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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 2h

Um - I’m not able to use DM at present. I’m Inkpen on giving BlueSky my cc details in order to prove that I am an adult. Hence the post.

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 14h

@morselya.bsky.social

We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Paul- and for the repost!

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 3d

The camera on my phone can't do justice to the magic in tonight's sky #Shetland #aurora

Green and purple northern lights. Fuzzy phone photo

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 3d

crisp autumn morning
big ben strikes deep into
the heart of time

#Photograph mine

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!!!!

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 9d

Let there be light

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!

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Black Nore Review @blacknorereview.bsky.social · 10d

Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social

Kim Whysall-Hammond – “School Reunion”

School Reunion The one who organises Poetry Festivals in Scotland and her no longer identical twin, the newspaper editor who found us all, tracked us down including the Sound Engineer who lives off grid on a canal boat avoiding The Man. The one who ran towards me declaring friendship, she bullied me in Second Form. The old friend who's also my husband’s third cousin…

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 9d

I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review.

Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...

Kim Whysall-Hammond – “School Reunion”

School Reunion The one who organises Poetry Festivals in Scotland and her no longer identical twin, the newspaper editor who found us all, tracked us down including the Sound Engineer who lives off…

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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 12d

Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.

With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙

www.silverpress.org/collections/...

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 12d

After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham – Tina Sederholm

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After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham – Tina Sederholm

After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham . . Oxfordshire-based poet and theatre-maker Tina Sederholm has performed at festivals and theatres nationwide for over twenty years, including seven Edinbu…

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 12d

If only….

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12d

“I see just a massive opportunity on the horizon, and not just in Europe but all over the world, to start building a new, good internet outside the U.S. One that’s multilateral, one that’s pluralistic, one that is enshittification-resistant from the start. It’s going to be accelerated by Trump.”

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 12d

Outrageous

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 12d

A reminder that no-one needs and (almost) no-one wants AI

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12d

“I was just talking to someone who’s in the CIO’s office at a Fortune 25 company, and Microsoft has just given them a rate card for the coming year for their Office 365 license, and it costs extra if they don’t want the AI. That’s not a company that thinks you want AI.”

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18d

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 17d

Check out the latest Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social!

Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now:

eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

Eye to the Telescope

Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 22d

Yay!

Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 22d

Brilliant news!

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 24d

If you play Flight Of The Bumblebee on it, time stands still.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 24d

Einstein's violin sells for £860,000 at auction

Auctioneers think it might be the highest price ever paid for a violin not previously owned by a concert violinist.

www.bbc.com

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 24d

Strapping workmanship!

John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 24d

This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.

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Joseph Elliott-Coleman @jelliottcoleman.bsky.social · 24d

How great it is when at least one of your childhood heroes doesn't disappoint you. :-)

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 24d

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 24d

Yesterday I posted on art & peace. Walking tonight I tried RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem. Grim need. Sorrow at war. Yet also a violence not to be fled but transcendent. Musical escape. Around me leaves bloodied. Sky cracked open. Voices soared. Would we leave life in storm like Romulus, in fire like Elijah?

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem

YouTube video by olla-vogala

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 24d

Not many boulders in West Berkshire- but I volunteer for a local committee

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 24d

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, here's my third response to your inspirational #promptcombo #Visitors:

Our Window Cleaner

speaks nine languages fluently.
Translates documents
for the university.

Someone stole his ladders
and his bucket, and trashed
his car.

Jehovah's Witness, his church
financed his visit to Hungary,
to speak to refugees
in Iranian and Arabic.

He bunked with a Japanese,
and says he could only speak
odd phrases to him.

Thoroughly polished
our windows gleam.

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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social · 28d

Taken too soon. As a university student I used to stick hair up to make cats ears too.

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