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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

Ah cool. No and if the ones constantly advertised to us are anything to go by they're largely unfunny comedy ones or tawdry true crime ones. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

Very true. It all becomes self fulfilling. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

No I can't keep up with all the stuff R4 puts out live let alone chasing things as podcasts. Except for a very few. And often they'll sit on an open tab unlistened to that eventually gets deleted. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

And how many older people is it leaving behind. Brittin has clearly no clue what Public Service Broadcasting means. Narrowing the BBC's offering almost guarantees it's eventual collapse. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

Sure. I think its premature though. Especially for a station like R4. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

I may be a dinosaur. But I bet I'm not alone. And isn't this the dinosaur channel? 🥴 I didn't start listening till 30. A veritable dinosaur in tech bro terms. 🙄 #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 6h

A podcast that is an easily accessible version of a broadcast programme is fine imo. It's pods that are online only that make little sense to me. But then 95% of my listening is live. It's the same as live TV, if you don't know the sched how do you know what's on. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 7h

If we're not having the lowest ever relations with this murderous regime then we're doing something wrong. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 7h

How many are still listening live on actual radios? I know I am. Brittin's tech obsession does not represent everyone. #radio4cuts #wato #bbcpm

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 7h

Message to Matt Brittin: Fuck Podcasts. Radio 4 should not become simply a delivery system for the podcast sausage machine. Millions still listen live. You are supposed to be the custodian of this place. Not its end. @BBCRadio4 #wato #bbcpm @bbcnews #bbcnews #Radio4

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 7h

Let the destruction begin. Tech wankers homogenising everything. Public Service Broadcasting means nothing to this idiot Brittin. #wato #bbcpm

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah you really caught me with my guard down today. 🤦‍♂️

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Possibly. But it also incentivises your engagement. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're not forced to vote. You are penalised if you don't participate. And not to some great amount, the aussies pay $20. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lets face it, Starmer was just blundering around with no clue how his messaging appeared. Read the Island of Strangers speech without even reading it first. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's the other way around. Reform and Tories tacked far right, Labour tried to ape them. And look where it got Starmer. Remains to be seen under Burnham. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Need more than that, or they could go lower than 120.

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In that there are always more left wing voters than right. If that had been reflected in 40 years of elections maybe we wouldn't be in the state we're in. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Possibly. But its not predicted. And she's just specifically taken aim at Reform. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Either way it hard to imagine a more Tory policy, aimed right at their ageing voters/families and their expensive homes. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Right. I was only half listening..

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They don't have the numbers on current polling (depending which PR we get, if we get it at all). But neither would a Labour/LiBDem coalition either. Though they have more. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

KemiLand couldn't be a less broad church. She's booted out anyone who disagrees with her. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why has my handle become invalid?? 🤨😆 #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

IHT is already a million quid for a couple. When the first spouse dies the rest is transferred. 🤦 #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh she loves a fight. Apologies for the wrecking of Britain...less forthcoming. #wato

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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer: a politician ahead of his time. He’d fit remarkably well into today’s post-truth political landscape. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Simon Jack too timid to accuse Tice of the discourse coarsening petrol he throws on the fire every day. Ridiculous interview, the man is part of the cause of increase insecurity for MPs. And Today treat him like a victim. 🙄 #r4today

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dumb and self defeating. No good can come of it. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elliott is literally a creature of the Kochs and Big Oil ffs. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Will they talk about the biological fact of plunging sperm counts. And the ever increasing fertility problems of men and women. Doesn't look like it. Societal issues aren't the whole story. #r4today www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

theguardian.com

‘Spermageddon’: is the world facing a male reproductive crisis?

Reports of falling sperm counts and testosterone levels have fuelled fears over chemicals, pollution and modern lifestyles. But how much do scientists agree on what is affecting male fertility?

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Inbreeding, by the sounds of it? Using AI to train AI.

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But they're trained on the written word, aren't they? Do they train them on actual human behaviour, speech and body language at all? #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meanwhile...the chances of climate change eliminating civilisation is a lot higher than 10%. #wato #climatecrisis

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh ffs. You might as well ask the cat. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On the plus side, the sooner AI destroys us all the sooner the planet can start to recover from us. #wato

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And what's the Reform story of this country. One of huge victimhood, nostalgia and wish fulfilment. Oh and as much corruption as you can handle. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million in donations is 'democracy' is it? #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A playbook as old as humans. Fear of the other helps you control people. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Safer? Fuck no. Climate change alone is going to end us. If other things don't first. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Xenophobia is the oxygen of the Far Right. Which the Tories and Reform both are. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Right and Far Right can only lie on this subject. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Are they fighting age men? Pass the bucket. It's. Not. Illegal. To. Seek. Asylum. #bbcaq

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Boats are down 40%. Go away go away go away. The last govt that YOU were part of Danny. Hypocrisy visible from space. #bbcaq

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