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Fiftywords inspired by Pt IV of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Fiftywords inspired by Pt III of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Fiftywords inspired by Pt II of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Fiftywords inspired by Pt I of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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How Einstein handled philosophers and their Kants (from @emilyherring.bsky.social’s engaging new biography of Henri Bergson)

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Given the number of proven/ accused abusers, would perpocracy be more appropriate

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Having to spend a week's wages every time you leave the house has altered my internal monologue somewhat

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“Democracy” by Langston Hughes

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This cartoon is literally just Plato's analogy of the ship of state, the OG anti-democracy argument. Its continued popularity is, in fact, very bad.

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#FrescoFriday - A fabulous fresco from the Atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii (VI.8.5). It shows the moment when Achilles surrenders Briseis to Agamemnon's messenger. Discovered 4 December 1824. #Pompeii #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9105)

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"When despair for the world grows in me..."

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It's almost as if we've spent the last 2500 years fumbling our way towards some kind of workable compromise between the practical need for expertise and the vital necessity for participative consent, and then thought, nah, fuck it, who needs expertise?

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50 words on the new Trump administration

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50 words on COP29

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Ah, Ireland. Someone will always have the before pictures.

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With snow forecast for Leeds next week, the local authority give us these: we wear them out in it and people feeling miserable in the terrible weather can look at us and cheer themselves up by thinking "At least I'm not l'm not a poxy poet!"

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With every inane word a little nearer to the last. And how the fable too. The fable of one fabling of one with you in the dark. And how better in the end labour lost and silence. And you as you were always were. Alone. - Sam Beckett, "Company" 🖤

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It occurs to me that my fifth book, In Code, should get a new lease on life. Most of its poems were born during the previous Evil Days. Here's a poem about the sort of thing that happens when people fear and despise the "deep state."

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We have sadly forgotten that liberal democracy imposes those constraints PRECISELY BECAUSE it had to fight for its existence against systems of unchecked power. Democracy in the modern West was almost literally defined by preventing abuses of power that would otherwise simply happen all the time.

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Tuesday 19 Nov. at 18.30 at the James Joyce Centre: The European launch of The Joyce of Everyday Life by Vicki Mahaffey. Featuring Vicki Mahaffey in conversation with Prof. Anne Fogarty and Prof. Sam Slote. Free, but registration required www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-joyce-...

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Many thanks to Ron Slate for including my poem, “River Bride” in the Nov./Dec. 2024 Edition of On The Seawall, a poem also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.bsky.social in 2026! So glad to be among these luminous writers! ⬇️ Read the issue here: www.ronslate.com 💙

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An absolutely critical read on polling.

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Here’s my poetic take on this shameful story

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Another Poem Dedicated to the Billionaires Security guards their sleep. Safety loads the shots of their hired guns. May we grow the cajones required to become their worst nightmares and then, sum.

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I had written a previous poem on this election but on reflection that was to angry and, after this, lacking in hope, so here’s a new one that has more hope and joy

Fiftywords inspired by Pt IV of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Fiftywords inspired by Pt III of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Fiftywords inspired by Pt II of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Fiftywords inspired by Pt I of John Coltrane’s sublime A Love Supreme #yoursong @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

How Einstein handled philosophers and their Kants (from @emilyherring.bsky.social’s engaging new biography of Henri Bergson)

Given the number of proven/ accused abusers, would perpocracy be more appropriate

Having to spend a week's wages every time you leave the house has altered my internal monologue somewhat

“Democracy” by Langston Hughes

This cartoon is literally just Plato's analogy of the ship of state, the OG anti-democracy argument. Its continued popularity is, in fact, very bad.

#FrescoFriday - A fabulous fresco from the Atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii (VI.8.5). It shows the moment when Achilles surrenders Briseis to Agamemnon's messenger. Discovered 4 December 1824. #Pompeii #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9105)

"When despair for the world grows in me..."

It's almost as if we've spent the last 2500 years fumbling our way towards some kind of workable compromise between the practical need for expertise and the vital necessity for participative consent, and then thought, nah, fuck it, who needs expertise?

50 words on the new Trump administration

50 words on COP29

Ah, Ireland. Someone will always have the before pictures.

With snow forecast for Leeds next week, the local authority give us these: we wear them out in it and people feeling miserable in the terrible weather can look at us and cheer themselves up by thinking "At least I'm not l'm not a poxy poet!"

With every inane word a little nearer to the last. And how the fable too. The fable of one fabling of one with you in the dark. And how better in the end labour lost and silence. And you as you were always were. Alone. - Sam Beckett, "Company" 🖤

It occurs to me that my fifth book, In Code, should get a new lease on life. Most of its poems were born during the previous Evil Days. Here's a poem about the sort of thing that happens when people fear and despise the "deep state."

We have sadly forgotten that liberal democracy imposes those constraints PRECISELY BECAUSE it had to fight for its existence against systems of unchecked power. Democracy in the modern West was almost literally defined by preventing abuses of power that would otherwise simply happen all the time.

Tuesday 19 Nov. at 18.30 at the James Joyce Centre: The European launch of The Joyce of Everyday Life by Vicki Mahaffey. Featuring Vicki Mahaffey in conversation with Prof. Anne Fogarty and Prof. Sam Slote. Free, but registration required www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-joyce-...

An absolutely critical read on polling.

Here’s my poetic take on this shameful story

Another Poem Dedicated to the Billionaires Security guards their sleep. Safety loads the shots of their hired guns. May we grow the cajones required to become their worst nightmares and then, sum.

I had written a previous poem on this election but on reflection that was to angry and, after this, lacking in hope, so here’s a new one that has more hope and joy

Just got here -- poets, I will find you! Poets, find me!

The public library is free. It really is. This is not a joke.

Here’s my poetic take on this shameful story

I dream of this post-scolding world of which she speaks. May it flower here.

Here’s my take on the recent US election