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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

this woman turned her hostile workplace around & incepted kirk with it & then she electrocuted a guy while wearing a skirt that legally qualifies as a belt, with her hair in whatever style you call this. “one hot roller fell out slowly over the course of the night,” i think. hashtag women in STEM

a very curly up-do with a lot of volume and an inexplicable and deliberate (it’s there in every shot) tendril of hair gently down and over a shoulder like a telephone receiver made of atavistic fur

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Dom @dommgoss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How long ago was “brat summer”? Time man, time

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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

September 30 October 1

Leonard Nimoy as Mirror Universe Spock with a goatee

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday we celebrated National Poetry Day. I confess poetry is not my main area of expertise so I particularly look forward to everyone’s recommendations. What great children’s poems/poetry books would you suggest for #KidsBooksFriday? #KidLitUK #KidLit #UKKidLit #Poetry #ChildrensPoems

Book cover for Poems on Toast by Attie Lime illustrated by Emily Ford.

Book cover for A Great Big Cuddle by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Chris Riddle

Book cover for Poetry Prompts: All sorts of ways for start a poem by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Georgie Burkett, Grasya Oliyko, Amanda Quartey and Viola Wang.

Book cover for Being Me: Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings by Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, illustrated by Victoria Jane Wheeler

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 5 of the strike at my place of work, the University of Edinburgh. Great solidarity between students and staff in the face of unnecessary mass layoffs while management sits on huge amounts of capital and a surplus.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 01/10/2026

This National Poetry day please remember than poetry isn't real. It's a conspiracy by typesetters.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is there anything more embarrassing than being a poet?

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Portponky @portponky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is awesome so I cut one out of wood and made a double sided puzzle.

Wooden puzzle of star shape made from 7 pieces

Other side of wooden puzzle with square shape, same 7 pieces, partially assembled

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Went to see Six the musical last night with Audrey and a friend, it was fab! A lot of fun, great times.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I remembered that seven years ago we made a podcast out of @smaychel.bsky.social’s reinterpretation of Animals of Farthing Wood and listened to it again, it remains funny, brutal and brilliant

poetryasfuck.bandcamp.com

Rachel Plummer: Head Set, by Poetry As Fuck

1 track album

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
...
just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The most gorgeous poems tonight from @jaygao.bsky.social, @agatamaslowska.bsky.social and Jennifer Lee Tsai at Lighthouse. Poems that you'd want to roll around in. Thanks to @lighthousebks.bsky.social for organising such beautiful and well curated events 💚

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sorry I know I've been absent lately, I've been thinking about One Piece.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wish every one of the people stoking hatred against the disabled could experience what it's like to be told your child will never live independently. I wish I could unfold that feeling like a heavy blanket and lay it on their shoulders, let them carry it for a few years.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 26/08/2026

I would like to now confirm that, despite any suggestions otherwise, my poetry pamphlet 'polblar Tmolkop' is about Robin Hood thebraag.co/product/polb...

thebraag.co

polblar tmolkop by Andrew Blair – The Braag Presents

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm sharing some poems tonight at the Boundary in Leith, along with lovely poets Kathryn Gray, Andrew Neilson, Amy Jo Philip and Ross Wilson. Do pop along and join us!

Les Bijoux: Poetry at the Boundary

Kathryn Gray
Andrew Neilson
Amy Jo Philip
Rachel Plummer
Ross Wilson

26th August 2026, 6.30 doors open, 397 Leith Walk.

Wine, candlelight, poetry

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My teen creative writing group at the Central Library started up for the new term yesterday, and they're doing a group project - an audio drama. The idea they've come up with is SO GOOD, I can't wait to see how it comes together. I'm so lucky to get a front row seat to their creativity.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lovely things: wet dandelions, brambles, the sound of rain on an umbrella, herons, empty jam jars, public fountains, tea spoons, kind people, the colour of three day old bruises, torn paper edges, shortbread, wrought iron, a new cardigan, thunderstorms.

Robin, a 10 year old boy, and his cousin sharing an umbrella by a wrought iron fence.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We gotta push back on the idea that a gender identity is a thing some queers say they have, and that cis people don't have. We can't know ourselves worse because Hobbyless Janet doesn't like the idea of a trans woman sharing the same air she does.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Intrigued by Alfred Lord Tennyson's chaotic business decisions

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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 09/08/2026

This is shocking. An woman left a voicemail message with North Lanarkshire council, objecting to a data centre being built, and then she got a call from the organisation building the data centre? Wtf happened here?

