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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Here's the trailer for Mud Ghost Estate Redux, launching tomorrow (28th Nov) on Kickstarter! 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

For anyone who wants to join a protest to support trans rights, here's list of the ones planned for Saturday 26th April. And beyond: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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Compilation of Protests and Actions Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!?

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 25/04/2025

Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. [7] Need help with union fees? Request a £50 grant via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-... ✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"Katz has simply once again admitted to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts. There is no other interpretation, no way of reframing it, no leeway." www.owenjones.news/p/israel-say... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

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Israel says it's deliberately starving Gaza

How many confessions do the Western media and political elite need before they call this what it is?

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Yo @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social stop covering up genocide. Remember, the Nuremberg trials, included journalists who not only turned a blind eye, they covered up for the Nazis. Don’t be a Nazis. Report the news.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 04/04/2025

The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

Writers, translators and illustrators face huge challenges right now including: falling earnings, the threat of AI, the sector’s complicity in genocide and fossil fuel extraction, challenges to free speech.

Can you resist these threats? Yes! But only if you have a member-led union that truly represents you.

Fossil Free Books recommends that writers, translators and illustrators join the Society of Authors. With its wealth of resources and powerful industry connections, it has great potential – but without you it can’t channel that potential into meaningful action.

Recent successes at the 2024 AGM and EGM have already shown that you have the power to use its existing democratic processes to make it the healthy, bold trade union that you need and deserve.

The only way to create a fairer, more sustainable industry is to create it together. Your union won’t change without you – and the first step is to join.

If you need support with your union fees, you can claim £50 through our Open Collective fund (link in post).

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Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thanks to our friends at Macmillan, we have two sets of the next two titles in The Poetry Pharmacy series, Wild Remedy and Becoming, to give away. Drop us an email to info[at]poetrybyheart[dot]org[dot]uk by 5pm Friday 4th April to be entered into the draw.

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Just a few days left to get your poems in! ***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025*** Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Issue 14 of Propel is out today! bsky.app/profile/prop...

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Your friendly, neighbourhood disabled & chronically ill person asking you to please write to your MP about the impending welfare cuts - 💌🔥 template here by @campaignfdj.bsky.social : www.campaignfordisabilityjustice.org.uk/tell_your_mp... Thank you ❤️

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Tell your MP - NO cuts to Disability Benefits.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

For someone who enjoys talking to Jordan Peterson about cancel culture, the millionaire comic Jimmy Carr remains omnipresent enough to be the poster boy of an Orwellian dystopia - meanwhile truly original left wing comics like Josie Long remain rarely seen in the media

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Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura @arnesa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I really am not sure what else to say about the genocide in Palestine that I have not said already. That our governments are complicit, that we ourselves are complicit through our taxes, that those who are silent are complicit, that intl law is complicit, that we are repeating history…again.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/03/2025

🚨Only six days of flour left to distribute in Gaza: UN Israel has blocked all humanitarian and commercial aid to Gaza for about 20 days, — longer than the initial siege from October 7–21, 2023.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 18/03/2025

UNICEF Executive Director: “Reports and images emerging from the Gaza Strip following today’s attacks are beyond horrifying. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, including more than 130 children, representing one of the largest single-day child death toll in the last year.”

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Siân Berry, "Why is impoverishing disabled people is a higher priority than a wealth tax?" Liz Kendall ignores the question on the wealth tax

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Gareth Southwell @garethsouthwell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Rachel Shabi: "None of the papers have anything about... Israel collapsing the ceasefire and blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is a war crime, and it is striking that that has not made any of the front [pages of the UK papers]"

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Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

BREAKING: Israel says as of this morning, it has laid siege to Gaza and two million Palestinians, preventing entry of all food supplies and other goods. This is GENOCIDE

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

John Glenday:

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

losing it at this “to scale” rendering of a six-inch difference in height that renders 6’ as literally twice the size of 5’6”

Tweet screen grab: “Maya Forstater
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A lot of newspapers are showing photos of Dr Upton and Nurse Peggie side by side.
It is worth remembering that Upton is 6ft tall and Peggie is 5 ft 6. This is what that looks like to scale.” Except the pictures start at chest height so the former is twice the height of the latter.

