James Mcconachie
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more.
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
Unpopular opinion: labyrinths and mazes are a massive pain in the arse.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Unpopular opinion: labyrinths and mazes are a massive pain in the arse.
Scouting for snow-felled pines at the far end of my little farm.
1. Looking back at the house.
2. Fuck yeah.
1. Looking back at the house.
2. Fuck yeah.
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Scouting for snow-felled pines at the far end of my little farm.
1. Looking back at the house.
2. Fuck yeah.
1. Looking back at the house.
2. Fuck yeah.
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Join us tomorrow for an hour or so, to celebrate upcoming launches of glorious poets you know! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Join us tomorrow for an hour or so, to celebrate upcoming launches of glorious poets you know! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...
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TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
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Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
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This handsome and feisty praying mantis near Tarragona yesterday. Mantis religiosa in Spanish, Pregadeu in Catalan.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This handsome and feisty praying mantis near Tarragona yesterday. Mantis religiosa in Spanish, Pregadeu in Catalan.
Reposted by James Mcconachie
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
Reposted by James Mcconachie
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told www.bbc.com/news/article...
Interesting to see multiple streams of social transformation collide. The AI singularity, climate tipping points, fervid millenarianism, a probable global war, not to mention political instability..add to that a UFO ‘disclosure’ process. Quite the time to be alive.
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Interesting to see multiple streams of social transformation collide. The AI singularity, climate tipping points, fervid millenarianism, a probable global war, not to mention political instability..add to that a UFO ‘disclosure’ process. Quite the time to be alive.
Trying to get signed off sick leave with the Seguridad Social, as in, I’m fixed, send me back to work! Dear God, the Kafkaesque bureaucratic doom loop begins. Unreal.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Trying to get signed off sick leave with the Seguridad Social, as in, I’m fixed, send me back to work! Dear God, the Kafkaesque bureaucratic doom loop begins. Unreal.
Inequality Street
Quality Street is a sign of everything in British Supermarkets like Tesco. Over the years you get less and less, while paying more and more.
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Inequality Street
No more acid.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No more acid.
Reposted by James Mcconachie
Reposted by James Mcconachie
Criminalmeeeeeeente 🔥
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Criminalmeeeeeeente 🔥
For anyone who can’t get out, or just fancies a change of scene. I took a walk into the mountains behind my house, then stopped at the hermitage of Mary Magdalene on the way down. Welcome to the Kingdom of Aragón.
It’s windy mind..bring a coat.
Abrazos a tod@s.
It’s windy mind..bring a coat.
Abrazos a tod@s.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For anyone who can’t get out, or just fancies a change of scene. I took a walk into the mountains behind my house, then stopped at the hermitage of Mary Magdalene on the way down. Welcome to the Kingdom of Aragón.
It’s windy mind..bring a coat.
Abrazos a tod@s.
It’s windy mind..bring a coat.
Abrazos a tod@s.
Reposted by James Mcconachie
Aquest dijous, dia 27 novembre, al Campus URV de #Tortosa
"Antologia incompleta de la poesia catalana antifranquista”, un espectacle que transforma en cançó poemes d’autors com Salvador Espriu, Maria Mercè Marçal, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Marc Granell o Joan Margarit.
"Antologia incompleta de la poesia catalana antifranquista”, un espectacle que transforma en cançó poemes d’autors com Salvador Espriu, Maria Mercè Marçal, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Marc Granell o Joan Margarit.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Aquest dijous, dia 27 novembre, al Campus URV de #Tortosa
"Antologia incompleta de la poesia catalana antifranquista”, un espectacle que transforma en cançó poemes d’autors com Salvador Espriu, Maria Mercè Marçal, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Marc Granell o Joan Margarit.
"Antologia incompleta de la poesia catalana antifranquista”, un espectacle que transforma en cançó poemes d’autors com Salvador Espriu, Maria Mercè Marçal, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Marc Granell o Joan Margarit.
So it begins.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
So it begins.
This strange friendship; a scampering Tinkerbell of a kitten and an Pitbull cross on the cusp of his dotage.
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This strange friendship; a scampering Tinkerbell of a kitten and an Pitbull cross on the cusp of his dotage.
Told ya.
‘Stratton…briefing senior lawmakers in Congress and the White House. “I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings,” he says plainly..’
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘Stratton…briefing senior lawmakers in Congress and the White House. “I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings,” he says plainly..’
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist
The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Told ya.
‘Stratton…briefing senior lawmakers in Congress and the White House. “I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings,” he says plainly..’
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘Stratton…briefing senior lawmakers in Congress and the White House. “I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings,” he says plainly..’
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...