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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

Cockroaches do spread disease of course among their other misdeeds ...

Butterflies are the better pollinator.

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 2d

great poem ..

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 5d

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "A Short History of Birth Control" by Elizabeth Loudon (@esloudon.bsky.social) #TBT

stonecirclereview.com/a-short-hist...

A Short History of Birth Control

by Elizabeth Loudon Beneath a chilly bathroom floor in Kensington the District Line dragged its down-under bodies, shaking the smallest bones of my feet as I smeared poison around the rim of rubber...

stonecirclereview.com

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 4d

Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).

Cover of an anthology of writing. Title is Curae.

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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David Brown @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social · 6d

Unexpectedly splendid portrait of a dog - Josephine Bowes

Full frontal 'head and shoulders' portrait of a small dog with a reddish collar. Maybe a jack russell? White front, black head with a bit of tan. Very alert and friendly looking!

What big ears it's got...

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 8d

Νικόλας & Μιχάλης Καλιδώνης - «Νάτσα νάτσα γα»

#song #greeksong #greekmusic #kalymnos #traditionalsong

ΝΑΤΣΑ - ΝΑΤΣΑ ΓΑ - Νικόλας & Μιχάλης #Καλιδώνης από #Κάλυμνο - #Παραδοσιακό Καλύμνου

YouTube video by Kriti Channel

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Shirley-Anne McMillan @shirleyannemcm.bsky.social · 9d

Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x

A poster advertising an event at the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast on 11th October to raise funds for Palestine.

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats! Lovely and touching poem.

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 12d

Don't leave out the assorted other things, I think they are sure to be important to somebody. So I prefer just one index - or three.

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 19d

Fascinating and enjoyable ...

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19d

‘There is no getting around the weirdness. We don’t really know what it is or what it was for.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript, which includes the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript

Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 20d

"After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gyms"

@goodlawproject.bsky.social

Send Virgin an email:

goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...

Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law

After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all th...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 20d

I think the poetry society do readings, or they used to ... hang on ... here we are ...

poetrysociety.org.uk/venue/poetry...

The Poetry Café – The Poetry Society

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 21d

Ah well - my good fortune!

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 21d

This is great ..

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21d

Returning to DBQ.

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2022/8/...

Dan Beachy-Quick whets the writing appetite. — alina Ştefănescu

The itch to write attacks me whenever I read Dan Beachy-Quick. Today, I came across an essay where he says that becoming a poet means accepting the debt of others as one’s own, and working to repay it...

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 27d

"The moon steps
into her grave"

I love this sestude by Penelope Shuttle

modronmagazine.com/two-poems-by...

@zoebrigley.bsky.social et al

Two Poems by Penelope Shuttle

sestude viii. plane to Fargo 1959 You can find a Word accessible version of this poem here. Penelope Shuttle lives in Cornwall. Her thirteenth collection, Lyonesse, appeared from Blo…

modronmagazine.com

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Maria Prymachenko @mprymachenko.bsky.social · Sep 12

Young Lion https://www.wikiart.org/en/maria-primachenko/young-lion-1979

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cb24resident.bsky.social @cb24resident.bsky.social · 29d

Elon Musk committing sedition. On TV. We ban other hate preachers. Ban Elon.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Sep 14

Musk inciting violence. The government needs to take a harder line.

Elon Musk Slammed After Telling Far-Right Rally 'Violence Is Coming' To UK

The tech billionaire also called for "a change of government in Britain".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 29d

Looks like the same cover-designer did Stoner and Queen of the Night ...

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · Sep 14

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.