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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 7h

🌷MEET THE NANCYS🌷 Which Nancy are you?🤔 Follow #TheNancys in their latest adventure in #TheNancysAndTheSecretOfTulipFarm by @rwrmcdonald, OUT THIS THURSDAY!❤️ PREORDER NOW!👇️ 🔗https://geni.us/QiuBdF #NancyDrew #Mystery #NewZealand

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve built a time machine which needs a little tweaking because so far only Minchin, Burton and Robbins have come out of it.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the only map of england everybody else needs (best selling music by territory, Actually Helpful for understanding some things; also Suck It Morrissey.)

map of england where every county is lableled by their best selling band

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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hushupimreading.bsky.social @hushupimreading.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink #booksky link.amazon/B05hw4Uwm

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hushupimreading.bsky.social @hushupimreading.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Discontent by Beatriz Serrano is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #booksky link.amazon/B05PS0B8C

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stefan @stefanthinks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

fishing is just slot machines for outdoor people

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Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Until Sunday 27th, it's 20% off pre-orders @bookshop.org of my new book, Mid Land: a journey into England's heart. Pre-orders massively help a book, and it's worth getting the hardback, as photos & printing will be so much better in that. Please pass on! Ta. Offer: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/mid-...

Promo for 20% off at bookshop.org, who supply through the network of local independent bookshops, for the forthcoming book by Mike Parker, entitled Mid Land: A journey into England's heart. It's a good one, even if he does say so himself.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting funding defence by cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable? Just saying.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Blew a hose in a traffic jam on the way down.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Autumn poem just dropped.

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

comm n pr ble whe writin p ems
in the shape of decid o s trees
is t at once t ere ar ives
the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems. It’s called “On ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’”.

On ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’

Upon returning to my desk,
having left it temporarily in search of biscuits,
I discovered my cat had written
another poem on my laptop.

It was called ‘,,,;;pppppp’[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’
and while it constituted one of her more difficult pieces,
it was also the kind of poem
which rewarded repeat reading.

I was struck by its experimental structure,
the absence of line breaks;
indeed, not one single space
between any of the poem’s 10,000 or so characters.

One of the work’s central motifs –
‘jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk’ –
was, by turns, reassuring and unsettling,
while the symbolism of ‘###################’,

hinted at our 21st century preoccupation with social media.
And yes, there were perhaps a few elements
which did not work: twelve whole pages
containing just the number 7 seemed a little excessive,

while her introduction of the character T
was not altogether convincing. But who could not be moved
by that devastating final line, its message of hope
piercing our hearts like an arrow: 333333333333333,,,

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

THIS IS V EXCITING! "Wayfarers", the new book by @levparikian.bsky.social is out next April. And Lev has very kindly agreed to SIGN & PERSONALLY DEDICATE any copies ordered from us. Worldwide postage available. Get your orders in now! HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

The cover of Lev's new book.
It's predominantly blue and has wavy lines over it suggesting movement.

There are whales, penguins, insects, birds, deer (I think) and other animals represented on the cover too.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Poem, Revised Draft’.

Poem, Revised Draft

I had to write this poem again. I left the first draft on the train and now it doesn't look the same.

The original was a paean to Love, to Truth and Beauty; it soared above the everyday and all that stuff.

It would have healed estranged lovers' rifts, stilled the sands on which time shifts and stopped the world before it drifts

further into quagmired crisis. It was an open heart. It wore disguises. It employed ingenious literary devices.

I have tried my hardest to recall its words and rhythms, the rise and fall of those lines upon their cadenced crawl

through the English language. But it has only caused me pain and anguish for there was little I could salvage.

It certainly didn't end with a line like this.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's a sad reflection on standards in British public life that when a dodgy crypto billionaire wants to buy a politician the best he can get for his money is a third rate grifter like Nigel Farage.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘You Can’t Judge a Book’.

You Can’t Judge a Book

you can’t judge a book by its cover
 but neither can you cover a judge with a book

unless the book is a foldy-out one with a map or something

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today’s offering is an attempt to write a poem in real time while on a train journey.

Scenes from a Train Window

A pylon looms like a sini-
Two birds puncture the late afternoon blue as th-
Cows stare into the distance and wonde-
Fields sleep drowsily, waiting for-
Buddleia bubbles up along the tr-
A woman waves at her youn-
Some buildings.
Graffiti.
Wolverhampton Railway Station.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck´ by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Embroidery featuring two perched cute blue birds among pink flowers surrounded by the embroidered text of the title

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hushupimreading.bsky.social @hushupimreading.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Show your support by making a donation - I just did #RNLI 🌊

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Busman’s Holiday’.

Busman’s Holiday

I had always wanted to go  on a busman’s holiday so I saved up for ten years

and then five holidays came along at once.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.

[image description: a poem embedded in an Excel spreadsheet with the words contained within individual cells. Line 3 has words in a single merged cell. Line 4 has text wrapping applied. Line 8 has filters applied to each word]

Love Excels

Let’s spread ourselves on sheets of love
and turn our data into poetry.
Our cells shall merge themselves together
As you wrap your text around me.

Our sum is greater than our parts,
let’s crunch our figures without compunction.
Remove this filter from my heart –
you give me form and function.

We shall frolic among the formulae,
pivot our tables now and often.
I will total all your rows
and you can add my column.

Brian Bilston

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Arse would be a great name for an Elbow tribute band.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘The Grammar Police’.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Bags’.

Bags

you have bags
of bags

collecting bags
must be your bag

because you have bags
with nothing in them
except bags,
inside of which are other bags,
full of bags

you have enough bags for life
for a hundred lifetimes –
if there was a prize for the total number of tote bags
you would totes have it
in the bag

don’t know why you need so many bags
when all you ever put in them
are other bags

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!

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hushupimreading.bsky.social @hushupimreading.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is a bargain 99p on Kindle today #affiliatelink #booksky link.amazon/B0cVN9pWw

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dear Diane Weather gorgeous. Went to Land's End and Penzance yesterday. Met some hippies. They're chronic. Went to a party last night. Stayed faithful. Sue.

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