@anneberkeley.bsky.social
UK based writes poems sometimes https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-men-from-praga-9781844714223
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 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1Thank you, Sam!
16.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Labour, are you listening?
27.08.2025 09:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"...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...
We had a local blackbird that mimicked this
08.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cambridge Poetry Festival Pembroke Auditorium 12th July 18.30 - 20.30 £5
Delighted to be taking part in this
www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...
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!
Five things to remember about war:
22.06.2025 04:28 — 👍 8371 🔁 3739 💬 146 📌 300Not new, but
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
I'd have assumed that was AI if you hadn't said.
09.06.2025 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's the chess-playing Mechanical Turk of our times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...
Matt Goodwin's definition is ludicrous. By his lights I am not white British either.
04.06.2025 10:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tom Phillips (1937-2022), creator of A Humument, has a new website dedicated to his tremendous range of work.
www.tomphillips.co.uk
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 — 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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...
total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/4c4b...
(Really, Bluesky should offer something more than that heart button.)
This is so shameless and shocking.
Thank you. Really appreciate your thoughtful analysis.
18.03.2025 11:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#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
How could they secede, or secure secession?
03.03.2025 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, it's an utter nightmare...
28.02.2025 23:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Posted by Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, tonight 👏
28.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 2144 🔁 397 💬 17 📌 3Rubio 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. 🧵
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 taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—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 — 👍 2194 🔁 1035 💬 60 📌 79Carrie Etter is reading at CB1 on Sunday 2 March!
6.30 at The Town & Gown
cb1poetry.org.uk
@carrieetter.bsky.social
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 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0George Szirtes is now on Bluesky!
11.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 — 👍 77 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 2Hello there, poetry and translation friends! 👋
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!
