Matthew
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Matthew
@audiomattster.bsky.social
Audio specialist working in academia. UK. Occasional photography.
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Don’t buy mass-produced Black Friday crap from online outlets owned by billionaires.

Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.

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November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Who, exactly, was THAT desperate to ' get out of Europe'? All driven by the guy who was a politician in Europe, with a European passport, a home in Europe, who realised what a grift it would be, and was directed by the Russians. That 'we'?
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
With no safety net, people obsess about making money so they can afford healthcare, pensions etc. They lose sight of decent values in selfish pursuits of monetary gains.
I don’t know if there are good billionaires, but I know there are decent people who are not rich, willing to ignore Elon’s overt fascism to see a $20 rise in Tesla stock. When a nation doesn’t have a decent welfare net, what’s in the bank, or your wallet, becomes your moral compass.
November 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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“But we are awakening.. And will destroy them all!”

In the spirit of No Kings, from 1942’s Boy Commandos #1 by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon.
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The MAGA cult are environmental fraudsters. Money, greed and stupidity are causing great harm. The International Court of Justice must act before they cause irreparable damage to the climate
August 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Everything Trump touches turns to 💩
The White House landscape now matches our national political one.
August 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Grok is growing on me.
August 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Another question: At a club with over 150 employees, how did Donald Trump know that a 15-year-old girl was no longer working in the spa? He said he knew when Epstein "stole" her. It's not like Donald is a man known for paying attention to every little detail.
August 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Trump has said something useless again. Doesn't know what day he'll say whatever it is he'll say. Unless it's "I resign" it won't be anything important at all.
May 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can we not get some experts in to deal with climate, rather than a misinformed ex-PM. Carbon Capture is not proven, yet Blair wants us to give up on wind and solar renewables. You'd think the fossil fuel lobby was promoting Carbon Capture...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony Blair
Former PM claims net zero policies losing public support and says there should be greater focus on carbon capture
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Amen!!
April 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It is weird to think that we are somehow outside of nature and it doesn't concern us. People have been all too eager to misinterpret an ancient text which says we have 'dominion over nature'. Dominion should give protection to the defenceless, not crush it down.
Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.
April 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On 8th May it'll be the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe. ve80.com 80 years since brave Americans stood alongside other Allied forces to defeat Nazism. Incredible to think that now, America is now on the side of Fascism. How have these cowards and con-artists got to power?
VE Day 80 - Join the party in a shared moment of celebration!
On 8 May 2025, we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, our nation will unite to celebrate 80 years of peace since the end of World War II in Europe.
ve80.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It must be galling for Americans to realise that their country has been taken over, not by some impressive race of supermen with colossal strength and intellect, but by a bunch of simple, entitled white* men who act like toddlers at the merest provocation.
*and orange
April 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
JD Vance thinks this makes him look tough. Everyone else sees a weak, bitter little man.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Head of US military base in Greenland fired after JD Vance visit
Col Susannah Meyers removed amid reports she distanced base from Vance’s criticism of Denmark’s oversight of territory
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I asked (nicely) and I received (promptly). Notebook arrived today and I'm looking forward to reading it. If you fancy helping an author out who's been stiffed by his publisher, then why not drop Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social a line?
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
You're having a bad day when you get shitposted by Iran's Supreme Leader
March 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A confident person can deal with criticism. A thin-skinned dictator can't. Imagine being so weak you won't let some old punks into the States because they criticised you.

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
March 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I know it's not good to rage post, but the level of anger I feel towards the Orange Infant and his Cowardly Cohort knows no bounds.
Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’
US president says Russian counterpart ‘doing what anybody else would do’ as Ukraine faces escalating aerial attacks
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I just love these illustrations. There's so much dynamism in them that, although they are b&w, they seem like colour. #SciFi #Comics
Sydney Jordan & Willie Patterson’s wonderful “Jeff Hawke: Overlord” comic strip, from 1960’s Daily Express.

Here are the opening three strips. It’s to imagine that a science fiction strip this complex & sophisticated & popular was running in a British daily newspaper back then.

#backto1960
March 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
February 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Delighted to hear that a recording I made, reading from Simon Bell’s The Epilogue Event, will be featured on @theerobjelly show @BBCUpload tonight from 6pm on BBC Radio Essex or on BBC Sounds here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM