Mirkka
@mirkkawrites.bsky.social
Poet. Bingewatching something from the nineties.
"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically."
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"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically."
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Rewatching Buffy and school - what a way of life! Spending the day with BFFs learning biology, then a bit of maths, then geography... I'd even gladly try out some new sport in PE. And SOMEONE ELSE has planned and organised all this - all you have to do is show up! Why can't adults have this?
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Rewatching Buffy and school - what a way of life! Spending the day with BFFs learning biology, then a bit of maths, then geography... I'd even gladly try out some new sport in PE. And SOMEONE ELSE has planned and organised all this - all you have to do is show up! Why can't adults have this?
There's a lot of enshittification going on but the way MS has fucked up "new" Outlook continues to blow my mind every day. Over twenty years I've been relying on this tool and now it can barely send an email. I am truly curious as to how this was achieved.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
There's a lot of enshittification going on but the way MS has fucked up "new" Outlook continues to blow my mind every day. Over twenty years I've been relying on this tool and now it can barely send an email. I am truly curious as to how this was achieved.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is on tomorrow!
Next Poetry School MA reading is on Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese WC2R 3LD - update your calendars & see you there!
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is on tomorrow!
I was up at 7am so can confirm that the so-called day is only getting darker. Expect complete darkness by 1pm aka 1300hrs.
Good show, London winter, just as promised.
Good show, London winter, just as promised.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I was up at 7am so can confirm that the so-called day is only getting darker. Expect complete darkness by 1pm aka 1300hrs.
Good show, London winter, just as promised.
Good show, London winter, just as promised.
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
HAHAHAHA Poets - our time has come! Victory is within our grasp!
#poetry #poetryprompt #PoemIsMightierThanLLM
#poetry #poetryprompt #PoemIsMightierThanLLM
Quite an opening.
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
HAHAHAHA Poets - our time has come! Victory is within our grasp!
#poetry #poetryprompt #PoemIsMightierThanLLM
#poetry #poetryprompt #PoemIsMightierThanLLM
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⚠️ We are witnessing a dangerous – and often highly secretive – increase in surveillance of the UK population.
We refuse to sleepwalk into a surveillance state.
Donate now to protect your right to privacy: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
We refuse to sleepwalk into a surveillance state.
Donate now to protect your right to privacy: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
Protect Our Privacy
Liberty is raising funds to fight back against the encroaching mass surveillance culture in the UK.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
⚠️ We are witnessing a dangerous – and often highly secretive – increase in surveillance of the UK population.
We refuse to sleepwalk into a surveillance state.
Donate now to protect your right to privacy: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
We refuse to sleepwalk into a surveillance state.
Donate now to protect your right to privacy: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
Reasons to write happier poetry: editing wouldn't be so goddamn harrowing.
#ThisPoeticLife #poetry #writing
#ThisPoeticLife #poetry #writing
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reasons to write happier poetry: editing wouldn't be so goddamn harrowing.
#ThisPoeticLife #poetry #writing
#ThisPoeticLife #poetry #writing
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We lost one of the people off the coach so we had to leave them behind. We waited an hour, and informed the police. Hope you are feeling better.
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We lost one of the people off the coach so we had to leave them behind. We waited an hour, and informed the police. Hope you are feeling better.
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the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it
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fucking boosts
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
fucking boosts
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‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
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on these new insomnia meds and the pharmacist gave me a very dire warning that they can cause night terrors, anyway last night I dreamt Macho Man Randy Savage shared my poems online and said I was a COOL DUDE
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
on these new insomnia meds and the pharmacist gave me a very dire warning that they can cause night terrors, anyway last night I dreamt Macho Man Randy Savage shared my poems online and said I was a COOL DUDE
Next Poetry School MA reading is on Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese WC2R 3LD - update your calendars & see you there!
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Next Poetry School MA reading is on Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese WC2R 3LD - update your calendars & see you there!
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
#poetry #PoetryReading #events #LondonEvents
This is what hope and visionary leadership sound like. Amazing speech.
Read Mamdani’s victory speech here:
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is what hope and visionary leadership sound like. Amazing speech.
Tonight: hide in the dark with a poem. Listen to it breathe. Whisper each stanza.
#howtopoem #poetry #poems
#howtopoem #poetry #poems
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tonight: hide in the dark with a poem. Listen to it breathe. Whisper each stanza.
#howtopoem #poetry #poems
#howtopoem #poetry #poems
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How your email finds me 😌
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
How your email finds me 😌
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Rule of working at a publisher's: when picking a random example to make a point about e.g. publication process,it always turns out to be about genitals or horrid skin condition.Not a medical publisher? Doesn't matter - somewhere in your content lurk genitals and rashes waiting for their moment.
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Rule of working at a publisher's: when picking a random example to make a point about e.g. publication process,it always turns out to be about genitals or horrid skin condition.Not a medical publisher? Doesn't matter - somewhere in your content lurk genitals and rashes waiting for their moment.
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Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
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We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM