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Pompey fan! (Pup!🏆) poetry, literature, John Berger, Gary Snyder…all things literary; especially Russian Literature! It’s sooo good! Чудный! 😊and Reggae, Blues and Soul, Jazz! Trane! 🎷
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Hundreds of thousands march for Palestine in central London
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Hundreds of thousands march for Palestine in central London
Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators have marched in central London to mark two years since the start of the war in Gaza.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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colinhamilton.bsky.social
Alvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires + Oisin Fagan's Nobber. History with mushrooms. #booksinconversation #booksky
November 26, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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rocioreads.bsky.social
One of two goals I have this year: read more Latine books.

Here’s what I plan on reading 💞 #booksky #diversebooksky
March 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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youtube.com/watch?v=RIzw... ignore the introduction and go straight to Forest’s reading of Mojave Ghost: a wonderful reading and a wonderful poem! Enjoy!😊
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February 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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leighkp.bsky.social
I will always love listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates. Some authors really know how to read. #CurrentlyReading #audiobooks 🖋️📚 #BookSky
March 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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andriesdutoit-uwc.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

16/20 George Eliot - Middlemarch.
March 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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aanaxagorou.bsky.social
Join esteemed writers @amykey.bsky.social and Jenn Ashworth on a one month online course exploring creative non-fiction writing with the @outspokenacademy.bsky.social starting in March.

Details on the course and how to register here: www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...
February 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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dougjohnstone.bsky.social
This is an absolute gut-punch of a book about the slaughter in Gaza and the hypocrisy of the west. Will be reviewing soon in Big Issue, @canongate.co.uk
The cover of Omar El Akkad’s new book, One day everyone will have always been against this.
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
✍️"How did it come to this: that the water of our rivers became first undrinkable, then unswimmable, then untouchable?"

💥NEW piece from award-winning nature writer, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social calling on the government to get serious on water pollution⬇️
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Robert Macfarlane: We shouldn't have to risk our health every time we get in the water | Good Law Project
Water companies are drowning in debt and pumping out sewage. It’s time for Labour to get serious on water pollution.
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February 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is once again in the global spotlight, following a rebel take over of Goma.

Jamal Osman examines why this resource-rich country has been wracked by civil war for decades.

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DRC civil war: M23 rebels and a decades long conflict
The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference.
www.channel4.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Contemporary UK artist Natasha Newton's painted stones are inspired by landscape and nature #WomensArt
Photo of a group of painted pebbles on a wooden surface viewed from above, all have an image on them depicting a stylised fish, bird or animal such as a sheep or a rabbit in muted colours of black, white and brown
February 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
mayakovskyshorse.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=RIzw... ignore the introduction and go straight to Forest’s reading of Mojave Ghost: a wonderful reading and a wonderful poem! Enjoy!😊
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February 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Marianne Faithfull has died at 78. The singer and actress rose to fame with As Tears Go By and redefined her career with Broken English. A celebrated artist, she leaves behind a lasting legacy in music and film.
January 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
RIP Marianne Faithful (1945-2025), English singer & actress #WomensArt
(Image by G.Adams)
Monochrome photograph featuring a young white woman outdoors, upper half, facing forwards among foliage, with arms held up to her sides, she has short blond hair and wears a light coloured striped t-shirt
January 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Intertidal, by Yuvan Aves, is an extraordinary book: a passionate study of the ancient conversation between sea & land; a work of meditation, activism, field-naturalism––& vast generosity.
I love it so much I've written a foreword to the UK edition: pub. 6 Feb.
Recommended with all my heart.
January 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
"In every living thing there ticks a clock...": @david-farrier.bsky.social superb & unsettling on how "wild clocks"––spruce saplings, oyster colonies, reindeer herds––are falling out of synchronization as the Earth transforms.
It’s becoming harder to keep time.
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Wild Clocks – David Farrier
Attentive to the loss of age-old ecological relationships as “wild clocks” fall out of synchronization with each other, David Farrier imagines an opportunity to renew the rhythms by which we live and ...
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January 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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peterlewis55.bsky.social
A splendid Solar Halo (first one I've seen in 2025) in London right now. An optical phenomenon created by sunlight refracting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere #astronomy @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
This is an utterly wonderful film––16 minutes of quiet magic.

King of the Fells: a homage to Joss Naylor, the Lake District shepherd who broke record after record for fell-running, fuelled by Guinness & apples, powered by his seemingly untireable legs & spirit.
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King of the Fells: Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record
Fell running is a demanding endurance sport and Joss Naylor ran with all his heart.  Fuelled by apple cake and Guinness, the English sheep farmer broke multiple long-distance running records. He died ...
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Large-scale yarn bomb at Helsinki Cathedral steps, 2011. Crocheted squares created 3,800 blankets which were later donated to charity #WomensArt
Outdoor phhoto looking sideways on to a large set of stone steps at the front of a grand building, the steps are covered in multicoloured crocheted blankets covering a vast area, a group of onlookers are at the bottom of the steps and buildings are in the left distance
January 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Oh my days.

This is so powerful.

'Grief, I want to shout, Dr. Vidonne, is not a process we go through. Grief drives through us with churning blades. It forces its way through our bodies as though we are the earth and grief is the plough.'

The Orange Notebooks by @susannacrossman.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Hay Festival Book Club – One Hundred Years of Solitude - Hay Festival
Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Join our all-star Book Cl...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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'Now look alive:
there will be leaves again,
in the reeling of the sun.
You will bloom
in the land of the poppy.
Under its sky
it will strike you,
deadly and unbidden:
bliss.'
When ‘Threat’ was originally published in 1963, sexual relationships between members of the same sex were still illegal in Austria and East and West Germany. Legal recognition of partnerships wouldn’t come until the 21st century. The time in which Gunnar lived and wrote was undoubtedly dangerous for LGBTQ+ individuals, but it was not without joy; in spite of legal and social oppression, communities carved out a space in which to unite and support one another. ‘Threat’ speaks to this unflinching resilience, the belief that though you may be in hiding today, time will march on; ‘Nun erschrick’, (‘Now jump up’ or ‘Now startle’) because spring will come again, and in that time of rebirth will emerge countless opportunities for change. In an era where the rights of our community members are increasingly under fire, I look to voices like Gunnar, to people who stood fast in the face of imprisonment and systemic violence and worked toward a future that was not guaranteed, fueled by the strength of solidarity. Beneath the pendulous gait slumber paradises of melancholy: sunken summers. In their meadows bloom midnight poppies. Your clouds wander along the dark sky deep beneath the ground, your shadow world. Now look alive: there will be leaves again, in the reeling of the sun. You will bloom in the land of the poppy. Under its sky it will strike you, deadly and unbidden: bliss.
January 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Join us next week for the lunchtime* launch of MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on #Catalan'

Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

(*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)
Online launch – MPT Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan
Join us online to celebrate the latest issue of MPT. With Editor Janani Ambikapathy and guests Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Yeah it’s that kinda day
artisforliving.bsky.social Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Dec 12
Toni Morrison's words from 2015, as timely as ever:

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

#art #writing #courage #booksky
Profile portrait of Toni Morrison in black and white. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM