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Rebecca Smith

@lennysmith.bsky.social
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Whatever the ideals were, we never lived up to them, but at least we had them. Now it’s all so cynical and sordid and stupid.” Read Maus in 1990s. Due a reread I think www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’
More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is very beautiful, and (I think) very insightful on negotiating neverending chronic nonsense
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Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’
One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Gamer’s Dilemma www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
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Arianne Shahvisi | Gamer’s Dilemma
In a strong field of contenders, the most morally troubling computer game ever made is probably RapeLay, released in...
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian football newsletter on intra team punchups funnelled me here. Interesting to see how abuse of players around race or sexuality or intellectual pursuits has/hasn't moved on. Also made me sad again about Vialli.
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Dealing with it
Graeme Le Saux is unusual for an English footballer: he's a Guardian-reading Channel Islander, and so doesn't really fit in. Is it also why he also seems to get into trouble? Simon Hattenstone reports...
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Inspired watching World Championship gymnatics, I'm going plan a scoring system for transfers from wheelchair to toilet, shower, or bed based on time, style & efficacy. Extra bonus point for shouting 'I am gymnastics!' mid transfer. Points deducted for use of fall alarm or over extravagant swearing
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@pickardje.bsky.social saw this, and thought of you
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Can you spot the problem in an accessible hotel bathroom?
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o... ooooooooooooooh - sounds super interesting
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‘Epic with a capital E’: inside Elmet, a tale of violence and greed on haunted Yorkshire heath
Elmet, a novel that was shortlisted for the Booker, is a lyrical, richly written tale of a woodland family on a collision course with an avaricious landowner. Can it work onstage in Bradford?
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
love @jonathanliew.bsky.social football columns, but this is something else - Measured, accurate, ringing a very loud and insistent alarm bell. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Pride v. energy. Wheelchair quandary pt 37 - getting your frigging shoes on. Is it better to a) go out with 2 besocked feet on the footplate (bit shonky) b) one shoe on, one sock (current level of readiness) c) give up exhausted and stop in (again). I've already burned spoons getting trousers on.
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft." open.substack.com/pub/orwell/p...
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Read this yesterday. Very powerful for those of us with long term conditions which won't be on the death certificate, but will leach away life incrementally through UTIs, choke hazards, chest infections, falls. I agree. Thank you Stephen Sedley and @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stephen Sedley · Not Terminal
Why should a terminal diagnosis matter? It matters because Kim Leadbeater’s bill currently before Parliament will...
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Exciting times in a well known chain brasserie in Leeds as firefighters have to break into the accessible toilet to rescue a middle aged woman unable to get off the toilet.
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
when I was 13 I was a Spandau Ballet fan, whose main life question briefly was 'Gary or Martin?'. Now I'm 53, and ruminate ' @barneyronay.bsky.social or @jonathanliew.bsky.social ?'. Your writings amuse me even when the subject is of no interest. Thanks (and Pseuds Corner can do one).
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Errol Flynn. When governments spend huge amounts of money to stifle policy cruelty
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DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death
Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
The major downside of bluesky for the perpetually suggestible earworm afflicted (me)...rolling ELO internal soundtrack
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Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
The mighty Rebecca Solnit lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
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