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@thismaria.bsky.social

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🍂 Writes, acts 🍂 Easily distracted, overly interested 🍂 Cape Town, mostly; Birmingham, occasionally

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy New Year, and here are two poems from my favourite poet's beautiful collection ON THE SUBJECT OF FALLEN THINGS*.

Thanks, @karinamszczurek.bsky.social!

*James Kearns (Bad Betty Press, 2023)

Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · Jan 2

My favourite poems from ON THE SUBJECT OF FALLEN THINGS by James Kearns. Thank you, @bloots.bsky.social, for the collection!

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 17h

Konsa assist close enough!

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 17h

I'd have melted into a sad, repentant puddle at 'You imagine that?'. 😶

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Blatant elbow there! Why no booking this time? #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

oh no #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Now don't make me regret all this first-half optimism, Villa. #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Tweemaal Malen! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Malen just *grinding* them down! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Remains accurate. #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 7d

Malen, what a player! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Now don't make me regret all this first-half optimism, Villa. #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 6d

Ugh, I'm so sorry.

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 6d

Wish I could say it comes as a massive surprise that there's an overlap between the flag people and suspected fraudsters, but this is great work by the @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social.

'It's 100% legitimate' www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...

Red flags: The non-existent company behind Brum's Union Jacks

'It's 100% legitimate'

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 7d

Each night, one person takes their turn to spin a globe around, close their eyes, plonk their finger down, and that's the country whose flag we all head out to surreptitiously add to lamp posts before the morning.

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 7d

Well, that was certainly enjoyable in the end. #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 7d

Absolute madman. 🤣

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 7d

Malen, what a player! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 7d

Emi Buendiiiia! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 7d

Bizot's quite something. #avfc

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11d

If the world was not confusing and disconcerting enough, Aston Villa have now managed to win their first premier league match of the season.

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 11d

What... What is this feeling? #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 11d

WHAT IS GOING ON ASTON VILLA??? #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 11d

*BANGS ON THE SIGN* #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 14d

Classic McGinn! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 14d

A Villa win! A Villa win! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 14d

Has someone drugged Rogers? #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 14d

Classic McGinn! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 15d

'Instead of pursuing an ill-conceived search to link vaccines & autism, we need wide-ranging research on how the genes associated with autism work, how autism intersects with [...] A.D.H.D., depression & anxiety, and how sex & gender play roles in the onset of symptoms & a person’s life experience.'

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15d

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 18d

Holy hell, Cash! An actual bloody goal! Maybe those boos are helping... #avfc