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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you to all the booksellers, librarians, reviewers, Bloggers and readers for supporting us over the last 20 years. Bluemoose champions books that corporate publishing deem too risky. And we're still here flying the Indy flag. From Hebden Bridge to Hollywood and Beyond!

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

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

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hope you bought enough for everybody...

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: James Taylor Paul McCartney James Brown Don Mclean Dame Shirley Bassey Tom Jones David Byrne Art Garfunkel Oasis Bob Dylan Scissor Sisters

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I would love to breathe new life into this little gem… but I NEED funding! I may well eventually turn to you good people, but if there’s an arts-loving benefactor out there who fancies putting their shirt on a passionate, highly-qualified player, then do give me a shout.🙏🏻 Please RT, folks! x

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Also re-named this week after the Russia visit:

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My first ever photograph. With my first ever message for the world...

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just buy one. That will only be six dollars

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A 99 with a flake would have two flakes. A 99 is an ice cream which already contains a flake by definition.

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen, and oxygen, and nitrogen, and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum, and osmium, and astatine, and radium And gold, protactinium..

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Watching the All-Ireland final. My first address was Croke Park House, Russell Street, Dublin. Sounds very grand, but it was a tenement building. The Behan's had lived on that same street, earlier. My mother said that the roars from the crowd were something she would always remember #allireland

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

He stood quite still and said nothing. She was gone to sea. All I could do was to be there for him until he was ready to talk. I came back the next day and he was still there. Petrified. And wet. #crosby #stunday

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"No one claimed for his own use anything he had. Everything they owned was held in common. None of them was ever in want. All those who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the money to present it to the apostles; it was then distributed to any who might be in need." Bloody Communists!

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Anyone know what MO7S means? Asking for a friend.

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

OR, they could just wander leisurely over to the Piece Hall Halifax, which has all the best gigs from June through to August and just 400 yards from the railway station: www.thepiecehall.co.uk/events/categ...

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Events for July 2026Music

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

Refugees

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way

(now read from bottom to top)

Brian Bilston

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 27/05/2026

I so appreciate the wisdom from this wonderful young person. op: @recess_therapy

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A poem for World Bee Day.

The Last Bee

After the last ee
had uzzed its last uzz,
the irds and the utterflies
did what they could.

ut soon the fields lay are,
few flowers were left,
nature was roken,
and the planet ereft.

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Going to be partying EVERY NIGHT this Summer: www.thepiecehall.co.uk/culture/

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

From Dublin via Hebden Bridge To Buenos Aires - Seattle - Indonesia - Bratislava - Cairo - Delhi - Tokyo - Manila - Melbourne And Heckmondwike. Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social Selected as one of the 50 Great Irish novels of the century by @thetimes.com

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

At school, we were taught an easy way to remember the difference between Lancashire and Yorkshire: "Yorkshire is full of Hills and Moors; Lancashire is full of Mills and..." (I can't remember the rest of it)

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Patrick Ambrose @patrickambrose.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I was in Japan last week at the Hiroshima Peace Gardens. The gardens close at 6.00pm. At one minute to six, the PA system started playing Auld Lang Syne, as people walked out. Now, I don't know whether they do it on purpose, but Rabbie Burns, who wrote Auld Lang Syne, was born in 1759. Genius.

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