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@jude-brucemoll.bsky.social

Family, Poetry. Gardening, Nature, Politics, Springsteen fan, Female

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Thomas Linner @tmlinner.bsky.social · 10h ago

My wife - a provincial politician and cabinet minister - contracted sepsis and nearly died last year. This year she hosted a sepsis awareness event at the Manitoba Legislature here in Winnipeg. The event promoted the use of TIME: Temperature Infection Mental decline Extremely ill Her story:

Manitoba cabinet minister speaking out after life-threatening sepsis scare | CBC News

A Manitoba cabinet minister is warning others to take their health seriously when they are feeling ill, after a sepsis scare in April left her in a hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, ...

cbc.ca

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 10h ago

It would be marvellous if they could cut the elastic bands and not bounce right back in. Keep off the drugs lads www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Prisoners thank Andy Burnham as they leave jail in first wave of early releases

Seven hundred offenders from dozens of prisons in England and Wales expected to be freed on Thursday

theguardian.com

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · yesterday

#techbro #warmongers 🤬 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare

A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

theguardian.com

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · yesterday

#techbros out to destroy earth 🤬🤬🤬🤬 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare

A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

theguardian.com

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · yesterday

#RIPEstherRantzen A great female role model www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86

Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted-dying campaigner

theguardian.com

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm with @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is the life! Watching #BruceSpringsteen #LiveinPhilly on the tube AT TEATIME! @brucespringsteen.net LoVe it 😍💙🫶🏻👌🏻

Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉@ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 3d ago

Thank you for hosting #promptcombo @rfsmith.bsky.social My take on this week's #Apocalypse #poetry

depraved new world

forsaken riverbeds
skeletal salmon slowly
crumbling to nothing

deserts that used to be
meadows — relentless
sandstorms plaguing
few remaining cities

electricity — a fairytale
remembered under
flickering torchlight

screens that have grown
quiet for decades now
compassion had been
unlearned, traded for
something shallow

tribal cultures rule
cruelty became
the new norm
depraved new world

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oh my word 😳😡 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The Zombie Apocalypse" from "Contact Light" (Alien Buddha Books, 2025) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #contactlight #alienbuddhapress #promptcombo #apocalypse @rfsmith.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @markknight63.bsky.social

All of Earth’s surfaces are rough and dry,
with unhealed wounds that fester and degrade;
her once-bright seas are yellow-brown and still
beneath the scum of plastic, sunlight-bleached.

Even her skies are scarred by streaks of high
and soiled-white clouds that drift and give no shade,
that never rain upon her grassless hills,
that hold their acid moisture out of reach.

Somehow the planet staggers on her course
around the sun, long dead, decayed, but kept
in motion by a dark, unvital force.

DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 3d ago

Here’s something I’ve been working on that fits with this week’s #PromptCombo theme from @rfsmith.bsky.social (Now under the right hashtag 🙄) Still a #WIP this is neither subtle or refined, much like me! Thanks for hosting. Have a good week. #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry

A poem by Debbie Ross entitled Apocalypse Now
Stanzas 1 -4
When I was young the fear of mushroom clouds was real
old men pushing buttons ending it all
and then the Sunday School doom merchants fed me Revelations of fire and horsemen the 'earth laid bare'
I thought that wars might end us the human race destroying each other and the earth rubbled with us
And the disaster movie makers had their say with meteors wiping us out
destroying everything

Stanzas 5 and 6 of a poem Apocalypse Now by Debbie Ross

thought we might live to see the sun
grow large
Finally
a red giant desiccating our planet
but now I'm not sure we'll make it that far disaster wears a human face as we melt the Doomsday ice and set the world on fire our blue green gem of a home destroyed by greed.

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 3d ago

@rfsmith.bsky.social here is my #Apocalypse poem for your #PromptCombo call. #Poetry

Burn

You say it will burn.
Trumpets will split the sky,
and I’ll be left in the wreckage.

Well, good.
Let it burn.

Let the sky split.
Let the faithful rise
with their wagging fingers
and Sunday-best shame.

I’ll take the ash and cracked earth,
the silence after sermons,
the streets without judgment.

You call it punishment.
I call it release.
No more eyes searching for sin.
No more venomous mouths
spitting scripture,
preaching division.

The outcasts will survive.
Plant gardens in the rubble.
Dance without guilt.
Love without permission.
Stay where the flames
make light,
and freedom
makes room for truth.

Ronnie Smith@rfsmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

#PromptCombo Thank you to Paul Brookes for last weeks excellent prompt. This week the theme is #Apocalyse and I present a cheery wee piece about the weather. Love to all. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here's a wee dystopian beastie mostly on topic for Ronnie @rfsmith.bsky.social and #PromptCombo #Apocalypse It's a long one, across three vignettes. Thanks for sticking with it if you get to the end!

