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Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

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Petition for poets to take over the writing of Dr Who! Inua may have saved us all.

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Inua Ellams' story is the best I've seen on #DoctorWho in a long, long time. More from him, please. Much more.

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Herons use Tools: A few Heron species use bait fishing... Placing something on the water to attract fish they then spear. It tends to be local, with young learning from watching their elders. Heronspotted by Heroneer (and Heroneer Calendar contributor) @blessedbybirds.bsky.social 1/2 🧵

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Doing some final GCSE English revision? We've got some handy video resources to help you with the unseen poem. Brush up your skills for approaching a poem you've never met before and hear directly from some brilliant poets writing today.

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Bit worried about the world at the moment. You don't want to live in a world that looks as if it's been invented for off-the-cuff satirical sci-fi circa 1971.

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Current scenes

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Something beautiful: on teaching, mentoring and running a literary prize. ALL of these roles offer much back to you. You learn from your learners. In the case of my literary prize, #Curae, because the shortlisted writers understand how things are for me, they have extended their love & support.

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A little timeline cleanse… there are worse places to live. Who said Greater Manchester is one big urban sprawl?

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@pollyrowena.bsky.social My family had a warm home filled with love and laughter.. 💔 after war we sleep under worn-out tents and cold skies.😞 You can help us by donation or share, only 5$ can make difference..we need your to survive🙏❤️ ✅Link in bio

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“The reports reveal that even patients specifically hospitalized for suicidal ideation & in need of mental health care are offered MAID, as earlier coroner reports already revealed.” Excellent article about the ethical issues with Canada’s assisted dying program, which has become a form of eugenics

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‘Are we the baddies?’

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Hospitals in England reducing staff and services as part of NHS ‘financial reset’

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‘Sinister’ government analysis of assisted dying bill adds weight to fears of financial incentives for deaths #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sinister-gov...

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May Blossom - woodcut, by wildlife artist and printmaker, Matt Underwood #art #printmaking #birds #nature #wildlifeart

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I often wonder how many WW2 veterans absolutely hated Vera Lynn and had to listen to that bloody song at every remembrance service for the rest of their lives. Christopher Lee was a metalhead. He can't be the only one. I want a see a 90-year-old scream "Play War Pigs!" in Westminster Abbey.

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Book wastage is awful - no one wants books pulped - tho its more common with overproduction/misdistribution of big titles ime - but small presses have to accept & work with the economy of bookselling if they want to sell through bookshops. Maybe seeing booksellers as 'the middleman' is the problem.

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Fucking assholes! Between this, the winter fuel payment cut, and disability cuts I reckon they've lost the next election already. Spineless, nasty, and cruel.

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Lately on the Substack, I’ve been talking a lot about money. I know, dirty word – but increasingly important to be open and honest about as it becomes harder and harder to make writing pay the bills. Here are 5 posts about earning a living as a writer: halekatie.substack.com/p/5-posts-ab...

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Incredible that the FT is the mainstream media moral compass on the Gaza genocide

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Trump’s pick to be Surgeon General says that all we need to end the chronic illness epidemic is to make our cells produce “good energy”. How can we do that? By buying her book! She’s close with RFK Jr & Jillian Michaels, who’s repeatedly blamed people for being overweight and/or chronically ill

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@fidaagaza.bsky.social is critically ill😭 40°C fever, vomiting, paralyzed from pain. She went to the hospital, but they sent her back. Too many martyrs & wounded No meds. No space. Now her brothers are carrying her back Please pray Please help paypal.me/Fidaaumer gofund.me/54e019a2 ☎️ +972595595310

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writing similes walking through cities on errands looking at things in grocery stores riding a bicycle across bridges memorizing poems having friends working with students drawing pictures being a daughter or in the words of Jade Cuttle, to whom my very heartfelt thanks:

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Parents are urged to “watch out” for unusual waves of illness. We’re already seeing an unprecedented measles outbreak. A whooping cough one is growing as well. Will people ever consider that it’s time to start mitigating covid? Wear a mask and clean the air? Repeat infections aren’t inevitable

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Absolute scenes here - utterly astonishing batty goodness! Thanks loads for sharing this @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social

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Anyone else newly removed from eligibility for the cvid booster this year? I've been today by my GP surgery they 'can't see I'm eligible' when I was 6 months ago. What's changed? Not my genetic conditions for sure. I hate hate hate all the extra work we have to do just to exist. #TheChronicLife

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A week today! online! come and join me as I chat owls and share pictures #TheCompanyOfOwls #BookEvent #Litfest #BookSky #Owls www.huddlitfest.org.uk/tag/pollyatk...

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I'm running some more creative writing courses this summer. I'm running my Research for Writers for a second time starting 9/5, and I'm also running a new course, Writing for Researchers. Early bird discounts until 15/4: details here: #BookSky kerriandrews.co.uk/product-cate...

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#BookSky

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Not long after I posted this I found out my next two bookshop events have had to be cancelled. I’m bummed for myself obvs but it’s part of a wider problem affecting bookshop events all over. If you see one advertised near you please go along and support both a lovely writer and a great bookshop!

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