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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, me too.

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6h

First rule of editing: thou shalt not let thine author look like a narcissistic prick. I had two who were absolutely determined……

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 1d

She's just trolling now, isn't she?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch says she will give a tax cut for private school fees and take away all the new workers rights brought in by Labour

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 1d

Oh excellent! I think Ely is my favourite cathedral. It’s like a symphony!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 2d

Suppose you follow @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social for news about a fabulous poetry competition for new writers, of find out more here: burnedthumb.com

Burnedthumb | Blog of Poet, Editor and Translator Elizabeth Rimmer

A more casual blog of poet Elizabeth Rimmer

burnedthumb.com

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William Bonar Poetry Prize @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social · 2d

The mulit-talented Julie Laing @j_a_laing, winner of the 2023 #williambonarpoetryprize, with Jim Carruth from St Mungo’s Mirrorball and Sheila Wakefield from Red Squirrel Press. Julie’s winning pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, is available from Red Squirrel Press www.redsquirrelpress.com

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William Bonar Poetry Prize @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions opened on Thursday 2 October (National Poetry Day) for the 2025 #williambonarpoetryprize! Red Squirrel Press in partnership with St Mungo’s Mirrorball. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Please see below for full details and rules.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve had that on almost every issue - longer prison sentences half the actual, less extravagant benefits twenty five percent higher, etc.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

He’s the brilliant, but everyone can’t do that. I think we need a wide range of styles and strategies- it’s going to take all of us!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

They do. Politicians just need to find a technique that works for them- humour, calm, stubbornness, whatever you can do without getting rattled.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

She was, and she kept her cool, and said what she wanted to say. Didn't hurt either, when she said 'do you want us to put our money where it's needed or not?'

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 3d

Kate Forbes was well able for them . Serious, knowledgeable, strategic. I disagree with her profoundly on many things, but she did a great job this morning!

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Vicki Husband @vichusband.bsky.social · 3d

Glasgoscopy is published by Vagabond Voices on 14th October
www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/poetry/glasg... review copies and pre-orders now available.
Details of Glasgow launch on 12th November to follow. #booksky #booksfromscotland #poetry

front cover of a book, entitled Glasgoscopy by Vicki Husband. Cover has a white background with X-ray style image in dark blue with illuminated lines like a map of roads and a river in brighter blues

Inside cover of book opened out to reveal dark blue black background with map-like lines of river-like in pinks and blues, more abstract than the front cover

Back cover of book in white with book blurb and commendations

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 4d

Grand total of 90 poets celebrating National Poetry Day at the reopened CCA in Glasgow with StMungo’s Mirrorball. And Red Squirrel Press launched Julie Laing’s pamphlet Rhizome which won last year’s William Bonar Poetry Prize.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 5d

I can understand why - it’s a hell of a play. But so are the rest of them. You should book before we sell out.

Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 5d

Tickets for The Witch of Edmonton are moving fairly fast - season tickets for the whole season are still available as well. Catch one, catch them all - a week of pre-modern drama at The White Bear in Kennington from 21st October.
Book now, or we summon the Dog!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

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the Buell 🐈‍⬛ @thebuell.bsky.social · 5d

Dynamite, if our UK journalists weren't such gutless wimps.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5d

Reform UK don’t like to pay for anything…

Incredible conversation kicking off between former candidates and vendors to the party.

Even this statement by an app developer: www.thecafeapp.com/pressstatement

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social

atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/03/s...

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires

Sonnet for Perimenopause . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough…

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 6d

There’s nae pockets in shrouds. Just saying.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7d

You’ll recall that the selling point for organising our societies like this is that this is the best, fairest and most efficient way to determine value and allocate resources

BBC News (UK) ₺
@BBCNews• •1h
Musk becomes world's first half-trillionaire

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 7d

So sorry, this is awful.

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 7d

I thought I’d solved this by keeping pens in some, on my desk. I think it might not work the same for you!

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 7d

I'm selling the *last two* copies of a Limited edition pamphlet with artwork by Hugh Bryden of Roncadora Press. Link to the shop is on the blog.

Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 9d

And a small fundraiser on my new-look blog for the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library burnedthumb.com/charms-for-t...

Charms for the Healing of Grief | Burnedthumb

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o.... Go Leo!!

‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’

www.theguardian.com

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His Royal Huwness @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 7d

@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social I don't suppose you'll read this.
AS foreign secretary you should at least, the bare least, be making a public statement about this.
Your govt's complicty in Israel's incessant genocide & War crimes is sickening.
THIS appeasing is why Labour is losing trust.

Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

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