Harry Smart
@munross.bsky.social
@Munross@mastodon.scot no X, no FB
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
Pinned
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Compulsory labour is known as corvée, and it's traditionally been seen as a form of slavery
#newsnight
#newsnight
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Compulsory labour is known as corvée, and it's traditionally been seen as a form of slavery
#newsnight
#newsnight
a gulf opens up here between US and UK culture. In the UK comments on this post would be dominated by discussion of Donald Trump in a bikini. So far, 150+ comments in, nobody has gone there.
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
a gulf opens up here between US and UK culture. In the UK comments on this post would be dominated by discussion of Donald Trump in a bikini. So far, 150+ comments in, nobody has gone there.
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
a celebration of ordinary things, light, time, making and seeing
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
Seed heads in old glass bottles... on the windowsill of a cottage we once lived in, in Shaftesbury
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
a celebration of ordinary things, light, time, making and seeing
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
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Aerial image of one of my favourite glacier rivers in Iceland. Image taken just few days ago.
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Aerial image of one of my favourite glacier rivers in Iceland. Image taken just few days ago.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
National Socialist racial purity laws were modelled on US precedent.
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
THIS ISN’T NEW FASCISM. IT’S OLD JIM CROW.
Old Machinery, New Operators.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
National Socialist racial purity laws were modelled on US precedent.
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
going to start posting shots from the documentary #photoraphy series I'm working on, about the #medrese in #Istanbul, the nargile cafe there.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
going to start posting shots from the documentary #photoraphy series I'm working on, about the #medrese in #Istanbul, the nargile cafe there.
Will the military obey illegal orders? Who are they prepared to shoot. How does that get decided at different command levels .. critical issue in any #coup / attempt
This convo between @radiofreetom.bsky.social and David Frum is worth a read.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
This convo between @radiofreetom.bsky.social and David Frum is worth a read.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Would U.S. Generals Obey Illegal Trump Orders?
Tom Nichols on Trump, the military, and what happens when loyalty replaces law. Plus: the Trump administration’s “politicized stupidity” and a discussion of Eugène Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Will the military obey illegal orders? Who are they prepared to shoot. How does that get decided at different command levels .. critical issue in any #coup / attempt
This convo between @radiofreetom.bsky.social and David Frum is worth a read.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
This convo between @radiofreetom.bsky.social and David Frum is worth a read.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
The UK govt is approving arms export licences in the knowledge that those arms will be used in genocide. In this case in #Sudan.
from @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
from @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The UK govt is approving arms export licences in the knowledge that those arms will be used in genocide. In this case in #Sudan.
from @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
from @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"The turnout of 16.6% was significantly lower than the last deputy leadership election in 2020 of 58.8%."
83% of members couldn't be bothered to vote.
Labour, Starmer's passionless party.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
83% of members couldn't be bothered to vote.
Labour, Starmer's passionless party.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership election
MP for Manchester Central had been seen as favourite ahead of rival Bridget Phillipson throughout contest
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"The turnout of 16.6% was significantly lower than the last deputy leadership election in 2020 of 58.8%."
83% of members couldn't be bothered to vote.
Labour, Starmer's passionless party.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
83% of members couldn't be bothered to vote.
Labour, Starmer's passionless party.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
US Christian Nationalism in the UK: the strategy is already in play: anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, 'Judeo-Christian' supremacist.
Can someone tell me where in the UK Church there is a counter-strategy in play?
archive.is/202510130628...
Can someone tell me where in the UK Church there is a counter-strategy in play?
archive.is/202510130628...
archive.is
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
US Christian Nationalism in the UK: the strategy is already in play: anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, 'Judeo-Christian' supremacist.
Can someone tell me where in the UK Church there is a counter-strategy in play?
archive.is/202510130628...
Can someone tell me where in the UK Church there is a counter-strategy in play?
archive.is/202510130628...
