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The Carnegies @carnegiemedals.bsky.social · 5h

📚 Could you join the Carnegie librarian judging panel? We’re looking for 2028–29 judges representing 5 regions. 🗓️ Find out more and apply by this Friday, 9 October: informationprofessionaljobs.com/job…

The Carnegies seeking applications for judges for the 2028-29 season, inviting candidates to join their panel.

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Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kim Moore (former Forward Prize winner), Keith Jarrett (current Forward shortlistee) and Holly Pester (whose last two books were *everywhere*) are not "the remaining poets on the shortlist", as this article claims. They are on the shortlist ALONGSIDE Graham and Motion. For Crying Out Loud

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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'Voices of Dissent', an evening of readings from Zain Kakooza, Jane Monson, Clare Pollard and Rendani Ranwashe. www.cambridgepoetryfestival.org/events/voice...

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Voices of Dissent: an Evening of Protest Poetry

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

when you’re a poet and it’s National Poetry Day but your children tell you at breakfast that it’s actually Celebrity Traitors Day

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This peculiar analogy confuses creativity & replication. We already have "machine-made" books: they're not copied out by hand but printed on presses, just as clothes might be stitched mechanically. But getting a machine to do the writing - the ideas, the thoughts, the "design" - is very different.

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Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what ethnic cleansing looks like: the blanket cancellation of life and the infrastructure required to support it. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war

Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My top ten: Succession, Mad Men, Peep Show, Black Mirror, Rivals, Catastrophe, The White Lotus, The Shield, Rick and Morty, Hacks. Special mentions: Six Feet Under, One Day, Derry Girls, Celebrity Traitors, Taskmaster, Nathan Barley

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had to remove a joke about double-glazing from The Othernauts. it turns out my children had no idea what I was talking about…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wondering how to break this news to my children

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have four reviews in the latest @booksforkeeps.bsky.social including this, in which I manage to quote Werner Herzog 🐻https://booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/cass-and-the-beast/

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Cass and the Beast – Books For Keeps

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Trump: "You call it United Kingdom, Britain, they call it sometimes England. They go back to the old. It's got more names than any other place in the world."

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anna @annaarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

«-El do de les fades és la fascinació. Sense això no es pot aconseguir res; amb això tot és possible.» Les fades modernes Clare Pollard Club editor, 2026

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Zenda @zendalibros.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pollard da rienda suelta en este libro hechizante a aquellos efectos imaginativos que ha heredado, y los hace interactuar entre sí sin complejos. Zenda recomienda: Las Hadas Modernas, de Clare Pollard.

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Zenda recomienda: Las Hadas Modernas, de Clare Pollard - Zenda

La novela extranjera recomendada este miércoles por Zenda es 'Las Hadas Modernas', de Clare Pollard, publicada por Impedimenta.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.

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Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wrote about family as a source of stories... and the conflicting narratives that invariably occur. Do read, subscribe, share. tobiasjones.substack.com/p/families-a...

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Families and Fantasies

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

O'DONNELL: Freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment. Are you trying to intimidate the press from doing its job? TRUMP: No. I dislike dishonest press, like you. I think you're terrible.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just in case you’re in Barcelona tomorrow my event is at 12.15 and I wanted to share this beautiful poster in Versailles green by my Catalan publisher Club Editor

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Helen Garner on the cons and pros of being a writer. (From ‘On Turning Fifty’, from True Stories: Collected Short Non-Fiction)

and grim stubbornness required in order to keep going; the episodes of elation, the occasional sense of hitting your stride, or of being in tune with the force that creates the feeling that now you've got it, now you can't put a foot wrong then the guilt you feel, when your work's going well, that you are allowed to spend your days having this much fun and ultimately being paid for it, while others have jobs in offices or schools, and bosses, and laid-down work hours they have to stick to—then the arrival next morning at your desk, the dropping away of the floor from under your feet as you see the thinness of what yesterday seemed so rich and right; the picking up of the pen, the dogged keeping going-the sickly envy of people with jobs, because they have got bosses to tell them what to do next, and work hours that finish at a certain regular time so they can go home, and holidays, and secretaries, and superannuation-and they're allowed to ask for help; the pathetic pleas for encouragement you make, invariably to the wrong person—a child, a husband, a parent— someone who can't possibly know the right thing to say, or who is in the grip of some barely conscious hostility towards you that they can't help expressing at the most destructive possible moment; the hatred of your own name, because of its connection with this slogging labour and with the expectations which you have caused the outside world to have of you, and that you're afraid you'll never live up to; the despair of feeling trapped inside your own style.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026

Trump: "The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, & that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said the World would be extinguished by 'Climate Change.' That HOAX never worked out, and now they’re on to the next one. These people are Revolutionaries ... "

Trump: "The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by 'Climate Change.' That HOAX never worked out for them, and now they’re on to the next one. These people are Revolutionaries, but Revolutionaries for a Bad and Evil Cause. Soon you’ll find out they’re working for people that do not have the best interests of the United States in mind! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's one of those autumn days when the grass is jewelled, which reminds me of this legendary school hymn and its remarkable author, former nun Estelle White

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Jet Planes Meeting in the Air to Be Refuelled

The popular poetry of a school hymn

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026

"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis meet on the afternoon of 9/11.

At Bret's apartment we watched CNN for half an hour. We kept telling each other we couldn't believe this. I noticed an invitation to a book party on Bret's kitchen counter. "I'm glad I don't have a book coming out this month," I said - a selfish and trivial response to the disaster, but one I thought he would understand. Nobody was going to be talking about fiction this week. "I was just thinking that same thing," he said, with obvious relief.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If anyone wants to commission me to do an in-depth review of Gruffalo Granny tap me up…

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy to officially share the cover of THE OTHERNAUTS AND THE GORGON’S GAZE by illustrator Macha Yao, coming Feb. This retells another of my favourite childhood movies, 1981’s Clash of the Titans @bonnierbooks.bsky.social

The cover for ‘The Othernauts and the Gorgon’s Gaze’ shows the sarcastic 12 year old girl Phoebe, dressed in black with a snake around her neck, and cheerful 12 year old boy Perry, riding Pegasus. Above them gods bicker in the clouds, whilst below we can see Medusa with green skin and snake-hair, along with a gorgon toddler

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.

Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

LOVE writing. HATE the process of getting/staying published. So many of us in this stupid boat full of holes and wracked by storms at unexpected times. Sometimes, there's this whale that follows you and you get obsessed and it ruins your life. Also you get scurvy. I may have drifted from the point.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/2026

7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 8 a.m. I go to my corner bodega for a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese. On the way, I get mugged. 9 a.m. I get on the subway and immediately get murdered. buff.ly/puREmHa

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A Day in the Life of a New Yorker, According to My Fox News-Watching Florida Family Members

7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So last year LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS came out, my first collection in eight years, and I worked really hard on getting back into the poetry scene. Teaching three residential courses, two online, lots of one-off workshops, mentoring, reviewing regularly, writing a poetry substack… 1/3

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sharing this ahead of my trip to Barcelona and Madrid next week to promote The Modern Fairies/ Las Hadas Modernas. Come and say hello! (I don’t speak Spanish though so hoping it’s not a bad review…)

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Save me from destruction, ruin and desolation. Save me from the long slow death by ants.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026

Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022

No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
13:34 5 September
Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it adds

The Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.

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