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Elizabeth Rimmer

@burnedthumb.bsky.social

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Poet, (Four collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke lefty grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, it will. But if we tick all the boxes, whatever we do afterwards will carry more authority because we can demonstrate that it isn’t us being unreasonable or undemocratic.

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 1d

It’s golden! It would say Come Get Me in letters a mile high. I’m betting he’ll cannibalise it and turn it into crypto before the trouble starts.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 2d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Rachael Boast @rachaelboast.bsky.social · 8d

@tapsalteerie.bsky.social are hosting an exciting launch for the publication of Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson and Dwell Time by Taylor Strickland in Glasgow: 28th October at 7pm at The Alchemy Experiment. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...

Tapsalteerie's poster for the launch of new publications from Stewart Sanderson and Taylor Strickland showing light beams emerging from dark cloud meeting mountain silhouettes below

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, USA! Come and get your Da! He’s after the peace prize again!

Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 2d

Trump “may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy” if he doesn’t get the Nobel peace prize!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 2d

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 2d

Portland level sarcasm is deadly.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 3d

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Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 3d

BBC and WM use Scotlands figures to hide their own worsening figures.

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 3d

🇬🇧 Another bbc twisted Headline, concealing a large decrease in homeless deaths in Scotland, within rocketing levels within England (uk)

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, me too.

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

First rule of editing: thou shalt not let thine author look like a narcissistic prick. I had two who were absolutely determined……

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 4d

She's just trolling now, isn't she?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch says she will give a tax cut for private school fees and take away all the new workers rights brought in by Labour

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 4d

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 4d

Oh excellent! I think Ely is my favourite cathedral. It’s like a symphony!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 5d

Suppose you follow @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social for news about a fabulous poetry competition for new writers, of find out more here: burnedthumb.com

Burnedthumb | Blog of Poet, Editor and Translator Elizabeth Rimmer

A more casual blog of poet Elizabeth Rimmer

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William Bonar Poetry Prize @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social · 6d

The mulit-talented Julie Laing @j_a_laing, winner of the 2023 #williambonarpoetryprize, with Jim Carruth from St Mungo’s Mirrorball and Sheila Wakefield from Red Squirrel Press. Julie’s winning pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, is available from Red Squirrel Press www.redsquirrelpress.com

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William Bonar Poetry Prize @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social · 6d

Submissions opened on Thursday 2 October (National Poetry Day) for the 2025 #williambonarpoetryprize! Red Squirrel Press in partnership with St Mungo’s Mirrorball. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Please see below for full details and rules.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve had that on almost every issue - longer prison sentences half the actual, less extravagant benefits twenty five percent higher, etc.

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6d

He’s the brilliant, but everyone can’t do that. I think we need a wide range of styles and strategies- it’s going to take all of us!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6d

They do. Politicians just need to find a technique that works for them- humour, calm, stubbornness, whatever you can do without getting rattled.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6d

She was, and she kept her cool, and said what she wanted to say. Didn't hurt either, when she said 'do you want us to put our money where it's needed or not?'

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6d

Kate Forbes was well able for them . Serious, knowledgeable, strategic. I disagree with her profoundly on many things, but she did a great job this morning!

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Vicki Husband @vichusband.bsky.social · 7d

Glasgoscopy is published by Vagabond Voices on 14th October
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry

front cover of a book, entitled Glasgoscopy by Vicki Husband. Cover has a white background with X-ray style image in dark blue with illuminated lines like a map of roads and a river in brighter blues

Inside cover of book opened out to reveal dark blue black background with map-like lines of river-like in pinks and blues, more abstract than the front cover

Back cover of book in white with book blurb and commendations

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

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