Reposted by Fiona RobertsonShane Anderson 🏳️🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Secret of the Poets by @fionaswriting.bsky.social feels apt here. 1103
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A short, unedited, unpolished response poem to Cornell. CN for allusions to rape. 0118
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Things I've found in the last days of sorting mum's stuff: Cards she'd bought to send me when I needed cheering up. Photo's from the 30s and 40s. Some earlier. My father's old surveying tools in a box with perishing foam. His letters to her from his 18-month postings. 1/ 1140
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think about the last line of this all the time. I've never yet found a metaphor to describe this feeling which I don't immediately discard because it isn't as perfect as this. It's annoying because I want to write about the sensation in other contexts but the best line has already been written. 4428
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm staying at the house, sorting through the last of mum's stuff. I can count my days left here in single digits. I don't think I'm going to see the stars from this garden again. 2180
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Christ I am remembering why I try to avoid getting covid. This is triggering all my PTSD from being really sick. It's a month on and my brain is still useless, I can barely walk anywhere and need days to recover when I do. I'm resting as much as I can, lying flat most days. 2171
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonKatie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I get goosebumps every times I hear this poem. A message so perfectly delivered that needs to be shared as widely as possible. @fionaswriting.bsky.social is such a powerful voice. 121
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Let me tell you about the world 25 years ago this morning. In Scotland, I was 20. Newly disabled but still thinking my life would get back on track. My generation had grown to adulthood in one century and were forging forward in the next. 1/ 182
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The UK media assault on disabled women is an attempt to roll back decades of progress. We've spent so many years teaching people mobility aids and adaptive supports are to be celebrated. graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/w...graniteandsunlight.wordpress.comWhy Young Women Aren’t Ashamed Of Disability AnymoreVarious journalists in the UK right now would like to know why young women feel so comfortable using mobility aids in public and calling themselves disabled. If they’d bothered to speak to us, we c… 12210
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am trying to write about the media assault on disabled women, but covid recovery is slow and I'm still scattered. Which, of course, is relevant. There are too many elements to it. I'm afraid you're going to get a piece of performance art ('a disabled brain reacts') rather than critical analysis. 1140
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonCatLady Lil @catladylil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I submit also this banger. Wendell Berry wrote the antidote to the manosphere in 1994. He showed me that you can be angry and soft, strong and kind, rural and an activist. Rest in Peace, mad farmer 0134
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I can't believe they did the Scottish lift joke on Strange New Worlds!!! 180
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Many people, me included, have been sharing Wendell Berry's beautiful writing on hope, nature, peace and purpose. You should know he also wrote poems like this, because this is part of loving the world and the people in it. Questionnaire, 2010. 0120
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In 2020, as the world fell apart, I recorded a series of the poems which have kept me alive over the years. The first was The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday. 1/ youtu.be/opVxUZCBN2w?...youtu.bePoetry To Sustain You: The Peace Of Wild Things - Wendell BerryYouTube video by Poetry To Sustain You 2143
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A lot will be said about Dolly's musical legacy, love for home, refusal to let anyone make her feel less, her charity work, the covid vaccine, her razor wit. Learn this from her: success gives you the chance to make other people's lives easier. Use every gift you're given to do good in the world. 0367
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I've never known an entertainer so universally respected and beloved across genre lines. Even the hardest metalheads fucking love Dolly, even if they wouldn't have her music on rotation. 1122
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonA Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Jason Arday didn’t deserve this. The lie that this is about truth or academic standards is bullshit. The Cass report is based on the transphobic “research” which has since been found to be unethical and based in academic misconduct. That has barely been reported. It’s racism. He was targeted. 9777161
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Five have commissioned an ITN documentary examining Nigel Farage’s finances: Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From? airs Saturday 22nd August, 9.30pm 47785319
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'm performing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival tomorrow at 3.30!!! Come see the only time that'll ever happen 😂 It's the @iamloudpro.bsky.social Grand Slam so you'll see amazing poets (and me). It's always a fiery, brilliant show. I'm representing Aberdeen so could use friendly faces! 161
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2026As I've said since the beginning of this nightmare, transphobia is inextricable from ableism. They are the same mechanism producing the same results for the same reason. Any disabled people throwing their lot in with transphobes are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. 1422875
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Be safe today everyone who's going to Glasgow to counter the fascists. In their speaker lineup they've got two outright neo-Nazis and a 13 year old child in the first four. They've got wild antisemites, people who think Hitler was right and that woman who flashed children in the Scottish Parliament. 3327
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The new Prime Minister has set up 'No 10 North', which I'm not opposed to but also... 46924
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'd be screaming through the night too if I was forced to live next to Andrew Tate. 3366
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Apparently we have to have the 'translation, esp from long-dead languages, is an act of cultural creation, not a 1:1 cypher, and the eg. C18th German or 1960s UK versions of the Odyssey are no 'purer' or less informed by biases and culture of translators than recent interpretations' fight again. 1102
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I finally got a poem written last night that's been percolating since about two weeks after my SCAD (weird heart attack). I've had the first line and a couple of images for ages but it all clicked together at last in circle at 2am. Yay for weird poetry friends who create space. 1141
