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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 03/05/2026

Haven’t been on here for a bit. Thought I’d share a blog post after a few conversations I’ve had recently about AI. Like there’s a lack of non experts musing on it…I know! But if nothing else give the podcast Talk Easy with Tristan Harris a listen.. imaginaryastronaut.xyz/notebook/202...

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anna starkey — imaginary astronaut home

This morning’s unexpected closing advice from AI after a long ‘conversation’ which concluded with a more sobering assessment of AI’s risk to humanity than I’d been anticipating. I can’t help imagining...

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 26/11/2025

I just started reading FUEL and am loving it - it’s such a brilliant idea to have an anthology of prize winning flash fiction (and navigable by a list of first lines!), and even better that profits go to fuel poverty charities - check it out! 👇✨

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 17/11/2025

“Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.” RIP Alice Wong - Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 15/11/2025

still my favourite game of all time! Always hoped for Machinarium 2 wherever they land in their escape craft! Maybe where the girl robot is the lead adventurer 🙂

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 29/10/2025

as soon as I ever solve my geographical/health obstacles I’ll be there!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 29/10/2025

oh man these look good, miss coming over for food at yours!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 28/10/2025

Oh that’s so kind, thank you! 🙂 and yes, celebrating everyone who’s finding readers for their words!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 28/10/2025

Do give @thebrokenspine.co.uk a follow here too, they create such a great gathering space for words and ideas and people on here.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 28/10/2025

I’m so happy (and a bit shy) to share that my first ever selected poems are in this collection from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you so much to editors David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, and I can’t wait to read all the work.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 27/10/2025

I have loved being co-chair of Unlimited and learned so much - and after 5 years it’s time to step back and invite new folk into the role. If you’d like to contribute to making positive change in the culture sector, check out our info pack and please share widely!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 17/10/2025

A big thank you to Hannah, the artist we commissioned to paint this, and did such a beautiful job - check out her insta www.instagram.com/paperwallssi...

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 17/10/2025

Feeling despair about all the shit going on in the world lately and particularly in response to all the flags near us, we decided to paint hope all over our house. It’s so lovely to come home to and also to hear kids chanting ‘hope’ as they go past on the way to school.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 07/08/2025

The Decode ME study is such a big deal for people living with ME/CFS. We’ve spent decades being dismissed by docs and now there is finally a glimmer of hope for better understanding, even pathways to treatment in the long term….just need more funded research and the gov to pay attention….

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Simon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 25/06/2025

The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

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Name our Storms

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 24/06/2025

Oh thank you, don’t know how I managed to mess up the link!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 24/06/2025

Some rare good news just now. The repairing of the harm their ‘guidance’ has caused will be hard however. And a reminder that @goodlawproject.org are a great organisation to support.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 24/06/2025

I think they need smaller dedicated car parks still for disabled visitors who are not able to easily wheel and use public transport (which is pretty bad for access)

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 27/05/2025

Yes, it's another request to sign and share an open letter. These are the times we live in... Disabled people are being cut out of working life, contrary to what the government say they are doing...if you're in the culture sector, please read, sign, share. www.tinyurl.com/AtWLetter

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables. Come on world, this IS possible! And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉 (graphic from grid.iamkate.com )

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/03/2025

Open this image up fully. Look to the top right. That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. And that bright point of light? Earth.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 23/05/2025

Gutted to read this - I have posted here previously about the proposed cuts to PIP and meantime we’re seeing damaging and life changing cuts to Access to Work that are happening right now… particularly to those I know working in the arts

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 16/05/2025

Honorable mention to Sonny Stores in Bristol who are not only super delicious but have always been open and understanding about booking outside seats. Everyone should be more like Sonny Stores. ✨

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 16/05/2025

You’re losing good custom. There’s loads of us with this access need and dammit we’re hungry, we’ve been waiting all winter for the chance to eat outside! I don’t have the spare energy to chance it rolling around all the restaurants to see if your walk-up outside tables are available. Let me book!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 16/05/2025

Dear Restaurants…especially all the cool small ones in Bristol, I’m looking at you - it is time to update your approach to access and to stop telling folk who are immune compromised/vulnerable to illness, that it’s not possible to book your outside tables. Of course it’s possible!

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ClareRed @clarered.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I am planning an event @wshed.bsky.social for the culture sector around our collective role in building togetherness to combat the rise of the far right. I am talking with Hope not Hate and imagining a mix of talk and workshop covering. Is this something you would be interested to attend?

