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Harry Smart
@munross.bsky.social
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Montrose, Scotland. Munross was the Viking name for the town of Montrose.
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC. Aspiring #Istanbul çocuğu.
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Is Starmer next?

Have Jenrick's teeth been photoshopped?

#Reform #whiteteethsinkships
January 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Winter flowering cherry (Prunus autumnalis rosea) in #Montrose, #Scotland
#nature #naturephotograpy
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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strategic considerations aside, the UK has sunk so many billions into the F35, built two star-spangled fiscal black holes of aircraft carriers for it ..
January 4, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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Vance seems to be suggesting it's Special Operations, which is an assemblage of different specialities but all part of the US Army.
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#LUFC
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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on the policy of 'finishing off survivors', consider this.

It's one thing to watch grainy footage; we should humanise the victims, as Dr Nizam Mamode does here to a UK parliamentary cttee. This is a daily event in Gaza. Is this Hegseth's inspiration?
December 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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oldie: 2003 I got a semester at the art college in #Karlsruhe. Beautiful city, fountains everywhere. I shot almost everything with old folder cameras, mainly Zeiss Ikons at 6 x 9.
This is from the fountain in the big square behind the post office.
#streetphotography and #fineartnude all in one
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Trump's US National Security Strategy (NSS) for 2025.
HT @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Bigly 'America First'; multi-swipes at NATO: members going 'non-European'; Nato, EU etc. 'sovereignty-sapping'; pro-Putin so Nato mustn't expand. usw.

All very Brexity. Here's an update of Bruce Mackinnon's classic.
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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by Bruce MacKinnon
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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so many Brexit cartoons that could apply; this is an edit of Bruce MacKinnon's classic (original below)
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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on UK Corruption, from @equalitytrust.bsky.social
[edit to shorten]
equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I bet the techbros are already lobbying for exactly this, it's really just an extension of AI deciding asylum claims.

I have zero confidence in this government having the integrity to resist.
#Lammy #juries #trials
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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While we decry the US trying to impose the Witkoff-Kremlin plan on Ukraine, it's worth noting the continuing impact of Obama's appeasement of Putin when he invaded the Crimea.

This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama
a panoramic icolour photo, looking out over rooftops towards the Sea of Marmara, from Istanbul. The upper half of the image is sky, pale blue, with pinker tones towards the horizon and over to the right, where the sun is setting. The sea itself is a narrow strip sandwidched between the city and the sky. The rooftops are mostly pink-tiled. The pale stone of a mosque on the left of the image is a warm yellow colour as it catches the late light.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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In the Rubens House, #Antwerp #Rubenshuis #streetphotography
a darkened room in the Rubens House in Antwerp; paintings cover the walls, some picked out by their own small lights; on the far side of the room a high window lets in a little bluish light; visitors sit on benches in the centre of the room, one, wearing a bright red jacket, is picked out by the lighting.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
a colour photograph, walking along a busy street in Istanbul in the late evening. The sunset has coloured the clouds pink and peach against a sky that still shows a trace of blue. The street is mostly in silhouette, on the righ there is a mosque, to the left mostly shops. You can just make out the people in the street, and the pavement has a dull shine reflecting sunset colours.
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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late sun on Istiklal Caddesi, #Istanbul
#streetphotography
black and white photo of a busy shopping street, mostly in shadow, except for where the low sun strikes a short stretch of the street. At ground level the buildings have been converted to modern shops, but the upper floors retain their earlier style, old European, with ornate balconies and windows.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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side street off #Istiklal, #Istanbul
#streetphotography #panorama
a panoramic colour photo looking along a narrow side street towards a main street. The sun doesn't reach down into the side street thanks to the tall buildings, but in the distance the main street can just be seen and it's sunlit. Along both sides of the side street are cafes and restaurants with customers sitting outside and with fluorescent signage. The signs shine brightly out from the darkened buildings.
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I love how he's built a special window seat with a vent so he can blow smoke up his own backside. But please, for the love of all that's decent, can we have that glass frosted.
The White House Lincoln Bathroom (Batroom?) remodelled hideously in white marble. There is a window with what looks like a vented window seat; it gives a view over a section of the White House roof. The lavatory is positioned so that someone could sit in the window seat with their feet in the lavatory. Which is a look, I guess.
November 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Redevelopment in Satır Sokak ('Cleaver Street') in #Istanbul.
#streetphotography
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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going to start posting shots from the documentary #photoraphy series I'm working on, about the #medrese in #Istanbul, the nargile cafe there.
black and white photo of a section of wall, on the right there is a doorway into a darkened room. On the wall there is a piece of calligraphy, embellished with gold, in a gilt frame. The whole composition is an arrangement of rectangles.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The UK govt is approving arms export licences in the knowledge that those arms will be used in genocide. In this case in #Sudan.

from @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
paragraphs of text from an article in the Guardian newspaper; the key paragraph is: "Months after the UN security council first received material alleging that the UAE may have supplied British-made items to the RSF, new data indicates that the British government went on to approve further exports to the Gulf state for military equipment of the same type."
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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FWIW, this is exactly how the Westminster government and the British military treated what is now the Republic of Ireland in the early 1900s and into the fight for independence.
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM