Nathanael Smith
@nathanaelsmith.bsky.social
Here for:
NFL - diehard Buffalo Bills fan
UK Politics - I'm a Labour party member
Cinema - Miyazaki, Malick, Marty
NFL - diehard Buffalo Bills fan
UK Politics - I'm a Labour party member
Cinema - Miyazaki, Malick, Marty
Look, I love the BBC, I tend to reject any calls of bias against it - it tends to mostly be people who just want total endorsement of their views from the Beeb. But even the Labour sceptics must admit that this front page is, at the very least, skewed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Look, I love the BBC, I tend to reject any calls of bias against it - it tends to mostly be people who just want total endorsement of their views from the Beeb. But even the Labour sceptics must admit that this front page is, at the very least, skewed.
Drew Struzan is one of those artists who effectively redefined their art form, as important to the movie poster as Saul Bass. Impossible to choose a favourite, but I love him applying his signature style to the Muppets.
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Drew Struzan is one of those artists who effectively redefined their art form, as important to the movie poster as Saul Bass. Impossible to choose a favourite, but I love him applying his signature style to the Muppets.
Well then it's not really your dream summer holiday, is it?
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Well then it's not really your dream summer holiday, is it?
Disagree with these opening lines from the BBC - nationalism is nationalism, and there may have been a "respectable" face of it for a while but it was and still is an appeal to base instincts.
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Disagree with these opening lines from the BBC - nationalism is nationalism, and there may have been a "respectable" face of it for a while but it was and still is an appeal to base instincts.
My wife offering comfort in this sad time.
September 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My wife offering comfort in this sad time.
Things you say when you're definitely not jumping ship to save your skin.
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Things you say when you're definitely not jumping ship to save your skin.
Mission accomplished
September 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mission accomplished
Hang on, apparently it's *not* Your Party, but that's only according to one reply to a Politics Joe tweet. Going well.
July 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hang on, apparently it's *not* Your Party, but that's only according to one reply to a Politics Joe tweet. Going well.
This is what I settled on today, not in any order. Tomorrow it'd likely be different.
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is what I settled on today, not in any order. Tomorrow it'd likely be different.
I'm at a conference but there's a peregrine falcon on this spire and nobody knows. How can I focus on Legal Aid now??
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I'm at a conference but there's a peregrine falcon on this spire and nobody knows. How can I focus on Legal Aid now??
Please, nobody spoil this for me.
May 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Please, nobody spoil this for me.
A Yellowhammer in Scotland! Look at this lil guy!
May 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A Yellowhammer in Scotland! Look at this lil guy!
@empiremagazine.bsky.social Question from your I'm Still Here: did Walter Salles direct City of God, or was that Meirelles ?
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
@empiremagazine.bsky.social Question from your I'm Still Here: did Walter Salles direct City of God, or was that Meirelles ?
@cbuckthorn.bsky.social Here are some animals I've seen recently for your child. A black-tailed godwit, a deer, a vole, a yellowhammer. May they be happy.
February 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@cbuckthorn.bsky.social Here are some animals I've seen recently for your child. A black-tailed godwit, a deer, a vole, a yellowhammer. May they be happy.
I took this photo of a very fat robin last year.
February 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I took this photo of a very fat robin last year.
This guy has always seemed nice enough, but he does spell it with an i, which does make him a worse person imo.
February 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This guy has always seemed nice enough, but he does spell it with an i, which does make him a worse person imo.
Ah well I can help you there! Screenshot of my email from MubiGo below.
Thanks for confirming!
Thanks for confirming!
January 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ah well I can help you there! Screenshot of my email from MubiGo below.
Thanks for confirming!
Thanks for confirming!
Are they trying to put the UK off the NFL? We don't deserve this.
January 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Are they trying to put the UK off the NFL? We don't deserve this.
Jimmy Carter gave this (very unpopular at the time) speech decades ago, but read this excerpt from it now - look how prescient he was, and how much truer it is of today.
December 30, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Jimmy Carter gave this (very unpopular at the time) speech decades ago, but read this excerpt from it now - look how prescient he was, and how much truer it is of today.
Devastated to learn that I am a wimp for... eating lunch.
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Devastated to learn that I am a wimp for... eating lunch.
Astonishingly tone-deaf paragraph from Indiewire in their review of Say Nothing, a show about the IRA.
I simply don't know how you can watch such a complex show and respond like this, but it would help for American critics to imagine a world beyond their own.
I simply don't know how you can watch such a complex show and respond like this, but it would help for American critics to imagine a world beyond their own.
December 10, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Astonishingly tone-deaf paragraph from Indiewire in their review of Say Nothing, a show about the IRA.
I simply don't know how you can watch such a complex show and respond like this, but it would help for American critics to imagine a world beyond their own.
I simply don't know how you can watch such a complex show and respond like this, but it would help for American critics to imagine a world beyond their own.
Really vicious motion from the Tories in their debate tomorrow. I'm no fan of the budget, but taking away free bus travel from asylum seekers would make such a negligible difference to the budget it can only be to stoke the fires of their "culture wars".
December 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Really vicious motion from the Tories in their debate tomorrow. I'm no fan of the budget, but taking away free bus travel from asylum seekers would make such a negligible difference to the budget it can only be to stoke the fires of their "culture wars".
Idly looking at other shows and beginning to see the problem.
December 6, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Idly looking at other shows and beginning to see the problem.