Phil M
@phillm.bsky.social
Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.
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Phil M
@phillm.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Absolutely horrific.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Hong Kong fire: At least 13 dead as more than 700 firefighters tackle blaze - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Hong Kong fire: At least 13 dead as more than 700 firefighters tackle blaze - BBC News
Hong Kong fire: At least 13 dead as more than 700 firefighters tackle blaze
The fire has engulfed a number of buildings, with flames spreading on bamboo scaffolding. At least one firefighter is among the dead.
www.bbc.co.uk
I've posted a few things about the horrendous & catastrophic High Rise Residential Building (HRRB) fire in Hong Kong, I spoke to the World Service about it last night, because this is my specialism. So, a thread 🧵 about the rapid fire spread... bsky.app/profile/phil...
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"We do need to humiliate the Labour Party. It is a moral imperative." Absolutely @nojusticemtg.bsky.social
youtu.be/8E6rgczS8ik?...
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The Green Party need to HUMILIATE Labour in Gorton and Denton
YouTube video by No Justice
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January 26, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"We do need to humiliate the Labour Party. It is a moral imperative." Absolutely @nojusticemtg.bsky.social
youtu.be/8E6rgczS8ik?...
youtu.be/8E6rgczS8ik?...
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Five new articles were uploaded to the ICE archive this morning.
Pin the ICE feed to your home tab to stay informed.
Pin the ICE feed to your home tab to stay informed.
🌀ICE Archive🌀
This feed features 1,000 carefully selected works of independent journalism published since June about ICE.
Articles are sourced from worker-owned & nonprofit newsrooms.
An attempt via public archival experiment to understand the past six months of ICE's much longer history.
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This feed features 1,000 carefully selected works of independent journalism published since June about ICE.
Articles are sourced from worker-owned & nonprofit newsrooms.
An attempt via public archival experiment to understand the past six months of ICE's much longer history.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Five new articles were uploaded to the ICE archive this morning.
Pin the ICE feed to your home tab to stay informed.
Pin the ICE feed to your home tab to stay informed.
📍it
🌀ICE Archive🌀
This feed features 1,000 carefully selected works of independent journalism published since June about ICE.
Articles are sourced from worker-owned & nonprofit newsrooms.
An attempt via public archival experiment to understand the past six months of ICE's much longer history.
1/4 🧵
This feed features 1,000 carefully selected works of independent journalism published since June about ICE.
Articles are sourced from worker-owned & nonprofit newsrooms.
An attempt via public archival experiment to understand the past six months of ICE's much longer history.
1/4 🧵
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Heartfelt congratulations to @nigella.bsky.social 💐
Oxford graduate Nigella Lawson has been confirmed as new host of TV's Great British Bake Off. While studying at LMH, she was allegedly approached by her tutor to join MI5, but was advised against it by her father Nigel Lawson (later Chancellor of the Exchequer).
www.oxfordstudent.com/2013/01/24/o...
www.oxfordstudent.com/2013/01/24/o...
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Heartfelt congratulations to @nigella.bsky.social 💐
🪖😡"PAPERS"😡🪖
BREAKING: Facial recognition technology is to be rolled out across England and Wales, under sweeping reforms announced by the home secretary
January 26, 2026 at 5:48 PM
🪖😡"PAPERS"😡🪖
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Europe is planning to launch its own social media platform called "W", marketed to help fight disinformation and serve as a better alternative to X.
Would you join W?
#SocialMedia #W
Would you join W?
#SocialMedia #W
January 24, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Europe is planning to launch its own social media platform called "W", marketed to help fight disinformation and serve as a better alternative to X.
Would you join W?
#SocialMedia #W
Would you join W?
#SocialMedia #W
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want to flee the online surveillance state?
after Larry Ellison purchased TikTok, its users are fleeing to a new Australian app called @upscrolled.bsky.social
UpScrolled is developed by a man of Palestinian origin
#SocialMedia #SurveillanceState #UpScrolled #TikTok upscrolled.com/en/
after Larry Ellison purchased TikTok, its users are fleeing to a new Australian app called @upscrolled.bsky.social
UpScrolled is developed by a man of Palestinian origin
#SocialMedia #SurveillanceState #UpScrolled #TikTok upscrolled.com/en/
January 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
want to flee the online surveillance state?
after Larry Ellison purchased TikTok, its users are fleeing to a new Australian app called @upscrolled.bsky.social
UpScrolled is developed by a man of Palestinian origin
#SocialMedia #SurveillanceState #UpScrolled #TikTok upscrolled.com/en/
after Larry Ellison purchased TikTok, its users are fleeing to a new Australian app called @upscrolled.bsky.social
UpScrolled is developed by a man of Palestinian origin
#SocialMedia #SurveillanceState #UpScrolled #TikTok upscrolled.com/en/
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A message from Greenland…
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 AM
A message from Greenland…
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What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election?
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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I can't help thinking that if Badenoch wasn't actually the Conservative leader, she'd be the next one running into the arms of Reform.
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I can't help thinking that if Badenoch wasn't actually the Conservative leader, she'd be the next one running into the arms of Reform.
