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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 7h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 5d

If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :)

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Poetry Rev 65 - Jessica Jacobs - Unalone

YouTube video by Katie Manning

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 8d

UK friends, if you haven't already, please consider signing this petition, which now has more than 2.8 million signatures. Aside from all the other arguments against digital IDs, this is one more source of extreme stress for those of us who are trans. Thanks.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · 7d

Well, for starters, we eat, we sleep. If we’re going to know it,
we’re going to know it this way. It feels like a trick
sometimes, how we start and then start again.

The new $ feature is by John Gallaher!

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John Gallaher | October 2025 – $ – Poetry Is Currency

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Allison Abyss @allisonwyss.bsky.social · 7d

I reassure myself, well, I’m not gonna let ai cook MY brain. I’m going to keep thinking, creating, imagining, struggling, being human. But I want that for everyone. We do those things in community with each other. Each cooked brain hurts us all.

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 8d

UK friends, if you haven't already, please consider signing this petition, which now has more than 2.8 million signatures. Aside from all the other arguments against digital IDs, this is one more source of extreme stress for those of us who are trans. Thanks.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 9d

I second this emotion.

poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 9d

I want to say this again. And I will again and again. You need to speak up against AI

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10d

I've been struck lately by how often right-wingers wear t-shirts that are snark at the left. That is, they're having conversations in their head with us whether or not actual us is having a conversation with them or taking the positions they think we are. Maybe that's the definition of reactionary?

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Suzanna Lundale 🧙‍♀️💜 @suzannalundale.bsky.social · 10d

Just learned that the clothing & bedding of Black Death victims were often sold to ragmen instead of burned. That cloth became paper became books, & the poetry of that cycle is beautiful to me. Happy Thursday, rascals. 🔮

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 10d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... For total absolute fucksake! Has this government ever met any refugees? Talked to some maybe? British values? That’ll be the xenophobia, mean-spiritedness I guess.

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 11d

Did it

Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 11d

Today is NPR's first day ever without the support of public funding. Thanks to everyone who has donated to your local stations. It means the world.

Today, the NPR shop also re-launched with a bunch of swag to help support us, too. I've always been partial to the 70s logo, myself.

shopnpr.org

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. Exactly this.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Alexandra Billings @alexandrabillings.bsky.social · 12d

The fact that there are zero consequences for the young lives he annihilated, the older adult gay couples he destroyed and the myriad of lies he peddled, to appease his self loathing and shame, is a crime against humanity.
I do not want him hurt, but his freedom makes me sick to my stomach.

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Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 14d

My mahoosive thanks to these lovely poets with whom it was a pleasure beyond pleasures to spend 90 minutes last night #LastSaturdayPoets. Loved it. Let's do it again! Lxx

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 18d

"Instead of being left behind, old evils return under new names ... human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been." John Gray (2018)

An Edwardian china doll, a young girl with dark hair and dirty feet, glowers from under a soft shawl.

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Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 21d

Join poets
@poetbex.bsky.social
@alicestainer.bsky.social
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Martin Kennedy Yates
@judemarr.bsky.social
@miriamo77.bsky.social
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social
@annpelletiert.bsky.social
7.00pm - 8.30pm UK time Free on Zoom www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

Last Saturday Poets: September

A poetry salon for the last Saturday of each month. Join some of the finest exponents of contemporary poetry reading their work.

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 22d

Saturday evening, on my way to the store. A little night music.

A group of musicians in front of an ancient, ornate church in a city square

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Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 22d

Not a poem about queerness.
A poem about denial, power worship, and what happens when boys want to belong but can’t name the ways they’re owned.
Falsehoods is about the lie — not the longing.

#AntiFascistPoetry #QueerAlly #ToxicMasculinity #WritingWithoutFear

A meme combining two tweets. The first, from user @Vaughanilla_, says: “Me telling Willy Wonka how many people won golden tickets.” Below it is a screenshot of a tweet from Andrew Tate’s account, reading: “Its not only Charlie. Theres a list.” The humor comes from Tate’s phrasing being applied to the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Falsehoods

those straight boys
liberated
from their families

who kiss girls
& fear
sudden tenderness

ashamed to admit
they’d fellate
Andrew Tate

wonder if those lips
taste like cocks

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Fideo Peligrosa, Blepper Extraordinaire @ahaikulife.bsky.social · 23d

Oh better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head, and a pirate heart
Away to the cheating world go you
Where pirates all are well-to-do
But I'll be true to the sing I sing
And live and die!
A pirate queen

#TalkLikeAPirateDay

a woman in a white dress is walking on a boat with people watching .

Alt: Kevin Kline in the 1970s Priates of Penzance movie, singing the song quoted. He has floppy curly black hair held out of his face by a purple tie, and wears a loose white shirt open at the chest.

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 24d

Out next Tuesday, Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell explores the experiences of women of the past, both mythological and real, giving voice to many who were so often silenced.
Pre-orders are open! animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...
#poetry #NewTitle #women #witchcraft

The moon will know the right moment.
Let sleep curl against your spine
and keep you warm in dreamless sleep.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24d

When we warned about authoritarianism-canceling two of the four late night hosts because Trump doesn’t like them, that’s what we meant.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26d

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 27d

My heart has been hurting so much for my trans and gender-nonconforming community. Sometimes it feels like nothing we say or do matters. Or worse, it gets twisted to fit the narrative that we're mentally ill, dangerous, abnormal. But... (1/3)

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Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 28d

Wildlings, we have a new and timely collection for you. Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell explores the experiences of women of the past, both mythological and real, giving voice to many who were so often silenced. Pre-orders are open!
animalheartpress.net/untold-fortu...
#poetry #witchcraft #women

"She mustered in me a mute defiance, a cure
for petty regulation and arbitrary limits
and she did it all without ever saying a word."

“Zoe Mitchell’s Untold Fortunes is part rumination on what the world may promise, and part realisation of what it delivers. In this ethereal, yet deeply grounded poetry collection, the moon’s ever-changing roles as supporting character, critic, silent protector, and indifferent lover are observed like a morality play set in the theatre of the self.
Despite exploring its share of darkness, the true beauty of this collection is in its core message that while the moon cannot make its own brightness, we each possess the ability within to create our own light. This is poetry that makes you want to run at life full bore. A love letter to individuality and carving out a new path when the one set out for you isn’t good enough.”

—Dean Rhetoric, author of Foundry Songs

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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social · Sep 12

Outstanding launch,
@bethbpoet.bsky.social!

I loved hearing the poems in the collection, 'A Long Way Down,' and also the wonderful poetry from guest readers too:
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social
@judemarr.bsky.social

A brilliant event! 🪂

Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · Sep 12

It’s my online launch tonight!

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