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Michael Bell

@mbellcoop.bsky.social

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Used to be a bigwig in the Co-op Party UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington FPL team: Bellwich Albion (he/him)

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 9h

Started rewatching Aug Wedersehen Pet last night from the beginning, not seen it in about 15yrs. Amazing line from Oz when Neville is wide-eyed at the German brothel, "Hey man, sex is in its infancy in Gateshead"

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

Past few nights I keep thinking to look up if there's any football on and then remembering it's that stupid sodding international break

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6music @6music.bsky.social · 1d

“Graceland” by Paul Simon #nowplaying #6music

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

(this was cos I thought the GNR was thirteen kilometres, and then discovered it's 13 miles, haha)

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

My plan was maybe the Great North Run, but that may be too much too fast. I'll aim for next year's North Tyneside 10k instead

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, just seen you're in Somerset. Assumed toon cos of pfp

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

The gym in Byker is good, real nice relaxed atmosphere

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to run more on the treadmill each week at the gym, today broke my record again and ran 4km. Been increasing by 0.5km each week. At this rate I should be on 10k by New Year

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful

Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

He's still not been asked why he thinks the non-white people he saw weren't "integrated" (or what "integrated" even means)

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“Was your language wise?”

Nick Watt asks Robert Jenrick about his comments describing Handsworth as was “one of the worst-integrated places" he’d been and that he had not seen "another white face" in the hour-and-a-half he spent filming there.

#Newsnight

Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

I can't see cos of the block but I'm gonna put a tenner on it being that guy who got caught out on the Irish election

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

The other thing with the argument in that post is, if Reform is all ex-Tory votes (it's not, but OP says it is) then why is Labour chasing them at the cost of the progressive votes they were lent through tactical voting that won them the GE?

Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

On a personal level, as a voter, my biggest policy fear from Reform is their pledge to repeal the Equalities Act. Since I don't feel I can trust Labour not to do the same, why should I be blackmailed into voting for them?

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed

Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

And there'd probably be less need for inhalers too if the first part was addressed

Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great example of the conversations I have at work when someone says either "[racism] isn't racist" or "I'm not racist but [racism]" where I reply with "Ok so what exactly would you call you racism then?"

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 2d

Racist arsehole Robert Jenrick holding up a wig like a puppet at his pathetic Tory conference speech which reaffirmed his bellendry

The useless cheeky monkey ventriloquist in Knowing me knowing you

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

English ceramics designer Clarice Cliff, her Art Deco Diamonds Conical Pattern Tea set, 1930 #womensart

Photo of an angular shaped tea set with two cups and saucers, a teapot, a plate, a sugar bowl and a milk jug, all decorated with painted angular shapes in orange, black, blue and yellow

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 2d

"What's that, Wiggy? What do you call a judge with no fingers? Well I don't know. What DO you call a judge with no fingers? Speak up, Wiggy. Oh! Justice Thumbs!"

Robert Jenrick holding a judge's wig as if he's about to ask it to whisper in his ear like Sooty

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 3d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

It literally is not?????

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 3d

However the maximum length of a Halloween playlist is 744 hours

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 4d

Every year I do a couple of fun winter projects. Last year I started designing knitwear!
Pleased to officially announce the
CLASSICS NERDS ‘25 collection:
GORGONEION

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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