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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 4h

I think it was Milton who, late in life, said "fucke justyfying the wayes of God to Man in Mightie Line, for tis tyme to indite Poetrie about Griefe, Embodymente, Labor, traumaticke Healying, & ye Worlds wee build within us & arounde us"

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

if you're not writing poetry about grief, embodiment, labour, traumatic healing, and the worlds we build within us and around us, what are you even playing at. why are you even writing poetry. idiot

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

he's a real cat, albeit with a constantly changing number of limbs

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20h

Abolish the Home Office

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 23h

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK

Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely banging haul from @westwoodbooks.bsky.social in Sedbergh this weekend, go there immediately. This cost me just shy of forty quid! All of this sadly wasted on John Brown the cat, who understands neither the written word nor the concept of money

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

tfw ur an optimistic, slightly eccentric custodian of wonder and joy and passion and love

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 4d

Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.

My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

and, uh

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

um,

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 4d

Captain Birdseye and Mr Muscle at it like knives, with the Honey Monster looking on from the cuck chair

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 4d

[as I tumble naked, battered and bruised down a bloody conveyor belt to be minced into chum to sate the infinite hunger of Gorek Vingoth, The Galaxy Chomper] we could have avoided this if it wasn't for the Left's ridiculous purity tests

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 5d

This is only 10 days away.

Get your tickets here: www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 5d

What should I talk about at this, gang? Hullo birds, hullo sky? The history of eco-fascism? The joys of freelancing, har har har? The problems with nature writing (but bear in mind we've only got a couple of hours)? Coffee photography?

Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 13d

I am to be let out, and poked until I speak. My first talk in AGES - please do come along, if you're in the north-east. Books, birds, all that sort of thing. www.nhsn.org.uk/events/richa...

Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large

An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council RoomRichard Smyth is one of the UK's busiest nature writers. His most recent book, The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild ...

www.nhsn.org.uk

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot emphasise just how much, if you live in the North East, you should come to the next LORT BURN SPECIALS on Oct 18, if only to get hold of some of this epochal swag

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 6d

Lort Burn Specials understands that man knoweth no greater love than his passion for graphic design

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 5d

Ever since I met you the other day I've felt guilty for being rude about Vineland just as you were en route to see it! (it was cool to meet you irl though)

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 6d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 7d

One thing that really jars for me with the playing off of minorities against each other in this really transactional way (by the government and others) is remembering that my Cypriot grandfather learned bits and pieces of Bengali from working with Bangladeshi chefs in a Jewish restaurant.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 8d

his NAME was HENRY 😡

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 8d

The “LLM AIs are actually people and you mustn’t bully them” thing is like instituting a full murder investigation into that train that got walled up in Thomas the Tank Engine because it had a face on it.

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 8d

ALERT for Owen Hatherley / Peter Mitchell fans

Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

i don't know where you are, or who, or if you exist, but i'll be talking with him about it in newcastle on the 18th: www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...

Lort Burn Specials

www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

for more of these japes, come see the author at LORT BURN SPECIALS in Newcastle on the 18th instant bsky.app/profile/lort...

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 12d

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3

Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM

@alphabettitheatre.bsky.social

MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

i don't know where you are, or who, or if you exist, but i'll be talking with him about it in newcastle on the 18th: www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/lortburnspec...

Lort Burn Specials

www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

it's fucking great btw

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

it is

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

ah ha ha ha, ah ha, lol

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8d

sorry but this is completely wonderful in all respects

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