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Peter J. King

@rock-rex.bsky.social
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Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/pe…

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 1h
WhichYear 10/1/26 4687 pts (top 8%) 2.8 avg. years off 9️⃣ 🎯 2️⃣ 🎯 3️⃣
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Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 1h
Anthropeum.com · Oct 1 2026 🟦🟦🟩🟦🟩🟦🟦🟦🟨🟦 88,406 · top 1% of players today!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 3h
"The Sahrawi Body Against the Moroccan Occupation... warned... of the deteriorating condition of Sahrawi civ. prisoners held in Moroccan prisons, calling for urgent international intervention..." www.spsrasd.info/en/2026/09/3... #FreeWesternSahara #News #WesternSahara #WesternSaharaNews #WorldNews
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ISACOM warns of deteriorating condition of Sahrawi civilian prisoners held in Moroccan prisons | Sahara Press Service (SPS)
Occupied El Aaiun, September 30, 2026 (SPS) – The Sahrawi Body Against the Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM) warned on Tuesday of the deteriorating condition of Sahrawi civilian prisoners held in Moroccan ...
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 2h
"National Poetry Day". Time to bring this out again (posted annually since 2017). #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #nationalpoetryday @poetrydayuk.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk
This day is set aside for poetry,
is in the calendar, is set apart
like dates for dental check-ups or podiatry.
This day is set aside for poetry —
is in the calendar, no room for spontaneity.
As if to celebrate some long-dead art,
this day is set aside. For poetry
is in the calendar, is set apart.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 13h
Queenadreena - "The Butcher and the Butterfly" (full album) #altrock #queenadreena
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Queen Adreena - The Butcher and the Butterfly - YouTube
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 14h
"Home". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
                                                                    the arid scent of boredom
                                                     drifts from a ground-floor window,
                            primary-colour plastic frame
                                     and white net-curtains flapping,
                                                catching on the metal bars.

                                                a glimpse of lilac-tinted
                                                            thin white hair,
                                                      each lacquered strand alone,
                                                                           apart,
                                                 a flying buttress curving
                                                                    over blotchy skin;

                  she waits for one last gust of wind
                                  to strip her dandelion clock,
                                               to tell the final number
                                                        of her years.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 14h
Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 15h
St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. #photo #photography #almshouses #architecture #mediaevalarchitecture #churcharchitecture #clerestory #pulpit #nave #chippingnorton #oxfordshire
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 20h
"...Israeli settlers are intensifying attacks on Palestinians in the occupied W. Bank. More than 100 Israeli settlers attacked a home in the village of Jalud... setting it on fire & assaulting residents in nearby homes." www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK7N... #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews #Zionism
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Assault on occupied West Bank: Israeli settlers intensify attacks on Palestinians
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 20h
Here, Burnham suggests that people arrested for holding paper signs are on one end of the Palestine Action “spectrum”, while people spraying paint on military planes thought to be used to support Israel’s genocide in Gaza are on the “extreme” end… Neither act is terrorism.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 17h
One of my favourite lines in science fiction...
The titles of David Langford’s short stories may be restrained and almost academic, but this belies their dry humour and pacey yet always carefully constructed plots..

	The ambush had been cunningly planned; the intention was to trap him in the gravitational collapse of an entire galaxy.  In escaping, he had burnt out two essential drive-components: a sprocket and a rubber band.  The latter he had replaced, using his own springy hair to braid a substitute — but no sprocket could be found.
		'Damit!’ he cried, lapsing into German.
	David Langford, “ Sex Pirates of the Blood Asteroid”
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Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social · 21h
Awoooo! 🐺Check out this new surprise horror anthology!!! Thirteen Signs of the End (New & Recurring Nightmares from Alien Buddha Press) amazon.com/dp/B0HLL1SWB4
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Israel published this video to brag about an attack it carried out yesterday in #Gaza, killing Ezzeddine al-Beik Ashmawi (a member of Hamas' armed wing) and Mohannad Abu Foul. During a 'ceasefire'. #Israeli regime has immense sense of impunity and self-entitlement. Which the West sustains.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mircan Kaya/Cemal Reşit Rey Konseri- «Kırmızı Buğday» #song #turkishsong #türkülerimiz
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Mircan Kaya- Cemal Reşit Rey Konseri- Kırmızı Buğday
YouTube video by Mircan Kaya
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Harry Nilsson - "Makin' Whoopee" (Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson) #song #harrynilsson
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Makin' Whoopee!
YouTube video by Harry Nilsson - Topic
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Indoctrination". (Response to a photo by Alicja Posłuszna.) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
      there are secrets                     hidden in the way
                                            that you reflect the cobbles,
                              revealing more
                                    than what is on display.

                the pigeon
         revels in its special power,
                        and siphons water from the street —
                                             sucks ripples
                                                     from your spinning head.

