Fiona Turner
@fifi65.bsky.social
I'm into politics. On the left. Lived experience of mental illness. Schizoaffective disorder.
Love books, science, poetry, music, and life. You only get one life. Don't be an arsehole. Play nice.
Love books, science, poetry, music, and life. You only get one life. Don't be an arsehole. Play nice.
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Fiona Turner
@fifi65.bsky.social
· Dec 3
When everywhere you look, our world is imploding.
When it's too overwhelming.
Take a break from social media.
Turn off the tv.
Put some tunes on.
Lose yourself in music conjured smiley memories.
Dance if you're able
Be fierce, be free
Whilst the storm rages.
No shame for a while in hiding.
When it's too overwhelming.
Take a break from social media.
Turn off the tv.
Put some tunes on.
Lose yourself in music conjured smiley memories.
Dance if you're able
Be fierce, be free
Whilst the storm rages.
No shame for a while in hiding.
Will we miss the bananas
When they've gone
Or chocolate, coffee and gucci
When casinos and retail parks turn to ashes
Will we mourne their demise
As society crumbles
Under the weight of greed and inanity
Will we grieve for past treats and pleasures
More than the loss of humanity
#poetry
When they've gone
Or chocolate, coffee and gucci
When casinos and retail parks turn to ashes
Will we mourne their demise
As society crumbles
Under the weight of greed and inanity
Will we grieve for past treats and pleasures
More than the loss of humanity
#poetry
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Will we miss the bananas
When they've gone
Or chocolate, coffee and gucci
When casinos and retail parks turn to ashes
Will we mourne their demise
As society crumbles
Under the weight of greed and inanity
Will we grieve for past treats and pleasures
More than the loss of humanity
#poetry
When they've gone
Or chocolate, coffee and gucci
When casinos and retail parks turn to ashes
Will we mourne their demise
As society crumbles
Under the weight of greed and inanity
Will we grieve for past treats and pleasures
More than the loss of humanity
#poetry
Desolation fills a mind dense with pain
Time stretches
Tearing holes in hope knives thrown by fate
Relentless throughout the years
Expose seeping wounds
You breathe
Your Heart beats
The world whirrs on
Here but never present
Buried under layers of agony
The life of a living ghost
#poetry
Time stretches
Tearing holes in hope knives thrown by fate
Relentless throughout the years
Expose seeping wounds
You breathe
Your Heart beats
The world whirrs on
Here but never present
Buried under layers of agony
The life of a living ghost
#poetry
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Desolation fills a mind dense with pain
Time stretches
Tearing holes in hope knives thrown by fate
Relentless throughout the years
Expose seeping wounds
You breathe
Your Heart beats
The world whirrs on
Here but never present
Buried under layers of agony
The life of a living ghost
#poetry
Time stretches
Tearing holes in hope knives thrown by fate
Relentless throughout the years
Expose seeping wounds
You breathe
Your Heart beats
The world whirrs on
Here but never present
Buried under layers of agony
The life of a living ghost
#poetry
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 3 - A cover song
Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love
Original by Candi Staton
#MusicChallenge
Day 3 - A cover song
Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love
Original by Candi Staton
Florence + The Machine - You've Got the Love
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
music.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 3 - A cover song
Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love
Original by Candi Staton
#MusicChallenge
Day 3 - A cover song
Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love
Original by Candi Staton
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - A favourite song
Tears For Fears - It's A Mad World
Almost impossible to pick a favourite song. So I've gone for the one that was the backdrop to my angst ridden youth. If only to remind me how far I've come even if the world is still mad.
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - A favourite song
Tears For Fears - It's A Mad World
Almost impossible to pick a favourite song. So I've gone for the one that was the backdrop to my angst ridden youth. If only to remind me how far I've come even if the world is still mad.
Tears For Fears - Mad World (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TearsForFearsVEVO
music.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - A favourite song
Tears For Fears - It's A Mad World
Almost impossible to pick a favourite song. So I've gone for the one that was the backdrop to my angst ridden youth. If only to remind me how far I've come even if the world is still mad.
#MusicChallenge
Day 1 - A favourite song
Tears For Fears - It's A Mad World
Almost impossible to pick a favourite song. So I've gone for the one that was the backdrop to my angst ridden youth. If only to remind me how far I've come even if the world is still mad.
A sizable portion of the British electorate want to make Farage our next prime minister. As if he's some kind of sodding saviour of Britain. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
How stupid do you have to be to vote for him & yes I will call them stupid, no apologies.
How stupid do you have to be to vote for him & yes I will call them stupid, no apologies.
The Telegraph, ladies and gentlemen.
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A sizable portion of the British electorate want to make Farage our next prime minister. As if he's some kind of sodding saviour of Britain. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
How stupid do you have to be to vote for him & yes I will call them stupid, no apologies.
How stupid do you have to be to vote for him & yes I will call them stupid, no apologies.
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 30
Coming full circle from day 1 with another Banshees track.
