Pete Green
@petegreensolo.com
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poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee Sheffield they/them please, ta 💖 petegreensolo.com
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If you're new to Bluesky and/or me, I am:

📝 poet: @saltpublishing.com
and @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
🎹 musician: @pinkopaque.co.uk and solo
🎟️ gig promoter/occasional dj: @machomusicisstupid.co.uk
🥱 always knackered
🏝️ anxious islomaniac
🐟 Grimbarian in Sheffield
⚖️ non-binary
🤷 non-a big deal
A photo of me wearing sunglasses and a coral pink top with white stripes, and jeans with a hole in the knee. I'm sitting cross-legged on stony ground, smiling. Just in front of me is a small rock stack. In the background a green hill rises to the right of the picture.
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I need to buy some more author copies of Sheffield Almanac from you. The audience at Louth Words Festival last Friday bought my entire stock!
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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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Exactly, and when I reach that section of the job ad there's no way on Earth I'm ever working for that company.
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Oh LinkedIn, don't ever change
Screengrab from a LinkedIn job ad. Text reads "De-risk your ambition and reinforce the dependability of your delivery by talking to us about your next development challenge"
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Hey Adam, would you consider having @pinkopaque.co.uk as a support act sometimes?
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In series 2 episode 6 of Buffy it's Hallowe'en, and the demons and vampires tend to sit the whole thing out because they find it tacky, all the normie humans dabbling in their business.

This is unrelated to the fact that I haven't done anything for #NationalPoetryDay
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Me: Sheffield is so much more vibrant when the students are back

Also me: fucking hell, I'm not going in there
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This is why I still have the internet
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New YouTube upload - 3 mins from the sleeper train as it glides through the night.
Sleeper Train at 3.20am
YouTube video by Radio Lento
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I quite like shellacking, and tonking is a welcome addition to the lexicon, but you can't beat a good old walloping.
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I don't know anything about golf, are all American golf fans nine years old or something
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So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it
The book cover for The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose. The text is in large sans serif font and is in the middle of the page. It is in white over an image of the sky with a cloudy sunset. On the left edge, vertical, is a cityscape, on the right some gorse bushes
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Don't miss out! Free shipping on ALL books, plus 10% off selected sale items: www.saltpublishing.com
Offer ends 30th September.
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Good questions. Pub policy, it seemed to be. I didn't drill down into the finer detail tbh.
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Went into a pub near Parliament yesterday and the doorman had to check the badges on my backpack for any political messaging. This was actually good because it meant he missed the trans ally badge on my jacket
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If you write it in all caps or all lower case, rather than title case, then couldn't you just be generically supporting action on Palestine of some kind, rather than a specific organisation called Palestine Action
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Can you be arrested for an anagram? How to hide Palestine Action, useful for placards at demos

no elite captains
I alone, pittances
a polite instance
penalties action
set national epic
a spleen citation
inpatient solace
antiseptic alone
a social penitent
pain at elections
Atlantic peonies
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I used to like those Amazon reviews where people said "this binbag changed my life forever!" etc etc. More Innocent Times.
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Tell us how satisfied you are with your lightbulb!

Hi, us again, now tell us now satisfied you are with the process of buying your lightbulb

Yeah hi now please rate your experience of providing feedback on the process of buying whatever it was you bought if you can still remember thanks
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See also: being pestered for feedback about absolutely everything that ever happens
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Is it because poetry isn't prose?

I dunno, I get why Poet Voice is bad but I don't want to hear poets just reeling shit out with no regard for line breaks and prosody and stuff y'know?
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I assume "choking cheese" is a #haycorn rather than a euphemism but honestly who knows any more
Screengrab of a social media post reading "Manchester United fans will be thinking how did we lose to this team? It's like choking cheese compared to playing us." #swfc #GTFC
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Never has the phrase 'zero sum game' been more fitting