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joyfulsage.bsky.social
Reading, writing, trying to eat less cheese
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Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

For any women out there who experienced/are experiencing (sending 💜) severe nausea/vomiting in pregnancy pls consider filling in this anonymised survey for a research project led by Dr Melanie Nana. She is the clinical academic making real change re. HG here in the uk forms.gle/u6GNNAhX5WqS...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ten publishing terms that sound like banned WWE moves: 1. The Offset Press 2. Rights Grab 3. STET 4. Full Bleed 5. The Signature Advance 6. Perfect Binding 7. The Royalty Escalator 8. Shrink Wrap and Belly Band 9. Drop Capital 10. Deckled Edge

submitted 595 days ago • 2 comments

Liberal democracy is in serious peril, ironically much more so than during the Cold War, because the threat comes from within. The preservation of our democracy from a descent into the horrors of the 20th century has to be every single politician, journalist & commentator's most urgent task.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The curious thing about billionaires defying the rule of law and the orders of the court, is that their wealth depends entirely on enforceable legal rights: contract, property, and so on. Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Looking for recommendations for ghost stories please - preferably short stories or novellas? 🙏

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

@vickymackenzie.bsky.social , one for you… x

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I spent the evening standing in the freezing cold, in a lay-by near Whitehaven Cumbria. I doubt I'll ever witness anything more remarkable than a murmuration. Stunning.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

They should just abolish these 90-day Januaries. No one wants them.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Everything in the news is terrible. Without minimizing those events (they are terrible), it’s also important to zoom out: here’s why the world isn’t as bad as you think—and why the news aggregates every bad event while failing to cover positive trends.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

If you ask me this makes it too easy.

submitted 37 days ago • 27 comments

Things the far right (fascists) hate: - Rule of Law - Independent Media with standards - Independent Police they don't control Notice that they are going so hard on these old 'Muslamic rape gangs' tropes to attack the things they want to dismantle.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Going book shopping tomorrow and in need of recommendations please 🙏 . I’m in the mood for an intelligent character-rich page turner, along the lines of The Blind Assassin, Demon Copperhead, Brother of the More Famous Jack. Any suggestions??

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

A thread of New Year and new year related poems. Feel free to add. This, by Carol Ann Duffy is my favourite. 'I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl and let it fall' ❤️

submitted 56 days ago • 9 comments

🎶 She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

submitted 60 days ago • 28 comments

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

submitted 63 days ago • 123 comments

The Winter Solstice: For those eternal optimists out there it is the first day of Summer English Bluebells are waking up, and their first leaves break ground in about two weeks 🥳

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

submitted 69 days ago • 35 comments

What has happened in the US will absolutely happen here unless we pre-emit and resist. Farage as prime minister needs to be taken seriously.

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

There is an incredible essay by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on imprisonment & the meaning of freedom in the FT Edit app today. She writes about what books meant to her during that time in Iran, and how taking away a person’s ability to think herself away to a different place is a form of torture.

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

submitted 79 days ago • 50 comments

A friend of mine who grew up in Eastern Germany before the wall came down once told me about three months he had spent in 2005 studying Arabic in Damascus. He said the whole atmosphere reminded him of Stasi times in the GDR. Everybody on their guard, informants everywhere.

submitted 79 days ago • 14 comments