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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 9d

Outburst Queer Arts Festival 2025 is now open for booking!

Get ur queer theatre, trans poetry workshops, historical opera, food cruising, zines, T*RAI conference & ofc queereoke, Belfast babes.

outburstarts.com/festival/

OUTBURST QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2025

Queer Art, Revolutionary imagination

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 10d

🇧🇪 #BREAKING | Protestors are blocking Belgium's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to condemn the Israeli illegal interception of the Sumud Flotilla 👇

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10d

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza.

A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters.

Israel intends to violate international law once again.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · 12d

Come along to the launch of the online new one and find out what became of me in the wake of twink death

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · 12d

New collection is being published tomorrow, hurrah! Here's me launching my first one three and a half years ago when I was still a twink and about to go to Primavera

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 20d

Good to see fascists outnumbered in Glasgow once again - and vital context on the hypocrisy of fash organisers outlined in local reporting:

"Watt, who was found guilty of abusing two of his ex-partners in 2018 [...] campaigns against immigration, often raising fears of women's and girls’ safety."

Hundreds gather in city centre for protest and counter-protest

Hundreds of people have gathered in Glasgow city centre to take part in a "far-right-backed" rally and counter protest.

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 22d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · 23d

Glasgow launch of Bodily Fluids 30.10.25 @Mount Florida Books 💦

Ciara Maguire
Belladonna Paloma
Stuart Rawlinson

mountfloridabooks.com/products/len...

Len & Friends | Bodily Fluids Launch Party | 30th October @ 7pm

Join us to celebrate the launch of Bodily Fluids by Len Lukowski. Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood. Moving through ...

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Sep 10

Omg Charlie Kirk! Wow, I'd hate for this to happen to any other far-right reactionary commentators. Probably best to just ban ALL guns like here in the UK.

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 10

My book is out at the end of the month! So are all these people's! Join us online on the 30th September and hear us read 😘

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · Sep 8

Not the Onion.

The Telegraph:

One in five Britons now anti-Semitic, study finds Survey shows almost half of UK population believes Israel treats Palestinians like Nazis treated Jews

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Truthout @truthout.org · Sep 8

Israeli arms maker Elbit has reportedly closed its UK branch after persistent protests and shutdowns led by Palestine Action targeting its facilities.

Israeli Arms Maker Reportedly Shuts Down UK Branch After Repeated Protests

Palestine Action has repeatedly targeted Elbit facilities with protests and shutdowns.

truthout.org

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · Sep 6

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www.middleeasteye.net/news/promine...

Prominent Palestinian academic dies from Israeli-imposed Gaza famine

Omar Harb lost 26 members of his family to Israeli attacks before he died of starvation

www.middleeasteye.net

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Simon William Cree @piratesprogress.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 6

Saturday morning timeline cleanser: It looks like the Elbit Systems Aztec West facility in Bristol has closed down permanently www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK Bristol site was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed

www.theguardian.com

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Sep 4

“Give us your weird, your queer, your oddball ms’s yearning to breathe free…”

Any & all themes, genres, mashups, mixups, poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction welcome!
#WritingCommunity

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 17

#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit

New Writing Scotland Submission Manager

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 3

Inshallah they will fuck off forever

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · Sep 3

I've got a talented filthy friend. What have you got, huh? Sound mental health?? Loser. (Preorder this book xx)

Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 3

My poetry collection, Bodily Fluids, is now available to preorder from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 💦💘

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Len Lukowski - Bodily Fluids | Broken Sleep Books

Len Lukowski’s Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood. Moving through sex, memory, digital detritus, and fleeting intimac...

www.brokensleepbooks.com

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 3

Love you ❤️

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · Sep 3

Len's last collection was funny, sexy, heartbreaking, furious and tender - I'm very much looking forward to his next, Bodily Fluids!

Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 3

My poetry collection, Bodily Fluids, is now available to preorder from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 💦💘

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Len Lukowski - Bodily Fluids | Broken Sleep Books

Len Lukowski’s Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood. Moving through sex, memory, digital detritus, and fleeting intimac...

www.brokensleepbooks.com

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you so much, Ryan 💖

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

PREORDER @lenski666.bsky.social

Len Lukowski’s Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood.

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

The cover of Bodily Fluids by Len Lukowski features a stark, minimal design: black abstract brushstrokes swirl and collide at the centre of a pale blue background. The title is set in bold black serif text in the top left corner, with the author's name just below in a slightly lighter tone. At the bottom, the publisher’s name, Broken Sleep Books, is subtly included in matching serif type.

Olympian

It’s the nineties and I’m sitting on the sofa watching the Olympics
with my dad.

Three muscular, supple men are standing on the podium, flags are
waving,
dad is close to crying because his favourite won.

The man who got gold has his medal presented by his Olympic
athlete girlfriend,
there are whispers he will propose. The girlfriend steps back to
give him room.

As the crowd cheer the Gold holds his trophy up to the sky, turns
and bends
slightly to kiss the man to his right who won the Silver, fully and
with tongue.

The camera pans to the girlfriend’s face which is white with horror.
The Bronze is joining in now, grabbing the arse of the Gold as he
continues to kiss

the Silver, hands creeping down sweaty jockstraps. I spot you in
the crowd
though I have yet to meet you. You take a lighter from your pocket

and set a flag on fire. The three men dismount from the podium
and the Silver

bites the Gold’s neck, lifting his vest, licking his smooth pec, down
to the nipple.

More flags burn and in the flames I see our friendship played out
over time.
I will live above a pub in the same small city as you, for years we’ll
never meet.

When we finally do, we’ll go to Berlin together, to sex parties in
cold squats,
too shy to get laid. The years will shift again, we’ll both be middle
aged,

cycling from Glasgow to Loch Lomond, my wheels squeaking like
a mouse
splattered repeatedly. The nights between, some good, some

resulting in hard-edged shame. A group of us huddled on the beach
in Brighton
under cold moonlight, passing a bottle of whiskey between us. You
and me waltzing

beneath a shopping centre in Leeds to a gravelly-voiced woman
singing
about wanting to die. The person in the Stadium who may or may
not be

you drops the burning flag before the flames reach their fingers.
The whole auditorium is on fire now and the Gold is in a spit roast
between the Silver

and the Bronze, who are thrusting as only Olympians can thrust,
sweat glinting
on firm chests and I don’t understand what’s happening but I know
I want the same.

Dad looks at the TV like the world is ending, but it’s only beginning.

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · Sep 3

My poetry collection, Bodily Fluids, is now available to preorder from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 💦💘

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Len Lukowski - Bodily Fluids | Broken Sleep Books

Len Lukowski’s Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood. Moving through sex, memory, digital detritus, and fleeting intimac...

www.brokensleepbooks.com

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