                  will you rebel?
           prise stones from round your mind
     and hurl them
as you guard the barricades?
        send shards of granite flying,
                      and the slate-grey birds
                                       in startled clouds
                                   into the reeling pewter sky?
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Acrylics on paper (digitally colour-inverted). #painting #art #acrylics
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Porch of St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. #photo #photography #almshouses #architecture #mediaevalarchitecture #churcharchitecture #porch #chippingnorton #oxfordshire
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Nomski Cee @nomskic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PSA: It has come to my attention that a couple of my designs are for sale across multiple websites without my consent. So if you see this, or any other design by SleepingFlower anywhere other than #redbubble it’s being sold without my permisson. #piracy #design www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Squ...
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"Square Earth" Poster for Sale by SleepingFlower
Green squares to represent earth, forests and greenery. • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Al-Jazeera: "Google Maps just updated its satellite imagery of Gaza ... exposing the utter devastation left behind by Israel’s genocide." #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaGenocide #GazaStrip #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #Palestine #PalestineNews #Zionism
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Bonzo Dog Fan Rick @rickfylde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7H-... #Im the #urban #spaceman. #Japanese #cover on the #ukulele #uke. #comedy #funny #music.
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I'm The Urban Spaceman (Japanese Cover on Ukulele) - Owen AKA
YouTube video by Kentauros Owen
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every crimes against humanity and war crime that Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime commits it carries out because the European Union as its second largest source of monetary aid and arms, and as its largest trade partner, allows. Without EU support Israel would have to stop its atrocities.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A new documentary titled Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed reveals new details about the U.K. government's internal response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza." "Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed": How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJM...
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"Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed": How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'“The Americans, and then Europe following like sheep behind, unpicked everything that was meant to keep people safe.” Veteran journalist and author Victoria Brittain speaks...' Gaza & the Ghost of Guantanamo | Victoria Brittain www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2A...
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Gaza & the Ghost of Guantanamo | Victoria Brittain
YouTube video by Palestine Deep Dive
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WhichYear 9/29/26 4704 pts (top 6%) 3.4 avg. years off 4️⃣ 🎯 5️⃣ 6️⃣ 2️⃣
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Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anthropeum.com · Sep 29 2026 🟩🟦🟩🟩🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟩 84,526 · top 3% of players today!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"26. Chessboard" From "Hard Graft on the Half Shell" - a sequence in which each poem is grown from a graft - a line from another poet's poem (indicated by a sans serif typeface). #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #kennethpatchen
(graft from “Lament for the Makers of Songs” Kenneth Patchen, in "Red Wine & Yellow Hair" (New Directions, 1949))

              through the swirling flakes
     there are glimpses of mud
                                and shattered shapes
                       scattered across the valley floor

                                a white crust
                                        has already formed
                                                       and is thickening
                                            looking soft yet brittle

                    all we can hear is
         the cry of the bitter snow and
the croaking of crows
                                  that peck at the covered mounds

                                            each mound is a sculpture
                                                          formed of frozen tears
                                                       each flake a lie
                                                that no-one’s left to hear
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autumn garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa); medlar (Mespilus germanica); Japanese maple (Acer palmatum); quince (Cydonia oblonga). #photo #photography #garden #botany #autumn
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Protesters were being ARRESTED for HOLDING UP SIGNS outside the Labour Party Conference yesterday! But this is nothing new. In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beat It! I rocked DISCOVR: 2/36
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discovr.uk - The daily album art quiz!
Daily album cover quiz - guess the iconic album art!
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anthropeum.com · Sep 28 2026 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟩🟦🟩🟩🟩🟦 91,455 · top 1% of players today! I don't understand the average score on the first one. Aside from the style, etc., it actually has the sculptor's name on it!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Zombie Apocalypse" from "Contact Light" (Alien Buddha Books, 2025) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #contactlight #alienbuddhapress #promptcombo #apocalypse @rfsmith.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @markknight63.bsky.social
All of Earth’s surfaces are rough and dry,
with unhealed wounds that fester and degrade;
her once-bright seas are yellow-brown and still
beneath the scum of plastic, sunlight-bleached.

Even her skies are scarred by streaks of high
and soiled-white clouds that drift and give no shade,
that never rain upon her grassless hills,
that hold their acid moisture out of reach.

Somehow the planet staggers on her course
around the sun, long dead, decayed, but kept
in motion by a dark, unvital force.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WhichYear 9/28/26 4680 pts (top 13%) 3.0 avg. years off 🎯 🎯 6️⃣ 7️⃣ 2️⃣
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Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Crime and Punishment". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ballad
There’s a flame at the heart of the gem,
                and a gem at the heart of the flame,
for the fire burns green in the eye of a god
                in a temple that no-one can name.

But the twin of the eye is not there —
                it was taken by scholars who came
from an empire whose greedy and arrogant hands
                spanned the oceans and stole without shame.

Though the god in the temple is small,
                and of worshippers now is bereft,
yet it has enough power to reach out one last time
                to achieve its revenge for the theft.

