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Evalyn Lee
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Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · Dec 14
#Gratitude to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for publishing & discussing my #poem ‘I Read A Lot’ in #Issue15. A #poetry highlight for me. What a brilliant team of #editors. Highly recommend them to the #BlueSky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting
Evalyn Lee’s poem ‘ I Read A Lot’ I READ A LOT about war. Why? Blame the journalists. We are living a dead way of seeing. Can I intrude on your interruption to say conflict is an orphan factory? Let’s exchange the gift of trespass under a blooming arbor between cascades of empty bird feeders. Can I help you? Oh, it’s you. Goodbye. Time passes into history at the tidal mouth of a river we do not cross as a sun rises on the horizon of our choices. Death brings me here to talk to you. None of us will get out of here alive. The war will leave us where it finds us. Birds will jump fish fly. A leaf will roll over on its stem to put its back to face the wind. I don’t know what to say. Cover of Wild Roof Journal Issue 15 July 2022. An image of a mountain drawn in luminous green lines against a dark sky with a constellation of stars.
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eleventhdoctor.bsky.social
"In this American moment, it's fundamentally queer to be a poet, queer to be interested in what can't be packaged or sold in the marketplace, queer to enjoy the fundamentally useless, contemplative pleasure of poetry." - Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World Into Word, 2010
August 23, 2024 at 6:24 PM
evalynlee.bsky.social
Brilliant #essay by @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social “We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril.” #MustRead #WritingCommunity
drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 15h
LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."

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Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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nicwilson.bsky.social
Now this is a wonderful way to start the day - with @anitaroy1000.bsky.social's vibrant, hopeful @theguardian.com country diary celebrating Transition Town Wellington's five-year-old forest garden.

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Once a plain old field, now a thriving forest garden | Anita Roy
Wellington, Somerset: The five years we’ve spent transforming this patch has been recognised with an RHS award. We’re proud, but we’re not done yet
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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dublincityoflit.bsky.social
🗓️Event this Week 🗓️

The Dublin Small Press Fair will be celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcome small presses from abroad.

📍Pearse Street Library, Dublin
📆Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of November
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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globalvoices.org/2025/11/25/f...
My tribute to Jimmy Cliff for @globalvoices.org
From Kingston to the world: Jamaican music and film legend Jimmy Cliff passes on at 81
Cliff recorded over 30 albums in total, but his popularity skyrocketed after the low-budget Jamaican drama “The Harder They Come,” released in 1972, put him on the map as a cultural powerhouse.
globalvoices.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Sen. Kelley is a highly decorated Naval aviator and astronaut.
Hegseth is a notorious drunk. He is most notable for his time as a weekend anchor on Fox.
Attempting to court martial Sen. Kelley will be a major embarrassment for Trump
Good read from Robert Reich
Senator Mark E. Kelly, Patriot of Patriots
The contrast between him and Pete Hegseth or Trump couldn't be more larger
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Such a stimulating broadcast: the 1st of this year’s Reith Lectures.

His opening talk deepened my gloom at the state of the world. But his message seems to be a call for action.

If I’ve heard right, he’s calling for virtue to find courage. Well worth a listen.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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goodlawproject.org
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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barackobama.bsky.social
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:

‘You fucking idiots.’
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
evalynlee.bsky.social
So happy to have my #poem
‘How Poetry Works’ included in @thebrokenspine.co.uk anthology
#RitesAndTrials “A collection of coming-of-age poems stitched with class, becoming, longing, & defiance.”
A face in profile with the words: My work is being published coming December 2025 #RitesandTrials #ComingOfAgePoetry @thebrokenspine
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Two new drops before month’s end. Couldn’t be more different. Couldn’t be more us.

#SootAndBoots – our first seasonal fiction set – hits in hardback & paperback. Wintry stories with dirt under their nails.

#RitesAndTrials Coming-of-age poems stitched with class, becoming, longing, & defiance.
A book cover for Soot & Boots: An Anthology of Short Festive Fiction by The Broken Spine. The right-hand side shows an illustration of a pair of worn, frost-covered black boots with fur at the top, standing on a cold wooden floor against a textured, wintry blue-grey wall. The title “Soot & Boots” appears above the boots in large, pale, glowing letters. At the bottom, the Broken Spine publisher logo is present. The left-hand side, presented as the back cover, features centred white text on a dark green background. The text describes the anthology as a gritty, unsentimental seasonal fiction collection filled with longing and winter magic. It highlights contributions from writers including Sadie Maskery, Ellen Harrold, Victoria Harris, and Jordan River, and notes that the anthology is edited by Alan Parry. A bright yellow rectangle sits near the bottom, reserved for a barcode. A book cover for Rites & Trials: Coming of Age Poetry, part of The Broken Spine’s Slimline series. The right-hand panel features an abstract, atmospheric illustration: a silhouetted profile of a person facing right, rendered in deep black, set against a vivid red circular shape that resembles a sun or moon. Dark plant leaves overlap the silhouette, creating layered shadows. The background blends burnt orange and textured black. The title “Rites & Trials” appears in white, with “SLIMLINE” in a rounded rectangular frame. The left-hand panel shows the back cover text on a white rounded-rectangle box set against a dark background. The text describes the anthology as a stitched-together testament to becoming, naming contributors such as Molli Russell, Sam Szanto, Debbie Ross, Dave Kurley, Mana Misaghi, Rachel Burrows, Simon Maddrell, and others. The description highlights themes of class, faith, queerness, desire, and family, and characterises the poems as intimate, raw, and reaching toward connection. The Broken Spine logo sits at the bottom of the right-hand panel.
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work,” Kelly wrote. “I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”
Pentagon investigates Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly after he appears in video blasted by Trump | Arizona Mirror
The Department of Defense is looking into “serious allegations of misconduct” against Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
azmirror.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Pentagon threatens to prosecute Senator Mark Kelly by recalling him to Navy service reut.rs/43Nry2o
Pentagon threatens to prosecute Senator Mark Kelly by recalling him to Navy service
The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, to active duty status in order to prosecute him after what it described as seditious behavior by the former astronaut and decorated veteran.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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societyofauthors.bsky.social The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 2d
We are delighted to welcome bestselling novelist Kit de Waal (@kitdewaal.com ), literary translator Vineet Lal, pioneering writer Maggie Gee and literary biographer and head of Persephone Books Nicola Beauman, to the SoA’s honorary body of 56 existing Fellows.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco. An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries

www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a po...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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roadie63.bsky.social
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Crow: "It's so telling that when members of Congress simply remind service members of the Constitution and their duty to obey the law that he cannot handle that and resorts to threats of violence and execution. That tells you everything you need to know about Trump's respect for the Constitution"
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Murphy: Trump Kept Dems in Dark About Rogue Intel Sources
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Murphy: Trump Kept Dems in Dark About Rogue Intel Sources
EXCLUSIVE: Senator's office says Trump's team hasn't disclosed using Venezuela info from questionable sources tied to 2020 election-denial efforts
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November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM