This Friday, I, a spooky queer, shall be getting to chat about my spooky queer book at Nottingham Central Library as part of the Queer Up Duck festival. queerupduck.co.uk/the-queer-st...
Imogen Forster
@imogenforster.bsky.social
Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.
Ashantiโs name means strength, courage and resilience. She has needed all three to survive. A poacherโs snare severed her trunk, cutting off the โfingersโ that let African elephants forage so dextrously. Then she got stuck in mud. Our rangers found her in the nick of time.
Just listen to the privatised water companyโs demand for money โfrom bills payers or tax payersโ - and the reply.
We Own It@weownit.org.uk ยท 2d agoPrivate water companies are working extra hard to convince the public not to nationalise them Thames Water's creditors are meeting on Thursday 29th Oct to decide on yet another bailout at our expense Andy Burnham MUST block the bailout. Sign the petition NOW: https://vist.ly/5p7r7
"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.
*WATCH OUR NEW AIPAC DOCUMENTARY* Zeteo pulls back the curtain on the pro-Israel lobby, in a landmark investigation into AIPAC and whether it should have to register as a foreign agent under U.S. law. Featuring exclusive interviews with whistleblowers, AOC, Massie, and more: insideaipac.com
Why are they even called "investors" if they've TAKEN OUT more than they've ever PUT IN? It's time to end this disaster. Andy Burnham has a big opportunity now. Ask him to block the Thames Water bailout NOW: vist.ly/5pb97
Nazareth-born Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Hiam Abbass to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award
The Palestinian actress, whose credits include 'Paradise Now,' 'The Visitor,' 'Succession' and 'Palestine 36,' will be honored at the 39th European Film Awards in Athens in January.
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From the @newlinesmag.bsky.socialย archives: A return to Yemenโs third-largest city sheds light on a country still reeling from war and a people struggling to heal. | Adam Baron
The Festering Wounds of Yemenโs Taiz
A return to Yemenโs third-largest city sheds light on a country still reeling from war and a people struggling to heal.
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Fechan Point on the coast path southwest of Borth-y-Gest
Here's a write-up of what three of us from the @natelanguage.bsky.social made of the AQA Rethinking Language conference: www.nate.org.uk/2026/10/20/i...
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Another blast from the past: I was there when Norman Mailer tried to levitate the Pentagon.
The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in Scottish elections! Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would '๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ' with another state ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐บ๐น๐จ๐ฌ๐ณ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ถ๐น๐ฌ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐!
Why are emotions so important in heritage language maintenance? Listen to my conversation with Priyanka Bose about her insightful research into the heritage language practices of Bengali-speaking Australian families on the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social โฌ๏ธ
Language on the Move@languageonthemove.bsky.social ยท 24h agoSo much in heritage language maintenance is about emotions, as Priyanka Bose and @tazinabdullah.bsky.social explain in the latest Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social languageonthemove.com/emotions-in-...
So many big things happening behind the scenes. Many many dogs being helped now niallharbison.substack.com/p/how-we-are...
How We Are Changing The World, One Dog At A Time
Little by little, big things are happening
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Just a year ago his beautiful mother was living on the streets of Thailand after a life of being used for breeding. We found her scavenging around for food. To see Sienna now in Wales, on daily walks in the forests and being spoiled rotten is the thing of absolute dreams.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Trump adminโs request to end trans-related care in prison. The request to immediately end gender-affirming medical care for trans people in prison was based on an extreme anti-trans argument. Only Thomas and Alito sided with the admin. New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Supreme Court rejects Trump adminโs request to end trans-related care in prison
The request to immediately end gender-affirming medical care for trans people in prison was based on an extreme anti-trans argument. Only Thomas and Alito sided with the admin.
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@ianrpearsall.bsky.social Post your lovely things more often? I loved 'Hard Rain (Stile and Open Gate)'.
#WyrdWednesday Sir Walter Scott's The Eve of St John tells a story of a woman who is visited three times by her lover while her husband is away at battle. But when her husband returns, he tells her that the lover has been dead three days, slain by his own hands. #31DaysOfHalloween Art:William Dyce
It's here! #terra ๐ Look what I found on Etsy: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Terra - Poetry of the Land by Lindsay Bainbridge - Etsy UK
This Zines item is sold by flowerboxorguk. Dispatched from United Kingdom. Listed on 10 Oct, 2026
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@minxyowlwriter.bsky.social ยท 4w agoThe #Art of: #Poetry #Paintings #terra A collaboration with @ianrpearsall.bsky.social Coming soon....
Artist Ian R Pearsall, โHard Rain (Stile & Open Gate)' Countryside Observations. Ian is on Bluesky @ianrpearsall.bsky.social
'These books fit small envelopes, go for a minimum stamp and are perfect for cold bedrooms - only one hand and a wrist need suffer exposure'. A lovely William Barnes Selected from JL Carrโs Quince Tree Press.
