Usman-Smith
@usmansmith.bsky.social
Now enjoying Malta sun & sea.
A life behind me of curious change and interesting people.
From Mancunia and yet travelling in both time & space here.
Join me for the craic & childlike adulting.
A life behind me of curious change and interesting people.
From Mancunia and yet travelling in both time & space here.
Join me for the craic & childlike adulting.
Peace?
2025 it was that pause between wars.
Fought between machines, other countries soldiers & those of ours that we do not value.
Harsh?
See how survivors & heroes are treated.
In WW1 the awful cost in lives in the trenches to gain a few feet of land was judged pointless.
Today we gain nothing.
2025 it was that pause between wars.
Fought between machines, other countries soldiers & those of ours that we do not value.
Harsh?
See how survivors & heroes are treated.
In WW1 the awful cost in lives in the trenches to gain a few feet of land was judged pointless.
Today we gain nothing.
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Peace?
2025 it was that pause between wars.
Fought between machines, other countries soldiers & those of ours that we do not value.
Harsh?
See how survivors & heroes are treated.
In WW1 the awful cost in lives in the trenches to gain a few feet of land was judged pointless.
Today we gain nothing.
2025 it was that pause between wars.
Fought between machines, other countries soldiers & those of ours that we do not value.
Harsh?
See how survivors & heroes are treated.
In WW1 the awful cost in lives in the trenches to gain a few feet of land was judged pointless.
Today we gain nothing.
A.I debates.
At nnight I sleep & what dreams may come?
They are always vivid, but are they dreams or am I a construct dreaming of electric sheep?
Do they seem disjointed to me because this is an artificial state I exist in?
My past has become vague in my 70th year, curiously dreamlike too.
Rosebud
At nnight I sleep & what dreams may come?
They are always vivid, but are they dreams or am I a construct dreaming of electric sheep?
Do they seem disjointed to me because this is an artificial state I exist in?
My past has become vague in my 70th year, curiously dreamlike too.
Rosebud
December 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A.I debates.
At nnight I sleep & what dreams may come?
They are always vivid, but are they dreams or am I a construct dreaming of electric sheep?
Do they seem disjointed to me because this is an artificial state I exist in?
My past has become vague in my 70th year, curiously dreamlike too.
Rosebud
At nnight I sleep & what dreams may come?
They are always vivid, but are they dreams or am I a construct dreaming of electric sheep?
Do they seem disjointed to me because this is an artificial state I exist in?
My past has become vague in my 70th year, curiously dreamlike too.
Rosebud
2025.
Leaving not with a bang but with a cough.
Snuffling into 2026.
Beyond the doorway of fireworks & sing alongs?
A long road to a wasteland?
Winter kept us warm covering earth in forgetful snow.
Well now that's done & I am glad it's over.
Elliot painted us a landscape.
But do we have to fill it?
Leaving not with a bang but with a cough.
Snuffling into 2026.
Beyond the doorway of fireworks & sing alongs?
A long road to a wasteland?
Winter kept us warm covering earth in forgetful snow.
Well now that's done & I am glad it's over.
Elliot painted us a landscape.
But do we have to fill it?
December 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
2025.
Leaving not with a bang but with a cough.
Snuffling into 2026.
Beyond the doorway of fireworks & sing alongs?
A long road to a wasteland?
Winter kept us warm covering earth in forgetful snow.
Well now that's done & I am glad it's over.
Elliot painted us a landscape.
But do we have to fill it?
Leaving not with a bang but with a cough.
Snuffling into 2026.
Beyond the doorway of fireworks & sing alongs?
A long road to a wasteland?
Winter kept us warm covering earth in forgetful snow.
Well now that's done & I am glad it's over.
Elliot painted us a landscape.
But do we have to fill it?
2025 is stuttering out.
1925 the Locarno Treaty promising European peace, reinstatement of the gold standard & Baird's first grey scale TV pictures & the first transistor patent.
Moving forward?
More of the same?
2026 has a lot to fix.
2125 may just be dust blowing over the wasteland?
The journey?
1925 the Locarno Treaty promising European peace, reinstatement of the gold standard & Baird's first grey scale TV pictures & the first transistor patent.
Moving forward?
More of the same?
2026 has a lot to fix.
