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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 17h

Rome wasn’t fallen in a day, as they say

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 18h

Everybody relax. The kids are OK

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 19h

Myth and history are both important, but if you try and use one as the other you end up in a mess

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 21h

There’s a good chance that some sort of fuckery will be tried to unite the Tory and reform vote, and there’s a good chance that it won’t work

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 22h

Personal ambition.

Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 22h

That we have shit stains like jenrick being openly far right. It’s pure Johnson. Say and do anything to get power, regardless of the consequences.

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 22h

Not really an argument here. Just a whinge that the author knows more about Nazis than you do

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

Just being desperately trying to be fired so he can be a martyr and join reform

Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

I mean he didn’t *invent* hammy writing he’s just good at it

Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

I downloaded this game 8 years ago and I’m still too chicken to play it

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

I listened to them all on audiobook. Had no idea they were such satisfying looking tomes.

Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

He's a racist conspiracy theorist

Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

Ozempic Jenrick is a dangerous fantasist. Someone needs to give him a sandwich and a slap

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

Trashing all the progress we’ve made as a society against racism to play to a gallery of angry Twitter bots with names like @SchindlersFist69

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 1d

He’s lucky, because I as a white person would have kicked the fuck out of that racist crooked little prick

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe they used magic. I heard that the CIA was into mind control in the 70s

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

So how did the CIA force 10,000 people onto the streets against their will to face violence but without using violence?

Think, boy, think!

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

So if force was not required to get Ukrainians to suffer the threat of force by their own government, what did the CIA do? If people were already willing to overthrow their government what part did the CIA play that you consider illegitimate?

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

You can read about the CIA's attempts and successes at regime change. The norm is right wing death squads, political assassinations and a violent takeover by a corrupt member of the security services elevated to dictator. They have a really distinct calling card

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

This is something I don't get about conspiricism. You can literally just read things and then you know stuff. You can go find out if this stuff is true. Aren't you curious? And wouldn't that be more satisfying than defending something you don't actually know about online to a stranger?

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

I think if you studied the real activities of the CIA you’d have a better idea of what I’m telling you. They’re thugs with very few tricks in their regime change tool box.

Try and imagine what logistically you would need to do to get 10,000 people on the streets who wouldn’t have been there

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

You didn’t answer my question. If it’s all an American plot why do the Russian’s play along?

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot emphasise enough this claim only comes from Russia and Russian proxies. The revolution appears to be genuine. The CIA does coups, not democratic uprisings.

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

Well since the 2022 escalation he has lost the Black Sea fleet. Ukraine will almost certainly join NATO. Finland and Sweden have joined NATO. If Russia knows it is being provoked by the evil CIA why does it keep doing what the CIA wants?

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Michael Cleary @magnificocleary.bsky.social · 2d

i thought he had to invade in 2014 to prevent Ukraine joining NATO? it really doesn’t help that he keeps changing his story. You should probably wonder about that when you consider that Russia is the only source of claims that the CIA orchestrated the revolution in Ukraine

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