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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 4d

Love these two

Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 6d

Couple of love poems in the new issue of Waxwing --
waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

Aperture
Amorak Huey

we’re tangled in nowhere
knotted in not supposed to be
& I say
I want to frame this
what I mean is I want
to keep it, the now of it
like time is a thing we can hold
to look at later & also I mean I want
to draw a border around
this blackberry thicket & the here we are
the can you believe it
& I want to trim away the rest
of the world, I want to make
of the universe a blankness everywhere
except here where the light enters
through the brambles that hide us
except here where parts of us touch
nothing beyond the thorns
of our entangling & on the sheets
of this touching a million tiny points
of blood or is it the juice of berries
spilling like stars, like sand
an offering

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Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 4d

So happy with the outstanding endorsement of #CatherineConnolly for President. A special day for Ireland, a vision of hope, collaboration, inclusivity, equality. What a beautiful achievement. My heart is exploding. Extra proud as my grandmother was a Connolly, with roots in Galway!

Catherine Connolly, President of Ireland 🥳👏💚

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 10d

It's an Animal Heart hang :)

Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social · 10d

Wildlings! Come join us on Oct 29 @ 7pm GMT to celebrate publication of Zoe Mitchell's Untold Fortunes!
Get your free link here: forms.gle/Vo7BhGt5YH5f...

Cover art.
Untold Fortunes by Zoe Mitchell.
Zoom Launch on Wednesday October 29 @ 7 pm GMT

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Auntie Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 11d

There are so many ways to fight these fascists. Find one. Look locally. Food Not Bombs and other food banks, public libraries, ICE rapid response…. Find your people. Find your thing. Donate. Support. Volunteer.

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 11d

If nothing else it’s an SOS sign. It’s us standing on the beach spelling out HELP in the sand for any passing aircraft to see.

A cardboard sign with the words IMMIGRANTS MAKE AMERICA GREAT written in marker on it, lying on a carpet with a staple gun next to it

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 11d

Day trip to Porto #NoKings

A No Kings sticker on my blue shirt with the yellow stripe

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13d

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 13d

A treat for my birthday, which was last week. Year 68 begins with the Phantom in Lisbon

An impressive theater frontage at night, with a very large banner advertising Phantom of the Opera lit up above the entrance

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Annick Yerem @missyerem.bsky.social · 14d

Come and join us! It will be a wonderful evening. You are welcome to join, even if you can´t donate right now. This is also about sharing space and listening.

Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 18d

Join us on 2nd November at 7 pm GMT. #WeKeepTelling
We are raising funds for wonderful people & projects in Gaza while celebrating Palestinian poetry. Now, more than ever, we keep telling, sharing, giving. Please do what you can- and join us!
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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Auntie Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 15d

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More Than 300,000 Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs This Year. The NAACP Says It’s No Accident. | Essence

The organization is calling out “systemic disinvestment” and pushing for accountability through new initiatives and job fairs.

www.essence.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15d

fits right in with

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 17d

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 22d

If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :)

youtu.be/HsodIXXqGwU?...

Poetry Rev 65 - Jessica Jacobs - Unalone

YouTube video by Katie Manning

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 25d

UK friends, if you haven't already, please consider signing this petition, which now has more than 2.8 million signatures. Aside from all the other arguments against digital IDs, this is one more source of extreme stress for those of us who are trans. Thanks.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · 24d

Well, for starters, we eat, we sleep. If we’re going to know it,
we’re going to know it this way. It feels like a trick
sometimes, how we start and then start again.

The new $ feature is by John Gallaher!

poetrycurrency.com/feature/john...

John Gallaher | October 2025 – $ – Poetry Is Currency

poetrycurrency.com

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Allison Abyss @allisonwyss.bsky.social · 24d

I reassure myself, well, I’m not gonna let ai cook MY brain. I’m going to keep thinking, creating, imagining, struggling, being human. But I want that for everyone. We do those things in community with each other. Each cooked brain hurts us all.

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 25d

UK friends, if you haven't already, please consider signing this petition, which now has more than 2.8 million signatures. Aside from all the other arguments against digital IDs, this is one more source of extreme stress for those of us who are trans. Thanks.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 26d

I second this emotion.

poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 26d

I want to say this again. And I will again and again. You need to speak up against AI

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27d

I've been struck lately by how often right-wingers wear t-shirts that are snark at the left. That is, they're having conversations in their head with us whether or not actual us is having a conversation with them or taking the positions they think we are. Maybe that's the definition of reactionary?

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Suzanna Lundale 🧙‍♀️💜 @suzannalundale.bsky.social · 27d

Just learned that the clothing & bedding of Black Death victims were often sold to ragmen instead of burned. That cloth became paper became books, & the poetry of that cycle is beautiful to me. Happy Thursday, rascals. 🔮

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 28d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... For total absolute fucksake! Has this government ever met any refugees? Talked to some maybe? British values? That’ll be the xenophobia, mean-spiritedness I guess.

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 28d

Did it

Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 28d

Today is NPR's first day ever without the support of public funding. Thanks to everyone who has donated to your local stations. It means the world.

Today, the NPR shop also re-launched with a bunch of swag to help support us, too. I've always been partial to the 70s logo, myself.

shopnpr.org

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 29d

Yes. Exactly this.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Alexandra Billings @alexandrabillings.bsky.social · Sep 30

The fact that there are zero consequences for the young lives he annihilated, the older adult gay couples he destroyed and the myriad of lies he peddled, to appease his self loathing and shame, is a crime against humanity.
I do not want him hurt, but his freedom makes me sick to my stomach.

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Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · Sep 28

My mahoosive thanks to these lovely poets with whom it was a pleasure beyond pleasures to spend 90 minutes last night #LastSaturdayPoets. Loved it. Let's do it again! Lxx

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