2125 may just be dust blowing over the wasteland?
The journey?
December 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
2025 is stuttering out.
1925 the Locarno Treaty promising European peace, reinstatement of the gold standard & Baird's first grey scale TV pictures & the first transistor patent.
Moving forward?
More of the same?
2026 has a lot to fix.
2125 may just be dust blowing over the wasteland?
The journey?
1925 the Locarno Treaty promising European peace, reinstatement of the gold standard & Baird's first grey scale TV pictures & the first transistor patent.
Moving forward?
More of the same?
2026 has a lot to fix.
2125 may just be dust blowing over the wasteland?
The journey?
Calypso kept Odysseus here seven years.
I am entering my sixth year of sun, sea, food & access to every streaming platform.
I feel I shall stay beyond my seventh year.
I am entering my sixth year of sun, sea, food & access to every streaming platform.
I feel I shall stay beyond my seventh year.
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Calypso kept Odysseus here seven years.
I am entering my sixth year of sun, sea, food & access to every streaming platform.
I feel I shall stay beyond my seventh year.
I am entering my sixth year of sun, sea, food & access to every streaming platform.
I feel I shall stay beyond my seventh year.
Imagine.
Zelenski shakes Trumps hand wearing nitrate gloves coated in Russian Novichock poison.
Picked up from the UK located in Salisbury after the Russian murder attempt.
After a nice polonium 210 cup of tea, also from Russia.
Then a slow walk to the ballroom to fall from a window.
Putinesque?
Zelenski shakes Trumps hand wearing nitrate gloves coated in Russian Novichock poison.
Picked up from the UK located in Salisbury after the Russian murder attempt.
After a nice polonium 210 cup of tea, also from Russia.
Then a slow walk to the ballroom to fall from a window.
Putinesque?
December 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Imagine.
Zelenski shakes Trumps hand wearing nitrate gloves coated in Russian Novichock poison.
Picked up from the UK located in Salisbury after the Russian murder attempt.
After a nice polonium 210 cup of tea, also from Russia.
Then a slow walk to the ballroom to fall from a window.
Putinesque?
Zelenski shakes Trumps hand wearing nitrate gloves coated in Russian Novichock poison.
Picked up from the UK located in Salisbury after the Russian murder attempt.
After a nice polonium 210 cup of tea, also from Russia.
Then a slow walk to the ballroom to fall from a window.
Putinesque?
War, huh, yeah!
What is it good for? 🎸🎹
Absolutely nothing.
Amazing power vacuum opportunities for psychopaths.
Say it again! 🎸🎹
It ain't nothing but a heart breaker.
It's only friend is the undertaker.
He was a wrestler too.
Edwin Starr sang a song that moved the teenaged me.
Today it's business
What is it good for? 🎸🎹
Absolutely nothing.
Amazing power vacuum opportunities for psychopaths.
Say it again! 🎸🎹
It ain't nothing but a heart breaker.
It's only friend is the undertaker.
He was a wrestler too.
Edwin Starr sang a song that moved the teenaged me.
Today it's business
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
War, huh, yeah!
What is it good for? 🎸🎹
Absolutely nothing.
Amazing power vacuum opportunities for psychopaths.
Say it again! 🎸🎹
It ain't nothing but a heart breaker.
It's only friend is the undertaker.
He was a wrestler too.
Edwin Starr sang a song that moved the teenaged me.
Today it's business
What is it good for? 🎸🎹
Absolutely nothing.
Amazing power vacuum opportunities for psychopaths.
Say it again! 🎸🎹
It ain't nothing but a heart breaker.
It's only friend is the undertaker.
He was a wrestler too.
Edwin Starr sang a song that moved the teenaged me.
Today it's business
DEATH gave a hollow chuckle.
"2026 I finally get to reap a favourite & I can't wait to hear his pleading & begging"
WAR looked at his spreadsheet.
"Just the usual pointless wars ahead, nothing cataclysmic?"
"Do I need to saddle up the pale horse & the others?"
DEATH spat out frozen water.
"A clue"
"2026 I finally get to reap a favourite & I can't wait to hear his pleading & begging"
WAR looked at his spreadsheet.
"Just the usual pointless wars ahead, nothing cataclysmic?"
"Do I need to saddle up the pale horse & the others?"
