Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This came up in this year’s @saloneurope.bsky.social panel discussion. Our disconnections feel so sharp atm. Having people around for meals - the generosity of hosting, the receiving of that gift of food - seems small but is a powerful act of love and community. 131
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Feminist? Check Funny? Check Medieval churches? Check It’s like it was written expressly for me. 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Bought this 10 days ago but told myself I couldn’t read it until I finished the three books I was part-way through. Just closed the cover on the last of the three and HOLY HECK I’m excited to get started. 120
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Shall mingle with anthems something something (sing?) Til hill and valley gayly gaaaayly ring! 020
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96115022670
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I love this tree. Like an athlete taping up their muscles, it's woven and strapped up its bark so it can get on with the important job of being really bloody massive. 0174
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 07/10/20260% surprised to check the etymology of ‘barricade’ and confirm it’s French. 020
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneDeborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026At @saloneurope.bsky.social Madrid, I ran a workshop where we played with anonymity. The resulting writing was astounding and brave, so I am going to try and recreate it online. Join me? 'To Walk Invisible' Experiments in Anonymity | European Writers Sal share.google/7uZ636KVXgQn...share.google'To Walk Invisible' Experiments in Anonymity | European Writers SalWhat might you write if you weren't afraid of others reading it? Come along and find out.... 3128
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know there’s low danger of them coming into power but good Christ, £47bn? How? Local goons going door to door for a weekly shake down? There’s nothing left to cut.theguardian.comTories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak revealsExclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Since AI slop, this ad could contain either. 001
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There’s a subtle but important difference between ‘ball-bearing’ and ‘ball bearing’. 110
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m choosing to believe it’s misunderstanding rather than violence. 110
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a misunderstanding of how to make friends, the American on my Spanish train has decided to wear a Ronaldo Portugal top. 140
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Found a painting of Timothee Chalmet in his first role as David from <checks notes> 1616. 000
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874) gathers real swaths of poisonous arsenic wallpaper sourced from stores across Michigan. Originally printed in a run of 100 copies, only 6 remain due to recipients fearfully destroying their copies: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k… 211434
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Never not amazing how the French get away with looking so French. 110
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 23/09/202630 years time: ‘How time flies! Do you remember when they were little and looked like that?’ ‘Not really. Guess it’s the dementia.’ 000
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ah, I see the school photo company thinks I want to remember my child through the gloss of beautifying filters. 111
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A 70-ish% hit rate with books = way way better than online dating. 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New judgement category: if I fold the ears over, will they recover? 110
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneRichard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Quite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s. 1041694
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I realised that starting a new book gives me the same rush that online dating used to. Will this one be any good for me? Will it make me laugh? Can I take it to bed with me? Does it fit in my handbag? Etc. 280
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026As someone said during (one of the many) American vs British food wars: don’t yuck my yum. We now trot out that rule to de-escalate all kinds of opinionated moments. 040
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026London musical theatre PSA: the excellent production of Into the Woods at The Bridge Theatre is moving to the West End. Moves at a clip and serves up the comedy and darkness in delightful, delicious dollops. 030
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A chap at my wetland centre in London said the first beaver project here had gone so well that two more are on the cards. They’re also working on reintroducing storks (tricky because they return to their home nest) after they were hunted out of the UK.theealingbeaverproject.comBeavers in Paradise: Research shows how Ealing is shaping London’s Wild FutureThe Ealing Beaver Project has been featured in a new peer-reviewed academic article: “Beavers in paradise: Prefiguring London’s urban wilds”, published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space ... 1336
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/09/2026Seems weird the whole "are you ready for war if it happens" thing the government is pushing when clearly we've been at war via misinformation, funding far right hate groups, attacking British institutions and so forth for ages. A better question is "when is the government going to do something?" 820028
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026(Today in discovering that pictures of gifts to Popes/dignitaries is my jam) 020
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hadn’t seen this one before. Amazing. Thank you. 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes! This one was real joy. I’d put money on the shirt still existing and giving Leo a chuckle every time. 140
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This beautifully filled the hole left by Netflix’s Norsemen. Though it was missing the line ‘it was arrows’. 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I had no idea! Genuinely amazing.uritours.comNational Gifts Exhibition House | Uri Tours 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ll hold my hands up and say I’d struggle to come up with a decent gift for a Pope. Months of overthinking that gets distilled into a Lego Trevi Fountain ‘because the real-life crowds might overwhelm you’. 020
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The sneaking out of the awful gifts, after whatever statute of limitations lapses, must also be like a thrilling reverse heist. Picking the trusted ally, building the false bottomed briefcase, replacing the Furby with a perfectly weighted bag of sand. 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The arc of the covenant sitting next to that crystal football from Marco Rubio. Every day is like Christmas in the Vatican warehouse. 010
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We all know there’s a room in the Vatican that holds all the mad gifts Popes have been given over the years, and I’d pay as much to see that as I would to see the Sistine Chapel. 8748
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s fascinating/horrifying to me for the ‘quiet part out loud’ symbolism of it. People literally wearing fronting their right wing-ness in the most in-your-face way as poss. Like in order to go masks off they’ve also put masks on. Whew, the metaphors here. 110
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We have a WhatsApp Book Group! Incredible. The group meets to chat about a different book each month. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. We've picked the next few books and would love a few new members If you like the idea, let me know. Info here. biggreenbookshop.com/whatsapp-boo... 2168
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 12/09/202617 and counting. I count it as one of my skills. 010
Reposted by Annemarie CancienneMighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn, 6277072029
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I screenshot that too. A perfect paragraph of furious restraint and absurdity. 030
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reading her is 20% ‘why can’t I write like her?’ / 80% ‘I’m so grateful she writes like her’ 110
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I was on a Deborah Levy kick this summer but didn’t make it to her latest (the best time for a Deborah Levy kick: any time). Lovely to know she was waiting to lead me to Frank as well. 100
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’ve never (consciously) read Frank O’Hara so you’ve made a new student in me. I think the book’s great. It’s stream of consciousness so you have to sway with its rhythm. But by focusing on one relationship it amplifies the tragedy of all the losses from AIDS. 110
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Lovely poem. It feels like a perfect companion piece to the book I’m reading atm (Nova Scotia House). 100