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House
Robert Smith played with the Banshees 1982-1983
#MusicChallenge
Day 30
Coming full circle from day 1 with another Banshees track.
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House
Robert Smith played with the Banshees 1982-1983
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 30
Coming full circle from day 1 with another Banshees track.
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House
Robert Smith played with the Banshees 1982-1983
#MusicChallenge
Day 30
Coming full circle from day 1 with another Banshees track.
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House
Robert Smith played with the Banshees 1982-1983
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 29
The Cure - In Between Days
Robert Smith remixed the album track Pretty Boy for Noel Gallagher's band High Flying Birds.
#MusicChallenge
Day 29
The Cure - In Between Days
Robert Smith remixed the album track Pretty Boy for Noel Gallagher's band High Flying Birds.
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 29
The Cure - In Between Days
Robert Smith remixed the album track Pretty Boy for Noel Gallagher's band High Flying Birds.
#MusicChallenge
Day 29
The Cure - In Between Days
Robert Smith remixed the album track Pretty Boy for Noel Gallagher's band High Flying Birds.
Reposted by Fiona Turner
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 28
Oasis - Live Forever
Manic Street Preachers supported Oasis at multiple
UK concerts 1996
#MusicChallenge
Day 28
Oasis - Live Forever
Manic Street Preachers supported Oasis at multiple
UK concerts 1996
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 28
Oasis - Live Forever
Manic Street Preachers supported Oasis at multiple
UK concerts 1996
#MusicChallenge
Day 28
Oasis - Live Forever
Manic Street Preachers supported Oasis at multiple
UK concerts 1996
Give me a broken leg
An arm
A head
Time mends ands heals
Give me a shattered soul
A heart
A mind
Time crushes and defines
Pain has many guises physical
Mental
Acute and chronic
But when the fabric of you
Rips
Disintegrates
You'd beg and pray
To numb your brain
freed from a life insane
#poetry
An arm
A head
Time mends ands heals
Give me a shattered soul
A heart
A mind
Time crushes and defines
Pain has many guises physical
Mental
Acute and chronic
But when the fabric of you
Rips
Disintegrates
You'd beg and pray
To numb your brain
freed from a life insane
#poetry
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Give me a broken leg
An arm
A head
Time mends ands heals
Give me a shattered soul
A heart
A mind
Time crushes and defines
Pain has many guises physical
Mental
Acute and chronic
But when the fabric of you
Rips
Disintegrates
You'd beg and pray
To numb your brain
freed from a life insane
#poetry
An arm
A head
Time mends ands heals
Give me a shattered soul
A heart
A mind
Time crushes and defines
Pain has many guises physical
Mental
Acute and chronic
But when the fabric of you
Rips
Disintegrates
You'd beg and pray
To numb your brain
freed from a life insane
#poetry
In this moment
I breathe
In this moment
I live
In this moment
I believe
In this moment
Tomorrow can wait
In this moment
I exist for today
#poetry
I breathe
In this moment
I live
In this moment
I believe
In this moment
Tomorrow can wait
In this moment
I exist for today
#poetry
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In this moment
I breathe
In this moment
I live
In this moment
I believe
In this moment
Tomorrow can wait
In this moment
I exist for today
#poetry
I breathe
In this moment
I live
In this moment
I believe
In this moment
Tomorrow can wait
In this moment
I exist for today
#poetry
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 27
Manic Street Preachers - If you Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Signed with sanctuary records who hold the rights to the Undertones music.
#MusicChallenge
Day 27
Manic Street Preachers - If you Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Signed with sanctuary records who hold the rights to the Undertones music.
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 27
Manic Street Preachers - If you Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Signed with sanctuary records who hold the rights to the Undertones music.
#MusicChallenge
Day 27
Manic Street Preachers - If you Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Signed with sanctuary records who hold the rights to the Undertones music.
