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jemface.bsky.social
Poet, working class geek. Star Trek fan/STSP admin. Creative Future Award winner. an othered mother/Motherflux/genderfux out now w. Nine Pens Press. small plates w. broken sleep books. Illegal in America 'cos pronouns. they/them
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We're so ill. Temperature that won't stay down, cough, cold, puke, poop. FML Just me and the kids so far but it's been 4 days and I'm just getting worse. I've not eaten. I just want it to end so I can eat some pasta 😭

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Today's animal distraction from The Horrors: The thing that drives beavers to build dams is a burning genetic hatred for the sound of running water.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Woo, it's @alcs.co.uk day and I can pay for the big shop with the money. Might even get a lil present for myself as well.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone at my house was ill all weekend and now it's my turn after I figured I'd dodged the lurgy 😭

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

poem from lockdown one, 2020

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Another poem recently published as part of the Coal Mining Anthology here. A good week for poems!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent! A poem I've been submitting for a while finally got accepted 😎

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

This New Yorker piece about the Irish Famine has several paragraphs I found literally jaw-dropping (positive). This is a book review!! Good god!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

woken up crippled with shoulder and neck pain. If this bloody child could stop sleeping horizontally across my pillow, that'd be SWELL. If she's in any other position she whinges for hours. argh maybe I should remove all my bones and muscles and exist as a trampoline

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Over 21,500 people entered the @poetrysociety.bsky.social National Contest. I’m betting everybody else this morning who got an email already knew they’d not won, but the respect this shows for both poets and their efforts should not be understated. OTHER CONTESTS? PLEASE DO BETTER.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I didn't vote Labour at the last election for the first time ever and given Kid Starver just said removing disability benefits from people is for moral reasons, now I know I was completely justified. 24% of the population is disabled. Only 7 million people get benefits. This is Malthusian bullshit

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

oh White Lotus, you are teasing us

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

10 year anniversary today of the inciting incident for my poem deer, published in an othered mother, nine pens press, 2022

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I have just realised that sleep training the toddler means I have to sleep train myself out of going to bed before 9pm or I end up waking up before 5am. ugh. adulting is rubbish, I want to be irresponsible.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I finally sit down for a one on one with gamekeeper Glenn Massacre (@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social) and it gets HEATED ! We discuss what constitutes 'vermin' and how he ALWAYS follows the letter of the law . Please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Finally finished Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social... Incredible as ever! is the voice at the end of the book Juna or have the Shrouded learned to communicate? I know readers impart their own meaning but in your head, which is it?

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

oh no it was raining so we had to come t'pub it might have stopped before we arrived...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

My eldest just said DEVOUR FLATULENCE which I'm absolutely here for as a kid friendly Severance meme

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

night weaning, night one. 😵

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Night weaning round four. Reading Jay Gordon for a reminder. Wish us luck She's so pesky

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Is this real or is it another @mrhenrymorris.bsky.social character?

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

every night I get in bed and then have to get up again to put in my night eye gel to stop it going all dry and painful again and it's well annoying. if it could be cured now please, that'd be great.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

still raging. landlords thinking they have a right to tell me what my home should look like. get in the bin.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

fucking raging. letting agent inspection today, my cleaner was here yesterday, it's fine apart from laundry they sent an email to say my housekeeping was unacceptable so they were coming back in two weeks. told them they absolutely weren't, my stuff in the house is is none of their fucking business

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

There are definitely perks to working from home 🍆

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

submitted 16 days ago • 168 comments

I'm a shell of a human. Night weaning round 4 needs to happen this weekend.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This weekend has been fucking relentless. Arguments, cleaning, cooking, baking, more arguing and trying to cajole the 9 year old to tidy up. I'm almost looking forward to work for the break. Almost.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments