John Birkhead
@gatobrit.bsky.social
Husband. Spare Dad. English by birth. American by choice. Liberal. Traveler.
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He Looks Like A Witness To Me
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He Looks Like A Witness To Me
No one should be surprised by Donald Trump‘s Christmas day social media post.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
He Looks Like A Witness To Me
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Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
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Our broken child care system can learn a lot from New Mexico - the state that is leading the way in guaranteeing free child care for all.
There is no better rate of return than investing in our children.
The rest of the country should follow New Mexico’s lead.
There is no better rate of return than investing in our children.
The rest of the country should follow New Mexico’s lead.
December 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Our broken child care system can learn a lot from New Mexico - the state that is leading the way in guaranteeing free child care for all.
There is no better rate of return than investing in our children.
The rest of the country should follow New Mexico’s lead.
There is no better rate of return than investing in our children.
The rest of the country should follow New Mexico’s lead.
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Not that anybody asked, but If you accumulated all the flora, fauna, and metal that your True Love gives you each day in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song, you would own 12 Trees, 40 Gold Rings, 140 Humans, and 185 Birds of 6 different species.
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not that anybody asked, but If you accumulated all the flora, fauna, and metal that your True Love gives you each day in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song, you would own 12 Trees, 40 Gold Rings, 140 Humans, and 185 Birds of 6 different species.
For those visiting the UK and tasked with doing grocery shopping…. (BTW: Smiths roast chicken crisps (chips) in Aus brought back happy memories)
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10 Everyday Grocery Items That Are Completely Different In The UK Vs The US - Tasting Table
Your favorite groceries can look and taste different depending on where you buy them. Find out why British sodas and eggs are different than those in the U.S.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
For those visiting the UK and tasked with doing grocery shopping…. (BTW: Smiths roast chicken crisps (chips) in Aus brought back happy memories)
www.tastingtable.com/2056127/ever...
www.tastingtable.com/2056127/ever...
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Body: I can't physically eat any more.
Brain: THERE'S STILL CHEESE LEFT, PUSSY!
Body: But I hurt. The pain!
Brain: EAT MORE CHOCOLATE NOW!
Body: *cries*
Brain: WASH IT DOWN WITH A PINT OF BAILEYS.
Body: I’m begging you. Please stop.
Body: SNORT THAT PURPLE QUALITY STREET, BITCH.
Brain: THERE'S STILL CHEESE LEFT, PUSSY!
Body: But I hurt. The pain!
Brain: EAT MORE CHOCOLATE NOW!
Body: *cries*
Brain: WASH IT DOWN WITH A PINT OF BAILEYS.
Body: I’m begging you. Please stop.
Body: SNORT THAT PURPLE QUALITY STREET, BITCH.
December 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Body: I can't physically eat any more.
Brain: THERE'S STILL CHEESE LEFT, PUSSY!
Body: But I hurt. The pain!
Brain: EAT MORE CHOCOLATE NOW!
Body: *cries*
Brain: WASH IT DOWN WITH A PINT OF BAILEYS.
Body: I’m begging you. Please stop.
Body: SNORT THAT PURPLE QUALITY STREET, BITCH.
Brain: THERE'S STILL CHEESE LEFT, PUSSY!
Body: But I hurt. The pain!
Brain: EAT MORE CHOCOLATE NOW!
Body: *cries*
Brain: WASH IT DOWN WITH A PINT OF BAILEYS.
Body: I’m begging you. Please stop.
Body: SNORT THAT PURPLE QUALITY STREET, BITCH.
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This is a fair and important question. Trump is a criminal, running a criminal syndicate from the Oval Office.
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is a fair and important question. Trump is a criminal, running a criminal syndicate from the Oval Office.
This is really bad news for Kobbie. His first chance at starting a game this season and now this… 🫤
Kobbie Mainoo will miss Manchester United’s trip to Aston Villa due to a calf injury.
Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo misses Aston Villa trip due to calf injury
With Casemiro suspended, Mainoo could have been in contention for a first Premier League start of the season.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is really bad news for Kobbie. His first chance at starting a game this season and now this… 🫤
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My child was six, the same age as the Sandy Hook first-graders, so she was at school when the news broke. Both her dad and I were home and I remember telling him and then falling apart sobbing in his arms. And yep, I idiotically believed it would be the wakeup call for gun laws to finally change.
do you remember 13 years ago today? remember thinking surely this would be the last straw, that something would change? i remember weeping at my desk thinking about the wrapped presents waiting under so many christmas trees for six year olds who would never come home.
