Andy Smith
@practicaleq.bsky.social
Appreciative Inquiry practitioner, author of 'Practical Appreciative Inquiry' and 'Practical NLP' series, curates Appreciative Inquiry starter pack
https://coachingleaders.co.uk
https://coachingleaders.co.uk
I'm watching Home Alone 2 for the first time. Kevin's family appear to be monsters
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm watching Home Alone 2 for the first time. Kevin's family appear to be monsters
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WARNING FOR PARENTS
Check if your child has / using a chat bot. If so, delete and ban it.
A shocking story to be aware of.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Check if your child has / using a chat bot. If so, delete and ban it.
A shocking story to be aware of.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.
A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
WARNING FOR PARENTS
Check if your child has / using a chat bot. If so, delete and ban it.
A shocking story to be aware of.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Check if your child has / using a chat bot. If so, delete and ban it.
A shocking story to be aware of.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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Nice rhythm guitar on this
Jerry Tyrone - I Still Love You [US, Blues Funk] (198x)
https://redd.it/143hg1h
https://youtu.be/eYxZu4f_h-g
https://redd.it/143hg1h
https://youtu.be/eYxZu4f_h-g
Jerry Tyrone - I Still Love You [US, Blues Funk] (198x)
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Nice rhythm guitar on this
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Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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This is one of the most magnificent essays I've read in a very long time.
(Gift Link 🎁)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
(Gift Link 🎁)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is one of the most magnificent essays I've read in a very long time.
(Gift Link 🎁)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
(Gift Link 🎁)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
😄 He's pretty much nailed BlueSky, although I guess there wasn't room for the one that goes 'Post Some Songs You Like Challenge, but the rules are so insanely complicated that you give up halfway through reading them' Alt text 'ANYONE NOT STICKING TO THE RULES WILL BE PLACED ON A BLOCK LIST'
25 'MOST BLUESKY' POSTS OF 2025
Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?
Here's my selection of the 25 Bluesky posts that most impressed me this year. They're quite varied, but doesn't that reflect the thriving, harmonious site this really is? Yes. It does. They've been anonymised anyway, who cares?
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
😄 He's pretty much nailed BlueSky, although I guess there wasn't room for the one that goes 'Post Some Songs You Like Challenge, but the rules are so insanely complicated that you give up halfway through reading them' Alt text 'ANYONE NOT STICKING TO THE RULES WILL BE PLACED ON A BLOCK LIST'
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It's noticeable that the people who are now angriest with Keir Starmer's Labour government are those who voted for it. And they are right to be. This has been his primary achievement.
So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?
So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It's noticeable that the people who are now angriest with Keir Starmer's Labour government are those who voted for it. And they are right to be. This has been his primary achievement.
So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?
So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?
A rare work post: I'm teaching a Practical Appreciative Inquiry facilitator training, designed to get you using it confidently with teams and small groups, in March. Places still available!
Full details, dates, and how to secure your place here:
coachingleaders.co.uk/appreciative...
Full details, dates, and how to secure your place here:
coachingleaders.co.uk/appreciative...
Appreciative Inquiry Online Course with Andy Smith
Learn Appreciative Inquiry on this five-week live online programme with experienced facilitator Andy Smith.
coachingleaders.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A rare work post: I'm teaching a Practical Appreciative Inquiry facilitator training, designed to get you using it confidently with teams and small groups, in March. Places still available!
Full details, dates, and how to secure your place here:
coachingleaders.co.uk/appreciative...
Full details, dates, and how to secure your place here:
coachingleaders.co.uk/appreciative...
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Kelip kelip synchronously flashing fireflies
a million wrinkled-lipped bats
Thousands of starling murmurating
A pair of condors giving me a fly-pass ten foot away
Monarch butterflies on a 3000 mile migration
Read my book to learn more!
Kelip kelip synchronously flashing fireflies
a million wrinkled-lipped bats
Thousands of starling murmurating
A pair of condors giving me a fly-pass ten foot away
Monarch butterflies on a 3000 mile migration
Read my book to learn more!
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Vauxhall Chevette
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned:
Ford Fiesta mk1
MG Midget 1500
Rover 3500S
MG ZT-T
Hyundai Santa Fe
Ford Fiesta mk1
MG Midget 1500
Rover 3500S
MG ZT-T
Hyundai Santa Fe
This is more like it.
Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned
Saab 900i
Porsche 944 s2
Ford Puma (the proper one, the coupe)
Toyota MR2 MK1
Ford Escort Calypso
Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned
Saab 900i
Porsche 944 s2
Ford Puma (the proper one, the coupe)
Toyota MR2 MK1
Ford Escort Calypso
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Vauxhall Chevette
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
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So, sorry racists, but don’t be acting all outraged when we say that voting Reform is a racist choice. It is. Farage knows it. Reform knows it. And you know it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
So, sorry racists, but don’t be acting all outraged when we say that voting Reform is a racist choice. It is. Farage knows it. Reform knows it. And you know it.
Informative thread, I learned from it
I’m actually terrified to do this, but here goes.
One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.
Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
1/
One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.
Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
1/
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Informative thread, I learned from it
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
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The incredibly prolific author Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) joined me to discuss the 19th Discworld novel, Feet of Clay.
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
Spotify – Web Player
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The incredibly prolific author Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) joined me to discuss the 19th Discworld novel, Feet of Clay.
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
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This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
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Randall’s made me laugh a lot but that’s the first time he’s made me cry.
Properly moving xkcd
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Randall’s made me laugh a lot but that’s the first time he’s made me cry.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
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Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already