Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialPeigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is just gorgeous 1208
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialAlex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am in love with this. 031
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.social💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 04/06/2026💖 meet the lovely, pika 💛 🪄 💜💛💙💚💜💛💙💚💜🪄 772459414
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Money flees the scenes of its crimes, bolts to its pile on the upland plains to laze on the plumpest cerulean upholstery, warding off gravity with icons and charms lifted from ancient tapestry tales. ~ We launch The Gleaning on Wed 30th Sep. See below for details. Do come 022
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialMatt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not every book sounds like every other. '...a force of merging furies like a riptide is unleashed. Amy gets on board, rides her mind's muscle long gush of sinuous weft & warp relishing the onslaught, she freestyles the rush Until it is the only thought.' From, The Gleaning @fayay.bsky.social 023
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A polythene bag photodegrading into a mecca of thorns. The broken branches are leaning against boughs that are leaning on light. All the shops are closed: it’s time to focus on what we already own. Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg 3 pamphlets Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... 0106
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialRajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026 “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” ― Wendell Berry 076
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Out there looks like rain but how can you tell, these days, between rain and the graze of peeling back layers of rage? ~~ We'll launch The Gleaning on Wed 30th September details below - do come 054
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/09/2026#OtD 9 Sep 1828 legendary author, Leo Tolstoy, was born in Russia. His greatest work, War and Peace, is dotted with an essay on people's history, that history is not the story of Great Men but the overlapping stories of billions of us stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1095... 19322
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hasan Piker is saying that the conflation of Jews with Israel is putting Jews at risk. That is in inarguable fact. Both Israel's cheerleaders and antisemites are promoting this conflation. Rather than demonise Piker for stating the truth - oppose this dangerous conflation. 825656
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...act.38degrees.org.ukAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th... 17657415
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When the heron preens delicate wisps of feather melt into light. Three postcards (350gsm uncoated cardstock) accompanying three new pamphlets (Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living) by Matthew Clegg. Haiku on reverse. Have You Always Been Here? Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... 0239
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/09/2026#OtD 9 Sep 1739 the Stono slave rebellion began in South Carolina, the largest uprising of enslaved people in the mainland British colonies. 23 people seized weapons, burned plantations and freed others until a militia repressed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094... 110137
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"For two years of lockdowns, my partner and I walked Sheffield's Rivelin Valley at dawn. Moss. Herons. Froglets. Treecreepers. Those walks became three poetry pamphlets and a way of paying attention again." Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg Published today longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... 05720
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thanks, Matt, I've just ordered this, looking forward to it. The way she writes about people in the land, their shared histories and concerns, is marvellous 010
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Professor Wolff Appearance on the Clearing The Fog Podcast democracyatwork.substack.com/p/professor-...democracyatwork.substack.comProfessor Wolff Appearance on the Clearing The Fog PodcastAs US Empire Collapses And Interest In Socialism Surges, What Next? 000
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialDominique Cameron RSW @bourbonandwolfe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026High ground . 0275
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialDominique Cameron RSW @bourbonandwolfe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Tadpoles and Sparrowhawk. 0143
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They're all marvellous. If the new pamphlets are as good as Cazique, Edgelands, Officer and the others, then we're in for a treat. The artwork looks superb too. 010
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialThe Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council have warned Miliband that a UK ban on trade with settlements may fuel antisemitism in the UK. What utter bollocks! Committing genocide fuels antisemitism - they should focus on that! 86123
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Cover reveal - or, rather, three cover reveals - ahead of the publication of 'Have You Always Been Here?', a series of three new pamphlets by Matthew Clegg. You can pre-order 'Have You Always Been Here?' - and read a poem from the first pamphlet - here: longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/ 74919
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1goodlawproject.orgJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 000
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I fell in love with that word, Cazique, though I couldn’t find its meaning in any book my father owned. It broke the shackles in my brain: just thinking it or speaking it made me taller, other – simply more. Special 3-for-2 offer on 3 collections by Matthew Clegg longbarrowpress.com/special-offe... 065
