Simon Oak
@simonoak.bsky.social
Dutch singer, songwriter, musician focusing on the rich Irish music trad.☘️ EU citizen. Brexit was a crime and we know who did it. FPTP creates a dictatorship of the largest minority, it divides, rewards liars and leaves way too many unrepresented.
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Simon Oak
@simonoak.bsky.social
· May 14
I guess Claude must be hoping to get 12 points from Israel.
His lyrics are so nice. A genocide? C'est La Vie.
#eurovision
His lyrics are so nice. A genocide? C'est La Vie.
#eurovision
And don't Sport Wash Genocide.
Every major humanitarian organisation and genocide scholars across the world (including in Israel) agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Don’t culture wash genocide, SBS.
Don’t culture wash genocide, SBS.
Sign the Petition
Israel out of Eurovision: SBS must oppose genocide, apartheid & illegal occupation!
c.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
And don't Sport Wash Genocide.
I just saw a Palestinian account get flagged and disappear in front of my own eyes. @bsky.app is straight up racist against Palestinians
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Dugin's 1997 description of the UK as a 'strategic floating base' of the USA that needs to be cut off from the EU keeps popping in my mind.
The fact that his wildest dreams have come to pass since then, and the USA is now a Russian ally, is really starting to make this island feel unsafe.
The fact that his wildest dreams have come to pass since then, and the USA is now a Russian ally, is really starting to make this island feel unsafe.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And from Holland we can get there by train. Yay! Where's the session?
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
And from Holland we can get there by train. Yay! Where's the session?
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The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Reposted by Simon Oak
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
All of a sudden, my Bluebsky feed does Dutch-only.
What's going on?
What's going on?
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
All of a sudden, my Bluebsky feed does Dutch-only.
What's going on?
What's going on?
Quote of the day:
"Calling David Munnelly a box player is – like calling Muhammad Ali a boxer – true but reductive."
by Paul O'Connor
davidmunnelly.com/biography/
"Calling David Munnelly a box player is – like calling Muhammad Ali a boxer – true but reductive."
by Paul O'Connor
davidmunnelly.com/biography/
Biography - David Munnelly
about david munnelly David is from Belmullet, Co. Mayo, and was reared in a very musical home learning first hand from his grandmother who taught him a love of traditional music and in particular ...
davidmunnelly.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Quote of the day:
"Calling David Munnelly a box player is – like calling Muhammad Ali a boxer – true but reductive."
by Paul O'Connor
davidmunnelly.com/biography/
"Calling David Munnelly a box player is – like calling Muhammad Ali a boxer – true but reductive."
by Paul O'Connor
davidmunnelly.com/biography/
The coupe started in 2015 and the great American people are losing it. Putin loves it.
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The coupe started in 2015 and the great American people are losing it. Putin loves it.
Reposted by Simon Oak
Even at the time, Johnson’s wild weekend in Umbria felt somewhat suspicious. With this new information, you can understand why some are now calling it outright treasonous
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Even at the time, Johnson’s wild weekend in Umbria felt somewhat suspicious. With this new information, you can understand why some are now calling it outright treasonous
Reposted by Simon Oak
I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
Reposted by Simon Oak
Being on both BSKY and X is like eating Thanksgiving dinner at both parents homes after the divorce.
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Being on both BSKY and X is like eating Thanksgiving dinner at both parents homes after the divorce.
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
Reposted by Simon Oak
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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Got the most exciting gig of my life coming up. Original material and a 4-strong backing band, in Tivoli, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Got the most exciting gig of my life coming up. Original material and a 4-strong backing band, in Tivoli, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
A children's song in Dutch about a little boy secretly driving ghost trains from a train station's tower. Just before he causes a bad train crash, an old train driver saves the trains and discovers the naughty boy. Next they continue to do the fun job together.
simonoak.nl/2025/11/hoog...
simonoak.nl/2025/11/hoog...
Hoog In Het Torentje
Train song in Dutch by Simon Oak, written for his children in 2002. Lyrics Refrein na elk couplet, behalve na het laatste: Hoog in het torentje van het stationsgebouw Zit een klein jongetje en niem…
simonoak.nl
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A children's song in Dutch about a little boy secretly driving ghost trains from a train station's tower. Just before he causes a bad train crash, an old train driver saves the trains and discovers the naughty boy. Next they continue to do the fun job together.
simonoak.nl/2025/11/hoog...
simonoak.nl/2025/11/hoog...
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Yesterday, I pleaded not guilty to the charges that Trump’s DOJ has hit me with in federal court.
This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.
This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yesterday, I pleaded not guilty to the charges that Trump’s DOJ has hit me with in federal court.
This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.
This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.
Divisive big talk is most effective in unfair FPTP systems. It's okay to make many enemies as long as you can divide them.
In PR systems you can't afford to make too many enemies, because you need to negotiate a coalition after the elections.
In PR systems you can't afford to make too many enemies, because you need to negotiate a coalition after the elections.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Divisive big talk is most effective in unfair FPTP systems. It's okay to make many enemies as long as you can divide them.
In PR systems you can't afford to make too many enemies, because you need to negotiate a coalition after the elections.
In PR systems you can't afford to make too many enemies, because you need to negotiate a coalition after the elections.
Here the song I wrote in 2020 about the Covid 19 virus.
simonoak.nl/2025/11/home...
simonoak.nl/2025/11/home...
Home Boys Home – Covid 19 Edition
Song by Simon Oak, based on the famous traditional, to remember the Covid 19 pandemic. End of April 2020, we were very keen on keeping safe distances, especially from the oldies, but that didn´t st…
simonoak.nl
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Here the song I wrote in 2020 about the Covid 19 virus.
simonoak.nl/2025/11/home...
simonoak.nl/2025/11/home...
Isn't that a mighty picture? I made it in 2020 when I was out for a ride on my fiets.
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Perfect Storm
In October 2020 we were racing our bicycles trying to get home before this storm. You need to be lucky to get a view angle like this. The Heineken Brewery Zoeterwoude is on the horizon.
simonoak.nl
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Isn't that a mighty picture? I made it in 2020 when I was out for a ride on my fiets.
simonoak.nl/2025/11/perf...
simonoak.nl/2025/11/perf...
To the beauty of Autumn and old age. simonoak.nl/2025/11/autu...
Autumn Praise
A new ballad by Simon Oak, inspired by the beauty of the Autumn trees in Germany this October. Lyrics When the leaves change their colours From Summer’s green to Autumn yellow Every shade of …
simonoak.nl
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
To the beauty of Autumn and old age. simonoak.nl/2025/11/autu...
Who is more dangerous? Musk or Trump?
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Who is more dangerous? Musk or Trump?
Hey England, how's Brexit going?
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Hey England, how's Brexit going?
Socks for the Irish who come to France.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Socks for the Irish who come to France.