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Rick Dove

@rickdove.bsky.social
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Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️‍🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 linktr.ee/rickdove |

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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/10/2026
"We did win elections in greater numbers than ever before. But more than that, we changed this country. You did this. We made this happen.” In his speech at Conference, Zack Polanski reflects on a historic year for the Green Party.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
Now let’s resume talking about Epstein.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me and my friends will kill it with hammers i can tell you that much
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Try to live the kind of life that will make war criminals hate you.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Me: "No serial killer will ever lure me into their murder van. I'm way too smart for that." Serial Killer:
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the confusion I also left my lovely Kaweco Sport fountain pen behind. Green case. On the off chance someone spots it; was in carriage D seat 5, on the 14.33 that was due to go from Platform 3 at Kings Cross.
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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nathan Cofnas (racist pseudoscientific eugenicist) is fuelled by a hilarious gripe about not getting into Harvard. So I wrote an extremely silly little ditty about it. #NathanCofnas
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Did he then take it with him, download it to his system, and then have it shredded
British Museum held private viewing of Bayeux Tapestry
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
Slurs derive their injurious force from a history of violence and dehumanization that folks are at least implicitly aware of. YOU CANNOT DEHUMANIZE A MACHINE IN THIS WAY. THERE IS NO HISTORY OF VIOLENCE THAT ENABLES "CLANKER" TO FUNCTION IN THIS WAY.
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A lot will be said about Dolly's musical legacy, love for home, refusal to let anyone make her feel less, her charity work, the covid vaccine, her razor wit. Learn this from her: success gives you the chance to make other people's lives easier. Use every gift you're given to do good in the world.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This Emergency Alert could have been an e-mail/TV advert/comprehensive policy framework for avoiding the worst effects of climate catastrophe and adapting to the inevitable ones.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This was a shitty emergency alert all round. Wordy, not urgent, unhelpful, NOT ACTUALLY AN EMERGENCY
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026
This but not in the funny way
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My rule of thumb is, if it is likely to get a complaint on a t-shirt it is likely to get complaints in a book for kids. I personally wear the worst swear words on clothing, but I am essentially feral these days since mine turned 18.
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/07/2026
Tonight London stood with Berlin. I joined thousands of Londoners in Soho Square to send a message of togetherness with LGBTQIA+ people in the capital and around the world.
Mayor Sadiq Khan speaks into a microphone while standing in front of a Stonewall flagA group of mourners hold hands outdoors. Some are standing while others sit on the ground.A crowd of mourners stand outside, looking behind the camera
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
When the community note proves that the reason the initial post made him sound like a piece of shit is because he's a bigger piece of shit than the initial post made him out to be.🤷‍♂️
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Sending all my love and solidarity to Berlin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Several injured at Berlin Pride after reports vehicle drove into crowd, police say
Police say an intensive manhunt is under way after the incident in Berlin's city centre.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Lauren Tackle @unlox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
can’t find a night when everyone’s reliably free for it, huh
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
But but but even playing her daft game fair game IS game… it can be about prey/game or a game that hasn’t been fixed, words and phrases can have multiple meanings… like mouldy old bag… How TAF did she make a billion pounds from writing in English?
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Look, there’s a lot to dispute here, but I am quite concerned that JK Rowling appears to think “pantomime” and “crow’s” are adjectives.
LittleFurnace on Twitter: Trans is an adjective, you donkey. Adjectives come before nouns. For example "pathetic woman", "soulless billionaire", or "walking
scrotum". You would know that if you weren't a fucking terrible writer.

JK Rowling in reply: A pantomine horse isn't a horse.
An open secret isn't a secret.
A hot dog isn't a dog.
A shrinking violet isn't a violet.
Crow's feet aren't feet.
Fair game's not a game.
Trans women aren't women.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For those of you that ever wondered what scares the shit out of him: #FabFord
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Jessica Tarlov: This has to stop. They’re just laughing and counting money and we’re letting them get away with it.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
happy Nolan’s The Odyssey release day for all who celebrate. here’s my favorite Odyssey-related contemporary poem, “Telemachus’ Detachment” by Louise Glück.
Telemachus’ Detachment

When I was a child looking
at my parents’ lives, you know
what I thought? I thought
heartbreaking. Now I think 
heartbreaking, but also
insane. Also
very funny.
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Polari Press @polari.press · 13/07/2026
Cover reveal for the reissue of ‘Erased’ by James McDermott which was our first poetry pamphlet in 2021. Out at the end of August, preorder now: polari.press/erased
An A5 book cover in hot pink with the world ERASED 
JAMES McDERMOTT
in uppercase letters in black, they are mostly blocked out with white lines.
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Perfection 👌🏾
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes.
Photo of Nigel Farage during his lament.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Like I say: it really is not hard to spot when the Bullshit Machine’s control switch has been flipped from Suck to Blow.
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Nick Robinson to Zia Yusuf: "You say this is all about standing up to the establishment.
"You're a multi-millionaire. You made your money selling luxury helicopter charters and rare wines to the super-wealthy.
"Nigel Farage is a public schoolboy, a former commodities trader who gets £5m gifts from his friends and lives in a 5-storey house next to Buckingham Palace courtesy of a man convicted of fraud.
"Do you really think you are in a position at Reform UK to claim not to be part of the super-wealthy, self-serving establishment?"
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Any unsolicited advice is criticism. And yes, I am aware of the irony contained in this post.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The next PM needs to be committed to fixing the problems that we have. Not the made up gripes of the loud and misinformed minority
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“relatively little attention has been paid to how Reform has consciously waged war on women, who are now punishing the party at the ballot box“ @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
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Reform’s toxic masculinity
Farage’s latest candidate catastrophe...
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Everything's a conspiracy
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2026
In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How dare you say we are just bog-standard far right crackpots! We have no ill will towards any ethnic minority or LGBT people. We simply oppose *the ideology* of ethnic minorities and LGBT people; the idea that they should have any specific rights, and the inconvenience of being called bigots.
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The tyranny of Pride is coming to an end
8 June 2026, 5:00am
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I oftentimes wonder if we would spot the world ending cult that fundamentally changes our species before it was too late… especially walking in South London recently… We are the Reformer Collective. We will add your positional exercises to our own. Resistance is strengthening…
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Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sounds *very* similar to a recent conversation I had with my mum.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 04/06/2026
Phone call with my mum: *what's Palantir? Wait it's run by a MOSLEY??? *a Palestinian flag doesn't scare me as a Jew, they're deflecting from the care crisis *that awful swimmer woman is the worst, no-one wants to talk to HER in a toilet *I once stood behind Omar Sharif It's not generational.
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