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialDave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Gerard McCarthy has quit a London theatre production following the casting of pro-Israel extremist Maureen Lipman The actor said her repeated public comments about Israel and Palestine left him uncomfortable promoting her involvement in the production5pillarsuk.comActor Gerard McCarthy quits London play after pro-Israel Maureen Lipman joins castFacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Northern Irish actor Gerard McCarthy has pulled out of a London theatre production following the casting of outspoken pro-Israel actress Dame Maureen Lipman. McCarthy said ... 073
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialfayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 075
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 18/08/2026My hot take, as an anthropologist who's worked with people who've done harm, is that a crippling over-saturation of shame is actually at the core of everything that fascists do:hilaryagro.comShaming fascists: Not enough, or too much?If shame was helpful, we would have solved all our problems by now because it’s the primary way people relate to each other in colonial cultures. 13714
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 075
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialJohnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Yep. Ergo, Marx and Engels were substantially correct. 024
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/08/2026#OtD 18 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was most likely executed, during the Spanish civil war. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e... 221493
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialMatt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Forgetting is easy in cities. We walk amongst buildings with no memory of the labour, lives or losses that made them. We forget the animals that have since disappeared or been erased. That’s part of why books like @fayay.bsky.social's The Gleaning are precious – poetry can restore that lost memory. 2116
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I love this... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker...en.wikipedia.orgChecker shadow illusion - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialAndy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Posting this again in tribute to the great Bill Oddie, and because in my opinion it's one of the greatest moments in British television comedy. youtu.be/Sad7CoNTzjE?...youtu.beThe Goodies- Puppet GovernmentYouTube video by RandomNostalgicTeenager 810834
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialBen Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Andy Burnham is going to be flying between London and Manchester ffs 021
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLong_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The Evening Cafe 8”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel 327550
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026'A Sheffield Forge' from around 1902-1904 by artist Walter Hayward-Young (1868–1920) under his pseudonym Jotter. One of a set entitled 'Workaday Sheffield' produced for Raphael Tuck and Co. The accompanying text states 'This is typical Sheffield forge silhouetted against the 16513
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialHelen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social · 18/06/2026An important conversation between 5 women around deepfakes. I was honoured to be part of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELx...youtube.comDeepfaked: Five women reveal the real impact of being digitally undressedYouTube video by Greatest Hits Radio News 096
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialMarc Gooderham @marcgooderham.bsky.social · 18/07/2026A pastel sketch in Brighton's Seven Dials. 03712
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialMatthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Few people are familar with Evangeline Paterson's poetry these days, though she was an excellent exponent of the genre. In this terrific example, her tone might seem conversational at first, but then the poem starts to show us its layers... 810025
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Somewhere in Tethys’ salty darkness, in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs in uncountable centillions, each buoyed on its micron of oil. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements £2 off until 24 July longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... 2248
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/07/2026#OtD 22 Jul 2017 Rashan Charles, a 20-year-old Black British man, died shortly after being taken to hospital after being held down by police and a passerby in a shop in Dalston, East London. Protests against the killing followed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9490... 04018
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/07/2026We're waiting for the new Prime Minister to clarify what he's going to do about Thames Water. In the meantime, here are some headlines about water bosses' pay that you may have missed...number 3 is a peach! Privatised water is a scam and we're all paying the price. We need it in public ownership. 03715
fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026There’s common ground up here but not enough to till, or graze a herd or flock. It’s said the land we claimed way back is owned and not by us 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite Lonbarrow Press 2026 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 022
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialSylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This is something he actually said 125216
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialNational Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Thank you to the MPs who have joined the Parliamentary Call for a government-led televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis in the last ten days. The public deserves to know. Enter postcode to see if your MP has joined: nebriefing.org/parliamentary-call #NationalEmergencyBriefing 58137
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialfayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026But his name be everywhere and summat in the way he speaks about world peace and us all being free I felt the fresh air of it like summat you can breathe, and now I only wanna believe. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite Lonbarrow Press 2026 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 044
Reposted by @fayay.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Doing anything tomorrow evening? If not..... 3218
