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Simon Oak

@simonoak.bsky.social
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Dutch singer, songwriter, musician focusing on the rich Irish music trad.☘️ EU citizen. Brexit was a crime and we know who did it. FPTP creates a dictatorship of the largest minority, it divides, rewards liars and leaves way too many unrepresented.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Over 25,000 emails from you to your MPs... All 650 MPs have been contacted. Some >100 times. All saying attend the parliamentary debate on the UK joining the EU. Keep sending those emails via this form. If you've already sent one, share this link with friends. 👇
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
English is not a race. It's something from a country. British is usually used when they mean English. Nothing wrong with being English, only when fooled to vote for leaving the EU.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't be too hard on yourself. Allow yourself to write crap too. Keep going, Amelia!
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sunset over inundated tulip field. Lisse, Holland.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Extremely disappointed to see Ireland play a football match against the genocide country.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prayers might help! If not the weather gods will teach us. Civil Engineering might also come in handy to predict where the water will be going when the riverbeds are too narrow. Or where to retain water for later use.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is so obviously for a pure ideological reason. "We hate socialism, so lets starve that island population." May the USA destroy itself without too many casualties.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mafiosi. No other word that fits better.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ask AI to tweak the algorithms of the socials in such a way that outrage no longer rewards the creators of those campaigns.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I asked Brave AI: "Estimate how many people attribute special spiritual meaning to the object" and then "Does that surprise you". It started with "Honestly, the scale is less surprising than the speed." I'm afraid, the days that humans surprise AI will be numbered.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Curious to know if AI has learned from its research and will no longer be surprised, like oldie me. It was an interesting read for sure, thanks!
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Arm the innocent Palestinian people to defend themselves instead.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yes, and in a binary system, those who decide to vote for change have no choice. They are unable to express what they want via the ballot. As a result of that, politicians don't know who they represent. A lottery is fairer than FPTP, which works best for liars. Reboot the system, start a democracy.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The UN Human Rights Council just confirmed US blockade against Cuba violates human rights and international law, citing Article 33 of Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits collective punishment.The US is starving and killing babies in Cuba just like Israel is starving and killing babies in Gaza.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tell him he's talking nonsense. www.rte.ie/video/id/237...
rte.ie
Trump criticises EU over Doonbeg regulations
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Doonbeg to write history?
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Imagine the progress that could have been made in this past decade had all this energy been channeled to making the EU a better place.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Support our protest singers! youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...
youtube.com
The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Instead of investing in the preparation for natural disasters, more likely than ever to be more devastating than ever, he spends billions of US tax money on distant wars, the destruction of innocent immigrant lives, and with that disrupting the economy at home.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's the same light source before we rolled into the night, seen from Lisse, The Netherlands
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Israel is antisemitism.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fascism, once in, doesn't walk out just like that. I'm afraid it's too late. May the USA destroy itself without too many casualties and may the world survive the implosion.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well at least they might get some intelligence at ICE.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not even his fault. What system do we live in that allows millionaires to become billionaires? Other people pay for it. We should not allow money to concentrate like this. It's the biggest mistake of modern civilization..
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
After having read Madeline Gleeson's book in 2016, I wrote a protest song about Nauru. Ten years later, Australia still outsources its crimes against humanity. Politicians and their voters who allow this to continue deserve a special place in hell. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Australia spent more than $9m for each asylum seeker held on Nauru last year – so why can’t they afford to buy food?
Many of the more than 100 people awaiting processing on the tiny Pacific island are skipping meals to make ends meet, a new survey has found
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The massive cost and waste of energy caused by Brexit still makes it the worst political event I've ever witnessed in my life by a neighbouring country. The sheer arrogance of ignoring the call by millions for a meaningful second vote was absolutely shocking and we know exactly who did it.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They've counted more than a million visitors during the Fleadh. It was heartwarming to be one of them. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
rte.ie
Over 1.6 million in Belfast during Fleadh Cheoil
Around 1.6 million people are estimated to have been in Belfast over the course of the city's first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, city officials have said.
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Belfast I bloody well love you. You have excelled this week in a way many couldn't have imagined. We're going to build a better Belfast.
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Joe O’Brien @pnamblath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Powerful from #Fleadh26 on @tg4.bsky.social “My heart is low,my heart is so low As only a mother's heart can be" Róisín El Cherif, Leen, Áine Tyrrell, Aoife Scott, Gráinne Holland, Sive, Aziz Abushark & Mothers Against Genocide Choir ag casadh 'A Mother's Heart for Palestine' #Gaza #FreePalestine
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, you read that write. The IDF marked Palestinians and gave them numbers in the West Bank. archive.is/2CylM#select... www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
haaretz.com
IDF marks detained Palestinians with numbers as northern West Bank raids expand
After a West Bank raid the IDF said targeted Palestinians involved in planning attacks, several Palestinians were released with numbers written in marker on their face or bodies
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Little left of that beauty. Sadly.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My home town!
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's a refugee crisis, not about boats.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Irish Session time in Leiden, NL, this afternoon 4pm.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
English.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The "party of free speech" strikes again
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ReFuk's plan for the economy is to export it to the Caribbean.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Brexit resides in the Caribbean.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank god he's still young and learning quickly! 🤣😭😡🫣
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This should be required listening for everyone
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/07/2026
🚨 Rep. Ro Khanna calls for the arrests of Netanyahu and Putin: "The American president should arrest Netanyahu or Putin in accordance with international law. Full stop." "If the ICC has an arrest warrant for someone, they should be arrested by America if they come into American jurisdiction."
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE, like everything, is about Trump.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Me after reading how Farage plays the little annoying fascist in England's own parliament, after so many years in the EU.
static.klipy.com
Orangutan's Bad Hair Day? Own It!
ALT: Orangutan's Bad Hair Day? Own It!
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Start a democracy. A binary system gives people no choice if one party has embraced fascism and the other supports genocide.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Have you missed Biden? 😜
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He failed to stand strong for common sense (team up with the EU, admit Brexit was a crime, go after those who did it), for the things you would expect a govt. to do for its people (not only for its one-million-plus millionaires), and for int. humanitarian law (act against terror-tandem US-Israel).
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The UK needs to refind its moral compass. There are so many beautiful international humanitarian laws that once were respected and moving the world into a better place. Look at what happened to those principles since 7 Oct. 2023.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Brexit was a crime. And we know who did it. And we let them get away with it. Don't we?
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
That one's a few years old, I suppose? He suffered a lot, but he gets my admiration for sure. He deserves more support.
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Simon Oak @simonoak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Now, England, get yourself an independent, self-thinking leader who stands up against such obvious and heartbreaking violations of international humanitarian laws like we have been forced to witness for so long by this current tandem-terror-state: Israel-USA. I fear to see the UK sink further down.
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