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category" 1151587606
Reposted by Fiona Robertson👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This isn't 1920s Serbia. Anarchists in the UK are not murdering politicians. Anarchists in the UK are making sub-par podcasts, working shitty jobs as social carers, running food banks out of broken fridges on the corner of their street and scamming the work printer for 400 punk gig flyers. 09013
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026When my pal posted this in the group chat my jaw dropped. This description is going to haunt me. What kind of person reads Catcher In The Rye and thinks 'what a clever young man having a nice day out'? I understand people not hating him as much as I do but actually loving him terrifies me. 570
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Tommy Robinson friend of many rapists 0334
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 11/07/2026Sunday, today, 11th July, Manchester South Hotel in Fallowfield is going to be targeted by far right harassers yet again. If you're going to be there standing in their way, bring water, sun screen and a friend from 1pm until the fascists go home. 215263
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonDr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Removing funding from the skills we already have shortages of. This isn't going to fix problem, it's going to make it worse. Do I need to sound the UK HIGHER EDUCATION CRISIS KLAXON 📣 again - given its now more of less the default state?static.klipy.comDumpster FireALT: Dumpster Fire 11713
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonKnitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...you.38degrees.org.ukTell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here: 12310
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonMalty but nice 🥃😻🐧 @artbookreview.bsky.social · 11/07/2026www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comElon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s fatherErrol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures 023
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 10/07/2026My current top app desire is a No AI setting. I want to be able to tick something that says don't give me any results which use AI, don't offer me AI tools, don't replace search with AI prompting. 47951207
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I'm 45 and when awful things are happening I still just really want my mum. Not being able to call her and ask her advice or hear her voice or go home for a hug makes the bad stuff so much worse. It was her birthday yesterday. I miss her. 2330
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonBrian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Donating Platelets is great. You get to relax for an hour and a half while nurses bring you tea and biscuits. You also occasionally get bonus free t-shirts or chocolates and, because you go more often, you can quickly get the donation milestones things. 044
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonHelen @helenm40.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This has reminded me to donate. Apparently the heatwave resulted in more injuries and decimated their stocks of my blood type. 185
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonSimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 08/07/2026I'm giving whole blood later today (good timing as Scotblood is showing slightly low on my A+ blood) and will ask about platelets. 261
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026If you're in the UK, and particularly if you're in Scotland, and have donated blood before please could I ask you to consider donating platelets as a matter of urgency. 31921
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Tonight at the Lemon Tree! Come see incredible poetry (and support the scene so your friendly local poets (me) get more national opportunities 😉) Loud Poets are always worth the trip - they are so good at curating a range of styles and topics. Even people who think they don't like poetry enjoy it.aberdeenperformingarts.comLoud Poets | Aberdeen Performing Arts 131
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I have too many opinions about too many things and every time I try to start talking about one, fifteen others jump in with points, so I just give up. I was also born to be annoyingly earnest instead of cool and snarky so I can't just post two-line takedowns and be happy. Brains suck. 2150
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Poetry people: I'm losing my mind. I remember a story, back in the 90s I'm pretty sure, about a woman who wrote a poem about dealing with officialdom when her husband died. The last two lines were something like 'He asks "are you the widow?" Could he not have asked "were you the wife?"' 1/ 130
Reposted by Fiona RobertsonDanny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026A quick reminder that no dog died from missing a walk, but many dogs have died as a result of being exercised in hot weather! I've treated many dogs with heat stroke and it is often fatal. There's loads more useful info on preventing and treating heatstroke at Veterinary Voices UK! 23664282
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 13/06/2026To everyone rejoicing in Tartan Army posts about Scots at the World Cup, here's why we love seeing our people being celebrated. This is the coverage Scots get in UK media. The Economist is 'respectable'. Whatever the paywalled article actually says, this is the header they chose. 117633
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There is a systemic cause in Henry Nowak's death, but it's not the one the far right want you to believe.graniteandsunlight.wordpress.comThe Real Systemic Outrage In The Henry Nowak CaseI wanted to think about Henry Nowak and his case before commenting. The conclusion I’ve come to is that this is about the same thing as the Rotherham grooming gangs, and the same thing as the trans prisoners ‘debate’. Please read to the end before commenting. Henry died pleading for his life and the systemic cause was not ‘anti-white racism’, it is that… 0194
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I wanted to think about Henry Nowak and his case before commenting. The conclusion I’ve come to is that this is about the same thing as the Rotherham grooming gangs, and the same thing as the trans prisoners ‘debate’. Please read to the end before commenting. 1/17 1147
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 08/06/2026It looks like it's time to dredge this one up again. This was written in response to a campaign asking for healthcare workers to be trained not to just assume abortion is the next step after a fetal test shows a disability. graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/a...graniteandsunlight.wordpress.comAbortion and Disability – Rights for AllThe campaign being led by Don’t Screen Us Out is essential, even though the politics surrounding abortion rights and disability are a bit complicated. I’m going to go into a wee bit of … 083
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Last week, local hotel-shouter Geoffrey Farquharson pled guilty to yelling Nazi slogan 1488 repeatedly (at me). He told the court he didn't know what it meant and he was ashamed now he did. His entire sm feed is Hitler fandom. He's not as famous as Platner, but Nazis typically pretend innocence. 13812