Matthew
@contentman.bsky.social
Scientist, musician of sorts, nature lover.
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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"Keep pedalling faster or they'll leave!"
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Keep pedalling faster or they'll leave!"
Rest in Peace to my mum who died today - a picture from a visit to London Town, Trafalgar Square about 1969. A very glamorous lady. (I’m on the left, the blonde hair changed to a more regular brown soon after). We will miss you.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Rest in Peace to my mum who died today - a picture from a visit to London Town, Trafalgar Square about 1969. A very glamorous lady. (I’m on the left, the blonde hair changed to a more regular brown soon after). We will miss you.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson.
Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.
Piss him off instead and
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.
Piss him off instead and
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson.
Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.
Piss him off instead and
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.
Piss him off instead and
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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Garage is being parked as I write ✍️
September 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Garage is being parked as I write ✍️
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How to get your country back.
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How to get your country back.
Slightly diminish a band
Used order
Used order
August 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Slightly diminish a band
Used order
Used order
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Brian Eno: "The early part of this century has seen people realize that neoliberal economics have failed. It has been a machine for concentrating wealth, just as the internet has become a machine for concentrating prejudice..." #interview www.flaunt.com/blog/people-...
August 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Brian Eno: "The early part of this century has seen people realize that neoliberal economics have failed. It has been a machine for concentrating wealth, just as the internet has become a machine for concentrating prejudice..." #interview www.flaunt.com/blog/people-...
I went to that there Underworld again, first gig of my 60s. They were as ever, joyous, brilliant and thumping techno.
August 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I went to that there Underworld again, first gig of my 60s. They were as ever, joyous, brilliant and thumping techno.
Garden tidy up - after some welcome rain #echinacea #hydrangea
July 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Garden tidy up - after some welcome rain #echinacea #hydrangea
The control is ending fossil fuel burning, taxing the 0.001% and returning the flow of money to the well being of the 99.999%. This will rebalance the earth and drive populism into the dark ages 3/3
July 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The control is ending fossil fuel burning, taxing the 0.001% and returning the flow of money to the well being of the 99.999%. This will rebalance the earth and drive populism into the dark ages 3/3
The end game is a population that is utterly reliant upon the benefaction of the 0.001%, and utterly subservient to them for any form of survival. The only recourse is to alter the current hierarchy and for the 99.999% to become politically aware and take some form of control 2/n
July 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The end game is a population that is utterly reliant upon the benefaction of the 0.001%, and utterly subservient to them for any form of survival. The only recourse is to alter the current hierarchy and for the 99.999% to become politically aware and take some form of control 2/n
My ill-informed take. We are living through the death throes of neo-liberalism driven capitalism. The end point for neoliberal capitalism is a scorched / flooded earth that makes it difficult / impossible to live in for the majority (the 99.999%) 1/n
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My ill-informed take. We are living through the death throes of neo-liberalism driven capitalism. The end point for neoliberal capitalism is a scorched / flooded earth that makes it difficult / impossible to live in for the majority (the 99.999%) 1/n
One idea to get rid of Steve Bray and his anti-brexit placards on #Channel4News would be to simply #Rejoin the #EU #justsaying
June 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
One idea to get rid of Steve Bray and his anti-brexit placards on #Channel4News would be to simply #Rejoin the #EU #justsaying
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
In any other time in the last 80 years, this cunt would have been fired and rightly excluded for this shit. But it’s a childish spat with the Cheeto twat that grabs the headlines today. Do we have any idea just how far down the hole we’ve gone?
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In any other time in the last 80 years, this cunt would have been fired and rightly excluded for this shit. But it’s a childish spat with the Cheeto twat that grabs the headlines today. Do we have any idea just how far down the hole we’ve gone?
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🔥 Well said these MPs.
This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza.
Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.
This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza.
Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.
June 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🔥 Well said these MPs.
This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza.
Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.
This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza.
Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.
Managed a pic of a bittern at @rspb.bsky.social lakenheath fen, such a fleeting glimpse above the reeds. No matter what you see it’s the loveliest of walks
May 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Managed a pic of a bittern at @rspb.bsky.social lakenheath fen, such a fleeting glimpse above the reeds. No matter what you see it’s the loveliest of walks
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“I woke up with a sense of dread…”
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇
Letter: We are not strangers
Letter to the editor
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“I woke up with a sense of dread…”
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇
A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.
Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