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Ted Smith 🇪🇺

@tedsmith.bsky.social

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@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

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 23d

Only £8.78
It’s a bloody bargain!
#GetBlotto
Thank you in anticipation.

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Annie Mel Farm 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @annie-mel-farm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Report by -
▶️ Forwarding the message to 7726
☎️ Ring Action Fraud 0300 123 2040
✉️ Email [email protected]

Then block the number. Never click on any links.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Sep 3

Good post. Shared.

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 24

A neat little cryptic crossword clue for all you cruciverbalists out there.

Common feature of publicity explicitly solicited within the law. (5)

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TheFirstGirlySwotsToJoinBlueSky @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social · Aug 21

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PM netanyahu and the idf, Stop killing innocent civilians...

#r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #C4News #toriesgone413
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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ha! What a grubby little onanist.

Anthony @antoineladon.bsky.social · Aug 22

#HandsOff

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 22

Still pushin’.
Care to help me along?

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 19

If you want to write a book, by all means go ahead, good luck to you, but please do it for yourself
I spent huge amounts of time on Blotto, thousands of hours in fact and over years
Still, like a fool I am, I’m now well into Brahms and Liszt’.
Please tell me, am I a stupid fucking idiot?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 16

Democracy can only truly survive with a well informed and intelligent electorate.
Unfortunately, it is its Achilles Heel.
Scary times.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 16

Outrageous. ALL the MSM in the UK now appear to be giving Reform oxygen. I truly despair.

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 10

Gets even better! Blotto is in the top 9k!
Thank you.
Bloody marvellous!
Please buy it if you haven’t already.
Send it even higher.
Over the moon.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 10

Gets even better! Blotto is in the top 9k!
Thank you.
Bloody marvellous!
Please buy it if you haven’t already.
Send it even higher.
Over the moon.

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 10

Blotto's on a bit of a surge. 14,571 is excellent but love to get higher.
Care to help?
Only a tenner.
As a single father to a 13 year old girl, it would mean a lot to both of us.
amzn.eu/d/fkL9yFc

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sorry to be a pain in the arse again, but Blotto needs a kick up the arse, it’s languishing rather.
Put your size 10’s out and give it a boot, would ya?
Only a tenner and a very good read so I’m told.
Be everso grateful.
#GetBlotto

amzn.eu/d/7RSGdXN

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 1

One of a series of strip cartoons I did as a very young man.

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 1

What?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Aug 1

In my everlasting deference, respect and overwhelming love to my ol’ mum and dad, how would you pronounce this?
Nug-et or Noo-gah?
Just interested.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Jul 29

I’m sure similar words might have been said about Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Will these people never learn?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Jul 19

Been rather lacking here.
Please forgive me.
It’s rather kicking off over on Twitter.
I’m in the fray.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ha! It is the truth however.

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Jul 8

Did I ever tell you all about the time I was stung by a wasp and on the scrotum as a 9 year old boy?
Fortunately, on that occasion, my dear ‘ol mum didn’t insist on sucking the sting out!
I think the damage might have been far greater had she have done so. Ha!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Jul 6

Spot the difference.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · Jul 6

Source: London Evening Standard
This is scary.
Maybe other nations have had enough of Western dominance and that Trump’s weakness, masquerading as strength, has enabled this?

t.co/QfuQZAA4dc?s...

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