Today in "British Government Does Mad Stuff That Will Divert Shed Loads of Policei Officers From Their Real Jobs At Huge Public Expense"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today in "British Government Does Mad Stuff That Will Divert Shed Loads of Policei Officers From Their Real Jobs At Huge Public Expense"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
SCOTUS binning the Voting Rights Act:
"it will no longer be illegal ... to racially gerrymander congressional districts to minimize and dilute Black voter power. But it will be illegal to use race to redistrict in such a way that restores Black voter power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"it will no longer be illegal ... to racially gerrymander congressional districts to minimize and dilute Black voter power. But it will be illegal to use race to redistrict in such a way that restores Black voter power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US supreme court appears ready to nullify the Voting Rights Act | Moira Donegan
Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
SCOTUS binning the Voting Rights Act:
"it will no longer be illegal ... to racially gerrymander congressional districts to minimize and dilute Black voter power. But it will be illegal to use race to redistrict in such a way that restores Black voter power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"it will no longer be illegal ... to racially gerrymander congressional districts to minimize and dilute Black voter power. But it will be illegal to use race to redistrict in such a way that restores Black voter power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization."
www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073
Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization."
www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073
Columbus Day Celebrates an Ongoing Christian Nationalist Threat to American Democracy
The roots of Christian Nationalism reach back before the founding of our Republic to Columbus and the Christian Doctrine of Discovery.
www.whitetoolong.net
October 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization."
www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073
Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization."
www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073
If you have Insta, look at this by @geraldknaus.bsky.social on the ICC
Knaus, with Rory Stewart, wrote a book on reconstruction in Bosnia / Balkans which should be on the reading list of anyone concerned with the practical politics of peacemaking.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPJf_R8...
Knaus, with Rory Stewart, wrote a book on reconstruction in Bosnia / Balkans which should be on the reading list of anyone concerned with the practical politics of peacemaking.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPJf_R8...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you have Insta, look at this by @geraldknaus.bsky.social on the ICC
Knaus, with Rory Stewart, wrote a book on reconstruction in Bosnia / Balkans which should be on the reading list of anyone concerned with the practical politics of peacemaking.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPJf_R8...
Knaus, with Rory Stewart, wrote a book on reconstruction in Bosnia / Balkans which should be on the reading list of anyone concerned with the practical politics of peacemaking.
www.instagram.com/reel/DPJf_R8...
The NHS spends £billions paying off loan shark debts .. PFI - Private Finance Initiatives
Wes Streeting wants more money for the loan sharks
Help @everydoctor.org.uk defend an NHS where the money goes to helping staff care for patients
everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...
Wes Streeting wants more money for the loan sharks
Help @everydoctor.org.uk defend an NHS where the money goes to helping staff care for patients
everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...
Stand With NHS Staff and Patients: Sign the EveryDoctor Charter – EveryDoctor
everydoctor.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The NHS spends £billions paying off loan shark debts .. PFI - Private Finance Initiatives
Wes Streeting wants more money for the loan sharks
Help @everydoctor.org.uk defend an NHS where the money goes to helping staff care for patients
everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...
Wes Streeting wants more money for the loan sharks
Help @everydoctor.org.uk defend an NHS where the money goes to helping staff care for patients
everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...
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This terrified girl in Gaza is too young to know that we had the power to stop the bombs falling on her family, but we chose not to.
She doesn't know of our profound and inescapable complicity. But we do.
She doesn't know of our profound and inescapable complicity. But we do.
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This terrified girl in Gaza is too young to know that we had the power to stop the bombs falling on her family, but we chose not to.
She doesn't know of our profound and inescapable complicity. But we do.
She doesn't know of our profound and inescapable complicity. But we do.
I've seen few things that so clearly show the instinctive, irrational hatred of black people that so many White Nationalist people have.
Who are they fighting back against?? Black people didn’t do this? There wasn’t a black person in sight when Kirk was killed. The shooter has been identified as white male.
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I've seen few things that so clearly show the instinctive, irrational hatred of black people that so many White Nationalist people have.