Reposted by Fiona Turner
slow orbit
i keep returning
to the same small grief
not to suffer it
but to place it
more carefully
until it becomes
not a wound i circle
but a cairn
and my days
move around it
like a quiet vow
to remember well
#poetry
i keep returning
to the same small grief
not to suffer it
but to place it
more carefully
until it becomes
not a wound i circle
but a cairn
and my days
move around it
like a quiet vow
to remember well
#poetry
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
slow orbit
i keep returning
to the same small grief
not to suffer it
but to place it
more carefully
until it becomes
not a wound i circle
but a cairn
and my days
move around it
like a quiet vow
to remember well
#poetry
i keep returning
to the same small grief
not to suffer it
but to place it
more carefully
until it becomes
not a wound i circle
but a cairn
and my days
move around it
like a quiet vow
to remember well
#poetry
Your words spoken so viciously
Spit flying from your mouth
Face screwed up in anger
Sticks and stones could not leave me more broken
Every syllable you screamed slashed through sinew and bone
Piecing my heart
Your acid tongue cuts deeply
From your lips
Came my wounds
#poetry
Spit flying from your mouth
Face screwed up in anger
Sticks and stones could not leave me more broken
Every syllable you screamed slashed through sinew and bone
Piecing my heart
Your acid tongue cuts deeply
From your lips
Came my wounds
#poetry
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Your words spoken so viciously
Spit flying from your mouth
Face screwed up in anger
Sticks and stones could not leave me more broken
Every syllable you screamed slashed through sinew and bone
Piecing my heart
Your acid tongue cuts deeply
From your lips
Came my wounds
#poetry
Spit flying from your mouth
Face screwed up in anger
Sticks and stones could not leave me more broken
Every syllable you screamed slashed through sinew and bone
Piecing my heart
Your acid tongue cuts deeply
From your lips
Came my wounds
#poetry
Remember the angel my hands so small shaped from clay
an imperfect beauty in blue and white
The praise you gave that day raised me ten foot tall
It sat on your shelf for over fourty years
Now it sits on mine reminding me you held belief in me
Until I could hold it too
#poetry
an imperfect beauty in blue and white
The praise you gave that day raised me ten foot tall
It sat on your shelf for over fourty years
Now it sits on mine reminding me you held belief in me
Until I could hold it too
#poetry
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Remember the angel my hands so small shaped from clay
an imperfect beauty in blue and white
The praise you gave that day raised me ten foot tall
It sat on your shelf for over fourty years
Now it sits on mine reminding me you held belief in me
Until I could hold it too
#poetry
an imperfect beauty in blue and white
The praise you gave that day raised me ten foot tall
It sat on your shelf for over fourty years
Now it sits on mine reminding me you held belief in me
Until I could hold it too
#poetry
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 26
The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
Both bands played Glastonbury 2005
#MusicChallenge
Day 26
The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
Both bands played Glastonbury 2005
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 26
The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
Both bands played Glastonbury 2005
#MusicChallenge
Day 26
The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
Both bands played Glastonbury 2005
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 25
Garbage - Push It
Supported Blondie on their UK tours 2017 and 2021.
#MusicChallenge
Day 25
Garbage - Push It
Supported Blondie on their UK tours 2017 and 2021.
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 25
Garbage - Push It
Supported Blondie on their UK tours 2017 and 2021.
#MusicChallenge
Day 25
Garbage - Push It
Supported Blondie on their UK tours 2017 and 2021.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 23
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Both bands have numbers in their name.
#MusicChallenge
Day 23
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Both bands have numbers in their name.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 23
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Both bands have numbers in their name.
#MusicChallenge
Day 23
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Both bands have numbers in their name.
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 22
The 1975 - Chocolate
The 1975 supported Muse on the 2nd Law tour 2012
#MusicChallenge
Day 22
The 1975 - Chocolate
The 1975 supported Muse on the 2nd Law tour 2012
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 22
The 1975 - Chocolate
The 1975 supported Muse on the 2nd Law tour 2012
#MusicChallenge
Day 22
The 1975 - Chocolate
The 1975 supported Muse on the 2nd Law tour 2012
Dear nighbour
Your petty dramas bore
Your gossiping mouth does not enthral
Your muck spreading rumours poisonous
Your empty life
Filled with malevolence
Your friendly demeanour
A see - through facade
Your presence here repulses
Sincerely
Your enemy next door
#poetry
Your petty dramas bore
Your gossiping mouth does not enthral
Your muck spreading rumours poisonous
Your empty life
Filled with malevolence
Your friendly demeanour
A see - through facade
Your presence here repulses
Sincerely
Your enemy next door
#poetry
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Dear nighbour
Your petty dramas bore
Your gossiping mouth does not enthral
Your muck spreading rumours poisonous
Your empty life
Filled with malevolence
Your friendly demeanour
A see - through facade
Your presence here repulses
Sincerely
Your enemy next door
#poetry
Your petty dramas bore
Your gossiping mouth does not enthral
Your muck spreading rumours poisonous
Your empty life
Filled with malevolence
Your friendly demeanour
A see - through facade
Your presence here repulses
Sincerely
Your enemy next door
#poetry
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 21
Muse - Plug In Baby
Both bands played on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2016
#MusicChallenge
Day 21
Muse - Plug In Baby
Both bands played on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2016
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 21
Muse - Plug In Baby
Both bands played on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2016
#MusicChallenge
Day 21
Muse - Plug In Baby
Both bands played on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2016
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 20
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Both bands have animals in their name.
#MusicChallenge
Day 20
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Both bands have animals in their name.
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 20
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Both bands have animals in their name.
#MusicChallenge
Day 20
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Both bands have animals in their name.
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 19
Artic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Matt Helders Artic Monkeys drummer contributed to Iggy Pop's album Post Pop Depression.
#MusicChallenge
Day 19
Artic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Matt Helders Artic Monkeys drummer contributed to Iggy Pop's album Post Pop Depression.
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 19
Artic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Matt Helders Artic Monkeys drummer contributed to Iggy Pop's album Post Pop Depression.
#MusicChallenge
Day 19
Artic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Matt Helders Artic Monkeys drummer contributed to Iggy Pop's album Post Pop Depression.