J A Clarke
@janeeyrie.bsky.social
I write high fantasy with low characters. Poetry too.
Likes: equality, folk tales, birds, concept albums, woodruff cordial. Politics: let oligarchs fight their own wars.
https://bio.link/janeclarke
RPs/likes ≠ endorsement of any/all OP's views
Likes: equality, folk tales, birds, concept albums, woodruff cordial. Politics: let oligarchs fight their own wars.
https://bio.link/janeclarke
RPs/likes ≠ endorsement of any/all OP's views
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J A Clarke
@janeeyrie.bsky.social
· Jul 16
New poem published in Magma Poetry
Whoops! I nearly forgot to tell you... The poem is called “Halicephalobus Mephisto or Dirt Divinations” and it’s about a worm under pressure. You can pick up issue 90 of Magma directly from their site or from various bookshops with the foresight and good taste to sell Magma’s current and back issues. Digital copies are also available. Here’s what Magma say about themselves on their site:
jaclarkeauthor.com
I have a new poem published in Magma Poetry issue 90. OK, I’m a little late, but I’m updating my blog in an effort to get away from the Bad Sort of social media. You know how it is. Anyway, if you’re into hopeful poems, possibly featuring invertebrates…this issue’s for you
#poetry #NewPoetry
#poetry #NewPoetry
So much steampunk Victoriana and gore! What is this? Where is my beloved exploration of Enlightenment themes and contradictions? No. No no. Where is the post-revolutionary pessimism? Where are the late Romantics? The fears of the new bourgeoisie? The ghosts of medieval philosophers? #Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So much steampunk Victoriana and gore! What is this? Where is my beloved exploration of Enlightenment themes and contradictions? No. No no. Where is the post-revolutionary pessimism? Where are the late Romantics? The fears of the new bourgeoisie? The ghosts of medieval philosophers? #Frankenstein
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Would you like to make an interactive likeness of your granny? How about the ex partner you’ve been stalking, or that coworker you make uncomfortable?
Good news: now you can force them to interact with you on a daily basis. There are no societal implications! Everyone will be completely safe! 🫶
Good news: now you can force them to interact with you on a daily basis. There are no societal implications! Everyone will be completely safe! 🫶
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Would you like to make an interactive likeness of your granny? How about the ex partner you’ve been stalking, or that coworker you make uncomfortable?
Good news: now you can force them to interact with you on a daily basis. There are no societal implications! Everyone will be completely safe! 🫶
Good news: now you can force them to interact with you on a daily basis. There are no societal implications! Everyone will be completely safe! 🫶
Planned EU deregulation will reduce workers’ rights and cut "most of the supply chain from scrutiny" by severely limiting due diligence and reporting.
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Deregulation plans break EU law, legal scholars warn
Over one hundred legal experts have warned that the EU’s Omnibus I package, which cuts green and social reporting rules, breached EU law and was "likely to be annulled" if adopted.
euobserver.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Planned EU deregulation will reduce workers’ rights and cut "most of the supply chain from scrutiny" by severely limiting due diligence and reporting.
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
Likely to be part of the current, concerted drive to world war & Europe’s associated economic separation from the US
euobserver.com/green-econom...
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Lovely. 😑
Fun fact: Meta is emailing some advertisers today to let them know they are relaxing verification standards for political ads in the US
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Lovely. 😑
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West Papua: Soldiers storm towns, execute, torture, and vanish indigenous civilians as protests erupt.
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
Military operations in Papuan highlands continue as people launch series of protests against militarism, demanding withdrawal of troops -
People in West Papua protest against the growing militarisation and ongoing expansion of military operations in the Papuan central highlands.
humanrightsmonitor.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
West Papua: Soldiers storm towns, execute, torture, and vanish indigenous civilians as protests erupt.
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
No mercy. #WestPapua #PapuaCrisis #HumanRights —
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/news/militar...