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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🔴 Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump
The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump
Nigel Farage’s donors have paid for him to take trips around the world to the tune of £151,000 since July 2024, DeSmog can reveal. Farage jetted off to the elite networking forum Davos in Switzerland ...
www.desmog.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
🔴 Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump
The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Blimey: Tory HQ goes for the 'she's not well' angle, with Braverman.
January 26, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Blimey: Tory HQ goes for the 'she's not well' angle, with Braverman.
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🚨 50% of Labour voters (17pts) have walked away. Where did they go?
🔴Lab ->🟢Grn: 6.2pts [ 36% ]
🔴Lab ->🟠Lib: 4.2pts [ 24% ]
🔴Lab ->➡️Ref: 3.5pts [ 20% ]
🔴Lab ->🔵Con: 1.4pts [ 8% ]
70%+ of defecting Labour voters have moved *left*.
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec-9 Jan
🔴Lab ->🟢Grn: 6.2pts [ 36% ]
🔴Lab ->🟠Lib: 4.2pts [ 24% ]
🔴Lab ->➡️Ref: 3.5pts [ 20% ]
🔴Lab ->🔵Con: 1.4pts [ 8% ]
70%+ of defecting Labour voters have moved *left*.
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec-9 Jan
January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM
🚨 50% of Labour voters (17pts) have walked away. Where did they go?
🔴Lab ->🟢Grn: 6.2pts [ 36% ]
🔴Lab ->🟠Lib: 4.2pts [ 24% ]
🔴Lab ->➡️Ref: 3.5pts [ 20% ]
🔴Lab ->🔵Con: 1.4pts [ 8% ]
70%+ of defecting Labour voters have moved *left*.
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec-9 Jan
🔴Lab ->🟢Grn: 6.2pts [ 36% ]
🔴Lab ->🟠Lib: 4.2pts [ 24% ]
🔴Lab ->➡️Ref: 3.5pts [ 20% ]
🔴Lab ->🔵Con: 1.4pts [ 8% ]
70%+ of defecting Labour voters have moved *left*.
Via @YouGov, 14 Dec-9 Jan
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Labour MPs are rightly calling today's decision 'petty factionalism'. It's time to stop being disappointed in them, and instead join the only campaign that can beat Reform in this by-election:
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Labour MPs are rightly calling today's decision 'petty factionalism'. It's time to stop being disappointed in them, and instead join the only campaign that can beat Reform in this by-election:
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
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Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.
Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
January 25, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.
Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.
actionnetwork.org/events/a-gre...
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Huge mistake’: Labour in turmoil as Burnham blocked from byelection race.
Under Starmer everything is centralised. Local party emasculated, candidates parachuted by hierarchy.
Conference resolutions ignored, unions alienated, left purged, poor policies.
Under Starmer everything is centralised. Local party emasculated, candidates parachuted by hierarchy.
Conference resolutions ignored, unions alienated, left purged, poor policies.
‘Huge mistake’: Labour in turmoil as Burnham blocked from byelection race
Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Huge mistake’: Labour in turmoil as Burnham blocked from byelection race.
Under Starmer everything is centralised. Local party emasculated, candidates parachuted by hierarchy.
Conference resolutions ignored, unions alienated, left purged, poor policies.
Under Starmer everything is centralised. Local party emasculated, candidates parachuted by hierarchy.
Conference resolutions ignored, unions alienated, left purged, poor policies.
"Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech & language therapy & disability support... a quarter of the 300,000 children on waiting lists have been waiting more than 12 months." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children's early development at risk with year-long NHS waits
A quarter of the 300,000 children waiting for community NHS care have spent more than a year waiting.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 9:39 AM
"Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech & language therapy & disability support... a quarter of the 300,000 children on waiting lists have been waiting more than 12 months." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Had a pretty convincing scam call from a lady pretending to be from my mobile operator.
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Had a pretty convincing scam call from a lady pretending to be from my mobile operator.
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
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An inter-island ferry with more than 350 people on board has sunk in the southern Philippines after midnight and rescuers have saved at least 215 passengers and retrieved seven bodies.
Ferry carrying more than 350 people sinks in southern Philippines and rescuers have saved 200
An inter-island ferry with more than 350 people on board has sunk in the southern Philippines after midnight and rescuers have saved at least 215 passengers and retrieved seven bodies.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 11:04 PM
An inter-island ferry with more than 350 people on board has sunk in the southern Philippines after midnight and rescuers have saved at least 215 passengers and retrieved seven bodies.
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I see this a lot about the BBC's coverage today, and I understand it but I think, unfortunately, it is not true. E.g. the very pro-government framing of this piece
January 25, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I see this a lot about the BBC's coverage today, and I understand it but I think, unfortunately, it is not true. E.g. the very pro-government framing of this piece
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there are many ways water-related conflicts are already afflicting people - others where they expose how vulnerable we could be to attack. You can explore the map here:
share.google/bJ2lNWuLb6sR...
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January 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
there are many ways water-related conflicts are already afflicting people - others where they expose how vulnerable we could be to attack. You can explore the map here:
share.google/bJ2lNWuLb6sR...
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share.google/bJ2lNWuLb6sR...
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