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@rileyforsythe.bsky.social
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friends hello! i am bec/riley, a voracious reader, persistent writer, and general loudmouth queer trade union member living in South London (they/she)

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Last month, I had been mostly reading a monster backlog of lit mags, also: 20. Drunken Driving - Martina Evans 21. The Princess of 72nd Street - Elaine Kraf
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MegH @kitty666.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plus we have the anniversary Cable Street march next week
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At my team meeting today while beefing with my laptop's interminable slowness, I said I'd named it Mitch McConnell, because by all right it really ought to be dead now & yet is technically still alive. No one knew who Mitch McConnell was. I am both deeply envious & grateful for this fact.
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MegH @kitty666.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ju...
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Justice for victims of corrupt police officers
Winston Trew was framed by a racist and corrupt police officer in 1972. It took nearly 50 years to clear his name. Thirteen people framed by the same officer spent a combined 623 years wrongfully conv...
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
York is excellent; started my visit with a trip to The Portal and Little Apple bookshops. Now in the Eagle & Child where R.E.M is playing 😍🍺📚🏳️‍🌈
A half pint of Leeds Best next to three books: In Defence of Witches by Mona Chollet, All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths by Jean Menzies and Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
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Steve Mannion @ghostfoodpro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Put 'Free Palestine' on your tour poster and I will def go to your gig. In London. (South London).
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It you my bro (soz)
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Counter-query to the ‘things I was frightened of as a child’ question: what is the weirdest game you/your siblings ever invented? When I was a tiny, my sister and I played The Mope, a tube-tv based game.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm incredibly honoured that my weird little prose poem story was nominated. Thank you, Pam :)
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There are now just four days left on our inaugural prose poem call 🦝 Send us your lyrical littles, your metaphor driven micros, your poetically seasoned prose... Theme is a celebration of tenacity and difference, of thriving and hope, for Jimothy 💜 trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro...
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Call for Prose Poems
Jimothy, the Seattle trash cat with short spine syndrome, has taken the internet by storm. We obviously love how adorable he is with his squished-up body and cheeky scamper, but also how incredibly…
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif
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Why Was I Programmed To Feel Pain Simpsons Robot
ALT: Why Was I Programmed To Feel Pain Simpsons Robot
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
July reading: Not tracked. My focus was on The Odyssey but I lost track of which chapters I read. I did finish in early August (#17). Once yr man got home, my reading pace slowed a lot, since I was not looking forward to the rampage/hanged maids scenes 😬
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I had saved this ages ago when @judepickledplum.bsky.social shared the link, but only got around to reading it now. P sure it will be an open tab on my computer for the rest of time 😍
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s been one year since these two maniacs joined our home. They make me laugh every day and I can’t image life without them. 😻
Nina, a toribe kitty, snoozes with on a soft blanket, one paw stretched atop her wee head.Simone, a tabby and white cat, reclines on a windowsill.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Almuerzo 😜😋
A glass of red wine and a slice of marble cake.
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Steve Mannion @ghostfoodpro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We made it!
Photo of total eclipse in Burgos in Spain
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Selene and Helios high fives as they passed.
Solar eclipse totality, Burgos.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When I was a tiny this was one of my favourite books and so tonight when I’m watching the corona I know I’ll be thinking about these dudes 🥰☀️🌙
The cover of Someone Is Eating The Sun by Ruth A Somneborn. A duck, chicken and rooster dash past in their urgency to warn their farmyard chums about the mysterious disappearing sun.
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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This year, Bath Children's Literature Festival programmed just seven writers of colour out of a line up of nearly 100 authors, and then responded to critics by asking them to remove their social media posts. @ihussainwriter.bsky.social explains what happened writershq.co.uk/writers-of-c...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/07/2026
Alcoholic Father Disappointed In Pothead Son theonion.com/alcoholic-father-disap…
Alcoholic Father Disappointed In Pothead Son
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The sheepskin coat years.
