Reposted by Shani CadwallenderAudrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital 85204095087
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving. 8883365512534
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderDulwich Hamlet FC @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Wishing everyone in London the happiest Pride weekend 🏳️🌈💖💙🏳️⚧️ It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, you are always welcome here at Champion Hill. 062
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Can anyone help with the final word of this MS? It‘s an annotation on Amy Levy’s manuscript for ‘A London Plane- Tree’, on the dedication poem ‘To Clementina Black’. So far I’ve got ‘all in Ital. low case to suit ____?’ 200
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderAzad Ashim Sharma @azad-ashim.bsky.social · 20/11/2024hey all - the wonderful publishing house I co-founded and direct, @the87press.bsky.social, is now on here. Please help us make the transition from the other place! Add us to all book related starter packs! 0119
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderEleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I LOVE @overleaf.bsky.social's writing, both critical and creative. Now you can read it too! Her article is now out OA, exploring C19 poet Eliza Cook, the Slaugham Yew, and their C21 traces/resonances. doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #19thcentury #poetry #ecopoetry #arborealhumanities #academiadoi.org 141
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Chuffed to be in vol.2 of @plantperspectives.bsky.social. Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness. Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... 023
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems 2255381000
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much. 349095
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant DetentionA request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention. 27541962441
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderNorth East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 06/04/2025Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the pricenortheastbylines.co.ukBrexit and Trump – stealing jobs from working class BritsBrexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price 219577
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Ted Lasso was great when the show’s thesis was that relentless positivity is a thin veneer over a desperate, near-nihilistic sadness, but that it may nonetheless still be the “best” available option in an otherwise heartless world. 3834
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Look at this big handsome bastard. I nickname him ‘Creeper’. NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten. 030
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 28/02/2025'They fuck you up, your mum and dad' 311428
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderAaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...theguardian.comWho is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries 192
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera) 1465593
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderRobert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves. 493129523
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJohn Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 17/02/20251825: Saw a large bunch of blue violets in flower & a root of the Bedlam cowslip 092
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderToby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I was planning my Arvon Masterclass on pacing this afternoon. Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before. Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us? www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @arvonfoundation.bsky.socialarvon.orgMasterclass: Pacing Your Fiction | From breathless plotting to breathtaking details | ArvonThis Masterclass with Toby Litt, author of the daily Substack A Writer’s Diary, will be a practical, craft-based look at the best ways of keeping your reader alongside you – whether you intend to whir... 2218
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 28/01/2025'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances RyanRosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan 0155
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I’m fascinated by the ‘shrinking’ quality of the stanza used by Robert Burns in which longer lines give way to shorter ones in a kind of funnel for the celebration of smallness. A nice example here by Norfolk dialect poet John Kett, on looking at the stars someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/wee-sleeket 0264
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I was recently diagnosed with MS; a relapse has kept me from working. It’s made me ponder my profession’s overemphasis on ‘productivity’, & the lack of (self) compassion that attends it. Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’. 051
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderAlycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025collections often are criticised for “unevenness” but isn’t that also part of their charm? that the workings of a poet “becoming” are also on the page, next to poems that feel crystallised? don’t we love process and learning and error more than the language of product & perfection? or shouldn’t we? 7474
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderAaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...thebookseller.comWhat big publishers can do for small pressesHow can major publishers create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat? 14313
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderGeoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Massive away win for the little fella. 573583989607
Reposted by Shani Cadwallenderthe Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 28/10/2024I heard there was a secret mash That turned into a graveyard smash But you don't really care for monsters, do you? 181368554
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Saying ‘Happy National Poetry Day’ to strangers just to feel something 3273
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderBeccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 25/09/2024"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark 5360441401
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2024Quote post with a picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie. 040
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderClaire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social · 20/09/2024Advance copies of my next book Lore of the Deep just arrived! It's full of myths, legends and Lore of the oceans with gorgeous illustrations by Stacey Rozich. Out in October so please preorder ❤ #kidlit 052
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderDavid Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 13/09/2024on trespass John Clare, from Peterborough MS A61 1188
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 15/09/2024This is quite hard because I’ve recently become a huge musical magpie, but this covers some decent ground. 10 bands/musicians to know me: Ian Dury and the blockheads Jeffrey Lewis Fugazi Mulatu Astatke Julia Holter Hamish Hawk Betty Harris Karen Dalton John Cale Haruomi Hosono 021
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderTom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 14/09/2024It's autumn! Fall colors are not a passive response to cold, but the result of an active time in the life of a tree, in which complex behaviors withdraw nutrients from the leaves and store them in the stem and roots. Over the few weeks, we'll show the details of autumn biology. What are you seeing? 3030755
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/09/2024Beleaf in yourself 0653
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2024speak your truth 503973455
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 10/09/2024Season of mists and melon usefulness 33311
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 06/09/2024May I interest the gentleman in a…writing bunker? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this Land for sale on RightmoveLand for sale in Nuclear Bunker, Land Lying To The East Of Longridge Lane, Wormhill Near Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 8AE, SK17 for £15,000. Marketed by SDL Property Auctions, Nationwide 110
Reposted by Shani Cadwallenderaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 03/09/2024Carl Phillips, from "Among the Trees" (I'm going to wonder for a while on which tree-songs I know by heart) 062
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderPank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 29/08/2024SHOCKING NEWS THAT WILL SHOCK YOU! 6231331192
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderMichael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 17/08/2024Hard to properly convey in a photo how much this bee is absolutely caning the pollen in this artichoke 082
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/08/2024nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how many squid facts you knew - if you offered others squid facts - how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact 13853611076
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderThe English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 15/08/2024Yes! We are 100% behind teachers, who are no doubt contributing to this uptick by spending time and energy sharing their enthusiasm for English A-Level with their students - in spite of the incredible pressures they're working under 043
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderJenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 15/08/2024And no doubt the hard work of teachers in schools! 121
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 15/08/2024Lots of speculation from academic circles about this heartening rise! Sadly, few asking if it’s anything to do with *teachers* of A Level English, who are, in my experience, near-exclusively talented weirdos working flat out to preserve thought &nuance in an otherwise repressive educational model. 151
Reposted by Shani CadwallenderMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/08/2024Getting on for 3/4 of those arrested for the fascist riots already have criminal records, says Sir Mark Rowley, the head of the Met police. The politicians and media boosting these thugs as “ordinary people with legitimate concerns” need to answer some tough questions in the days ahead. 34619237
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 08/08/2024Matryoshka socialism. It’s horses all the way down. 020
Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 04/08/2024Hello everyone! Having left social media for the Mental Healths, I’m now back for the academic& poetical kicks, and this place seems less evil. I’m a PhD researcher, poet and teacher. Into trees, ecopoetry, walking, C19th studies, beer and records. Giz a follow! 2544