Michael

A Northerner in the South(sea). Shared posts are not necessarily a personal endorsement. Posts are solely my personal opinion. He/him/his

[Michael @SouthseaOne]

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[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

There should be an Oktoberfest for Diet Coke

[mx🩵 @Emmie_exxtoo]

twitter looked like this a few months ago

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The signs were right there.

[Rab Bruce @electobitch]

@ScotNational Clowns

[PATRIOT NUMBER ONE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @nickisafraud]

The real reason that a British Iron Dome would never work is someone would leak the prioritisation data the Battle Management & Weapon Control system uses and the Daily Mail would run a "Check If YOUR Postcode Is Protected By The Kemidome" feature

[Declan @ME_MURPHY13]

Surely you clock it on the way in

[Johnny @JohnnyDundee]

BBC Politics Live there having a discussion on another EU referendum. The Labour Party representative on the panel is all for another referendum essentially as soon as possible. Neither the BBC presenter nor anyone on the panel mentions the Scottish elephant in the room. Criminal

[Ross McCafferty @RossMcCaff]

if she died in the UK, the BBC would discuss it on a panel featuring a Labour MP (themselves a landlord) saying its an unavoidable tragedy, a Tory MP (funded by landlords) mocking her, and a right-wing journalist implying she deserved it cos she liked pro-Palestine tweets once.

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

The greatest photograph ever taken in 200 years of the medium's history

[Liam @cavamarxist]

The number of people defending this is astounding. "Latvia has no obligation to host foreigners who disagree with them" being the main line. Extend this line of thinking out. You'd have no problem with the Trump administration cancelling green cards because of political views?

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

Editor at a German think tank that styles itself as advancing "the defense and renewal of liberal democracy" helpfully lays out Ragozin's real thoughtcrime: "since 2022 he gradually transformed into a rancorous peacenik."

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Various sources are claiming that Latvia will deport well-known former BBC journalist and Al Jazeera columnist Leonid Ragozin.

Ragozin has spent years criticising Putin, defending Alexey Navalny and opposing Russia’s actions in Ukraine. He was among a number of prominent Russian liberal media figures who left Moscow following Russia’s moves in Crimea in 2014, later making Riga his home.

[Hugo Papé 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇸 @HugoPap2]

This man will go on long rants about how Tory policies have ruined farming and his village, then proceed to endorse them.

[H4mez @hamezhill]

Her Majesty's Red Cartel

[Emu Brigadier @emubrigadier]

There's a problem with Ilia's logic.

One can reasonably argue that the suspension of certain freedoms by the state can be justified when that state is at war. To steer clear of contentious contemporary examples, take the UK during WW2: strikes were effectively outlawed, and speech and the press were censored.

Applying this logic to Latvia, however, is unwarranted.

Latvia is not at war with anyone, including Russia.

In fact, it is one of Russia's trading partners: in 2025 alone, it imported $141 million worth of goods from Russia, supplying Putin's government with much-needed cash for its criminal invasion.

Latvia was also caught channelling EU funds to Russian military suppliers.

What we're seeing here appears to be yet another example of cheap pro-Ukraine posturing, which lets the Baltic states earn goodwill from pro-Ukraine observers while de facto supporting Russia's criminal invasion where it matters.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

In a 2002 op-ed in the WSJ, Kasparov called for the US to attack Iraq, Syria and Iran, and in 1991, during the run up to the gulf war, he argued the US should drop an atomic bomb on Baghdad, if you’re wondering who in our media most advances a “culture of murder”

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Whodathunk the most sanctimonious blowhards against authoritarianism, who pontificate endlessly about Soviet-era repression of thought crimes, snitching & exiling-- turn out to be the most gleeful authoritarian cheerleaders for repressing thought crimes, snitching & exiling.

[soph @vintageminii]

photography was originally invented to take pictures of cats

[Magical Miracle Girl ★ Fia @MagicalGirlFia]

I’m obsessed with old cat pictures because the language used to describe cats hasn’t ever changed