Andy Smith
@practicaleq.bsky.social
Appreciative Inquiry practitioner, author of 'Practical Appreciative Inquiry' and 'Practical NLP' series, curates Appreciative Inquiry starter pack
https://coachingleaders.co.uk
https://coachingleaders.co.uk
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Kelip kelip synchronously flashing fireflies
a million wrinkled-lipped bats
Thousands of starling murmurating
A pair of condors giving me a fly-pass ten foot away
Monarch butterflies on a 3000 mile migration
Read my book to learn more!
Kelip kelip synchronously flashing fireflies
a million wrinkled-lipped bats
Thousands of starling murmurating
A pair of condors giving me a fly-pass ten foot away
Monarch butterflies on a 3000 mile migration
Read my book to learn more!
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Humpback whale (breaching!)
Bottlenose dolphin
Pine marten
Coyote
and Road runner (unfortunately not at the same time)
Vauxhall Chevette
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned:
Ford Fiesta mk1
MG Midget 1500
Rover 3500S
MG ZT-T
Hyundai Santa Fe
Ford Fiesta mk1
MG Midget 1500
Rover 3500S
MG ZT-T
Hyundai Santa Fe
This is more like it.
Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned
Saab 900i
Porsche 944 s2
Ford Puma (the proper one, the coupe)
Toyota MR2 MK1
Ford Escort Calypso
Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned
Saab 900i
Porsche 944 s2
Ford Puma (the proper one, the coupe)
Toyota MR2 MK1
Ford Escort Calypso
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Vauxhall Chevette
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
Citroen AX
Fiat Panda mk1 (with broken heater)
Vauxhall Astra MkIV GSi coupe
Peugeot 308SW
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So, sorry racists, but don’t be acting all outraged when we say that voting Reform is a racist choice. It is. Farage knows it. Reform knows it. And you know it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
So, sorry racists, but don’t be acting all outraged when we say that voting Reform is a racist choice. It is. Farage knows it. Reform knows it. And you know it.
Informative thread, I learned from it
I’m actually terrified to do this, but here goes.
One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.
Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
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One request. You do not comment until you read the entire thread. And you are respectful when you do. If not I will either restrict you or block you depending on how hateful you are.
Great, glad we’re on the same page, let’s begin.
1/
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Informative thread, I learned from it
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
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The incredibly prolific author Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) joined me to discuss the 19th Discworld novel, Feet of Clay.
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
Spotify – Web Player
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The incredibly prolific author Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) joined me to discuss the 19th Discworld novel, Feet of Clay.
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
We discussed Golems, world building, class, the Vimes - Vetinari dynamic & much much more.
Spotify: bit.ly/4pFMX66
Amazon: bit.ly/4opdXFW
Apple: bit.ly/4osxGEC
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
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This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
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Randall’s made me laugh a lot but that’s the first time he’s made me cry.
Properly moving xkcd
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Randall’s made me laugh a lot but that’s the first time he’s made me cry.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
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Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already
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"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.”
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers | Common Dreams
"Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don't like what your political opponents say, execute them," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that's not w...
www.commondreams.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.”
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
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Might be time to revisit this www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
We need to talk about where Brexit funder Arron Banks gets his money
openDemocracy investigations raise fresh questions about Arron Banks's wealth and the real source of the Brexit campaign's largest donations.
www.opendemocracy.net
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Might be time to revisit this www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
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“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”
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Trump called Epstein moments after defeating Clinton, pedophile’s brother claims
Trump called Epstein moments after defeating Clinton, pedophile’s brother claims
Trump called Epstein moments after defeating Clinton, pedophile’s brother claims
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump called Epstein moments after defeating Clinton, pedophile’s brother claims
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![@tomb_urges - Whenever I see someone on one of these, I like like to imagine they started out with a much larger vehicle and their journey has been riddled with mishaps. [pic of guy on a unicycle type thing]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreialamhqwi5ukvc5s2hvbpuofiltysnogvfr6kqcy7cj4ye6alqkau@jpeg)
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This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
And that's it. Overall impressions are
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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Yes.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yes.
I have a new book out - Practical Coaching with Appreciative Inquiry! Available in Kindle or paperback formats
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Practical Coaching With Appreciative Inquiry: A Guide to Appreciative Inquiry for Coaches, and Coaching Tools for Appreciative Inquiry Practitioners (Practical Appreciative Inquiry)
– Robyn Stratton-Berkessel, author, , and host, Positivity Strategist Podcast.
is designed to help you if you're an Appreciative Inquiry practitioner who needs to know how best to apply the appr...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I have a new book out - Practical Coaching with Appreciative Inquiry! Available in Kindle or paperback formats
amzn.to/3WUfh8v
amzn.to/3WUfh8v