DEATH spat out frozen water.
"A clue"
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
DEATH gave a hollow chuckle.
"2026 I finally get to reap a favourite & I can't wait to hear his pleading & begging"
WAR looked at his spreadsheet.
"Just the usual pointless wars ahead, nothing cataclysmic?"
"Do I need to saddle up the pale horse & the others?"
DEATH spat out frozen water.
"A clue"
"2026 I finally get to reap a favourite & I can't wait to hear his pleading & begging"
WAR looked at his spreadsheet.
"Just the usual pointless wars ahead, nothing cataclysmic?"
"Do I need to saddle up the pale horse & the others?"
DEATH spat out frozen water.
"A clue"
"Algorithms? I just got over not feeding Schroedinger's fucking cat. Ruining my social media footprint"
WAR looked at DEATH
"Well your bio 'Lo I am Death the Destroyer of worlds let's hang out' would not get you many friends"
DEATH danced
"Wrong 300k! Then I got suspended they can't handle truth!"
WAR looked at DEATH
"Well your bio 'Lo I am Death the Destroyer of worlds let's hang out' would not get you many friends"
DEATH danced
"Wrong 300k! Then I got suspended they can't handle truth!"
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Algorithms? I just got over not feeding Schroedinger's fucking cat. Ruining my social media footprint"
WAR looked at DEATH
"Well your bio 'Lo I am Death the Destroyer of worlds let's hang out' would not get you many friends"
DEATH danced
"Wrong 300k! Then I got suspended they can't handle truth!"
WAR looked at DEATH
"Well your bio 'Lo I am Death the Destroyer of worlds let's hang out' would not get you many friends"
DEATH danced
"Wrong 300k! Then I got suspended they can't handle truth!"
DEATH put down a book
"Another of my million plus new years slipping by & they have learnt nothing"
WAR put down the bomb trigger
"They have, drones, remote IED, poisons they invent many new weapons, even starvation"
FAMINE grunted
"Hands off my shit bro!"
DEATH winced
"No honour, No class, bored"
"Another of my million plus new years slipping by & they have learnt nothing"
WAR put down the bomb trigger
"They have, drones, remote IED, poisons they invent many new weapons, even starvation"
FAMINE grunted
"Hands off my shit bro!"
DEATH winced
"No honour, No class, bored"
December 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
DEATH put down a book
"Another of my million plus new years slipping by & they have learnt nothing"
WAR put down the bomb trigger
"They have, drones, remote IED, poisons they invent many new weapons, even starvation"
FAMINE grunted
"Hands off my shit bro!"
DEATH winced
"No honour, No class, bored"
"Another of my million plus new years slipping by & they have learnt nothing"
WAR put down the bomb trigger
"They have, drones, remote IED, poisons they invent many new weapons, even starvation"
FAMINE grunted
"Hands off my shit bro!"
DEATH winced
"No honour, No class, bored"
Reposted by Usman-Smith
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials.
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
December 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials.
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
Reposted by Usman-Smith
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
DEATH sipped a sherry.
"New year, how many millions of these have I had?"
WAR set up the monopoly board.
"Well this fucking game always seems to last an eternity"
FAMINE rooted through the box.
"I want the top hat, it's my good luck token"
DEATH shouted out!
"Banker!"
"Still not funny" said WAR
"New year, how many millions of these have I had?"
WAR set up the monopoly board.
"Well this fucking game always seems to last an eternity"
FAMINE rooted through the box.
"I want the top hat, it's my good luck token"
DEATH shouted out!
"Banker!"
"Still not funny" said WAR
December 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
DEATH sipped a sherry.
"New year, how many millions of these have I had?"
WAR set up the monopoly board.
"Well this fucking game always seems to last an eternity"
FAMINE rooted through the box.
"I want the top hat, it's my good luck token"
DEATH shouted out!
"Banker!"
"Still not funny" said WAR
"New year, how many millions of these have I had?"
WAR set up the monopoly board.
"Well this fucking game always seems to last an eternity"
FAMINE rooted through the box.
"I want the top hat, it's my good luck token"
DEATH shouted out!
"Banker!"
"Still not funny" said WAR
When I first retired I dreamt of sitting by a villa pool in Spain & playing DVDs of the TV series that were out.
