Ted Smith 🇪🇺
@tedsmith.bsky.social
@TedUrchin on Twitter if you want to reconnect? Writer, painter, artist, restorer of old and ancient things, atheist, father, grandfather. #RejoinEU. Author of BLOTTO #GetBlotto https://amzn.eu/d/geIF58a
Please forgive me, Bluesky people, but my novel, Blotto, is on a renewed surge it would seem. A few must have bought it. I only make about a quid on each sale on @amazon so won’t be retiring just yet. Ha! Brahms and Liszt, a loosely based sequel in the trilogy is coming along. Do wish me luck.
Hottest day. I’m sleeping in me Chunky-Monkey in the garden. It’s cool and lush. Sweet dreams all. x
Sorting through my books. Amazing what you find within the pages, innit? 1995 ad for Sainsbury’s and Vodafone. Ha!
Twitter/X is so much fun. I’m now an ‘influencer’ there apparently. I do get paid. Anyway, the abuse I get is astonishing - water off a ducks back - but occasionally they make me smile. Check out the before and after. Ha!
On a much lighter note, this is a 5ft painting in one of my local and favourite pubs. I love it. Who can name all the figures depicted? I might send a prize to the first correct answer. A signed copy of my book, Blotto perhaps? Links on my profile.
Fantasy threat of “two tier policing” whipped up by deeply corrupt and malignant far right racists, ethnonationalists and Musk’s X - excitable media outcry. Very real and sinister threat of fascist authoritarianism trashing our country and democracy - *no* serious scrutiny from mainstream media.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming
Performing for a paedophile rapist and a felon is the kiss of death to all musical artists of any worth. #Trump
NEW: Mandelson just sent a memo to UK newspapers via the press watchdog demanding they stop publishing his links to Epstein. He cited clauses in the Editors code, designed to protect grieving families. The memo was NOT to be published. The National just said ‘fuck that’ & published it in full 👏
Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full
LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…
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How very decent of Bradley P, a follower on another place to send me confirmation of his purchase. Lovely. Hope he enjoys it, or is it a present for someone else perhaps? Think you might? Go on. Put a smile on my face. #GetBlottoThisChristmas There's still time from Amazon.
How very decent of Bradley P, a follower on another place to send me confirmation of his purchase. Lovely. Hope he enjoys it, or is it a present for someone else perhaps? Think you might? Go on. Put a smile on my face. #GetBlottoThisChristmas There's still time from Amazon.
How very decent of Bradley P, a follower on another place to send me confirmation of his purchase. Very considerate. Hope he enjoys it, or is it a present for someone else perhaps? Think you might enjoy it? Go on. Put a smile on my face. #GetBlottoThisChristmas There's still time from Amazon.
There’s still time to get Blotto this Christmas. It’d make a good present for someone. Pretty please. #GetBlottoThisChristmas amzn.eu/d/4phRw37
Whilst I'm going quietly mad flat out in bed, I snapped my quadriceps tendon you see and looking at 2 months of physio ahead of me, would you be so kind as to look at my novel Blotto for me and put a smile on my face? And yes, I am shamelessly seeking your sympathy. Ha! #GetBlotto amzn.eu/d/17unuzf
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Musk is on the warpath. Can I just say that now is NOT the time to leave X. Now is the time to stay and fight. I would also ask that those that had previously left and/or kept their account dormant to return to the fray. We need all hands on deck. This is critical.
Could I cheekily request that you #GetBlottoForXmas? It might make a good and affordable present for someone you know and put a huge and grateful smile on my face too. It's on Amazon, as you can see. Please check out the reviews. Meanwhile, I push on with the sequel, Brahms and Liszt. Hey-ho!
I snapped my bloody quadriceps tendon 3 weeks ago (ouch!) but the wonderful NHS repaired it within the week. Still, at least 2 months of physiotherapy to go. Not great as a self-employed tradesman. You could always take a look at my book - Blotto on the dreaded Amazon - and cheer me up. #GetBlotto
Could I cheekily request that you #GetBlottoForXmas? It might make a good and affordable present for someone you know and put a huge and grateful smile on my face too. It's on Amazon, as you can see. Please check out the reviews. Meanwhile, I push on with the sequel, Brahms and Liszt. Hey-ho!
Fucking X/Twitter! I’ve been sent to the ‘naughty step’ for commenting that a US politician with a very red face ‘looked like a heart attack waiting to happen’. It’s just a term of phrase, is it not? Meanwhile, they permit foul mouthed abuse of me and do nothing, even after lodging a complaint.
Coming on. Another in the ‘Pugilist’ series of papier-mâché life size masks and inspired by the quick sketch I did here. Made the eyes too. I’m very strange I think. Paint next. Great fun, but would you hang it on your wall when finished? Ha!
Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
LBC@lbc.co.uk · 10mo ago‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’ @carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
I’ve had enough. I tried. But Elon Musk and his mendacious site - X has tried my patience far too far. They are now suppressing comment. This is certainly true. He is a snake in the grass and does NOT support free speech at all. I did try at least. Hello again.
To all you OAP’s out there. There is a scam message doing the rounds to do with the Winter Fuel Allowance. Do NOT respond, but delete and report. Bastard people, they are. Please share.
A neat little cryptic crossword clue for all you cruciverbalists out there. Common feature of publicity explicitly solicited within the law. (5)
. PM netanyahu and the idf, Stop killing innocent civilians... #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #C4News #toriesgone413 .
