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On the edge My week in the NHS

Another important read from @samfr.bsky.social on why the NHS is in a state samf.substack.com/p/on-the-edg...

19.10.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you, Sam!

16.10.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Labour, are you listening?

27.08.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œβ€¦everything is going to be alright” – conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy 22nd August 2025 * In his 1992 memoirΒ Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby describes his experience of a crush in a stadium at a 1980 match (before the tragedies later on that decade): β€œβ€¦there was a forty-thou…

"...everything is going to be alright"

Conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy

New, by me:

Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/everything...

Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/ever...

22.08.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 1

We had a local blackbird that mimicked this

08.08.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cambridge Poetry Festival 
Pembroke Auditorium 
12th July
18.30 - 20.30
Β£5

Cambridge Poetry Festival Pembroke Auditorium 12th July 18.30 - 20.30 Β£5

Delighted to be taking part in this

www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

01.07.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's July 1st - the submission window for #PoetryScotland 110 is open!

Submissions must include:

- Your postal address
- Titles of your poem(s)
- Text of your poem(s) in a separate Word document attachment.

poetryscotland.com/submissions/

Looking forward to hearing from you!

01.07.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Five things to remember about war:

22.06.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8377    πŸ” 3740    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 300

Not new, but
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk

18.06.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd have assumed that was AI if you hadn't said.

09.06.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia

It's the chess-playing Mechanical Turk of our times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...

06.06.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Matt Goodwin's definition is ludicrous. By his lights I am not white British either.

04.06.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tom Phillips - Home An online repository of drawings, pastels, paintings, sculptures, textiles and other artworks, as well as writings by and about Tom Phillips RA, together with a studio blog, news blog and shop for the...

Tom Phillips (1937-2022), creator of A Humument, has a new website dedicated to his tremendous range of work.

www.tomphillips.co.uk

23.05.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that one of those clinics where everyone is given the same appointment time as it's the time the consultant's clinic opens? I really wish they wouldn't do that. The patient's time is important too.

29.04.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Executive Disobediences #5 – Anne Berkeley Responding toΒ Executive Order 14154: UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY andΒ Executive Order 14153: UNLEASHING ALASKA’S EXTRAORDINARY RESOURCE POTENTIAL Riches of the Oil Age SpaceX is launc…

Delighted to have a poem on New Boots and Pantisocracies, as part of the series responding to the Executive Orders
newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/e...

18.04.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Executive Disobediences #5 – Anne Berkeley Responding toΒ Executive Order 14154: UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY andΒ Executive Order 14153: UNLEASHING ALASKA’S EXTRAORDINARY RESOURCE POTENTIAL Riches of the Oil Age SpaceX is launc…

Delighted to have a poem on New Boots and Pantisocracies, as part of the series responding to the Executive Orders
newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/e...

18.04.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

15.04.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9755    πŸ” 3794    πŸ’¬ 188    πŸ“Œ 197

(Really, Bluesky should offer something more than that heart button.)
This is so shameless and shocking.

10.04.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. Really appreciate your thoughtful analysis.

18.03.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The top ten: Misused fables

#Top10 Misused Fables www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
1. Sour grapes
2. Pyrrhic victory
3. Midas touch
4. Canute
5. Break the mould
6. The Good Samaritan
7. The writing on the wall
8. Devil's advocate
9. Frankenstein
10. Meritocracy

11.03.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How could they secede, or secure secession?

03.03.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, it's an utter nightmare...

28.02.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Posted by Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, tonight πŸ‘

28.02.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2145    πŸ” 397    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧡

27.02.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 11344    πŸ” 6264    πŸ’¬ 424    πŸ“Œ 799
Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayerβ€”equivalent to a single cup of coffeeβ€”and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayerβ€”equivalent to a single cup of coffeeβ€”and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

27.02.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2194    πŸ” 1035    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 79
CB1 Poetry – Live Poetry in the Heart of Cambridge

Carrie Etter is reading at CB1 on Sunday 2 March!
6.30 at The Town & Gown
cb1poetry.org.uk

@carrieetter.bsky.social

26.02.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lewis Goodall is right. Musk's power grab is enormous, and so far it's all going his way. Goodall doesn't name NYT, BBC & co but they are normalising it, because it's the US, rather than calling it the coup that it is.

11.02.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

George Szirtes is now on Bluesky!

11.02.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In the Future you will be able to get a Robot to do your Believing for you. There will be 5 to choose from, Each one more Costly & Better. Number 5 is Top of the line, It will Believe Stuff that even a Mormon wouldn't Believe. @stlouisatheists.bsky.social @atheists.org @ffrf.org

10.02.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Hello there, poetry and translation friends! πŸ‘‹

The Poetry Translation Centre is now on Bluesky ✨

Follow us to stay updated on some of the best poetry in translation from Africa, Asia, and Latin America!

10.02.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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