Rick Dove

Rick Dove

@rickdove.bsky.social

Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️‍🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rickdove |

1,368 Followers 664 Following 308 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Male commentator for men Mr Feast reacts to Louis Theroux’s manosphere documentary.

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Starmer is powerless to stop Polanskis savage Green army

Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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3 days ago
BBC headline - Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students BBC iplayer, ep 4 of Wuthering Heights, neon pink banner with warning "Contains some violence and some upsetting scenes"

The BBC will be appalled to learn that the BBC also put content warnings on Wuthering Heights

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3 days ago

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

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If you’re a publisher who would like to find out more about the SEND Inclusve Publishing Pledge, let me know!

#KidLit #BookSky

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Is the Green Party on the march? Membership 'quadruples' under Zack Polanski A stalwart of West Cumberland Green Party has said membership has quadrupled due to popularity of Zack Polanski and frustrations with Labour.

Love that Cumberland's Green Party membership has *quadrupled* in the last 6 months. 🚀

This is happening all over England & Wales. Join us! 💚

www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2592768...

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2 days ago

Absolutely chilling.

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

this is shocking only if one is not remotely familiar with the history of Palantir, Thiel and Karp

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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1 week ago

wild how the left gets framed as miserable and joyless when its just endlessly trying to stop the right trashing everything that fosters life and happiness on earth

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3 days ago

this is 100% seriously something i feel is crucial and unironically needs to be addressed... theres so many average to dumb dudes out there with egos the size of the universe because theyve never been told "what the fuck are you talking about bro"

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Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids

No to Palantir.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

The US slaughtered all of those Iranian schoolgirls.

Shame on all those who claimed it wasn't the aggressors responsible.

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5 days ago

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Thought it was time we told you exactly who is contributing #poems of #queer #resistance to Up//Roar (out in October, advance warning! pre-order now arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815...)
those who are ON Bluesky: @hazardpressuk.bsky.social
@rickdove.bsky.social
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social continues...

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Meta has a history of torturing their moderators and providing NOTHING in the way of mental health care. How do I know? Because I used to be a moderator for Meta and I got a $3,500 settlement for the PTSD they gave me.

When we tried to unionize, they moved their moderation to the Philippines.

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"Hey, here is a book about the importance of love and intimacy".

"Great, let's use that to train bombs to hit primary schools."

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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

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Once again, a media corps that wasn't devoted to pandering to the extreme right wouldn't slavishly report REFUK's shameless weekly bid to grab the news agenda with a "press conference" that's basically a formless rant.

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Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

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I don’t know if anyone has said this yet, but Trump getting frustrated with Iran and then calling his “preemptive” strike Operation “Epic Fury” is so juvenile and pathetic that every time I hear it it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Calling his murderous tantrum a tantrum.

C***

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This will hopefully be the opening poem in the collection for grown-ups I am currently compiling, the focusof which is love and relationships.: joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2022/08/and-... originally published in anthology on 'Masculinity' from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #poetry

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Waiting for FIFA to take their Peace Prize back…

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So, Trump is launching a “Special Military Operation” in Iran…

Welcome to the Mobster Era of Late Stage Capitalism.

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Wakes up

Turns on news

FFS, those Interesting Times have struck again…

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He did not have congressional approval to blow up boats in the Caribbean

He did not have congressional approval to kill the survivors of those strikes

He did not have congressional approval to invade Venezuela

He did not have congressional approval to bomb Iran

This is dictatorship. Impeach now

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2 weeks ago

If I were king of the world, certain people would be getting Asimov's laws of robotics tattooed backwards on their foreheads so they had to read them in the mirror every time they brushed their teeth.

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3 weeks ago

You can make the new He-Man movie look more vintage by the power of greyscale.

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2 weeks ago

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics

I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

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There is time, but he needs to wake up.

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I am not an advocate of Corbynism, but I do feel Starmer has massively over corrected and put Labour into a skid.

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