrorism combined.

I’ve seen two Plan For Drivers published so far ahead of the election, but no plans to stop 30,000 people being killed or seriously injured each year in road crashes in the UK.

Why not?

[Morgan M Page @morganmpage]

RIP Lynn Conway - scientist and trans advocate, whose website was one of the first I found in the late 90s and ultimately lead me to becoming a historian. She died on June 9th 2024 at the age of 86! 🧡

[Julia Serano @JuliaSerano]

I've seen lots of ppl commenting on Lynn Conway's impact on the field of computers. but as Morgan points out in this thread, if you were a trans person circa 2000, when the internet was still pretty new, she had one of the first comprehensive resource websites for trans people...