Ronnie Smith @rfsmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/media/trump-white-house-tv-pool-cnn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVE.mavi.2f8i4AyjuFoc&smid=url-share

TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)

The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.

nytimes.com

High Wolds Poetry Festival @highwoldspoetry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Awesome! Thank you so much for your light and energy 😃😃

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 5d ago

Super day at @highwoldspoetry.bsky.social #poetryfestival today. A beautiful end to the summer and hello to autumn. Great to be among so many local poets responding to local history and the beautiful #yorkshirewolds #eastriding #poetryfestival

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · 6d ago

What an unfair shambles! Sort it out! @labouruk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...

Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares

Despite guidance keeping mobile phones out of England’s schools, cheaper travel may only be available via an app

theguardian.com

Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 6d ago

A #fridaypoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #poetryprompt #deadletters #sorrynotsorry #alttext #PoemAltText #poetry #poetrycommunity

Dead Letters
By Dawn Mclachlan

You said you said sorry
but that’s not what I heard
from words that struggled for air
and writhed in the death of Meaning
Words distorted in the telling
as Reason chased its tail

You said you said sorry
but that’s not what I heard
because I was watching high cirrus clouds
smudge the perfect blue with icy veils
and as sure as night follows
I knew the rain would come

Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social · 7d ago

my thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters this was written for my fathers great friend lost when H.M.S. was sunk I have the letter

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · last wk.

Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo and comments/ likes from you lovely poets.😊

Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · last wk.

Mohamad Safa UN The war in Lebanon has reached a point where it can no longer be described as anything other than genocide. Don't be fooled by current leaders statements at the UN General Assembly calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. If they really wanted to end it, they would

His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺@litterygeniarse.bsky.social · last wk.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @thenewsagents.co.uk STOP appeasing Israel @andyburnham.bsky.social @jackabbott.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @lsrplaid.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · last wk.

Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating read but don't get tangled in the acronyms. Keep focus on the end result of #change I'm feeling a frisson of hope #AndyBurnham www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain

The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · last wk.

Unseasonal ( or normal?) September #solstice day. Delighted to hear returning geese! #Pinkfooted #Humber 😁

S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · last wk.

ONLY EIGHT DAYS LEFT :D #poetry #promptcombo #competition #submission It needs 20 poets to have entered for the cash prize to be awarded. Could you make that happen??? Entries to moveablepress (at) gmail (dot) com <3

A yellow metal watering can on a black background. Superimposed on it is the following:

Ways of Seeing: A Series of Poetic Experiments.

Underneath in friendly letters it states: #1: Yellow Jug

Subs are Open!

A set of Instructions for the challenge:

1. Write a ten line poem.
2. your title must be ‘yellow jug’.
3. a description of a yellow jug must appear, in some form, as part of the poem, but the words ‘yellow’ and ‘Jug’ cannot be repeated.

- No simultaneous submissions

- Max of 3 poems per poet

A reminder this Experiment closes on September 30th and some additional instructions:

- A shortlist of 10 poems will be chosen for an online archive beginning in October 2026

- The poem that, in the opinion of the judge (me) does the best job of fulfilling the brief and simultaneously subverting the concept will be awarded £20 (via Paypal)[*]

Submit your work to
moveablepress[at]gmail.com

with ‘#1: Yellow Jug’
as your title.

Subs close on on September 30th. Start writing now!!!!!

[*] Prize awarded only if at least 20 poets submit their work, and yes, ACTUAL MONEY.

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · last wk.

7 places left in The Starbeck Orion Workplace Verse Special Edition. Work that is NOT about workplace will be offered a place in the Not Advent edition, posting from 25th December. bsky.app/profile/thew...

Paul Brookes@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Only 11 places left. Inspired by The Starbeck Orion exploration of Martin Hayes workplace verse? You have until 7th October to contribute 3 unpublished poems/flash fiction/artworks. bsky.app/profile/thew...

Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thank you to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Jan for an excellent week. Tag your contribution #promptcombo #11Lines and me. Write down 8–10 genuine workplace phrases. Add as little of your own language as possible. Add one unexpected image. Add a recurring sound. Add an odd perspective. Use Alt text.

Retails

Wheel in lorried frozen, dry, and chilled.
Empty rattling cages of the tightly wrapped.
Frozen first. Disassemble cardboad boxes.
Put plastic wrapping in plastic bags.

Face up goods on shelves. Labels at front,
not upside down.Folk buy more
when all is regimented. Barcode beeped.
Remember to upsell on the till.

One freezer must be emptied, unplugged, defrosted overnight, icewater vacuumed up.
Potential shoplifters tv and headphone tracked.

Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 2w ago

Most U.K.-based poets and publishers have failed to understand how Bluesky works, and have absurdly turned their backs on all the terrific readers here...

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 2w ago

Moscow mayor says Moscow oil refinery hit in Ukrainian drone attack and claims that, since yesterday, more than 1,600 drones have been "repelled" over Russia; describes the attack as "unprecedented" and an attempt "to disrupt the [parliamentary] election."