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poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee Sheffield they/them please, ta 💖 petegreensolo.com

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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · Mar 27

If you're new to Bluesky and/or me, I am:

📝 poet: @saltpublishing.com
and @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
🎹 musician: @pinkopaque.co.uk and solo
🎟️ gig promoter/occasional dj: @machomusicisstupid.co.uk
🥱 always knackered
🏝️ anxious islomaniac
🐟 Grimbarian in Sheffield
⚖️ non-binary
🤷 non-a big deal

A photo of me wearing sunglasses and a coral pink top with white stripes, and jeans with a hole in the knee. I'm sitting cross-legged on stony ground, smiling. Just in front of me is a small rock stack. In the background a green hill rises to the right of the picture.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 1d

Love this. Your kids are the absolute image of you, btw.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 1d

Yes, there are times when I need reassurance as to the value of my contribution to the world, as well as unconditional love in the face of humanity's folly among a seemingly cold universe

Yes, there are other times when I just need a Hula Hoop sandwich

Hula Hoops on white bread with tomato ketchup

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 1d

Post you from a different era

Me in my first band in about 1990. You'd look pissed off too if you'd just spent your entire adolescence in Grimsby.

Black and white picture of a mardy late teen with their hair in their eyes

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 1d

Full disclosure: as a lifelong inactivist I have of course never actually done a thing for the party apart from pay my subs

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 1d

I wish to make it very clear that I obviously joined the Greens way before it was cool

Not in yet? Better late than never, you know what to do 👇

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 1d

Random internet stranger here just wanting to say your mum was clearly very awesome 🫶

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 3d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 5d

I mean we knew all this, but seeing it laid out like that – and remembering that the last one was in Qatar ffs – is a sobering reminder of what an absolute mange-ridden dog's breakfast FIFA has made of the greatest competition in world sport

The international match calendar is fixed until 2030, with the United States, Canada and Mexico hosting next year's men's World Cup in June and July.

Morocco, Portugal and Spain host the World Cup in 2030 - with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay holding matches to mark 100 years since the first World Cup was held in, and won by, Uruguay.

Saudi Arabia will host the tournament in 2034.

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so glad that someone else remembers 'HAGUE'. On a baseball cap. At a theme park.

And imagine being only the third best Hague, after 'Stephen' and 'The'.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 5d

This can't be real can it

The headline and stand first from a Times article about young Tories; below, pictures of the Fellow Kids meme, William Hague in a baseball cap, and Mr Burns with a fake moustache

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 7d

I need to buy some more author copies of Sheffield Almanac from you. The audience at Louth Words Festival last Friday bought my entire stock!

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 7d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 9d

Exactly, and when I reach that section of the job ad there's no way on Earth I'm ever working for that company.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 9d

Oh LinkedIn, don't ever change

Screengrab from a LinkedIn job ad. Text reads "De-risk your ambition and reinforce the dependability of your delivery by talking to us about your next development challenge"

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 10d

Hey Adam, would you consider having @pinkopaque.co.uk as a support act sometimes?

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 12d

In series 2 episode 6 of Buffy it's Hallowe'en, and the demons and vampires tend to sit the whole thing out because they find it tacky, all the normie humans dabbling in their business.

This is unrelated to the fact that I haven't done anything for #NationalPoetryDay

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 13d

Me: Sheffield is so much more vibrant when the students are back

Also me: fucking hell, I'm not going in there

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 15d

This is why I still have the internet

Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 15d

New YouTube upload - 3 mins from the sleeper train as it glides through the night.

Sleeper Train at 3.20am

YouTube video by Radio Lento

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 15d

I quite like shellacking, and tonking is a welcome addition to the lexicon, but you can't beat a good old walloping.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 16d

I don't know anything about golf, are all American golf fans nine years old or something

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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · Jul 22

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

The book cover for The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose. The text is in large sans serif font and is in the middle of the page. It is in white over an image of the sky with a cloudy sunset. On the left edge, vertical, is a cityscape, on the right some gorse bushes

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 17d

Don't miss out! Free shipping on ALL books, plus 10% off selected sale items: www.saltpublishing.com
Offer ends 30th September.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 18d

Good questions. Pub policy, it seemed to be. I didn't drill down into the finer detail tbh.

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 18d

Went into a pub near Parliament yesterday and the doorman had to check the badges on my backpack for any political messaging. This was actually good because it meant he missed the trans ally badge on my jacket

Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · 20d

If you write it in all caps or all lower case, rather than title case, then couldn't you just be generically supporting action on Palestine of some kind, rather than a specific organisation called Palestine Action

Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · Jul 19

Can you be arrested for an anagram? How to hide Palestine Action, useful for placards at demos

no elite captains
I alone, pittances
a polite instance
penalties action
set national epic
a spleen citation
inpatient solace
antiseptic alone
a social penitent
pain at elections
Atlantic peonies