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Fiona Turner

@fifi65.bsky.social

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If you're far right, I'm a parasite, leeching off the state, apparently. If you're not, I'm into politics. On the left. Lived experience of mental illness. schizoaffective disorder. Love books, science, poetry & life. Fighting for our shared humanity.✊️🌍

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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · Dec 3

When everywhere you look, our world is imploding.
When it's too overwhelming.
Take a break from social media.
Turn off the tv.
Put some tunes on.
Lose yourself in music conjured smiley memories.
Dance if you're able
Be fierce, be free
Whilst the storm rages.
No shame for a while in hiding.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 10h

Very good.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 13h

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 15 - Everybody, everything or everywhere in the title.

Rob Zombie - Everything is Boring

Everything Is Boring

YouTube video by Rob Zombie - Topic

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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 21h

I'll have to check out the tour dates.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 21h

I saw them a couple of times, many years ago. They were always one of my favourite bands.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 1d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 14- By a band with an animal or place in their name

Echo and the Bunnymen -
The Cutter

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - The Cutter [Official Video] HD

YouTube video by Dusk Bunker

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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just wondering when the first curry falling out of the sky is going to splatter over some unsuspecting passerby.
Because no technology is infallible. No matter what they tell you.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

Thats understandable. Take care of yourself Holly.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 13 - Track from last album brought.

From Prelude to Ecstasy.

The Last Dinner Party -
My Lady of Mercy.

Completely obsessed by this band at the moment.

The Last Dinner Party - My Lady of Mercy

YouTube video by TLDPVEVO

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Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

I always think we don't so much surrender to such forces. More that we get knocked down and battered by them on occasion. Leaving us wounded. Each time running it's own course.
I like to believe although all wounds leave a scar they can heal.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so much more
Than medical notes
On a computer screen
The tick box questions
You constantly ask
I swear you look
right through me
Never wondering
How I survive my days
The books I read
The words I write
My pain
My joy
I'm a whole human being
You choose
To not understand

#poetry

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

So sorry you are going through such a painful loss. I hope my last post did not come across as thoughtless.
It was meant well x

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

It's been five yrs since my much loved Pan passed.
I'll never forget him and think of him often
I doubt I shall ever have another cat due to my circumstances.
But I'll always have the memories of his affection.
The comfort and love he brought me, beyond measure

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

One day
Everything about me
Will be forgotten
As the last person to
remember my name
fades away
I will not be sad at my dying
The atoms that make me
Old as the universe
Will Disperse
Replenishing
cosmos and earth
As nature intends
I'll become the
stuff of life again

#poetry

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 2d

Well written. Goodly wordsmith.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 3d

It's a puzzle
how a person can creep
through life like
a shadow on a hollow wall
Hiding in plain sight
You shudder at the chill
their shape casts over you
A sudden feeling of deja vu
And a bitter taste
lingering in your mouth
No gargling
with listerine
can rinse out

#poetry

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 3d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
#UK

Day 12 - How, why, or which in the title.

The Pretty Reckless - Why'd You Bring a Shotgun to the Party.

Why'd You Bring a Shotgun to the Party

YouTube video by The Pretty Reckless - Topic

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Prof Tom Cotter @proftomcotter.bsky.social · 3d

There are funny moments in life like this headline in today’s Irish Newspaper 🧪#medsky

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be in the alley
Right by the chippy
If you show
There's no doubting
You're mine
I've got four cans
And a packet of smokes
We can have a good time
If you dont come
Friends will see me right
As we drink the beers
You'll soon be forgotten
Teenage hearts break
as easy as they mend

#poetry

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 3d

I have to be honest, it's so long since I heard this song, I didn't realise it was different from the film. I had to listen to both again. This one seems to have slightly more edge to it.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 4d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 11 - with a non primary colour/shade in the title.

The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink (Official Video)

YouTube video by PsychedelicFursVEVO

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Reposted by Fiona Turner

SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 📎 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent from @zackpolanski.bsky.social, including calling Yusuf what he is: a fascist.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

Zack Polanski,
"The only way to be morally consistent is to condemn what happened on Oct 7th and to condemn the genocide in Palestine"

"As a Jewish man I feel the genocide very very deeply"

Reposted by Fiona Turner

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 5d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 10 - An album title track

Seb Lowe - I Fell in Love with a Talking Head

Seb Lowe - I Fell In Love With a Talking Head (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Seb Lowe

Fiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 6d

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 9 - By a fictional or virtual band

Breaking Glass (Hazel O' Connor) - Will You.

Hazel O'Connor - Will You?

YouTube video by Peter Dabinett

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