Why Do My Joints Hurt: a tale of minor inconvenience by Me
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Why Do My Joints Hurt: a tale of minor inconvenience by Me
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pretty weird that our second most populous state will treat 14 year olds like they're adults, but won't let them on social media until they're 16. feels like a bit of dissonance there
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
pretty weird that our second most populous state will treat 14 year olds like they're adults, but won't let them on social media until they're 16. feels like a bit of dissonance there
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Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
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Poets reading @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh 22-23 Nove include @pascalepetit.bsky.social, @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social, plus an online event with Vidyan Ravinthiran & Arundhathi Subramaniam. There's special event for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's Versus Versus anthology.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Poets reading @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh 22-23 Nove include @pascalepetit.bsky.social, @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social, plus an online event with Vidyan Ravinthiran & Arundhathi Subramaniam. There's special event for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's Versus Versus anthology.
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
I’m currently reading “The Empress of Salt and Fortune” by @nghivo.bsky.social , a wonderful, layered story with complex, believable characters.
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
Forget flat racing, the dogs, and the Grand National. Nothing beats the agonising thrill of watching the books you reserved on Libby inch slowly up the waiting list over the course of several months
#booksky #libraries
#booksky #libraries
a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder
Alt: Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" reaching joyfully along a row of bookshelves.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m currently reading “The Empress of Salt and Fortune” by @nghivo.bsky.social , a wonderful, layered story with complex, believable characters.
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
I’m using it as my reward: if I get through all of my tasks today, I get to read another section…
Libby’s waiting list for this novella was lonnnngggg!
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This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is Murujuga National Park, site of the largest collection of rock art carvings in the world.
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
The oldest depiction of a human face anywhere in the world is HERE.
The LATEST dated specimens here are hundreds of years older than the Pyramids.
This is Gondwanalands history, encapsulated.🧵
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In their efforts to stay on Country, my grandmother and many other Aboriginal women did the work of stockmen and helped to establish vast cattle and sheep stations during those times. The women wore men’s clothing, had their hair cut or tucked under their hats and tended to herds of bullocks
Friday essay: Debra Dank’s grandmother was a ‘drover’s boy’. Her stolen wages can’t be recovered
Stella Prize shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In their efforts to stay on Country, my grandmother and many other Aboriginal women did the work of stockmen and helped to establish vast cattle and sheep stations during those times. The women wore men’s clothing, had their hair cut or tucked under their hats and tended to herds of bullocks
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Heads up for the very non technical folks.
This is a new scam with links
This is a new scam with links
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Heads up for the very non technical folks.
This is a new scam with links
This is a new scam with links
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When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so…
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
#RemembranceSunday #poem #poetry
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47427/...
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More authors booked for events at the British Library are pulling out in solidarity with our striking members
#BritishLibraryonStrike
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#BritishLibraryonStrike
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers
King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
More authors booked for events at the British Library are pulling out in solidarity with our striking members
#BritishLibraryonStrike
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#BritishLibraryonStrike
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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PCS members are over halfway through their 2-week strike against low pay at the British Library, support them by using our e-action to call on MPs to demand increased grant in aid funding for the library and stand up for fair treatment. #BritishLibraryOnStrike
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
PCS members are over halfway through their 2-week strike against low pay at the British Library, support them by using our e-action to call on MPs to demand increased grant in aid funding for the library and stand up for fair treatment. #BritishLibraryOnStrike
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
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It's an honour to be included in this anthology, alongside all the other fantastic writers published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social this year.
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It's an honour to be included in this anthology, alongside all the other fantastic writers published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social this year.
Two fossilized remains of the duckbilled dinosaur Edmontosaurus reveal the surprising presence of hoofed feet.
Dinosaurs! With hooves!
www.reuters.com/science/wyom...
Dinosaurs! With hooves!
www.reuters.com/science/wyom...
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Two fossilized remains of the duckbilled dinosaur Edmontosaurus reveal the surprising presence of hoofed feet.
Dinosaurs! With hooves!
www.reuters.com/science/wyom...
Dinosaurs! With hooves!
www.reuters.com/science/wyom...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
I loved this book
Bryan Washington recommends COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW by Jessica Au in ELLE: www.elle.com/culture/book...
Bryan Washington Shares the Book Every Aspiring Writer Should Read
Plus, more reading recommendations from the Palaver author.
www.elle.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I loved this book
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On famous authors who had no one turn up for their book launches...
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open.substack.com/pub/flyonthe...
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
On famous authors who had no one turn up for their book launches...
open.substack.com/pub/flyonthe...
open.substack.com/pub/flyonthe...