Here I am 15 years later sitting by a pool in Gozo & streaming the most amazing content online.
Dreams can come true.
Compromise can deliver even more than you hoped.
Go with the flow.
Here I am 15 years later sitting by a pool in Gozo & streaming the most amazing content online.
Dreams can come true.
Compromise can deliver even more than you hoped.
Go with the flow.
December 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
When I first retired I dreamt of sitting by a villa pool in Spain & playing DVDs of the TV series that were out.
Here I am 15 years later sitting by a pool in Gozo & streaming the most amazing content online.
Dreams can come true.
Compromise can deliver even more than you hoped.
Go with the flow.
Here I am 15 years later sitting by a pool in Gozo & streaming the most amazing content online.
Dreams can come true.
Compromise can deliver even more than you hoped.
Go with the flow.
Bit of a food & pub crawl today with two friends who are visiting.
Victoria then Sannat via Xlendi.
I learnt food & drink are very good & very cheap here compared to the UK!
Six years have untethered me from the price of life back there.
The problem is they are eating & drinking themselves to death!
Victoria then Sannat via Xlendi.
I learnt food & drink are very good & very cheap here compared to the UK!
Six years have untethered me from the price of life back there.
The problem is they are eating & drinking themselves to death!
December 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Bit of a food & pub crawl today with two friends who are visiting.
Victoria then Sannat via Xlendi.
I learnt food & drink are very good & very cheap here compared to the UK!
Six years have untethered me from the price of life back there.
The problem is they are eating & drinking themselves to death!
Victoria then Sannat via Xlendi.
I learnt food & drink are very good & very cheap here compared to the UK!
Six years have untethered me from the price of life back there.
The problem is they are eating & drinking themselves to death!
Sunset over Xlendi.
The knights tower fading into the cooling night air.
The cliffs lose sharpness under the curtain of darkness that's settling over them.
The deep blue sea fading to a formless dark as the light is lost.
The golden sun sinking, fading into red & pink, another sunny day ending.
The knights tower fading into the cooling night air.
The cliffs lose sharpness under the curtain of darkness that's settling over them.
The deep blue sea fading to a formless dark as the light is lost.
The golden sun sinking, fading into red & pink, another sunny day ending.
December 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sunset over Xlendi.
The knights tower fading into the cooling night air.
The cliffs lose sharpness under the curtain of darkness that's settling over them.
The deep blue sea fading to a formless dark as the light is lost.
The golden sun sinking, fading into red & pink, another sunny day ending.
The knights tower fading into the cooling night air.
The cliffs lose sharpness under the curtain of darkness that's settling over them.
The deep blue sea fading to a formless dark as the light is lost.
The golden sun sinking, fading into red & pink, another sunny day ending.
Will he make it to 2026?
Asking for humanity.
Asking for humanity.
December 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Will he make it to 2026?
Asking for humanity.
Asking for humanity.
DEATH put down the phone.
"The apocalypse is on hold, again"
WAR rattled a joystick.
"Drones just don't do it either, no smell, no screams, no rivers of blood, no fucking honour"
DEATH sighed.
"The good old days, I still get the customers of course, but in old age"
FAMINE grinned.
"Not all of them"
"The apocalypse is on hold, again"
WAR rattled a joystick.
"Drones just don't do it either, no smell, no screams, no rivers of blood, no fucking honour"
DEATH sighed.
"The good old days, I still get the customers of course, but in old age"
FAMINE grinned.
"Not all of them"
December 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
DEATH put down the phone.
"The apocalypse is on hold, again"
WAR rattled a joystick.
"Drones just don't do it either, no smell, no screams, no rivers of blood, no fucking honour"
DEATH sighed.
"The good old days, I still get the customers of course, but in old age"
FAMINE grinned.
"Not all of them"
"The apocalypse is on hold, again"
WAR rattled a joystick.
"Drones just don't do it either, no smell, no screams, no rivers of blood, no fucking honour"
DEATH sighed.
"The good old days, I still get the customers of course, but in old age"
FAMINE grinned.
"Not all of them"
Censorship.
The new American trend.
Ignorance was bliss, but it needs work to ensure it remains core to the American dream.
The new American trend.
Ignorance was bliss, but it needs work to ensure it remains core to the American dream.
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Censorship.
