Maddy
@poetry-and-prose.bsky.social
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world…”
Well they’re acknowledged in my classroom, no worries Mr Shelley 📚 ✍️ 🍉
Part-time English teacher, full-time mummy.
Well they’re acknowledged in my classroom, no worries Mr Shelley 📚 ✍️ 🍉
Part-time English teacher, full-time mummy.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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[with increasing panic]
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
[with increasing panic]
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
and Tiny Tim, who WOULD NOT die,
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December 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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As well as discrimination in general healthcare, years long waiting lists for gender-affirming healthcare are ruining trans people’s lives.
We urgently need increased funding for gender-affirming healthcare, improved training for GPs, and to co-produce services with trans patients.
We urgently need increased funding for gender-affirming healthcare, improved training for GPs, and to co-produce services with trans patients.
December 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
As well as discrimination in general healthcare, years long waiting lists for gender-affirming healthcare are ruining trans people’s lives.
We urgently need increased funding for gender-affirming healthcare, improved training for GPs, and to co-produce services with trans patients.
We urgently need increased funding for gender-affirming healthcare, improved training for GPs, and to co-produce services with trans patients.
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There is sooo much wrong with the UK's media and politics.
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
There is sooo much wrong with the UK's media and politics.
Can you tell I live with two small daughters? 😬
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Can you tell I live with two small daughters? 😬
Happy Sunday and good riddance to November!
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Happy Sunday and good riddance to November!
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All the #DragRaceUK finalists being able to bring out supportive parents makes me weirdly proud to be British.
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
All the #DragRaceUK finalists being able to bring out supportive parents makes me weirdly proud to be British.
Lily Allen succeeded in her take down of David Harbour. Watching Stranger Things V and all I can hear is ‘Pussy Palace’ ruminating around my head 🎾 📱 🐱
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Lily Allen succeeded in her take down of David Harbour. Watching Stranger Things V and all I can hear is ‘Pussy Palace’ ruminating around my head 🎾 📱 🐱
Distracted by Rachel Reeves having much better hair than I remembered.
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Distracted by Rachel Reeves having much better hair than I remembered.
Over on Mumsnet, they’re complaining about the mansion tax… extremely hard to feel sympathy 🙈🎻
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Over on Mumsnet, they’re complaining about the mansion tax… extremely hard to feel sympathy 🙈🎻
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Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
Very much enjoyed Girlbands forever… but where were Girls Aloud?
a woman with blonde hair is standing next to two other women and making a funny face .
ALT: a woman with blonde hair is standing next to two other women and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very much enjoyed Girlbands forever… but where were Girls Aloud?
#edusky #teamenglish
Sorry, what? A year 8 reading test? What is this going to look like? After a decade of KS3 being the Wild West, this is going to be interesting 😬
Sorry, what? A year 8 reading test? What is this going to look like? After a decade of KS3 being the Wild West, this is going to be interesting 😬
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#edusky #teamenglish
Sorry, what? A year 8 reading test? What is this going to look like? After a decade of KS3 being the Wild West, this is going to be interesting 😬
Sorry, what? A year 8 reading test? What is this going to look like? After a decade of KS3 being the Wild West, this is going to be interesting 😬
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Shakespeare would be proud x
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Shakespeare would be proud x
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
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I’m a huge DuMaurier fan. Frenchman’s Creek, after Rebecca, is my absolute fave.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier
From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I’m a huge DuMaurier fan. Frenchman’s Creek, after Rebecca, is my absolute fave.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Watching The Craft in preparation for spooky season. Never noticed all the continuity errors - the hair is all over the place and keeps getting shorter 🙈 Maybe that’s that makes them the weirdos?
a group of young women are standing next to each other .
ALT: a group of young women are standing next to each other .
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Watching The Craft in preparation for spooky season. Never noticed all the continuity errors - the hair is all over the place and keeps getting shorter 🙈 Maybe that’s that makes them the weirdos?
Love his poems and even got to the chance to see him read them live in Leeds. Him reading ‘Long distance love’ will leave its mark on me forever. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88
Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Love his poems and even got to the chance to see him read them live in Leeds. Him reading ‘Long distance love’ will leave its mark on me forever. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...