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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 · 2d

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

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 2d

oh no #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 2d

Tweemaal Malen! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 2d

Malen just *grinding* them down! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 2d

Remains accurate. #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 5d

Malen, what a player! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

Ugh, I'm so sorry.

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 5d

Absolute madman. 🤣

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 5d

Malen, what a player! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 5d

Emi Buendiiiia! #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 5d

Bizot's quite something. #avfc

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

What... What is this feeling? #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 9d

WHAT IS GOING ON ASTON VILLA??? #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 9d

*BANGS ON THE SIGN* #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12d

Classic McGinn! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12d

A Villa win! A Villa win! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12d

Has someone drugged Rogers? #avfc

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 12d

Classic McGinn! #avfc

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Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 13d

'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 · 13d

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 · 16d

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

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks!

Maria @thismaria.bsky.social · 17d

BRONZE in the men's 4x400m relay! Well done, Team SA! 🇿🇦 So happy for Van Niekerk. #WorldAthleticsChamps #Tokyo25 #SouthAfrica

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