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Harry Smart

@munross.bsky.social
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Montrose, Scotland. Munross was the Viking name for Montrose. Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge) Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC. Aspiring #İstanbul çocuğu.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 1h
every day he shows America's allies, too We can recognise that Trump is an irresponsible bully, but we can't ignore the fact that a huge chunk of the US electorate is clapping along with him. You can vote him out of office, you can't vote your country's support for him out of the record.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 1h
if he's willing to sacrifice a city in the US then there isn't a city outside of the US that he won't even more willingly sacrifice. This isn't just the end of NATO, this is the US ripping up every alliance it has around the world.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 1h
looking at this from Europe, if he's willing to sacrifice Los Angeles (and I know there's a dig at Newsom there) then nobody currently allied with the US can have any doubt, there isn't a city outside of the US that he won't happily abandon to either nuclear or conventional strikes.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 17h
it's called 'animation reuse' .. Disney pioneered it, the same compositions and movement sequences in different films, just with a different overdrawing www.historyvshollywood.com/video/disney...
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Disney Reused Animation Scenes in Movies
Watch Disney Reused Animation Scenes in Movies video.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I suspect she absolutely does get it. This is the equivalent of posh Oxford boys burning £50 notes in front of homeless people: it's performative cruelty. It's an affirmation of who, in her view, is worth something and who is worthless.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's the ProPublica research from 2021 into tax avoidance by the ultra-rich in the US. www.propublica.org/article/the-...
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In 2011 Jeff Bezos, worth $18bn, claimed $4k in tax allowances for his children. (link in reply). Badenoch's policy proposals come from the world of ultra-rich tax avoidance. She wants an economy in which the rich don't pay their share. I wonder why.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gaza 2023 & 2026. Image flips at 5 seconds. animation by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brandon, is there a fuller version of that Ukraine story online?
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JD Vance, a professed Christian, continues to demonize undocumented immigrants in a pathetic attempt to distract voters from the ways he and Donald Trump have decimated our economy, dragged us into an illegal war, and abandoned the needs of the people... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-hell-wi...
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To Hell With The Hateful, Heretical Christianity of JD Vance
I don’t imagine Jesus was the litigious type, but if he were on the planet right now, I’m pretty sure he’d sue JD Vance for false association or identity theft.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a lesson for us all. We should all spend more time pigeon-chilling.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
love this .. could you say a little more about how you made it?
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not one mention last night about the obvious injustice of hitting pensioners in Scotland, Wales and NI to fund an England-only service. You even had Douglas Alexander, Scottish Sec, affirming Labour's Unionism while you talked to him about the triple lock. Did it not even cross anyone's mind?
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
of all the unlikely things ..
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
slightly gobsmacked by #Newsnight's avoidance of the question, esp with Douglas Alexander. Why should Scottish pensioners contribute to an England-only care service. DA given a free ride to affirm Labour's Unionism in face of obvious anti-Scottish (& Welsh and NI) policy.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
haven't seen anything with Pippa for ages. Had a great shoot with her years ago. Is she still modelling?
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hard calls to make. My contact had gone into exile when he was ordered to assassinate an innocent man. Others had acted to protect their families. Others had stayed in but with escape plans ready. All in impossible situations, all incredibly brave. heartbreaking to watch the US right now
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
years ago, writing about DRC (Zaire as was) I was in touch with a guy who'd jumped ship from Mobutu's security service. He was in exile, some of his colleagues were too, some had stayed inside, covertly holding the line, each making their own judgment call. US now, Zaire under a despot. Hmm.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
elected politician berates elected politicians for getting involved with #Drumcree march confrontation www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
screenshot from Guardian newspaper: "Chris Bryant, the UK government’s secretary for Northern Island, has also issued a caution when asked about First Minister Michelle O’Neill, and Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald being present.
“I don’t think any elected politician should be supporting an unlawful protest,” he told Sky News."
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the song of the solitary leg
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are not enough MSDOS people on this thread!
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amstrad, 464 I think, with the tape deck to load / save stuff. Then added a disc drive. First PC was a Tandon 386, they'd tweaked their version of MSDOS so that you could have a 30Mb hard drive, rather than the usual limit of 20Mb First version of Windows was 2.something. A beta release.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
traditionally they open up the exposure when the shot goes into the dark areas, but that seems to be as unthinkable for the Slovenian TV folk as the idea of defending on the left is for Scotland.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here in NE Scotland I grow Erythronium tuolumnense. Great to see the place it comes from.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I like that a lot. Breaks the fourth wall and still a beautiful image. Exposure is perfect.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@primevideouk.bsky.social why on earth is your commentator for the #Turkey - #France game bellowing at the microphone? Doesn't he understand it will pick up his voice if he talks like a normal person? Has he taken some sort of throat pastille and it's gone badly wrong? Are his testicles in a vice?
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'saved by grace'
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
for folk committed to anti-violence (as many D/s people are) there's sometimes also a reaction, seeing evidence of destructive sadism in the world .. 'Am I like that?' And almost certainly you're not, but it's still unsettling. A sub's reassurance can really help a Dom with necessary processing.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
harsh
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lee Sap
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Did I watch the whole thing? I'm afraid I can't answer that question at the moment, Senator, but my staff will get back to you. In the meantime, I'd like my prize.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
just two words in response: Tom Watson
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
even more fun with post-it notes, esp if you use different colours and then later you have this nagging feeling maybe there was a colour system
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you're doing it right
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'pegged' is an interesting word-choice in this context
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations! and isn't this so much better than the UK's royalist honours system
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
of all the not a story stories, Ed Davey's tribulations as Lib Dem leader are the not a storiest. #Newsnight
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FFS nothing more articulate is worth the electrons.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I guess the idea of verisimilitude would be beyond him? Isn't there a judge who could order him to stop this nonsense?
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
had a semester in Karlsruhe at the art college, shot mostly old 6x9 folders. Late one evening with a roll to develop, discovered I didn't have enough dev. So I used what there was and upped the time by c. 10 x. Never forget that age sitting in the kitchen, upending, upending. Great negs though.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I often worry about Bryn Law's voice on LUTV, but I can't say I've ever thought 'Chinese lady'.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#NotMyGod
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
you'll be pleased to know that the pairing dance segment continues. I understand it may end sometime in 2028.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'And at some point, for our first random elimination, the floor will open up beneath a pair of dancers. Our cameras will follow them as they descend screaming into hell'. About the only thing that could rescue this pairing dance thing.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is like the most hideous Pass the Parcel you ever had to endure at somebody's birthday party when you were a kid and they were little more than an acquaintance. And you were too young to say 'Not another fucking layer'. #Strictly
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
two more than me
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, #Strictly .. two new presenters, Emma and Johannes, and a spare.
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
sorry, #Newsnight, you've lost me on Fridays with the time switch. early evening on Friday is unwind time
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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is too good not to take a moment to make it more legible as always 'Open Image in a New Tab' is your friend
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ourpower.bsky.social @ourpower.scot · 14/09/2026
It's no secret that we need renewables, but shouldn't we at least make sure the right people are benefitting from them? Right now, big energy corporations are reaping the rewards and our communities are seeing very little economic benefits. 💸 It's time to change that.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚡️
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