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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"For two years of lockdowns, my partner and I walked Sheffield's Rivelin Valley at dawn. Moss. Herons. Froglets. Treecreepers. Those walks became three poetry pamphlets and a way of paying attention again." Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg Published today longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - arranged on a garden table.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

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Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media

For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

As you prepare for your holiday outings, please remember Monbiot’s Inviolable Law on Leaving the House: T = 2A² + 5C² Where T is time in minutes, A is adults and C is children.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And of course, my friends, a reminder from the ruins of Lindisfarne priory, to always look up.

The rib vault of an archway spans two ruined pillars, with nothing around it but sky.

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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Over at threads is the cleverest account in social media

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Bryce @brycefb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

ALT text for the win.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm sworn off rage-posting / doom posting, but blimey, the current affairs/ climate crisis juxtaposition is testing my limits. In other news, from our windows, we've been watching a barn owl hunting over the meadow opposite. Mesmerising. And welcome distraction.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I've been thinking a lot about the death of friendship lately. "Somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

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The quiet grief of adult friendship

A few weeks ago, a friend called me at 01:40 AM. Not texted. Called. For a brief second, my body prepared itself for bad news. Adulthood has conditioned most of us to believe that late-night...

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Turned down for some Arts Council funding today, and we're at a loss as to where to turn now, so if there's any multi-millionaire who has got bored of trying to manipulate the political landscape and would quite like to see a musical about grief with a singing tiger in it pls get in touch

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I have just written the words, "a short excursion into Scottish medieval history cannot be avoided," which I do feel would be good as a general principle.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It was such a pleasure to have the chance to ask Deb about how the Poetry Pharmacy evolved.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Actually managed to enjoy this!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Still time to sign up for the full season of 5 x #poetry writing workshops on nature, ecology & the environment starting Tuesday 12th May with @jsaphra.bsky.social Or choose individual sessions by our 5 poet tutors. Webinars also available. Full listing here www.eventbrite.com/cc/eco-poeti...

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

David Behringer told us, '“If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA, wherever you are in the world … China had a 17-fold increase of TFA in surface waters in a decade, the US had a sixfold increase in 23 years.”' 2/2 share.google/QyZFAvztUE2F...

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Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts

Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Recommended read for all those concerned about the rise of book banning in the UK.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

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Sophie Bee @pogform.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Proto-monopoly? Game board with the walls and gates, with the major buildings of Bologna, each marked with a different throw of the dice. 1691 (British Museum)

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Even with climate change, we have enough water if we manage resources right. We need a well funded, well staffed regulator empowered to enforce rules, an overhaul of business use of water, repairs to leaking pipes, + to act to drinking water sources from forever chemical contamination.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23/01/2026

What happens when the one “friend” who listens is built to keep you hooked? AI companions don’t just chat – they shape behaviour. Our article asks who’s in control.

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Are friends electric? The chatbots reshaping childhood

Nearly three quarters of young people have an invisible friend. An “always on” companion, that validates their every opinion – what could go wrong?

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/01/2026

Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians

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Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS

In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"... How I love thee, and thy sumptuous tarmac."

A 'No Through Road' sign with the first 'O' missing

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

My haul from a visit to Hodges Figgis. Books from an English, a Scottish and an Irish publisher. (Sounds like the start of one of the terrible jokes my Dad used to tell in the 70s.) Meanwhile... what a bookshop, and what a showcase for Irish books

The spines of three new paperback books in front of a Hodges Figgis bag. Image shows the publishers colophons rather than the full totle/author.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It's #buyastrangerabook day, and @loreleiking.bsky.social is offering to buy somebody a copy of Nobody's Child Virginia Roberts Giuffre. "In memory of Virginia Giuffre, who suffered so much and who showed such courage" If you'd like it, get in touch. UK only.

Blurb from the book.

The extraordinarily powerful memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the inspirational woman who stood up and spoke out about serial abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This is the memoir behind the headlines: intimate, fierce, unforgettable. In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalysed his fall from grace.

But first and foremost, she became known as a voice of courage and resilience for women everywhere. This is her story, in her own words. A story that has never been told in full before now.

Giuffre’s story demonstrates with extraordinary power that victims are made, not born. And that once you come to truly understand the horrifying impact of abuse, you will never again question why a victim stays, or returns over and over again. In April 2025, Giuffre took her own life.

She left behind a memoir written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published. This is the powerful story of an ordinary girl who would grow up to confront adversity and trauma of the darkest form, yet found the strength to move forwards, reclaim her voice and shine a light on evil – advocating for others and fighting for a safer, fairer world. Nobody’s Girl is a remarkable recounting of one woman’s fortitude in the face of depravity and despair, and the legacy she leaves behind.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Convo last week -- Them: It's hard to talk about this stuff ("AI") without using anthropomorphizing language Me: It's really not, actually Some further reflections >>

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I actually think that it's a safeguarding risk to encourage children to conceptualise AI as 'a tutor', as though it's real and a possible substitute for their teacher. We've already seen the serious harm AI can do when people use it to 'have conversations' and start to believe what it tells them.

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Train reading (en route to a funeral). Given my mood and the state of the world, I needed something with a thread of hope. Will report back.

Cover of AL Kennedy's Alive in the Merciful Country depicts a sunrise (or sunset) sky in apricot hues. Bottom left of the cover is a dome (possibly St Paul's?) And flying birds are silhouettes against the sky).

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Sheila Pinder @sheilab01.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Today, I will mostly be baking French apple cake. #StormAmy Had to pick fruit slightly before full ripeness: the wind took down one of the upright posts on the espalier frame. Thought we were going to lose three trees to being uprooted, so had to take the weight off.

A mixture of apples laid out on the counter tops. In the foreground is a browny-green russet variety. Others are a variety of shades of red and green.

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St Andrew’s Book Festival London @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

TWO MONTHS TO GO 🎉 From household names to debut authors and spoken word artists we look forward to welcoming you to this celebration of Scotland’s writers in the heart of London. 📅 26th-30th November 2025 📖 See you there! 🎟️ Tickets: standrewsbookfestival.org/events

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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book? Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only). More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

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