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
My child was six, the same age as the Sandy Hook first-graders, so she was at school when the news broke. Both her dad and I were home and I remember telling him and then falling apart sobbing in his arms. And yep, I idiotically believed it would be the wakeup call for gun laws to finally change.
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
Fireworks at Darling Harbour - every Saturday night @ 9pm
The fireworks are spectacular
(Missing Australia)
The fireworks are spectacular
(Missing Australia)
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Fireworks at Darling Harbour - every Saturday night @ 9pm
The fireworks are spectacular
(Missing Australia)
The fireworks are spectacular
(Missing Australia)
Errr! Are we supposed to be doing this? We wailed when Somali pirates seized ships in the gulf. There was a movie made about it.
What are we becoming?
What is our military doing obeying clearly illegal orders?
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What are we becoming?
What is our military doing obeying clearly illegal orders?
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Video shows US military seizing oil tanker off Venezuela coast
According to US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who shared the footage, the tanker was used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Errr! Are we supposed to be doing this? We wailed when Somali pirates seized ships in the gulf. There was a movie made about it.
What are we becoming?
What is our military doing obeying clearly illegal orders?
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
What are we becoming?
What is our military doing obeying clearly illegal orders?
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Corruption out in the open. How can the White House have the power to approve a merger or block a competing one where Trump’s own son-in-law stands to make millions? This is why the FTC should remain independent—and why Trump wants to control it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Corruption out in the open. How can the White House have the power to approve a merger or block a competing one where Trump’s own son-in-law stands to make millions? This is why the FTC should remain independent—and why Trump wants to control it.
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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
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Everyone wants a piece of the grift. This guy, Infantile, is only too happy to bend a knee for money. Hello, Qatar, yours is only the second most corrupt World Cup in history now.
I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Everyone wants a piece of the grift. This guy, Infantile, is only too happy to bend a knee for money. Hello, Qatar, yours is only the second most corrupt World Cup in history now.
Shameful. FIFA has morphed into a global force for grift and corruption. Football is a beautiful game and shouldn’t be represented on the world stage by this load of crooks and schisters
FIFA invited President Donald Trump to address the World Cup 2026 draw Friday after he receives the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, per multiple sources briefed on the event’s planning
@adamcrafton.bsky.social has the full story ⬇️
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@adamcrafton.bsky.social has the full story ⬇️
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December 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Shameful. FIFA has morphed into a global force for grift and corruption. Football is a beautiful game and shouldn’t be represented on the world stage by this load of crooks and schisters
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There's a wide variety of types of malignant actors in the Trump administration, a taxonomy of ways to inflict harm on the common good. But RFK Jr strikes me as a unique type among the lot, a (less-qualified) Josef Mengele bent on turning his fantasies about bodily suffering into our lived reality.
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
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December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
There's a wide variety of types of malignant actors in the Trump administration, a taxonomy of ways to inflict harm on the common good. But RFK Jr strikes me as a unique type among the lot, a (less-qualified) Josef Mengele bent on turning his fantasies about bodily suffering into our lived reality.
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I’m sure he got a lot of blowback for this but it makes sense. Social isolation among young people is a real problem. More social drinking might help. Less might be exacerbating the problem. youtube.com/shorts/-Pf2q...
YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO DRINK MORE? 😱
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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December 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I’m sure he got a lot of blowback for this but it makes sense. Social isolation among young people is a real problem. More social drinking might help. Less might be exacerbating the problem. youtube.com/shorts/-Pf2q...
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Good morning #BlueSky
"The wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts." ~ C.G. Jung
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic epidemics.” ~ C.G. Jung
"The wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts." ~ C.G. Jung
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic epidemics.” ~ C.G. Jung
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Good morning #BlueSky
"The wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts." ~ C.G. Jung
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic epidemics.” ~ C.G. Jung
"The wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts." ~ C.G. Jung
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic epidemics.” ~ C.G. Jung
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December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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They won’t stop! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
They won’t stop! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...