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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11h

Pick a book, any book

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 15h

Picture by @rondavies.bsky.social - sorry Ron just noticed I didn't credit you! Ron's not only a photographer he's a mega poetry fan, a winning combination for us at Poets' Corner 😊👏

Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Great evening of poetry at the lovely Mecycle cafe, bar and bike workshop in Ainsdale, #Southport last night, with poets Alison Chisholm, Phil McNulty, Callan Waldron-Hall and Jennie E Owen.

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 16h

Lads? Lads? Might I point out... Actually, no, you're right, it is usually lads.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 16h

Fantastic!

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 17h

Early one for your diaries. I'll be giving the keynote talk (eeek!) for Liverpool John Moores University's Research Institute for Literature & Cultural History, on 3 Dec at Bluecoat. My topic? Only the little one of 'Why writing matters'. Free, booking required www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/rilc...

LJMU RILCH Symposium 2025: Why Writing Matters

An afternoon of short talks and panel discussions hosted by Liverpool John Moores University's Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History.

www.thebluecoat.org.uk

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 17h

Things aren't so bad now really, are they????

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 18h

Liverpool, 1956, photo by Thurston Hopkins.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahaha she's elusive but might possibly be available in December... 🤞

Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, thank you, Caroline - so glad you were there x

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Great evening of poetry at the lovely Mecycle cafe, bar and bike workshop in Ainsdale, #Southport last night, with poets Alison Chisholm, Phil McNulty, Callan Waldron-Hall and Jennie E Owen.

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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 1d

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

An extraordinary place I've managed to get to twice. You really need to be able to live more or less off grid and be prepared to be cut off from access to the mainland quite often - but what wonderful rewards you'd have in return.

Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bardsey Island off Welsh coast looks for new tenants

Island trust seeks adventurous family or couple to join three other permanent residents on Ynys Enlli.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bardsey Island off Welsh coast looks for new tenants

Island trust seeks adventurous family or couple to join three other permanent residents on Ynys Enlli.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 2d

Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Bet they're not all as polite as those fine ladies would be 🫣

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. But interesting that in wiser days anthropologists have been brought in by governments to advise. Sigh.

Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 2d

And as for understanding human behaviour, who needs anthropology when you've got Farage.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Mr Emerson @mremerson.bsky.social · 3d

Tuesday, you know, strikes me as a harp sort of day — earnest, delicate, and just trying not to twang too loudly before lunch. 🎶

👗Charles Creed | 1954

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 4d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Kate MacDowell explores the interaction between humans and nature through ceramics, porcelain #WomensArt

Ceramic artwork in white resembling human lungs with small birds perched inside, all against a grey backdrop

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 6d

Children's orchestra scheme in one of Liverpool's most deprived communities is 'inspirational'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Children's orchestra scheme is inspirational'

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy visited an orchestra from one of Liverpool's most deprived communities.

www.bbc.co.uk

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