The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
28.02.2026 12:42 β π 14154 π 4403 π¬ 114 π 91Poetry.
28.02.2026 19:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0*Such π
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Itβs easy to feel helpless against the enormity of world trauma. Sometimes it helps to write. Sometimes itβs a temporary lifeline between writer and words and words and reader.
Weβre open for spring subs for another day or so. Joy issue always open for subs. Butβ¦
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Submissions are open. Theme: Magic. Deadline: 28th February. Viridine Literary.
Last day to submit for our spring issue! Most responses have already been sent; the final ones will go out next week.
28.02.2026 16:40 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The Scratch Mechanic is INβ¦
Come and get advice from Camilla Grudova, Harriet Armstrong, Rowe Irvin and Amber Medland!
10-2pm March 14th, @Foyles Charing Cross Road
www.foyles.co.uk/events/the-s...
Didnβt do what I was supposed to do, but did plan a workshop for next weekβs writing group (speculative fiction) so that was good. Allowed out of prison.
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It's LAUNCH DAY! π¦
Fifteen shiny new Trash Family delivering their most treasured words - Preloved Stories given a new home and lease of life π
Thanks again to @madeleinewrite.bsky.social for her reading assistance
Grab a cuppa, several biccies, and get stuck in.
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Duch a visceral, powerful story, Tommy. Fantastic! π€
28.02.2026 16:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Locked in my study with chocolate and tea. Not allowed to come out til Iβve written some words. I may be here some time.
28.02.2026 14:27 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving my piece a new home. This was my first published piece and seeing it again reminds me of why I writeβ¦
27.02.2026 18:47 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Oh, this is GOOD Johannah!!
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Do you have a short story (up to 3,000 words) ready for submission? Entries close TOMORROW for our open-themed international short story competition!
Prizes: Β£500/Β£200/Β£100
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#amwriting #shortstory #WritingCommunity
Sent myself an email & it went into the spam folder π
27.02.2026 14:17 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Your prose flows like a river Andrew. Another fabulous piece of writing! Loved it! β€οΈ
27.02.2026 18:42 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0still can't get over how one of the neatest tricks of writing is writing the wrong thing and thinking "this is wrong" and fixing it to the right thing, but never really being able to write the "right" thing first
27.02.2026 14:49 β π 56 π 11 π¬ 5 π 1Well done Shelley!!!! π₯³π₯³π₯³πππ
27.02.2026 17:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Our Trash Family Gallery has some new additions. Check out our Preloved Stories contributors - their words are coming tomorrow!
trashcatlit.com/trash-family...
Subs open March 1st this, subs open March 1st thatβout subs are ALWAYS open! We love February!! Get a response BY March 1st if u send work now :)
27.02.2026 01:34 β π 11 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Just two more sleeps until the Mini Bin opens for your microfictions π¦
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Waiting on my copy to drop through the door any time now. π
@tracieadams.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a special event! Available at all the usual places.
Amazon: www.amazon.com/Not-Finished...
Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/not-finish...
Foyles: www.foyles.co.uk/book/not-fin...
Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/not-fin...
I'm very late to post about this, but it was such a joy to host the online book launch for @tracieadams.bsky.social's wonderufl book "Not Finished Yet" last weekend. Wonderful readings from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social @lmbayley.bsky.social @barlowadams.bsky.social
27.02.2026 09:40 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0Yeh, been a bit lazy. π€
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I'm participating in #MSWL day! I love crime, mystery, thrillers, a bit of horror, a bit of literary, bookclub, and True crime!
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One week from today Iβll be here
26.02.2026 13:12 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
No matter where you live, if you have any capacity to volunteer, we have a lot of unpaid folks helping administer rent and skymiles donations, and we need more support.
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Our latest issue is live!
Link in Bio.
Huge gratitude to all our amazing contributors.
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A Women's History Month montage in a grid layoutof pioneering women across STEM, education, science advocacy, and related fields. The portraits are primarily black-and-white or vintage-style photographs, celebrating trailblazers whose work advanced scientific discovery, engineering, computing, astrophysics, civil rights through education, and more. Top row (left to right): Gladys West, mathematician and educator whose modeling of Earth's shape contributed to the development of GPS technology; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars; Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, First Lady; Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who disproved parity conservation. Middle row (left to right): Edith Clarke, pioneering electrical engineer, the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT; Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy rear admiral who developed the first compiler; Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity; Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature. Bottom row (left to right): Rosalind Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 was essential to understanding the double-helix structure of DNA; Septima Clark, educator and civil rights leader; Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor (NGF); Gabriela Mistral, poet, educator, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature. #WomenInSceince #WomenInSTEM
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Women's History Month starts Sunday. #celebrate #WHM
