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neiljsmith.bsky.social
Singer/songwriter/musician and semi-autonomous biped from the badlands of the Buckinghamshire/Berkshire borders, UK My lovely band Plynthology: https://linktr.ee/plynthology My solo exploits: https://linktr.ee/neiljsmith
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V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform. Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure. It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

"Like a dog with the garden hose". @mattgreencomedy.com at his best!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Just as a reminder, not a single state gave in to Trump’s tariff threats. Not one. He’s blown up US economic credibility for nothing.

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments

Everyone loves sausage dogs, but are you familiar with the other sausage animals? Here's a handy guide. If you like this cartoon, I can draw one for you. www.worldofmoose.com/products/sau...

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

I think liberals in the West need to understand that they have not stumbled across any kind of contradiction or hypocrisy in the Global far right. When they said “people have a right to free speech” they simply never saw racialised people as people to begin with 🧵

submitted 45 days ago • 22 comments

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

submitted 51 days ago • 93 comments

Hi all, just sent out my free weekend update. Started with the most important and least surprising story of the week. The Trump-Putin call showed that the US is now a vehicle to help Putin achieve his policy goals, nothing more, nothing less. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 52 days ago • 17 comments

I've been making music and doing videos under the name of @plynthology.bsky.social. I hope this tickles your fancy.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

submitted 62 days ago • 55 comments

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

submitted 65 days ago • 464 comments

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

submitted 65 days ago • 80 comments

Undeniable fact

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

submitted 67 days ago • 86 comments

I've loved the the arrangements, and particularly the busy, baroque bass playing on Serge Gainsbourg's album 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' for a long time.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

President Zelensky will meet King Charles at Sandringham tomorrow. A spokesman for the King said the purpose of the meeting was "to annoy the fuck out of that dreadful orange shithead"

submitted 74 days ago • 23 comments

Are we starting to see now? He's a madman. He's an idiot. An old man pissing himself in the corner of a room, muttering paranoid fantasies about his imaginary enemies. Ignore it until it happens. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 77 days ago • 108 comments

Let’s be clear: a free and sovereign Ukraine is not only in the European interest. It’s also in the interest of the entire world. An investment in Ukraine’s sovereignty is an investment in the prevention of future wars. My statement in Kyiv ↓ europa.eu/!JQGJm8

submitted 79 days ago • 47 comments

Less than 20% of Germans voted for Nazis. Compared to nearly 50% of Americans.

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

This is very good news - if even Trump’s most slavish propaganda outlets call him out over Ukraine.

submitted 82 days ago • 12 comments

Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on

submitted 84 days ago • 60 comments

By @cagle.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 88 days ago • 297 comments

Please continue to report.

submitted 90 days ago • 296 comments

😅

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

I can’t promise these too regularly but much is going on under Labour that you just don’t hear about. Today’s announcement in flood defences is long needed.

submitted 98 days ago • 18 comments

It’s impossible to convey how bad it is in US. No agency, or programme spared. Administration bulldozing the constitution. Congress supine. Courts too slow. Officials terrified, their life’s work trashed, careers ended, expertise gone. Damage around world. US reputation and partnerships destroyed.

submitted 97 days ago • 31 comments

Important news! The Reading Museum (in Reading. Not a museum of reading) has a full-size replica if the Bayeux Tapestry! How come that fact is not very famous?? And sells *several* mugs showing various bits of it. #history @readingmuseum.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments