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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Incredible how the commentators at the Katie Taylor fight repeatedly emphasise how Croke Park is sacred ground for Irish culture, only for the pre-main event to be a live performance by Westlife

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don't know why we love like this, except to say: you felt it too, didn't you?

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My most pessimistic and pitch black belief is that Taika Waititi first starting dating and then eventually married Rita Ora so he could say "Kia Rita Ora" every time he saw her

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

literally 100% of the bad things about "woke 1" are just shit that sucks about social media. if you're complaining about "Woke" and not Gamergate, it's because you're a disingenuous prick.

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Incredibly sad and angry at the Arday news. I'm hoping a lot of people who think of themselves as common sense liberals/lefties and the opposite of Telegraph heads or Daily Males will think about why the fuck they weighed in on a plagiarism story so clearly started and continued in bad faith.

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Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“LJMU - which awarded Arday his PhD in 2015 - concluded that he had not plagiarised work.” (BBC News) That should have been it.

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So incredibly happy that all around good dude™ and fantastic poet friend of mine Jake Reynolds is getting such picked up by the PBS for such a well deserved honour.

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Jake Reynolds @jakeareynolds.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

News I very much did not expect. Delighted that We Both Say has been selected as the Autumn '26 pamphlet choice by the Poetry Book Society!

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

(me after reading only the introduction and conclusion) this book is required reading

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Do you think the falcon can hear Henrik Falchener? #NORFRA

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Victor Wembanyama at the postgame press conference (dejected): This one's on me. I gotta get taller

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I do think a lot of English-based analysis of what happened in Northern Ireland last night is missing the specifically loyalist aspect of the violence. These are groups with a long history of violently driving out "outsiders", turning their sights on a new vulnerable minority.

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Jake Reynolds @jakeareynolds.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Out now 🗣️🗣️ Thank you @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social for publishing this & for believing in it Thank you to anyone who has/might/will spend their hard-earned money on this little book. It blows my mind that anyone would & I hope v much you find something in it that you like

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"What if we kissed at the last north London derby at Highbury?"

YouTube video thumbnail featuring Thierry Henry pressing his face seductively against Carrick's, as if to whisper in his ear. The video is titled "Thierry Henry & Michael Carrick after the last north London derby at Highbury"

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The collection is alert to the comedy and the exhaustion of mediated connection, to the rituals of waiting, and to the strange temporal disorientation of loving someone whose day begins as yours ends. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We Both Say maps a long-distance relationship across difference, distance, & the interference of the world's crises. The poems move between letters, storms, & time zones, finding in the gap between two people a space intimate & politically charged www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for We Both Say by Jake Reynolds, published by Broken Sleep Books.Book cover for We Both Say by Jake Reynolds, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is a muted taupe, with the title and author name in dark olive-green serif type at the top left. Centred on the cover is a watercolour illustration of a corked glass terrarium jar containing green leafy plants, small rocks, soil, and a layer of sand at the base, with visible white roots beneath the surface.

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This response is fascinating (derogatory). Firstly, there's the "we didn't actually publish this", then the follow up of "but if we did, who's to say we did an oopsie?". Ignoring all the software meant to recognise ai writing and instead asking a chatbot what it thinks and publishing that...

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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

the fact that the title is basically "a snake in the grass" makes me feel like it's a prank

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is a great opportunity to join our school as a postdoc, and to work on m'colleague Tommy Karshan's AHRC-funded project 'Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching'. Spread the word, and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

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Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia

Apply now for the Senior Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

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Aaron Perine @sumitlakehornet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's not hyperbole to say that there's nothing in modern web infrastructure that would replace the Wayback Machine. If you get upset at the idea of Wikipedia going away, you should be just as up in arms over this! In some ways, it would be worse?!?!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

When students are searching for their voice, they are searching for poetry. When they find their voice, they will have found poetry. When they find poetry, they will live to regret it. —Mary Ruefle, from "Short Lecture on Voice"

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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak, friends. May the world be unrecognisable by the next one

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Obviously there's some simplification here (plenty Irish have served and facilitated the British Empire's colonial machinery and worse), but I'm listening to this stood up and saluting with the Marseillaise playing.

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

An appreciation of Michael Silverblatt, one of the best literary podcasters before @davidnaimon.bsky.social, at n+1. Silverblatt died in February, but you can still listen to his back catalogue at the Bookworm (KCRW) podcast www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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You’ve Done It Again, Michael | Jynne Dilling

Even as the pace of work life quickened exponentially across the next two decades, email inboxes overflowing, media outlets proliferating and then contracting, websites and newsletters dominating and ...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/02/2026

apparently a lot of it was fictionalized. i checked however and "ireland" does seem to be a real place

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Booking a hotel to watch a Let’s Play of Resi 9 and pointedly sitting on a chair in the corner and not on the bed

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

we don't talk enough about how this paranoid freak released virtual insanity in 1996. years before the average person in the uk had even sent a text message, he was dancing like a maniac in his big moving gaff, enraged to the point of song by faxes, teletext and encarta 95.

the singer jay kay being weird in his big mental moving house

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Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Found this today, with only three days left to view it. Magical. Moss-therapy.

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Re Oscars, they shouldn't always have 10 best picture nominees (looking at you F1, and don't look so comfortable Frankenstein), but Weapons was maddeningly overlooked. It's great Madigan was recognised, but she's far from the only great thing about that film.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 22/01/2026

MARTY SUPREME score robbed

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

God loves. God wounds. God makes holes.

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Viv Kemp @vivkemp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Thinking a lot about Primus today.

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the sonnet.

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