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Michael Conley

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Peggy Poole Winner 2022 | Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice | Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens mickconley.substack.com

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 13h

Out of the four organisations you've mentioned, are any of them currently considered allies by European and US governments, or no? Any of them currently being given material and diplomatic support by European and US establishments to continue their actions, or no? Who's the one struggling here?

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations!

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 21h

Looks like his head is a no-go area for hair

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sentence 1 bears no material relation to Sentence 2 here.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/10/2026

video h/t @missdiedra.bsky.social

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lying doesn't look good on you.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No it literally is not, as we can all see above, and nobody is screeching, silly, I'm simply pointing out when people are lying

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poemtoday.bsky.social @poemtoday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Night Crow When I saw that clumsy crow Flap from a wasted tree, A shape in the mind rose up: Over the gulfs of dream Flew a tremendous bird Further and further away Into a moonless black, Deep in the brain, far back. Theodore Roethke

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No they dont; that's a lie

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah you ain't beating those racism allegations, lad. You're going to need to find some new lies and bullshit, this no longer washes

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looks like they did actually go and find the weakest person in the world to prove that point

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No they don't; that is a lie

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

the ppl who were never going to vote green anyway are being awfully loud about how they're definitely not going to vote green now.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why are you telling me this as though that wasn't what I was already saying?

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Zionism doesn't go back millennia, come on now

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And what methods have they used over the past 80 years to achieve and maintain this state?

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You said "the only people", so you might have to walk me through what you think the word "only" means, hard as that may be while you're wearing those clown shoes

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Except for the core belief in the ethnostate?

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a deeply, deeply stupid thing to say

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In what possible world could it be even remotely true that "the only people who get to define a political movement are the people it consists of"? What an absolutely wild take! That's not how political movements work, it's not how defining things works and it's not how words work

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not sure what that even means, but civility politics triangulation is for peabrained losers

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Then take that up with the interviewers doing the derailing

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why won't you live in it

The Whole Thing Is the Hard Part
Heather Christle

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't threaten us with a good time lads

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does this damage the car?

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sure they'll both be great, but I won't be finding out because unlike them I've come across the concept of solidarity in my life. And it's interesting to wonder what they both might have had to agree to say or not say, and how explicitly that agreement was given

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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It wasn't that long ago that this kind of talk was rightfully seen by most people as freak shit. Caring deeply about the exact boundaries of Englishness is cousin-fucker behaviour.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Brigaded by the vile trolls again" etc etc

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a honking carnival of bullshit, you racist

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The call about blind unthinking dogmatism is very much coming from inside the house, Paul. And if you don't want to be patronised, try being less of a silly billy

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can indulge in this kind of emotionally satisfying, high-handed, Sensible Centrist paternalistic dismissal of anyone who says something that threatens your sense of yourself as a good person, or you can actually be left wing, but you can't do both, not if words are still going to mean things.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This comment is the opposite of being a "vocal trans supporter" so maybe delete that claim if you're going to be this silly

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's more that AI is for cunts

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So close! It's actually the material support for genocide

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47734/...

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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, Asleep on the black trunk, Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Get a less lazy lie than this, if you're going to lie

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shut up

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Does my oven feel ennui? Does my iPad anticipate and fear its own inevitable obsolescence? Can my calculator get a boner?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/09/2026

ai doesn't "hallucinate" it's structurally indifferent to truth ai doesn't give people "ai psychosis" it automates cult dynamics it's a bullshit engine that makes people go auto cult

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a jiggling firehose of horsepiss

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one of the greats by one of the greats: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “The Leaving”

The Leaving
My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not, and the pond was—I could see as I laid the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I get why people are asking “what have we become?” but the answer is “exactly what you’d expect from a decade and a half of the press reciting the spicier bits of Mein Kampf at the public, and our whole ruling class agreeing we need to crack down on the lesser races and their Bolshevik allies”.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrong. No peace for him, in any way, ever again

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, I absolutely loved this book, I hope it wins the Booker. Agree with the Gwendoline Riley comparison at the end

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is all very awkward because Israel, as a society, is dead set on destroying or removing the Palestinians as a people and they are not shy about saying this is what they want. It makes it difficult to convince the public the people who recognised this are worse than the ones calling them names.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is, in fact, ideology on your part

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran claiming to be 'culturally Irish' gives the vibe that he thought being Irish was pints o' Guinness and shamrocks rather than implacable multi-generational communitarian struggle against imperialism.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am staggered by the insistence on the part of the press that a small rich village in Oxfordshire flinching at shadows and throwing a tantrum is worthy of news coverage. These people don't have real problems, they aren't afraid, they live in a sheltered bubble and have melted their brains.

Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No

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