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Writing, reading, running. Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics. Am actually writing. Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices. Writing, I swear. Meliorist, still.
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www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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It's all just so subtle and implicit and ambiguous and difficult to interpret, y'know? If only they could offer some clearer signifiers that they were Nazis. Then we'd know where we stand.

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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Yes. Origin story series not only for M and Q, but every other letter of the bloody alphabet...

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"You shouldn't always take everything Donald Trump says literally" is a mealy-mouthed 'it was just a joke'. Piss off, Nigel, you pathetic, sycophantic, nasty, slimy little scrotum of a man. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Mine is the government-backed security named after the creator of the late 80s/early 90s disco banger 'Sit Down'. What's yours?

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We’ve arrived friends. Midweek is with us. Set your mind at ease. You know what needs to be done and how to do it. Be kind. Be you. Be well. Be doing. Be glad. Be excited. Be more. Be true. Be real. Be honest. Be well. Take no shit. Remember, a day is only lost if …

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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Schrodinger's tw*t: Those who wish their offensive comments to exist simutaneously in the twin states of 'not a joke' and (if called out on it) 'just a joke'.

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#TerryPratchett was a person of great wisdom and humanity. For America to come through this, I feel that they will have to prove him wrong.

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Granny Weatherwax is evergreen

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It's a valid sentiment and I have respect for Ed Davey on several things, but politicians (and not just politicians) should be turning round and taking a long hard look at all the undrawn lines scattered behind them, and they should acknowledge that.

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Going to see Hamilton in a couple of days, having streamed it a couple of times. I wonder if it will hit a little differently after the last month, and perhaps specifically after the last 24 hrs. Teaching The Handmaid's Tale is certainly hitting differently.

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At least he didn't say .... oh. At least he hasn't ... ah. At least he didn't ... yeah, I got nothing.

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It doesn't have to be an either/or.

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Supplied by the Department of Metaphor (soon to be disbanded, naturally).

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🍃 We're delighted to say that the #WainwrightPrize is now on Bluesky! Celebrating the finest nature and conservation writing, we're excited to spotlight a whole host of brilliant books in 2025. Follow along! 💚

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"In this new world where the foreign policy of the most powerful country on Earth has been rapidly reorganised around the fragile ego of a sullen & resentful old man, you might as well launch missiles at America's eastern seaboard as utter a few words of rebuke." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Any writers out there who occasionally stop, take a long hard look at that guy you've been spending a lot of time with who calls himself Research, then reach out and peel his mask off to reveal he was actually Procrastination all along? Any tips for getting that balance right? #writing

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"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

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this

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Define 'saved'.

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19th February is Prevention of Plagiarism Day.

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Baby codex face-off kicking off over here. Let's always find space for the joyful.

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Boy, are there a whole bunch of ways of interpreting these findings, so many of which are not touched on in the article. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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This is interesting, the writer of Breaking Bad calls for more positive characters in TV fiction, after realising Walter White is often misunderstood by fans as an aspirational, badass icon rather than an obvious monster www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

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Nigel Farage spewing his nonsense while being interviewed by Jordan Peterson at a right wing conference, the day after Kemi Badenoch praised Trump from the same platform. Fuel on the flames, like all grifters do.

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One foot in Eden still, I stand And look across the other land. The world’s great day is growing late, Yet strange these fields that we have planted So long with crops of love and hate… —Edwin Muir, “One foot in Eden” published in ONE FOOT IN EDEN, @faberbooks.bsky.social 1956

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