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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 12h

My wish for this/any platform, is that we might all attempt to see the best in each other (and life) & find enough commonality to get along together.
Contrary to some people’s opinion, the last thing I want is to create enemies & friction.
Less hate… more understanding. 👍

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 8h

We never go anywhere together anymore.
It's not you, it's me...

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 8h

Saw this.
Thought of the American Congress.
Lacking in any bolics.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 8h

You working John? 👮
✏️ With a fucking pencil,!

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

There is a corner of every foreign land forever filled with the god bothered.
More gods than reasons to be cheerful.
Born again bigots that attack others in the mistaken belief that this somehow wiped away the sins that brought them to (Insert name of invisible friend).
They kill you to save you.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

The cost of rebuilding will cripple the remnants of the United States for years.
The second civil war, over in months but the hatred will last years.
Trumps family?
Long gone with $Billions.
The latest Russian oligarchs, feeding the war effort in Europe.
Trump?
Hated as treason & greed personified

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

In ten years there will be a museum to those who stood against the march of fascism.
Those who enabled it will be in courts across the civil war ravaged states, finding out following orders is once again no defense.
The future is grim as the huge cost of recovery cripples the economy.
He is buried.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

That looks incredibly tasty & healthy, COVID should fade away!
It's olive & pomegranate season here.
Just had the olives pressed into bottles, lovely fruity scent.
The pomegranates have been hard work, turning them inside out to get the seeds.
Will blast Pinsa in the air fryer and drizzle in oil.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

I may be misremembering this.
Were the last group of Saudis taught to fly in America taught how to do everything but land?
That ended badly.
This time instead of commercial aircraft it's military aircraft.
What could possibly go wrong?
After his death, the treason trials will take decades to end.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Chambray
A remnant of a time gone by
Guarding the harbour
Yet hidden in plain sight

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: ICE agents just abducted a press camera operator in Chicago.

WGN-TV’s Debbie Brockman was dragged to the ground, cuffed and bundled into a van - which then rammed her vehicle to escape.

What the hell is happening in America?

(🎥 Original footage via Josh Thomas/FB)

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck in your faint line dancing, yee haw....

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

DEATH switched off the TV.
"You would think they would realise it's all smoke & mirrors by now"
WAR smiled.
"They still think there are rules & this is reality"
DEATH chuckled.
"Pratchett knew, the elephants & turtle thing, quantum physics with funny names!"
WAR kicked the box.
"So. The cat?"
"Both'

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 2d

Due to the shutdown, Yellowstone National Park doesn’t have enough employees to maintain the holographic sky. Visitors are catching glimpses of the metal ceiling

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Sea water settles here & evaporates in the sun.
It's sunny here 360 days a year.
After that evaporation there are deep layers of salt left behind in the hand hewn rocks.
The trendy Gozo salt has been a trading focus for centuries.
Pure.
Sought after.
Even more so today.
Salt was once currency.
Rich

Salt pans in the golden rock by the deep blue sea.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Rocks & sea & sun this afternoon.
This coast faced pirates & invaders over hundreds of years.
The gigantia temples are evidence that it's been five thousand years at least.
Let that sink in.
Before the pyramids!
Chill.

Hot sun, blue sky, blue shimmering sea & golden rocks.

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 2d

Post COVID resurgence.
Word up.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 2d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

#booksky #writers #writing

Text: Good writing habit: use active voice. If the words sense any weakness at all, they'll rise up and seize control of the page, sowing chaos and death. Beware the words... -The Writer's Mysterium

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 2d

In god we trust?
This has now replaced 'E Pluribus unum' in the United states where in 1776 out of the many we saw one emerge.
Those thirteen separate states no longer seem the focus of this administration.
It seems to seek to bend god to a created image that is to be trusted.
Sinners or saints.

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 2d

DEATH was humming.
"My three best agents on earth are going to be here soon"
WAR smiled.
"When you claim them, the wars that will follow will be wonderful"
DEATH cracked some knuckles.
"Tthat look when they realise, 'you are just another dead meat puppet', priceless".
An eternity of repentance.

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 2d

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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 2d

Very kind, thank you, adventures every day! 😁

Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 2d

After an arm full of blood given at a pre op it was suggested I need to refuel.
Never one to ignore a doctor's advice here I am on the harbour wall refuelling.
Possibly should have been healthy.
But I feel so good now.
I can feel bad next week after surgery!

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