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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem are the latest target of the Israeli apartheid state. Ideas have always irked the totalitarian powers, especially the ones hellbent on ethnic cleansing and erasing the culture of their victims edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/m...

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Israeli police raid renowned Palestinian bookstores in occupied East Jerusalem | CNN

Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/02/2025

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

Library full of books, old building, dark wood shelves, beautiful diffused light

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/02/2025

The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction competition for all underrepresented writers. The optional theme is ‘Wild’. Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category). Please share :)

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Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future

We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!

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poets and prattlers @pandemonialists.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Make yourself a cuppa, sit back, take five minutes, and listen to this piece of work by pandemonialist @emmapurshouse.bsky.social. It's incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

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Emma Purshouse: The Hum of the Hive

YouTube video by Voices Weaving

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Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A beautiful drawing by Megan Wakefield in response to my poem in the latest @propelmagazine.bsky.social 🕊️

A drawing of a sparrow made using coloured pastels on a light brown background

Matthew 10:29

Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

his eye on the sparrow when the order

eye on sparrow when the bomb

sparrow falling when the fire

his will when the sniper

when wing was copter

he watched them spill like coins

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Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s been so long since I published anything I’d forgotten the extremes of elation and anxiety that go along with it. I’m so happy to be included in this issue, edited by my most admired Helen Mort. Deep breaths ♥️

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🔵 Propel Issue 13, edited by Helen Mort, is out TOMORROW 31 Jan 🔵 As Helen says, "I hope you enjoy the questions these poems provoke and that they inspire you to add to the abundance of the literary landscape. It is a form of plenty we can feel comfortable with, thankful for, even." (1/3)

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Shout out to all poets, writers, artists, activists, if you'd like us to boost your new books, music, art, fundraisers & community projects for 2025 please add to this thread, we're just making a list for our 1st show of the year & will share @roaring20sradio.bsky.social #sohoradio thank you

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Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So much to be shocked about in this clip. Not least the other journalists who just sit back and do nothing

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/01/2025

So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The Poetry Wales award, judged by Jeremy Dixon, closes 17/02/2025 at midnight GMT. First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage. Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households. @poetrywales.bsky.social www.poetrywales.co.uk/award

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I know Penguin recently put out a call for queer authors and queer stories. Just a reminder that I am always looking for queer romance for our Harlequin Intrigue imprint and many of our series are also open to submissions by agented and unagented authors year round. Ask me anything!

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵 If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems! >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 11/01/2025

If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

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Alt: Book shelf GIF feaeturing shelves of books organised by colour in a rainbow effect.

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Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

You can now follow @outspokenldn.bsky.social on Bluesky. Keep up to date with all events and masterclasses taking place this year.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

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Matt Abbott 🍉 @mattabbottpoet.com · 09/01/2025

Eyup, #PoetsOnBluesky - @mlferg.bsky.social is here 👋🏻 Give her a follow!

A photograph of poet Maria Ferguson, wearing a mustard knit jumper, in the top left corner. She's a brunette with her hair down and gold hooped earrings.

The book cover for her collection 'Swell' in the bottom right, with some blue denim dungarees on a white background.

The background colour of the image matches the blue of the dungarees.

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

The text says: Last few places left! Permission writing workshop: Kickstart your New Year of writing. What are your writing taboos/habits and what might happen if you break some? Zoom, Mon Jan 13th, 7-8.30pm UK time.

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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is a unique prize for unpaid carers which is supported by professionals across industry & free to enter. All winning work is published in a beautiful anthology. UK & ROI only. You can enter a piece of short fiction or non fiction (including creative nonfiction) or a poem of up to 40 lines.

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Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Really love Wendy’s approach to writing practice ♥️

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George Violet Parker @agparker.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

MY BOOK COVER JUST DROPPED. Isn’t she a fucking beaut? Pre-orders now open writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/nu5q6... or come to the launch and grab a copy! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gynandromo...

Teal background with a white nonbinary blonde person sitting on floor holding a stick. Their chest is an open red cavity with butterflies and flames in.

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