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A ''new thing''.

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Of the deepest night the hue 🎃🕸️ @jhadur.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@smaychel.bsky.social Here, have some squirrels eating mushrooms!

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Robin would also like me to tell you all that snails are legal but slugs are illegal. So write that down.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Went to see Glob at the Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social today with Robin and it was outstanding. Without question the best Fringe show I've ever seen. I really think anyone of any age would love it.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Taking Robin to the cinema today, he is incredibly excited 😁

A ten year old in a knitted jumper standing in front of an Iron Man statue.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sharing some poems with the lovely people at the Scottish Universities International Summer School @suiss-edi.bsky.social tonight ☺️

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's nonbinary awareness week! Here's a poem I wrote about the nonbinary Loch Ness Monster, who exists whether you believe or not 🥰

Nessie

The Loch Ness Monster isn’t a boy
or a girl.

Nessie doesn’t have much use for words like that.

Nessie’s much too busy scaring fishermen
and posing for blurry photos that nobody will believe in.

Nessie knows who Nessie is
and isn’t.

Nessie knows where the silverest fish swim
and how to shimmy
through silt like a conger.

Nessie knows what it’s like to be the only one.

You don’t need to believe in Nessie.
Your belief doesn’t change who Nessie is.

Under the weight of the water, under the shadow of the hills
Nessie has always existed.

Not a boy or a girl. But real.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This seems like it should be making more news.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Blusky folks, please welcome writer, critic, general great person @davepoems.bsky.social to the platform!

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Had the loveliest time at the Cookbook Shop tonight at their cake picnic Pride mixer. What a lovely idea for an event! So much cake, so many lovely people ☺️🍰

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Pride was very lovely this year! Robin came along for the first time and enjoyed himself immensely. After listening to the wonderful speech at the start, he spent the rest of the parade happily muttering to himself "everyone loves me!" and waving at passers by.

Robin, a ten year old in home made clothes and a sun hat, waves a rainbow pride flag during the parade.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...

metro.co.uk

Greta Thunberg warns 40°C heatwave about to hit UK 'is only the beginning'

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Liminal has been the darling of the poetry world for so long it's putting out collected works at this point. Up there with hiraeth and fudging two unrelated words together with a hyphen.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Was looking for a recipe for oat bars and found this gem.

Screenshot of a review from "Sharon" saying "Made these with raw pea protein which completely ruined the taste. Had to throw them away which was such a waste of ingredients." Sharon gives the recipe one star.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy pride, Starmer! Never cross the queers.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So apparently it's going to be nearly 40° in London next week. If you're still using AI for anything at all, please have a word with yourself. We are cooking the planet, and our own brains. It must stop. It must.

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Exhululath @exhululath.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Generative AI will be banned in Norwegian primary schools starting next year 🔥 The Labour government justified the decision by citing a steady decline in academic achievement and fears that AI will replace learning rather than support it.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 21/06/2026

when they say: no way! we say: oh, very yes way, Norway! And also quickly put ourselves in pun-jail to await trial of course.

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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

PSA if you’re in east Fife! Pod of orcas passed the Bass Rock earlier and were heading north!

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Join our team as a fiction editor! We’re looking for someone who loves SFFH and wants to work with writers to bring their stories to life. This role is remote, you can be based anywhere in the world and still be a part of the team. Interested? Apply here by 15 June www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

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優noD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @yunod.sustainabletranslator.scot · 20/06/2026

'Drivers who are told about the safety risks posed by SUVs to cyclists and pedestrians are very unlikely to be deterred from buying one, a new study has found. [...] If governments want to reduce the number of large, dangerous vehicles on the roads, it is likely to require financial penalties'

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The lads from Thomas House have it right: With AI, there is no excuse, there is no ethical use.

A poster from Thomas House, a pub in Dublin, saying that they do not accept AI generated posters or fliers.

“So for the future (literally) we’re not accepting AI posters or flyers for the pub.

We’re right best to Ireland’s biggest Art College, lads. It’s not a good look.

We understand bands can be skint but relying on some Earth killing app from some paedo island billionaire is not the way. We got by without it and we’ll get by again.

If you’re stuck we’ll help.
Yes it has been used here before but consider it the start of the end of it.

Thanks, Humans.”

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