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Lawrence Wilson

@lawrencewilsonuk.bsky.social

Poet, potter, printmaker, performer. Retired English teacher. Author of several collections of poetry and a children’s novel, Mina, Etc. US born and raised, living in East Sussex for the last 20 years.

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Mine, too!

01.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

@northendpage.bsky.social

18.04.2025 15:44 — 👍 32616    🔁 7708    💬 775    📌 431

Just ordered. Thanks for the tip!

08.04.2025 18:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff

06.04.2025 02:44 — 👍 54542    🔁 14180    💬 1682    📌 985

Sorry—what?

05.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

While I might sometimes complain about those who use folklore as horror tinsel, I rather love this cartoon:

05.04.2025 14:51 — 👍 205    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 1

The White House has just released a new official statement as the economy crashes:

“The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”

05.04.2025 18:13 — 👍 18545    🔁 4932    💬 2672    📌 967

Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020.

Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!

03.04.2025 20:24 — 👍 36812    🔁 7886    💬 896    📌 313
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Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...

USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you

www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...

30.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 24253    🔁 7198    💬 2372    📌 599
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With Brexit costing us £100 billion a year, Labour needs to stop being so afraid about rejoining EU Becoming a member of the European Union once again would revitalise the UK’s stagnant economy and improve our security

With Brexit costing us £100bn a year, Labour needs to stop being so afraid about re-joining EU @thescotsman.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

31.03.2025 06:49 — 👍 483    🔁 138    💬 18    📌 5

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

30.03.2025 20:23 — 👍 20539    🔁 4004    💬 165    📌 157
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#Greenland 🇬🇱

30.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 22862    🔁 5716    💬 606    📌 314

Pothole

29.03.2025 21:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

26.03.2025 15:00 — 👍 46023    🔁 10149    💬 355    📌 520
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Just arrived!

25.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And getting more so.

20.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

17.03.2025 18:30 — 👍 60757    🔁 17149    💬 1005    📌 484
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The River has Roots

17.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And he hasn’t once said thank you.

04.03.2025 15:27 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Invariably the most interesting long list of the year, one to argue over and discover new folks. I already see the one that looks genuinely brilliant, and the one that raises my eyebrows skeptically. Very good list to dig into.

04.03.2025 09:19 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

And won’t the armament companies be irked that Trump has suspended such support?

04.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

17.02.2025 14:17 — 👍 125360    🔁 31563    💬 2179    📌 1264
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Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

15.02.2025 22:50 — 👍 47182    🔁 13909    💬 1958    📌 908
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Spot on.

15.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 53612    🔁 15479    💬 1498    📌 713

Everyone on the domestic staff loves you, sir, even the laundress. Some of the groundskeepers, though…

14.02.2025 21:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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JD Vance launches attack on Scottish Government over protest buffer zones A UK women’s charity has launched an extraordinary broadside at US vice president JD Vance, branding him a “nefarious foreign extremist”…

The National: 'Foreign extremist' JD Vance trying to cut UK women's rights, charity warns
www.thenational.scot/news/2493693...

14.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 35    🔁 22    💬 7    📌 1

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