megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026To some, Jesus Christ appears on toast. But tonight, I am visited by David Bowie in a melon. 000
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026*Yes* to the entry of the adjective ‘Schengen-y’ into the literary critical apparatus. Joanna Biggs @lrb.co.uk #Schengen 000
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Anybody who hasn’t made appropriate plans to celebrate Frank O’Hara’s birthday on Friday will get another chance in June ⬇️ 000
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026New in @thebupkes.bsky.social: “America, behold” www.thebupkes.com/p/contributi... Amia Srinavisan invited @lrb.co.uk readers into the trouser area of #MAGA - psychoanalytically speaking, of course - and look what happened ⬇️thebupkes.comContributor's Contribution: 'America, behold'We contain multitudes. Do we contain each other? Addressing the 'reinstated father'—now and since ever. 001
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Before @newyorker.com drops #TheNewYorkerAt100, @thebupkes.bsky.social drops … this: www.thebupkes.com/p/contributi...thebupkes.comContributor's contribution: Magazine meanings, sweatshirt sentimentsTry outrunning your decisions on the objects you display. Go on. We dare you. 011
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Amazing conversation with Shahd Alnaami ⬇️ #Gaza #literature #hope 030
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025New for The Bupkes! Our contributor @megrey.bsky.social is everywhere. Including basement bathrooms of Brussels bars. 121
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Unexpected factors influencing #EU-#UK relations: the mortality of Nicholas Thomas-Symonds 010
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/09/2025‘Johnson’s work has done much to shape ideals of multiculturalism in Britain. Perhaps most significantly, he made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois.’ Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukMendez · Burning Age of Rage: On Linton Kwesi JohnsonLinton Kwesi Johnson has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore... 0145
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025While @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social might never have posted on Bluesky, @friebos.bsky.social’s reporting over the last few days on the pro-#Palestine protests at the #VueltaaEspaña and the presence of the #Israel Premier Tech team has been exemplary journalism… 120
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025New for The Bupkes: Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice. www.thebupkes.com/p/double-tap...thebupkes.comMonsters (and other lies)When a double's not enough, make it a triple. 011
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025New for The Bupkes: It’s August, and much of Europe has made its traditional summer holiday escape to overcrowded beaches. Our Brussels-based contributor @megrey.bsky.social reflects on the inescapable. Get more at thebupkes[dot]com. 001
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025#TommyRobinson tailoring ⬇️, courtesy of @thebupkes.bsky.social 010
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/08/2025‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’ Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukColin Burrow · Let custards quake: Satire without the JokesTo think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of... 061
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I don’t immediately have a topical song for Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy - so let’s reprise this one instead ⬇️ #TDF25 #SimonYates 010
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025In June, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. She does not appear in this poem. www.thebupkes.com/p/poets-war-...thebupkes.comContributor's contribution: Poets on war, war on poetsSomeone is missing. There is a reason for that. 111
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025SCOOP! The Bupkes has obtained the final declaration of NATO’s 2035 summit.open.substack.comThe St. Petersburg Summit DeclarationIncreased militarism amid rising nationalism. What could go wrong? 001
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The first time the hashtags #poem and #Schengen appear together on Bluesky. Also the last? 110
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025You asked. Kurt Tucholsky answers. “Was darf die Satire?” / What can satire get away with? (Spoiler alert: Everything.) open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...open.substack.comConWatch: Week 1,810Does Germany have a constitution yet? 001
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Fresh Bupkes! A momentary pause looking at the futility outside to contemplate the ephemeral inside. open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...open.substack.comContributor's contribution: lad trope house plant death cultA poem for a summer slipping away before it arrives. 001
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Song for Simon Yates: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4b9s... #Giro @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @teamvismaleaseabike.comm.youtube.comFinisterreYouTube video by Saint Etienne - Topic 000
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025In honor of aspiring European go-getters contending with the fact that their figures are off. open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...open.substack.comContributor's contribution: Integers, and Reasons for reticenceTwo poems for politicians struggling with numbers. 101
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The style guidance you need to know for #menswear in autumn/winter 2025 #AW25 👇🏾 110
megrey.bsky.social @megrey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Neu! Announcing poems by M. E. Grey in The Bupkes magazine. megrey.net/2025/04/02/c... @thebupkes.bsky.socialmegrey.netContributor contributing contributions: poems in The BupkesWork by M. E. Grey is featuring irregularly in satirical zine The Bupkes. ‘Snack (Austrian Airlines)’ was published in March, and ‘Bad threads’ was published today. Future p… 020
Reposted by @megrey.bsky.socialThe Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Get your in-flight bupkes here, by @megrey.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...open.substack.comContributor's contribution: Snack (Austrian Airlines)Poetry at and about 35,000 feet. 001
