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Ian D Smith
@iandsmith.bsky.social
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Hobby writer of adult stories, keen photographer, learning the guitar. Family includes two delightful horses and a lively dog. Retired scientist. Live in SW England. Support your choices and lives. No to bitcoin. Rejoiner. Would join Antifa if it existed.
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the moon's wife @bookishseawitch there's no funnier caricature of masculinity than the Him from "holiday gifts for him." he doesn't drink any liquid but whiskey. he's got 20 watches on each wrist. if he saw a single texture other than leather he would throw one of his pocket knives at it.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Saw this badge in a shop earlier today...
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I hope we're friends until we die. Then I hope we are ghost friends and walk through walls and scare the crap out of people.
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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I hate when people give generic advice like "take it one day at a time". What else am I gonna do? Skip Tuesday? Can I?
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Pleased to capture a hint of the blades' movement and the shadow of the anemometer and gubbins on top of the housing.
Pleased to capture a hint of the blades' movement and the shadow of the anemometer and gubbins on top of the housing.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The moment you realize time isn't money, time is life - everything changes. Money can be earned back. Time cannot. Every yes costs life, not hours. Every commitment spends existence not energy. Spend time like you're dying. You are. @scottdclary
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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#photography #water #weir #abstract
Looking down on a weir, calm water on the right flowing over and to the left.
Photo shows the sky reflected in calm water upstream of a weir, which runs vertically from top to bottom in the middle of the image, and more turbulent water on the left.
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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machine yearning engineer confusionm8trix reading shakespeare for the first time is crazy because you go "oh that's where that comes from" every other page
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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People hate when you show them how it feels to be treated the way they treat you
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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"be the bigger person" sounds too much like "accept the disrespect" for me From IG, Purehealingquotes
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Creole Muva @rebelleflowerr_ Adults seemed way adultier when I was a little
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Copy of an Instagram post
sars_cov.2_covid_19 Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered to stop all the reporting on H5N5 after a man in Washington died from this strain, which has never been seen in humans before. Pandemics don't start with viruses. They start with secrecy. I report on bird flu, COVID-19, tuberculosis, and other emerging threats straight from the frontline. I need your support. Follow my page and help spread the truth.
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Photo taken recently, working with the delightful Jemma.
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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the moon's wife @bookishseawitch there's no funnier caricature of masculinity than the Him from "holiday gifts for him." he doesn't drink any liquid but whiskey. he's got 20 watches on each wrist. if he saw a single texture other than leather he would throw one of his pocket knives at it.
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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"You are so sensitive." Thanks. I have worked really hard to unlearn the idea that feeling things so deeply is something that I should be ashamed of.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Perhaps a journalist with integrity could ask him to describe in full and glorious detail just how he's helped his constituency...
JUST FANCY THAT! 3 Oct 2025: Nigel Farage updates his register of financial interests. Since becoming MP for Clacton in July last year he has earned £1.2m from his second jobs, more than any other MP. 30 Oct 2025: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's index of multiple deprivation reveals that Jaywick, in Farage's Clacton constituency, is the most deprived area in England. Farage says it is "obviously sad that things aren't improving more quickly" but that having him as their MP has "definitely helped".
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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aperfectillusion This is actually a real economic concept called the "velocity of money". Let's say you get paid $10, you use that $10 to buy lunch from a street vendor, then the street vendor uses that $10 to take a taxi home, then the taxi driver used that $10 to pay his babysitter, next the babysitter uses that $10 to buy groceries, etc. That one $10 bill produced $50 of economic value. This is really good for the economy and why it's bad to give rich people more and more money because all rich people do is horde it. They don't stimulate the economy multiple times over with it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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l'esprit de l'escalier A beautiful, bittersweet phrase meaning "the wit of the staircase." It refers to that feeling you get when you leave a conversation and think of all the things you should have said. There is no word in the English language for this. @cosmosbyrudra
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Everyone loves you when you let things slide, but the moment you set boundaries and hold them accountable, you become the difficult one.
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Louise Jensen Duffy (writin... LouiseWeebe Whatever you do, don't stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about how to dispose of the bodies of your enemies. Just. Keep. Reading.
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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The audience you're afraid of doesn't exist yet. You're worried about judgment from people who aren't watching. Nobody's watching. Create anyway. By the time anyone's watching, you'll be good enough that it doesn't matter. The fear is about phantom audience. Not real ones. @scottdclary
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Francis Foster @francisjfoster Language evolves over time. When I was a kid, we used to use words like "wanker" and "dickhead," but now we use words like "social media influencer."
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisoneØverhere Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days.
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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emails I didn't send... •I hope this email never finds you, actually. •You could have just Googled that. •CC'ing this person because this isnt my job. •Your request is ridiculous. •I'm not actually all that happy to help. •I've attached the 15 various links you already have. •Please explain why I am doing all of this. •Yes, I understand that you want yet another exception •I just want a simple response. Please don't call me. Ever. •Your words are very confident for someone who is wrong. •Respectfully, no. Again. Leah @onewordwellness
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM