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🩵 Turquoise Tuesday 🩵 two urushi beauties - Nakaya Piccolo Negoro AMA Iro and Tamenuri Studio spiral kawari-nuri. Notebook from Galen Leather, leaf dish made by a friend #fountainpen

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David Seymour nods, slow claps his agreement

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My Substack debut is turning into a series! Here’s the 2nd post in my study pack for ‘The Curse of Minerva’ by Lord Byron. This one’s geared toward GCSE & US high school students (ages 14–16), helping make Byron more accessible for classrooms & curious minds alike. open.substack.com/pub/sundeepb...

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Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

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Gather round, children, it's storytime...

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Much less noise is being made about how we should use fountain pens and quills to maintain our brain connectivity. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.

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How can America keep providing Israel with unwavering support amidst this horror? On June 17, 59 Palestinians were killed seeking flour. Gaza is starving—aid is blocked, civilians are slaughtered. This is not defense. This is inhumanity. Genocide. A stain on our conscience. It must end. Now. #Gaza

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My today’s #LiftToTheSky goes to Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social, a fantastic poet, winner of several poetry awards including Broken Spine’s Readers Choice 2025; and a great supporter of #poetrycommunity. Do give him a follow, if you aren’t already. @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PoemsAbout

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My today’s #LiftToTheSky goes to Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social, a wonderful award winning poet, whose poetry reflects great sensitivity, also inspired by art and culture; and a fantastic supporter of #poemsabout & #poetrycommunity. Sharing her post of her latest collection.

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#LiftToTheSky your words! Submit to #SelectedPoetry—free, unthemed, and open to all poets. Join our contributor directory and shine. @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social @vespertine4.bsky.social shorturl.at/W8jbo #SubmissionWindow

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A hearty #LiftToTheSky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for Marcelle Newbold, Paul Brookes&Paul Connolly for their exciting poetry AND they are unfailingly polite to others in the poetry community! @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social 💛🩶🔆

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Returning the compliment, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social has been one of the most supportive and encouraging people on here, as well as a fine poet, since I joined Bluesky two months ago #lifttothesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry

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For today’s #LiftToTheSky I’m boosting Larissa Reid @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social Check out Rock/Salt produced for an exhibition with painter Elspeth Knight and her Silver Bough feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/larissa-reid... A very creative and experimental wordsmith #poetry #blueskypoetry

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Today's #LiftToTheSky is @arwashington.bsky.social Describing herself as a poet's poet's, she couldn't be more right. Eclectic and uplifting she finds ways to keep you guessing and celebrate the art of crafting poetry ever day. #poetrycommunity #uplift #celebrate

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My #LiftToTheSky for this week is @annemorrigan.bsky.social. I love the whole vibe of #haikufeels and feelsfam. She does a great job keeping a gorgeous and groovy #poetrycommunity going. All the best 🤗 @alanparry83.bsky.social #poet #writing #writers #writingcommunity

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Today, I want to #LiftToTheSky, @vespertine4.bsky.social , a writer whose poetry is not only exquisitely written, but offered with bravery, honesty and accessibility. It is poetry of the heart, poetry of living and hurting discovery and love. @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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A 25 minute film based on interviews with me in England and in Hungary on the occasion of being awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry. The film is in English with Hungarian subtitles www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbNz...

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Why does this look like a celebrity chicken out with her minders and suffering from unwanted attention from the paparazzi? 🤔📷🐔

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This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

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Yellow-headed blackbird greeting the dawn #birds 🌿

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Ukraine handed the US a multi-billion dollar weapons shopping list after Trump's administration stopped providing new military aid — Zelenskyy says. The weapons package was delivered to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during high-level meetings in Canada. ⤵️

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great horned owl #birds #owl #wildlife 📷

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Somehow velociraptors with feathers and bird eyes is infinitely more terrifying.

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NEW POEM #244: "Practice Run" by Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) "'The Rapture! Someone's been yanked to heaven!' The girls argued. How could it be the Rapture if they were still here? How could someone with a mustard-stained t-shirt go before them?" stonecirclereview.com/practice-run/

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@davgar51.bsky.social receives a #lifttothesky this week for being a fine and supportive member of the #poetrycommunity

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Something about now. #poetry #sonnet

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A record six male Corncrakes have been recorded on Rathlin Island this breeding season, marking a significant milestone in conservation efforts for the species:

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This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. - #MaryOliver

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"I’ll say one thing for Robert Kennedy Jr.—he’s got some fucking nerve. The treatment he received at St. Eligius Hospital for his brain worm was second to none. Still, here he is out here spewing absolute garbage about autistic people."

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well over 7,000 haiku on my blog haikueye.blogspot.com

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With a hat tip to Crab Day in Japan, here are a pair of cheerful Sally Lightfoot Crabs. The common name is descriptive of the crabs’ agile movement. Galápagos Islands, 2019

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Something about a two-week deadline, Ish?

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