Mark Birch
@mbirch.bsky.social
Music, gaming, photography. Luxury butler to small dog called Tim.
PFP: Small Dog licking my face.
Banner image: Small dog sprinting on a wet beach.
PFP: Small Dog licking my face.
Banner image: Small dog sprinting on a wet beach.
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I could watch this all day on a loop 😊
Day 319 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Always show up! It's the only way to get a treat
Always show up! It's the only way to get a treat
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I could watch this all day on a loop 😊
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This is true.
The husband just found me having a little cry in my studio.
He’s making me a hot Vimto and I’m having a word with myself.
Have a look at my website and please repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
The husband just found me having a little cry in my studio.
He’s making me a hot Vimto and I’m having a word with myself.
Have a look at my website and please repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is true.
The husband just found me having a little cry in my studio.
He’s making me a hot Vimto and I’m having a word with myself.
Have a look at my website and please repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
The husband just found me having a little cry in my studio.
He’s making me a hot Vimto and I’m having a word with myself.
Have a look at my website and please repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
Moonlighting, the beloved 1980s TV series that launched Bruce Willis's career, is available to stream in the UK for the first time ever.
Read more: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/mo...
Read more: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/mo...
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Who would have thought reading and writing would pay off!”
“Me and my big letter writing pen”
“Me and my big letter writing pen”
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Who would have thought reading and writing would pay off!”
“Me and my big letter writing pen”
“Me and my big letter writing pen”
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Over 620k signatures already.
Gotta hand it to Labour - just when you think they’ve peaked, they always find a bigger rake.
Gotta hand it to Labour - just when you think they’ve peaked, they always find a bigger rake.
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Over 620k signatures already.
Gotta hand it to Labour - just when you think they’ve peaked, they always find a bigger rake.
Gotta hand it to Labour - just when you think they’ve peaked, they always find a bigger rake.
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One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
I’m curious how my MP @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social would respond to the points below, raised by an expert, which are in my opinion extremely valid criticisms of the Online Safety Act. The most technically illiterate legislation possible.
A number of people have said ‘you don’t like the Online Safety Act - what’s *your* solution?’
My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6
My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6
August 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’m curious how my MP @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social would respond to the points below, raised by an expert, which are in my opinion extremely valid criticisms of the Online Safety Act. The most technically illiterate legislation possible.
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Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
August 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
July 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Americans don't understand that the rest of the world just laughs when they claim to be the country of 'freedom'. They get about 4 days off work a year, no maternity or sick leave, no free healthcare, democracy is owned by billionaires, you arent even free to cross a street.
July 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Americans don't understand that the rest of the world just laughs when they claim to be the country of 'freedom'. They get about 4 days off work a year, no maternity or sick leave, no free healthcare, democracy is owned by billionaires, you arent even free to cross a street.
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
June 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
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There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
June 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
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Had a lovely evening chatting away with one of my oldest friends @mbirch.bsky.social it affirmed we both do not like heights, I have an irrational fear of crocodiles and he is great at photography.
May 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Had a lovely evening chatting away with one of my oldest friends @mbirch.bsky.social it affirmed we both do not like heights, I have an irrational fear of crocodiles and he is great at photography.
All of this.
After some...not so lovely responses to my article about skipping bosses last week, I've tried to reply to the most common arguments in as good-faith a way as I can.
I hope this can be something to point to when encountering any of the retorts.
kotaku.com/skip-boss-fi...
I hope this can be something to point to when encountering any of the retorts.
kotaku.com/skip-boss-fi...
Every Argument For Why We Shouldn't Be Able To Skip Boss Fights, Addressed
Every common contention against the idea is responded to as nicely as possible
kotaku.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
All of this.
Just a few months before I got married, my fiancé told me I should stop eating sausages. When I inquired why she said “because you may as well just strap them to the underside of your chin”. I stopped eating sausages and still married her.
What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
April 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Just a few months before I got married, my fiancé told me I should stop eating sausages. When I inquired why she said “because you may as well just strap them to the underside of your chin”. I stopped eating sausages and still married her.
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This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.
April 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.
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Fucking duh. Love love LOVE my queer siblings of all kinds.
If that is a dealbreaker for you then I suggest you fix your hearts or die.
Fucking duh. Love love LOVE my queer siblings of all kinds.
If that is a dealbreaker for you then I suggest you fix your hearts or die.
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Being LGBTQ+ friendly has been part of my mission from day one, as I believe there are too many spaces which are hostile towards marginalized individuals
As much as I wish I didn't have to announce that I am a safe space for queer/trans/gay persons, I must.
Being LGBTQ+ friendly has been part of my mission from day one, as I believe there are too many spaces which are hostile towards marginalized individuals
As much as I wish I didn't have to announce that I am a safe space for queer/trans/gay persons, I must.
April 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Fucking duh. Love love LOVE my queer siblings of all kinds.
If that is a dealbreaker for you then I suggest you fix your hearts or die.
Fucking duh. Love love LOVE my queer siblings of all kinds.
If that is a dealbreaker for you then I suggest you fix your hearts or die.
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
When your new smartphone decibel warning alert happens and you can’t think why but then it hits you….
April 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
When your new smartphone decibel warning alert happens and you can’t think why but then it hits you….
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
Is this Trump’s Liz Truss moment? Or is America collectively dumb enough to see it through?
April 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Is this Trump’s Liz Truss moment? Or is America collectively dumb enough to see it through?
Paging @kosmickris.bsky.social
Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in new John le Carré TV show
Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in new John le Carré TV show
Succession star lined up to play the famous spymaster in Legacy of Spies, a new small-screen adaptation that will draw on several of le Carré’s bestselling books
Matthew Macfadyen has been cast as George Smiley in a new TV series based on the novels of…
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Paging @kosmickris.bsky.social
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I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Take a look at my wares and please retweet.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Post a picture of when your pet was little.
Tim. ❤️
Tim. ❤️
March 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Post a picture of when your pet was little.
Tim. ❤️
Tim. ❤️
Urgh. That Armstrong interview. Absolute state of him.
March 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Urgh. That Armstrong interview. Absolute state of him.