The new American trend.
Ignorance was bliss, but it needs work to ensure it remains core to the American dream.
The new American trend.
Ignorance was bliss, but it needs work to ensure it remains core to the American dream.
Watching Nosferatu.
But we are adding our own script.
The donkey we have in the valley that brays around midnight.
Replacing wolves, 'ah the children of the night'.
Medical care back then was rather lacking too....
It's lightening a rather dark film.
But we are adding our own script.
The donkey we have in the valley that brays around midnight.
Replacing wolves, 'ah the children of the night'.
Medical care back then was rather lacking too....
It's lightening a rather dark film.
December 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Watching Nosferatu.
But we are adding our own script.
The donkey we have in the valley that brays around midnight.
Replacing wolves, 'ah the children of the night'.
Medical care back then was rather lacking too....
It's lightening a rather dark film.
But we are adding our own script.
The donkey we have in the valley that brays around midnight.
Replacing wolves, 'ah the children of the night'.
Medical care back then was rather lacking too....
It's lightening a rather dark film.
Reposted by Usman-Smith
Went round Castle Howard today. I think my personal favourite thing was this. From the title I'm pretty sure the man in yellow has just invented the toasted sandwich and Mr Blue Hat is expressing his delight.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Went round Castle Howard today. I think my personal favourite thing was this. From the title I'm pretty sure the man in yellow has just invented the toasted sandwich and Mr Blue Hat is expressing his delight.
Gentle walk along Marsalforn harbour.
Waves & spray but warm sea breeze.
Escaping left overs.
Stocking up on milk & bread.
Feeling fortunate.
Waves & spray but warm sea breeze.
Escaping left overs.
Stocking up on milk & bread.
Feeling fortunate.
December 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Gentle walk along Marsalforn harbour.
Waves & spray but warm sea breeze.
Escaping left overs.
Stocking up on milk & bread.
Feeling fortunate.
Waves & spray but warm sea breeze.
Escaping left overs.
Stocking up on milk & bread.
Feeling fortunate.
America.
An experiment in democracy.
Billionaires run the country.
Failing.
France.
Same experiment but had the guillotine.
People still run the country.
Succeeding.
UK.
Nothing changes except the labels.
Serfdom.
Plus ca change.
An experiment in democracy.
Billionaires run the country.
Failing.
France.
Same experiment but had the guillotine.
People still run the country.
Succeeding.
UK.
Nothing changes except the labels.
Serfdom.
Plus ca change.
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
America.
An experiment in democracy.
Billionaires run the country.
Failing.
France.
Same experiment but had the guillotine.
People still run the country.
Succeeding.
UK.
Nothing changes except the labels.
Serfdom.
Plus ca change.
An experiment in democracy.
Billionaires run the country.
Failing.
France.
Same experiment but had the guillotine.
People still run the country.
Succeeding.
UK.
Nothing changes except the labels.
Serfdom.
Plus ca change.
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Tha' cough scares pigeon
Tha' fart clears out snug
Tha' kids are legion
Sleep with tha' bed bug
Face lined with years
Nails grimy wi' coal dust
Never shed tears
Skin colour o' rust
eaten up wi'fears
Men don't cry
Dreams will die
That was tha life
Tha' tolerated a wife
But inside that burn
To yearn.
Tha' fart clears out snug
Tha' kids are legion
Sleep with tha' bed bug
Face lined with years
Nails grimy wi' coal dust
Never shed tears
Skin colour o' rust
eaten up wi'fears
Men don't cry
Dreams will die
That was tha life
Tha' tolerated a wife
But inside that burn
To yearn.
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Tha' cough scares pigeon
Tha' fart clears out snug
Tha' kids are legion
Sleep with tha' bed bug
Face lined with years
Nails grimy wi' coal dust
Never shed tears
Skin colour o' rust
eaten up wi'fears
Men don't cry
Dreams will die
That was tha life
Tha' tolerated a wife
But inside that burn
To yearn.
Tha' fart clears out snug
Tha' kids are legion
Sleep with tha' bed bug
Face lined with years
Nails grimy wi' coal dust
Never shed tears
Skin colour o' rust
eaten up wi'fears
Men don't cry
Dreams will die
That was tha life
Tha' tolerated a wife
But inside that burn
To yearn.