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lalapie.bsky.social
Poet, story teller, performer, mam fae Easter Ross. Infrequently posting on or in poetry, Gaelic, Scots, left wing politics, music, art, Welsh and chicken keeping.
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If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth

submitted 51 days ago • 80 comments

I can't do this course, unfortunately, I have other commitments, but having done workshops with @corrintachibana.bsky.social I am certain it will be a wonderful experience.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Remember that fascists want you to feel hopeless and helpless. We are neither. Continue to be a pain in their fucking ass, even if that just means refusing to go away.

submitted 64 days ago • 14 comments

The @iamloudpro.bsky.social guys really knows how to host a slam - Midlands poets, this is bound to be brilliant!

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Right, you fucks, if you live in the UK sign this. If you don’t live in the UK share it as some of your followers might and they should sign this.

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submitted 76 days ago • 49 comments

Re-jailing a 77 year old climate protestor because her wrists are too slender to wear an electronic tag is fatuous. Welcome to a parable about how the people who claim to crave law and order have lost the plot. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/68...

submitted 80 days ago • 25 comments

We have teamed up with Macondo Literary Festival to offer 2 Scottish & 2 Kenyan poets with the unique opportunity of a residency in March at the Turkana Basin Institute. Supported by British Council Scotland & Creative Scotland. ffi 👇 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/disrupting-t...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

submitted 95 days ago • 21 comments

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 On our national day, we celebrate all of Scotland's languages. Today, we launch a Scottish Gaelic poetry resource, Nua-Nòs, introduced by Peter Mackay & featuring Meg Batemen, Angus Peter Campbell, Anna Frater, Babs MacGregor & Alasdair Whyte. scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/scottish-gaeli…

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

This moment in Bluesky is a great example of how joy itself can be defiance and resistance. We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is. Joy is my favorite weapon.

submitted 121 days ago • 454 comments

M*sk would become increasingly irrelevant if you all stopped screenshotting the cunt and posting him on here

submitted 120 days ago • 14 comments