There’s a flame at the heart of the gem,
                and a gem at the heart of the flame,
for the fire burns green in the eye of a god
                in the hand of a thief who lies still in a quad
                on his back with his mouth full of rain.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Landscape IV" (acrylics on paper) #painting #art #acrylics
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. #photo #photography #almshouses #architecture #mediaevalarchitecture #churcharchitecture #chippingnorton #oxfordshire
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Often on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Last few days for our 3-for-2 offer on 3 collections by Matthew Clegg: 'West North East', 'The Navigators', and 'Cazique' longbarrowpress.com/special-offe...
Two copies of 'The Navigators' by Matthew Clegg: one open, one closed.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Robert @robertspictures.bsky.social chooses his favourite photos of the week.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WhichYear 9/27/26 4670 pts (top 12%) 3.0 avg. years off 6️⃣ 🎯 7️⃣ 1️⃣ 1️⃣
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Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anthropeum.com · Sep 27 2026 🟩🟩🟦🟦🟦🟨🟦🟦🟦🟨 85,153 · top 5% of players today!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three poems from "The Stations of the Cross" (part of "The Sockets of Golgotha" [1978]-79). #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #thestationsofthecross
"The Stations of the Cross" title pageI.  He is condemned to death

There is a hill to climb.  He knows it,
sees an endlessness revolving
to a future that he’d thought he wasn’t sure of.
He can feel its repetitions.  Its smoothness
is unmeasurable, featureless.

He’d arranged to meet her in a restaurant.
The place was crowded, and he had to share
a table in the middle of the room.
When at last she entered, out of breath
and eager to apologise,
the restaurant had emptied, and he sat
exposed and stranded.
“You picked a funny place to sit”, she said.

Did he feel it then? rippled
in the finger-bowl he used to clean the grease
away?  Or later on — the slow necessity
that smothered him, that hugged 
his will, insisting on the journey that
he had to take anyway.
                                               (“You have to take
it anyway”, she’d said; “why not start now?”
“Nothing’s fated”, he’d replied, “necessity’s
a fiction that we use to make excuses.”)

Waiters in the restaurant were smiling,
as though he’d missed a joke they’d seen
long since.  Perhaps he played the fool,
but he was damned if he’d admit it.
Frankly, it attracted him.
You can say he fell; he leapt.II.  He is made to bear his cross

Across a greater or a smaller distance,
glances — and he can’t be sure
that a connection’s made; he can’t know
if the distance has been lessened
by the glance.

There is a line formed across this distance.
Between the two points in his mind
the line is made (almost) tangible; almost
he can pull on it, almost
reeling in another mind.
It’s not the distance makes him fail,
but it’s the lack of colour on the way.  Sadly
the greyness persists even along this way.

Catching, however, in one hand
                                  (between finger and thumb)
              the tip of balance, and
holding it steady and secure, he can act
with a freedom not normally his — he smiles
slightly, lets his body settle
and relax a little.
                                   Wood.  The table’s scarred
by years of use, the room with knots
of people talking; he just hears the nearest
of them, and
                          reluctantly
loosens his grip on the restaurant’s balance.
He falls over slowly into a fluid memory,
letting the smallest of his thoughts surface;
floating on his back,
supporting a weight
he could not identify.
And awoke.III.  His first fall under the cross

But there is snow here,
and the black night concrete glistens
where it is exposed.
Somewhere on the empty length
of platform there’s a lamp —
down at the end there, by the driver’s cab,
just where the platform dips
to meet the gravelled space between the lines.
The whiteness of unmelted snow
reflects the small lamp burning,
picking out the platform as it slopes
to where the chips of stone
lie black between the sleepers.
He is cold here, in the gap
between departure and arrival,
and the one lamp at the railway station’s end
does little more than emphasise the way
the platform dips down in an even ramp,
and how the black wet concrete
is eroded by the snow, becoming
gravel where the sleepers mark
the merging of the slope.
His beard and moustache brittle
with his frosted breath, his tears unfrozen,
standing here alone,
the inter-city train departed, waiting on an
empty platform where the only lamp’s
too far and dim, he stamps his feet,
his breath a cloud, alone and lonely,
drawn to the darkness where
the platform plummets, where the sleepers
lie on beds of stone, of little chips
of black and glistening gravel,
and the snow white in the crevices.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Chthonic" (acrylics on paper). #painting #art #acrylics
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Night sky over Churchill, Oxfordshire (All Saints' church tower, demon eyes, and all). #photo #photography #nightscape #churchill #oxfordshire
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/09/2026
‘Israelis branded Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham as traitors, not Jews, “Kapos”. There were calls for violence against them, for them to be ostracised, sent to Gaza or exiled elsewhere.’ Alona Ferber on the frenzied response to the documentary 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Alona Ferber | Layers of Denial
The frenzy in Israel surrounding the documentary NAZA is fundamentally undemocratic. That is what happens after years of...
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sep 26 2026 🟦🟦🟦🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟦 81,413 · top 1% of players today! I'm puzzled; I was way out on a couple, yet still made it into the top 1%?
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"More than 900 wheelchairs donated by 2 Australian charities have reportedly been blocked from entering Gaza for over a year. The UN says Gaza has the world’s highest concentration of child amputees" #Gaza amputees: #Israel blocking entry of 900 wheelchairs m.youtube.com/watch?v=6k5S... #GazaNews
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Gaza amputees: Israel blocking entry of 900 wheelchairs
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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