@megrey.bsky.social
Before @newyorker.com drops #TheNewYorkerAt100, @thebupkes.bsky.social drops … this: www.thebupkes.com/p/contributi...
Contributor's contribution: Magazine meanings, sweatshirt sentiments
Try outrunning your decisions on the objects you display. Go on. We dare you.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Before @newyorker.com drops #TheNewYorkerAt100, @thebupkes.bsky.social drops … this: www.thebupkes.com/p/contributi...
Tasting notes: Essex Honey
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Tasting notes: Essex Honey
New episode! We go to Gaza for a moving conversation about loss, trauma, and hope.
Get it here or most any podcast platform:
www.thebupkes.com/p/a-voice-fr...
Get it here or most any podcast platform:
www.thebupkes.com/p/a-voice-fr...
A voice from Gaza: “Talk about bupkes!” with Shahd Alnaami
The Palestinian writer, translator, and student gives us a glimpse of loss, hope, and survival – that is, everyday life amid Israel's destructive campaign of impunity in Gaza.
www.thebupkes.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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New for The Bupkes! Our contributor @megrey.bsky.social is everywhere. Including basement bathrooms of Brussels bars.
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New for The Bupkes! Our contributor @megrey.bsky.social is everywhere. Including basement bathrooms of Brussels bars.
Unexpected factors influencing #EU-#UK relations: the mortality of Nicholas Thomas-Symonds
No prospect of UK rejoining EU in my lifetime, says Starmer’s reset negotiator
No prospect of UK rejoining EU in my lifetime, says Starmer’s reset negotiator
Comments by Nick Thomas-Symonds underline view in top government circles despite thaw in relations with Brussels
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Politics Weekly: Will the UK ever rejoin the EU?
Britain will not rejoin the EU in the foreseeable future, according to the minister who has piloted Keir Starmer’s recent reset of European relations.
Nick Thomas-Symonds said he could not see the country re-entering the bloc in his lifetime, despite the thaw in continental relations that he has helped bring about. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Unexpected factors influencing #EU-#UK relations: the mortality of Nicholas Thomas-Symonds
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‘Johnson’s work has done much to shape ideals of multiculturalism in Britain. Perhaps most significantly, he made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois.’
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez · Burning Age of Rage: On Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
‘Johnson’s work has done much to shape ideals of multiculturalism in Britain. Perhaps most significantly, he made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois.’
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
While @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social might never have posted on Bluesky, @friebos.bsky.social’s reporting over the last few days on the pro-#Palestine protests at the #VueltaaEspaña and the presence of the #Israel Premier Tech team has been exemplary journalism…
September 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
While @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social might never have posted on Bluesky, @friebos.bsky.social’s reporting over the last few days on the pro-#Palestine protests at the #VueltaaEspaña and the presence of the #Israel Premier Tech team has been exemplary journalism…
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New for The Bupkes:
Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice.
www.thebupkes.com/p/double-tap...
Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice.
www.thebupkes.com/p/double-tap...
Monsters (and other lies)
When a double's not enough, make it a triple.
www.thebupkes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
New for The Bupkes:
Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice.
www.thebupkes.com/p/double-tap...
Sometimes the double tap is so nice, you do it thrice.
www.thebupkes.com/p/double-tap...
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New for The Bupkes: It’s August, and much of Europe has made its traditional summer holiday escape to overcrowded beaches. Our Brussels-based contributor @megrey.bsky.social reflects on the inescapable.
Get more at thebupkes[dot]com.
Get more at thebupkes[dot]com.
August 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New for The Bupkes: It’s August, and much of Europe has made its traditional summer holiday escape to overcrowded beaches. Our Brussels-based contributor @megrey.bsky.social reflects on the inescapable.
Get more at thebupkes[dot]com.
Get more at thebupkes[dot]com.
#TommyRobinson tailoring ⬇️, courtesy of @thebupkes.bsky.social
Men ruin menswear.
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open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
August 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#TommyRobinson tailoring ⬇️, courtesy of @thebupkes.bsky.social
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‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow · Let custards quake: Satire without the Jokes
To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all.’
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I don’t immediately have a topical song for Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy - so let’s reprise this one instead ⬇️
#TDF25 #SimonYates
#TDF25 #SimonYates
July 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I don’t immediately have a topical song for Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy - so let’s reprise this one instead ⬇️
#TDF25 #SimonYates
#TDF25 #SimonYates
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In June, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
She does not appear in this poem.
www.thebupkes.com/p/poets-war-...
She does not appear in this poem.
www.thebupkes.com/p/poets-war-...
Contributor's contribution: Poets on war, war on poets
Someone is missing. There is a reason for that.
www.thebupkes.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
In June, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
She does not appear in this poem.
www.thebupkes.com/p/poets-war-...
She does not appear in this poem.
www.thebupkes.com/p/poets-war-...
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SCOOP! The Bupkes has obtained the final declaration of NATO’s 2035 summit.
The St. Petersburg Summit Declaration
Increased militarism amid rising nationalism. What could go wrong?
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
SCOOP! The Bupkes has obtained the final declaration of NATO’s 2035 summit.
Happy 40th birthday, Schengen! The Bupkes celebrates this milestone in European arbitrariness with a reflection by @megrey.bsky.social …
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open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
Contributor's contribution: Zone
On the privilege of enjoying a degree of autonomy through communicating administrations — and not.
open.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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You asked. Kurt Tucholsky answers. “Was darf die Satire?” / What can satire get away with?
(Spoiler alert: Everything.)
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
(Spoiler alert: Everything.)
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
ConWatch: Week 1,810
Does Germany have a constitution yet?
open.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
You asked. Kurt Tucholsky answers. “Was darf die Satire?” / What can satire get away with?
(Spoiler alert: Everything.)
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
(Spoiler alert: Everything.)
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
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Fresh Bupkes! A momentary pause looking at the futility outside to contemplate the ephemeral inside.
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open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
Contributor's contribution: lad trope house plant death cult
A poem for a summer slipping away before it arrives.
open.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Fresh Bupkes! A momentary pause looking at the futility outside to contemplate the ephemeral inside.
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
Song for Simon Yates: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4b9s...
#Giro @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @teamvismaleaseabike.com
#Giro @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @teamvismaleaseabike.com
Finisterre
YouTube video by Saint Etienne - Topic
m.youtube.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Song for Simon Yates: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4b9s...
#Giro @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @teamvismaleaseabike.com
#Giro @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @teamvismaleaseabike.com
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In honor of aspiring European go-getters contending with the fact that their figures are off.
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open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
Contributor's contribution: Integers, and Reasons for reticence
Two poems for politicians struggling with numbers.
open.substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In honor of aspiring European go-getters contending with the fact that their figures are off.
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
open.substack.com/pub/thebupke...
April 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Neu! Announcing poems by M. E. Grey in The Bupkes magazine.
megrey.net/2025/04/02/c...
@thebupkes.bsky.social
megrey.net/2025/04/02/c...
@thebupkes.bsky.social
Contributor contributing contributions: poems in The Bupkes
Work by M. E. Grey is featuring irregularly in satirical zine The Bupkes. ‘Snack (Austrian Airlines)’ was published in March, and ‘Bad threads’ was published today. Future p…
megrey.net
April 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Neu! Announcing poems by M. E. Grey in The Bupkes magazine.
megrey.net/2025/04/02/c...
@thebupkes.bsky.social
megrey.net/2025/04/02/c...
@thebupkes.bsky.social
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Belgium’s verdict on the Bond news
February 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Belgium’s verdict on the Bond news