Jem Queer Poet - La ! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ They/them

Regrettably, the club that allowed cheap entry has closed. Sorry

@tuftyclub.bsky.social can I tempt a tufty club trip to ipswich?

Homophobia, racism and sexism within the first eight minutes of the kick off. Football is so delightful.

I immediately messaged my daughter, "Leeds are falling apart again..."
Gave me a spring in my step walking home

In my head, until I started this, I'd forgotten Morris, I had Agana as the first scorer. I could have been confident in that over a pint, but very wrong despite actual real eyes

Yes, second person I saw score at Bramall Lane. As far as I'm aware no dubious singers have had that honour, certainly not in the late 80s. Unless they had a sideline before the glory days of course, days before sky wealth hit football

She claimed to be a "fag hag" & wanted gay friends, dragged me to meet her man. Ten minutes later the men (totally fine who you are, we don't judge) stormed off when I defended refugees, suggested Farage was not working class and the causes of inequality lay in Thatcherism. Oh dear, again.

Trying to get Brian Deane, Mark Morris, David McGoldrick, Kelham Island and @tuftyclub.bsky.social into one poem. Third draft currently.

Managed to piss a trio of freedom loving racists off to the point they abandoned their drinks and stormed out of the pub. My day is complete

Today the aim is to sit in the sun with a pint and get to a quarter of the way through editing this. I find editing so much more of a chore than writing though

I've always rather loved wading under bridges, there's a strange magic to it

Before I decamped, I used to do a lot of #FM24 posts. I sort of miss, virtually the only thing, that community. If you were there, same save, now in 2056, still enjoying it, still creating a rich world.

@tuftyclub.bsky.social gaseous update welcomed, reminded me when I was teaching, at those moments, I'd move closer to a student who annoyed me and leave it drifting in the ether, theirs to deal with the consequences

The absolute and utter fucking nonsense that this post, of traditional published book covers, should be deemed by some tedious tosspot to include "suggestive content". People like that shouldn't be allowed to interact with the modern world, just be dropped in a dark oubliette and forgotten

Drives me up the wall, asking with flags on potatoes, spades and behind every politician. Initially, I thought it was riding the coat tails of Bake Off, but I think it's more subtly sinister, a pervasive low-key normalisation of nationalism.

So many layers, themal leggings, double socks... Still freezing, wish my bank account would have compassion

Working outside is not fun

Struggling with finding pleasure in the world right now, I always do because reasons; I need new things, freshness, exacerbated by the miserable weather...
Suggesting things I liked last year doesn't help - although it makes sense - because they're old, I've moved on, but I don't know what to

I'm finding conversations frustrating. So many people are 'trump... America... Shrug...' not seeing that most tech (& payment providers) being US means it affects everyone, and will get worse

First book of 2025 finished, an utterly glorious fictional trans memoir - In Our City by Hazel Jane Plante. Absolutely loved it, the bar is high due the next book.

So it seems that the second novel has the same rough structure as the first one. Which is a surprise

Writing is a challenge when I'm this disconnected from positivity.

If I was the owner of a social media empire, faced with the threat of a dangerous dictatorial ulcer, I'd be moving my operations off to Germany, or Canada, Ireland... Not rolling over and lobbing money at him.

"That's only the blackhead of misery, squeeze a little bit and and the spiralling pus of my fear and loathing and despair and boredom will squirm out endlessly"

Nai laughed, "I'll stay with the blackhead."

Is that a secret?

I have sequins, earbuds and an extensive queer rage playlist. Have a good day however you approach it x

@jojofe24.bsky.social absolutely fucked off my tits. So many sequins, so many beautiful boys tonight. Oops

Off to London, Foyles, gin and a show x

After Tuesday's absolute bullshit homophobic nonsense, I seriously don't want to go to the football tomorrow, but then they've won, so I'll gird my loins, don as many rainbows as I own and go.

My favourite!
Speedy
Don, alternatively the Mastodon
Splatchers, swing those legs wide or you'll fall over
A mastodon
Secret Water, marooned !
Speedy Creek? The narrows of Goblin Creek

The real place is not far from me, used to go there as a child