Had a drywall screw in the back driver-side tire. Took it in to get repaired and left with half a new car and a maxed out VISA. Get me off this crazy planet.
George Murray
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Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
Got into my writing perch, took off my ball cap, and messed my hair into place. "We need an arrival mirror in here," I said to my barista. "Just use your phone," they said. I held my phone up, tilting it to look into the dark glass reflection. "I meant use the camera..." they said. #grampageorge
There's NewPoetry today from Gary Barwin. newpoetry.ca/2026/08/03/t...
the stone was never a stone
Gary Barwin I push milk up the mountain of veins the goat of my brain dressed in tin foil my wife calls with dates available for my liver test not the 29th, but yes the 30th, aug 3, 10, 11, …
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I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
There can be no let-up now. Infantino must stand down or be removed: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed | Nick Ames
Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader
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Burnham calls on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to resign over World Cup sell-off plans – UK politics live
Burnham calls on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to resign over World Cup sell-off plans – UK politics live
The prime minister says that the current Fifa general secretary is ‘the wrong man to lead the organisation’ The construction of a new Chinese “super-embassy” in London, which is set to be built near the Tower of London, can go ahead after a high court challenge against the decision to grant planning permission was dismissed, PA Media is reporting. The Royal Mint Court Residents’ Association (RMCRA) brought legal action against the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Continue reading...
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Just got my copies of Portico magazine in the mail. Keeping some fancy company in here.
Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance
I'm known primarily as a poet, but I started out writing fiction. The last story I published was 25 years ago in Nerve. This summer, I've got a story in The New Quarterly. You can read it now, if you've got a subscription. tnq.ca/story/one-la...
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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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That's an awful lot of good actors to give a very wooden script to.
Given parade of banal office jockeys streaming past our house towards the concert site, I'd say the bill got it wrong. It's Keith SubUrban playing.
I am hiring an assistant at work where I am Executive Director, & I want one of my last interview questions to be: "My name is Frodo Baggins. I carry a heavy burden & the fate of us all. Which member of the Fellowship are you?" I'm not entirely sure this is fair, but it will certainly be revealing.
"Topsy-turvy posts tombstoned the unhayed hay." #TodaysPoem #poetry Chemin Cross Loop by Linda Besner (2026 NewPoetry @bookninja.bsky.social)
CHEMIN CROSS LOOP
Linda Besner I spent my time when it was normal days drawing smoke across the hole. To blend a softer blackness in the abandoned paddock they’ve rammed the highway through. I skipped a circl…
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Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...
Statement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the publication of the EHRC Draft Code of Practice - Church in Wales
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I was walking today while pondering a poetry problem, and two cars passed, one playing Harry Styles, the other playing Nickelback. Suddenly I realized you can sing the chorus of Watermelon Sugar High to the tune of Photograph. And suddenly the poetry problem was solved. A peek into my weird brain.
You see a guy like Messi keep getting back up and winning after everyone tries to foul him out his whole career and when you're young you think, Damn, that's amazing. But once you're middle-aged you think, Damn, is he ever going to ache one day.
What the Carney’s of the world ignore is even the business case for slashing environmental protections doesn’t work. I work for a small business. We won’t get foot traffic until the smoke clears. No one will buy a coffee, sit on the patio, anything. This hurts business, it’s bad for the economy.
We’ll find out at Lindsay’s funeral
Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 4w agoEverywhere Republicans gather, Grindr crashes. Or at least, that's what people have told me about 500 times since my video discussing if homophobia is always rooted in secretly being gay. But is it true? Do republicans constantly crash Grindr whenever they meet? New Video: youtu.be/GHeAJPbx0SI
I've got three new poems in Portico Magazine. Issues on stands now or subscribe online. porticoquarterly.com/poetry/?issu...
Issue 2
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Everything goes by so fast on social, felt worth sharing this again from 10 days ago. I have a new poem in Eclogue Press’s debut issue. Good luck to them! ecloguepress.substack.com/p/uncaged
UNCAGED
A poem by Guy Gavriel Kay.
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That Lupita Nyong’o’s looks have made some of the most powerful men go completely insane and fight over her inclusion in this movie only goes to prove that Nolan casting her was absolutely correct bsky.app/profile/dail...
Daily Mail@dailymail.co.uk · 4w agoChristopher Nolan's The Odyssey restricts social media comments amid backlash over 'woke' casting trib.al/Af8pEyY
