@lucapaci.bsky.social
Poet, lecturer and translator. https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/tempo-excursions-in-21st-century-italian-poetry
Stellantis to take €22bn charge as it scales back EV push ft.trib.al/SQY1O5V
06.02.2026 07:25 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 5
Times: Labour fears stumbling to third in by-election
Due to British politics and media being totally idiotic and superficial, there's a lot riding on the Gorton & Denton byelection.
If Reform win, the govt will be tempted to further water down climate policies.
If the Greens win, the reverse could happen.
(Apparently Labour are planning to run too)
Scientists have now set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it's ever been
27.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 21 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
Vigil for Lost Species at National Farming Conference
‘We were not demonstrating against farmers, who have crucial task of feeding us.
But we oppose a food system that for sake of profits contributes massively to climate & biodiversity crises, undermines health, and increases social inequality’
Orange pumpkin
🫡(s)trump🤡
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Nobody is safe now www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Legal Action Over Canceled Christmas Concert www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
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Sommet européen : minés par leurs divisions internes, les Vingt-Sept jouent jeudi à Bruxelles une partie décisive sur l’Ukraine et le Mercosur. Un échec signerait l’abandon de toute ambition géopolitique.
18.12.2025 04:04 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Subs Open for Issue 10 Authora 'Aquatic':
"Seafarers expanded horizons and enabled civilisations to flourish. Now, those vast bodies of water, once teeming with animal and plant life, are jeopardised by human activity on an industrial scale" - Jena Woodhouse, Guest Editor
www.authora.net
Poem of the week: Storm in Brooklyn Subway by Menna Elfyn | Poetry
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/18097/
Storm in Brooklyn Subway Thistle of rain.We seek temple from tempest,litany in lightning, a mottled crowd huddled,backs to…
Great event!
03.12.2025 08:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An evening of words and music: Poetry by Philip Gross, Luca Paci and Taz Rahman. Music by Bach, Biber, Britten, C R M Glynn, Hildegaard von Bingen, Rameau, played by Marc Elton (viola) Chris Glynn (piano) Rebecca Warner (cello). Tickets £8 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-clearing...
06.11.2025 08:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t miss this‼️❤️
17.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is big: Spain's state broadcasters have said they'll boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition now:
27.09.2025 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last chance to apply for a close-up, supportive monthly online Poetry School workshop with Philip Gross: poetryschool.com/courses/phil...
Bring ongoing projects, creative obsessions and long-haul explorations of an image, theme or place. 1st Tuesdays in the month, 17.30-20.00 UK time.
A series of four images with black text on a white background, containing a long reflective passage about how authoritarianism and oppression gradually take hold unnoticed. First image: The text explains how small, seemingly inconsequential steps—each justified or regretted—prevent people from recognizing the larger process until it’s too late, comparing it to a farmer not noticing corn growing until it towers overhead.
Second image: A colleague explains how each act is only slightly worse than the last, leading people to wait for a shocking turning point that never comes. Fear, uncertainty, and the desire not to stand alone stop people from resisting. Outsiders seem content, and those who sense danger are dismissed as alarmists.
Third image: The text describes how, eventually, a small personal incident shatters self-deception, revealing that everything has changed—society, spirit, and morality. People accept things once unthinkable. Life feels normal on the surface, but principles have eroded. When realization comes, it’s too late—people are compromised by inaction.
Fourth image: The writer notes how friends drift away, meetings shrink, and isolation grows, weakening resistance further. The long-awaited great occasion for mass opposition never arrives. Instead, oppression progresses step by step, each act numbing people to the next. The example is given of Nazi Germany, where atrocities escalated gradually, making it harder to resist at each stage.
From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free"
I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.
At least 12 people killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn as Israeli assault to seize urban centre draws condemnation.
17.09.2025 06:30 — 👍 90 🔁 55 💬 4 📌 5Images of US President Donald Trump and the UK’s Prince Andrew with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle near London on Tuesday, where Trump will be staying during his state visit. Police said four people were arrested.
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The European Commission also proposes sanctions on ‘extremist ministers’ in the Israeli government and violent settlers.
17.09.2025 13:00 — 👍 139 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 1
The UK and France are among a new wave of countries planning to recognise Palestine as a state at this year’s UN General Assembly meeting. What does this actually mean? #AJStartHere with @sandragathmann.bsky.social explains.
Watch the full episode on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/yb-qGAaFVAc
Video shows a Global Sumud Flotilla boat struck by a drone at Tunisia’s Sidi Bou Said port, causing fire damage on the main deck. The vessel was carrying members of the flotilla’s steering committee.
09.09.2025 06:54 — 👍 523 🔁 354 💬 30 📌 59
#Banksy #FreePalestine #Sumud
09.09.2025 10:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#globalsumudflotilla
🇵🇸 “Notre objectif est simplement de briser le siège de Gaza”
✊ Le petit-fils de Nelson Mandela rejoint la plus grande flottille civile pour briser le blocus israélien illégal.
Pour rejoindre et soutenir le mouvement :
👉 Délégations […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
#Sumud flotilla drawing by Beatrice Alemagna #Gaza
03.09.2025 13:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
31.08.2025 17:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Something we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.
28.08.2025 06:13 — 👍 1036 🔁 333 💬 36 📌 16Il ne peut plus y avoir aucun doute : Israël est en train de faire des frappes qui ciblent les derniers journalistes de #GAZA
De moins en moins d'infos nous parviennent. Les gouvernements qui n'agissent pas fermement sont des complices du génocide en cours.
#StopGenocide NOW !
#FreePalestine
In Gaza, massacres are denied, famine smeared as “fake news.” To accept this lie is to brand every journalist, doctor, and survivor a fraud. Reporters are barred, Palestinian journalists killed—erasing truth as surely as live #FreePalestine
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