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 09/05/2025

Doing some reading around Time - and am loving @emergencemagazine.bsky.social’s Volume 5 on Time. In particular this piece - the best big picture poetic writing on Earth’s geology I’ve come across emergencemagazine.org/essay/wrinkl...

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Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud

“We live in a vast, labyrinthine library of time.” In this essay, geologist Marcia Bjornerud celebrates the deep time-fulness of Earth, and orients us to read the many-volume stories kept in the rock ...

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 30/04/2025

Aha! I think it might be a particularly red Mint Moth! (Not far from some mint in our garden in fact) I think my initial online search threw me off because it looks like they are often more orangey brown…sorted thanks to the excellent identifier on @savebutterflies.bsky.social website!

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 30/04/2025

Bug folk! Who is this lovely and very tiny winged visitor to our garden? Is it a butterfly or a moth? This is is a daisy head that’s about 1.5cm diameter….I’ve never seen a butterfly this tiny - they emerge from a chrysalis full sized right, or do you get baby butterflies?!

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ClareRed @clarered.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can

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Unlimited @weareunlimited.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The problem isn’t disability – it’s inaccessibility. 56% of the artists behind the 83 UK projects funded by @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social identify as disabled or having access needs. Director Jo Verrent shares how we made this happen and why it matters! 🔗 Read the blog: bit.ly/42MB19T

An immersive art piece - a wall is illuminated with an image of a large whale coming out of the water. The skies are dark grey. A man stands in front of it looking up at the whale. Text reads: The problem isn’t disability - it’s inaccessibility.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thank you @electricliterature.com and @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for including the "lyric and evocative" Ultimatum Orangutan by @mailbykite.bsky.social in your Poetry Collections About the Disabled Experience. Read this wonderful list and explore the magazine electricliterature.com/7-poetry-col...

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 17/04/2025

Science tells us biological sex is not binary, good legal practice tells us this ruling is not fair, and trans representation would have told us the real impact- nobody is any safer from this decision and trans folk are now at even greater risk of harm. This is a great org to follow and support👇

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“The Royal Society is dead. Three hundred and sixty-five years of history, and it’s ended it as a beard for a fascist. What an utterly utterly shameful end for a once-great society”

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 02/04/2025

A clear, thoughtful and open piece about the decision not to cancel a Mayoral Transport Hustings event @wshed.bsky.social Makes me think that perhaps the nature of our times is that we need truly democratic platforms to remain open AND for peaceful protest to exist alongside each other.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 29/03/2025

Oh yes I think if you’re looking right now it is almost finished unfortunately. Nice colander hole patterns tho! 🙂

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 29/03/2025

Colander partial eclipse in bristol.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 22/03/2025

Made it along for a bit to the #cripsagainstcuts protest on College Green in Bristol - so great to see Green Party co-leader @carladenyer.bsky.social showing up to speak

A Crips Against Cuts flyer including the information that ‘Scope estimates that without PIP, a further 700,000 households will be pushed into poverty.

Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer speaking holding a mic, next to a protest organiser and Disabled People Against Cuts banner

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

ugh, OK, thanks for heads up - but useful there is actual data I spose

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

Ah thank you! I will have a deep read.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

Yes absolutely right on the numbers not being fully representative - and your partner’s experience sadly sounds very familiar. I didn’t bother to appeal the first time I applied for PIP and was turned down, as I was just too exhausted.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

Thanks for reposting mate, and should’ve done a TLDR at the start! 😉

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

And importantly, lots of disabled people simply can’t work and they should be valued just as much as those who can. I know it feels like it will never happen to you if you’re in a non-disabled body right now but this could be any of us, or someone you know, so it’s for us all to resist.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

ALSO - most offices aren’t fully accessible for wheelchair users, most employers don’t know how to support folk with chronic illness, neurodiversity needs more nuanced support in the workplace, flexible, remote working is still not easily available…you can’t force people into inaccessible jobs

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

PS : Addressing the public health crisis of 2 million people with Long Covid would be a good place to start with the issue of increasing numbers of people being out of work. These numbers rocketed from 2020 onwards - it’s not hard to work it out, but we are pretending Long Covid doesn’t exist.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

Taking away or reducing PIP won’t fix the health conditions I have that prevent me from standing up for long, or even sitting up at a desk for more than a few hours at a time. Funding the NHS to research and treat complex chronic illness would enable me to improve and possibly work more.

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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025

I recently started receiving PIP. I have been in work alongside education since my first job delivering newspapers age 14 and have worked ever since, paying tax. I can now barely manage 10 hrs work a week. I would LOVE to do more.

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