Greg D WordSmith
@gregdwordsmith.bsky.social
Copywriter, husband, cat dad, hopeless nerd. Trying to get fit in my forties so there'll probably be a lot of that.
I went no contact with my mother years ago. It wasn't an entirely selfish decision, I also made it for the good of my wife, friends & other family. My mother has been known to call anyone she can think of to cause trouble when she isn't getting the attention she feels she deserves. 🤷🏻♂️
"I worry that we are rapidly moving towards a society of self-absorbed and entitled individuals who have no time, affection or care for their parents." Letter in the Times from a 'relationship and family therapist' in response to Sarah Ditum's article attacking kids who have cut off abusive parents
December 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I went no contact with my mother years ago. It wasn't an entirely selfish decision, I also made it for the good of my wife, friends & other family. My mother has been known to call anyone she can think of to cause trouble when she isn't getting the attention she feels she deserves. 🤷🏻♂️
Conservative Christians: 'Facts don't care about your feelings'.
Also Conservative Christians: 'How dare you fail me for choosing to reiterate my personal beliefs & feelings instead of answering the actual question? This is discrimination which has hurt my fee fees. You're just OFFENDED.'
Also Conservative Christians: 'How dare you fail me for choosing to reiterate my personal beliefs & feelings instead of answering the actual question? This is discrimination which has hurt my fee fees. You're just OFFENDED.'
Oklahoma student failed paper. Now Turning Point USA is involved.
The university placed the instructor on leave as it conducts a ‘full review’ of the matter
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Conservative Christians: 'Facts don't care about your feelings'.
Also Conservative Christians: 'How dare you fail me for choosing to reiterate my personal beliefs & feelings instead of answering the actual question? This is discrimination which has hurt my fee fees. You're just OFFENDED.'
Also Conservative Christians: 'How dare you fail me for choosing to reiterate my personal beliefs & feelings instead of answering the actual question? This is discrimination which has hurt my fee fees. You're just OFFENDED.'
Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it…
Sorry to be dull but:
Sorry to be dull but:
December 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it…
Sorry to be dull but:
Sorry to be dull but:
Louder for the cretins at the back.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Louder for the cretins at the back.
Fuck off. Seriously. I am so done with this policing of other people's bodies by deranged fucking lunatics. Disabilities are many and varied and no disabled person owes you their detailed medical history, I don't give a shit if you had to wait a few more mins to board your plane, Karen!
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Fuck off. Seriously. I am so done with this policing of other people's bodies by deranged fucking lunatics. Disabilities are many and varied and no disabled person owes you their detailed medical history, I don't give a shit if you had to wait a few more mins to board your plane, Karen!
'The nail tears.'
'Now you'll smile.'
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
'The nail tears.'
Genius
Okay, time I come clean after four years.
The introduction to the SS painting guide I did which contained what is apparently a trigger phrase, 'The Nazis were the bad guys,' was bait.
It worked exactly as planned; this is *the* most disliked of any of my videos.
Let me at last elaborate.
The introduction to the SS painting guide I did which contained what is apparently a trigger phrase, 'The Nazis were the bad guys,' was bait.
It worked exactly as planned; this is *the* most disliked of any of my videos.
Let me at last elaborate.
It's probably about time I revisited this, maybe did Erbsenmuster as well. Make sure to include a brief introduction that makes everybody mad as hell because they hear half of it and their brains stop working and proceed to yell at me, essentially quoting me back. XD
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Genius
I mean, the man ELEVATES whatever he is in. I have yet to see a movie with him in it that I didn't enjoy & yes I am counting Hollywood Homicide, I don't care.
But if y'all gonna MAKE me choose:
But if y'all gonna MAKE me choose:
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I mean, the man ELEVATES whatever he is in. I have yet to see a movie with him in it that I didn't enjoy & yes I am counting Hollywood Homicide, I don't care.
But if y'all gonna MAKE me choose:
But if y'all gonna MAKE me choose:
Probably about my 7th or 8th rewatch. At 90 mins it is a perfect length to just stick on & honestly it is one of my all time favourite war movies.
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Probably about my 7th or 8th rewatch. At 90 mins it is a perfect length to just stick on & honestly it is one of my all time favourite war movies.
Donnie Darko. Loathed it.
Also, Joker. Loathed it.
Also, Joker. Loathed it.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Donnie Darko. Loathed it.
Also, Joker. Loathed it.
Also, Joker. Loathed it.
Absolute melt
This judge has absolutely had it with Enoch Burke.
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
Enoch Burke has 'something to hide' over income - judge
A High Court judge has said teacher Enoch Burke and his family could be using his court case to make money and that it was clear Mr Burke had "something to hide" about his income.
www.rte.ie
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Absolute melt
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
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[first day working at the hippo enclosure, when my only experience of them is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos] so when do you release all the coloured balls
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
[first day working at the hippo enclosure, when my only experience of them is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos] so when do you release all the coloured balls
I am sorry and all but Fuck - and I absolutely cannot emphasise this strongly enough - all the way off.
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I am sorry and all but Fuck - and I absolutely cannot emphasise this strongly enough - all the way off.
Not all heroes, etc
"because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" is how he finished that sentence
lmao
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Not all heroes, etc
Heaven forbid the deadly serious matter of determining which woman is best in the world at moving heavy stuff be in any way undermined by a trans woman doing well in it. Also, feels more than a little scummy that she was 'found out' when 'adult pics & vids' were 'leaked' to the other competitors 🙄
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Heaven forbid the deadly serious matter of determining which woman is best in the world at moving heavy stuff be in any way undermined by a trans woman doing well in it. Also, feels more than a little scummy that she was 'found out' when 'adult pics & vids' were 'leaked' to the other competitors 🙄
So a judge found that Linehan saying “Go away groomer”, "Go away you disgusting incel" and “sissy porn-watching scumbag” to a trans woman before smacking her phone out of her hand and smashing it 'was not a hate crime or based on hostility to Ms Brooks’ trans gender identity.'
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
a man with a beard and white hair is standing in front of a green wall .
ALT: a man with a beard and white hair is standing in front of a green wall .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So a judge found that Linehan saying “Go away groomer”, "Go away you disgusting incel" and “sissy porn-watching scumbag” to a trans woman before smacking her phone out of her hand and smashing it 'was not a hate crime or based on hostility to Ms Brooks’ trans gender identity.'
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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I disagree - there are a number of very simple solutions to the small boats 'crisis', such as allowing asylum seekers to apply for asylum online or arrive by air or ferry, but that assumes that the crisis is the boats themselves and not millions of people being uncomfortable with non-white people.
What will Labour do when its asylum reforms don’t work?
James Baggaley: There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
James Baggaley: There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
What will Labour do when its asylum reforms don't work?
www.newstatesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I disagree - there are a number of very simple solutions to the small boats 'crisis', such as allowing asylum seekers to apply for asylum online or arrive by air or ferry, but that assumes that the crisis is the boats themselves and not millions of people being uncomfortable with non-white people.
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When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:
Share a TV series you've watched beginning to end more than once.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Share a TV series you've watched beginning to end more than once.
First film I had been to see at the cinema since I was very small. First time I got to watch a movie that was 'cool' at the same time as my peers. First movie where I read the tie-in novel (before I saw the movie actually & it was EXCELLENT) & still, imo, the single best TMNT media ever made.
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First film I had been to see at the cinema since I was very small. First time I got to watch a movie that was 'cool' at the same time as my peers. First movie where I read the tie-in novel (before I saw the movie actually & it was EXCELLENT) & still, imo, the single best TMNT media ever made.