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
'Helen When Asked' by Nina Reljić was awarded first place in The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2026 by judges Isabelle Baafi, @deanbrowne.bsky.social and Luke Kennard. You can read all three winning poems in our latest issue, June / July 2026: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A fascinating discovery! A Bronze Age metal working woman, not a man as was assumed before. She sounds like a real bad ass 💪🏻
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Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman
Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male
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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An urgent reminder before the summer holidays start - your writing is important and carving out time and space for your creative practice is neither frivolous or selfish. It is important. YOU are important. 😱
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/07/2026
Paramedics Praised For Being Too Late To Save Lindsey Graham theonion.com/paramedics-praised-for…
Paramedics Praised For Being Too Late To Save Lindsey Graham
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Silver Canyon Review @silvercanyonreview.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Read Robert McDonald's new microfiction piece, "The First of November" while you wait for the storm to pass.
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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Call for submissions: Magma 97 - 'Diasporic Dialogues' Closing date: 31st July, 2026 Editors @nickmakoha.bsky.social, @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social & @cloudscholar.bsky.social are looking forward to receiving your poems. More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
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Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Read the new prose poem by your favorite tree and take in its beauty @rileyforsythe.bsky.social
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Ali @littlemissteach.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hydration break.
A glass of Pimm’s cup with chunks of cucumber and strawberries.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
June reading; 14. The Analogue Cat & Other Stories - Alice Dryden (@huskyteer.co.uk) 15. The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse - The Mollusc Dimension 16. Goonie - Michael Mullen
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
AND it's the perfect socially-acceptable excuse to cram ice cream sandwiches into your mouth as quickly as possible. "i had to eat my ice cream sandwiches quickly because i was in the shower". inarguable. laudatory. celebrated by all www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
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Dinosaur Comics!
AND it's the perfect socially-acceptable excuse to cram ice cream sandwiches into your mouth as quickly as possible. "i had to eat my ice cream sandwiches quickly because i was in the shower". inarg...
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Being on my tod for the past few days has given me carte blanche to commit songicide on “Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus”. 🎤🤘❤️‍🔥
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Mars Volta: Cedric Bixler Zavala & Omar Rodriguez Lopez
ALT: Mars Volta: Cedric Bixler Zavala & Omar Rodriguez Lopez
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I can’t stomach murdery true crime but I am fully obsessed with confidence women. So when I spot a documentary or podcast I haven’t seen or listened to yet I am like YAY. I know they are terrible people who caused real, last harm, and part of is like….
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Good For Her You Go Girl
Alt: Lucille Bluth says Good For Her
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Gee, I wonder if the new nightmare terf will be marginally better or marginally worse than the current nightmare terf?
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Time to revisit this, I guess so I can be even more baffled bythe social media ban for U16s 😔
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
How grand we are this morning!
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Bloom Flowers
Alt: Bloom Flowers
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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
By coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad, and down byeways, through Bucklersbury home, everybody through the street cursing him, being ready to run over them.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Good ol’ Springwatch! You never know if you’re going to see fledgling swallows jump the nest, frolicking fox cubs, or buzzard chicks sucking down intestines à la Lady & the Tramp.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
May reading 12. Circe - Madeline Miller 13. Theophanes - Sarah Ghazal Ali
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 28/05/2026
🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: out@unison.co.uk
UNISON says: Change the law
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Cat TV is excellent this time of year!
Simone kitty intently watches delicious baby birds on Springwatch multi-cam live feed
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Stef Zinemaker @stefzinemaker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Save the date I will be tabling @colettet.bsky.social #brixtonlibrary Readers And Writers #zinefair next month 13th June. Selling one of a kind #zines and illustrations. You don want to miss out. #zineart #handmadezine #zinefest #indiezine #zineart
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/05/2026
We will keep fighting for trans inclusion. The legal battle continues. Support our appeal 👇 goodlaw.social/25wp
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Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/05/2026
ST. LOUIS—Apologizing to all customers who had received a defective product, pet food giant Fancy Feast issued a massive recall Friday for 1 million cans of food that cats just kind of stared at before wandering away.
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m really looking forward to this! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtq-book...
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LGBTQ+ book club discuss The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Woulden
Join Lambeth Libraries LGBTQ+ book club to discuss The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Woulden.
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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We are all the angry frog this morning
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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I soon realised said unit was building a fuckoff nest and now the family OWNS that tree* Eight for a wish, my friends!
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 91644: if your plot is getting too complicated, try asking these questions: Whose story is this? What do they need? What’s stopping them from achieving it? If you’re not sure if the answers, your plot structure may need looking at…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/05/2026
Abortion Pill Thrown Into Air And Caught In Mouth
Abortion Pill Thrown Into Air And Caught In Mouth
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