America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Wishing everyone in London the happiest Pride weekend 🏳️‍🌈💖💙🏳️‍⚧️ It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, you are always welcome here at Champion Hill.

Can anyone help with the final word of this MS? It‘s an annotation on Amy Levy’s manuscript for ‘A London Plane- Tree’, on the dedication poem ‘To Clementina Black’. So far I’ve got ‘all in Ital. low case to suit ____?’

hey all - the wonderful publishing house I co-founded and direct, @the87press.bsky.social, is now on here. Please help us make the transition from the other place! Add us to all book related starter packs!

I LOVE @overleaf.bsky.social's writing, both critical and creative. Now you can read it too! Her article is now out OA, exploring C19 poet Eliza Cook, the Slaugham Yew, and their C21 traces/resonances. doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #19thcentury #poetry #ecopoetry #arborealhumanities #academia

Chuffed to be in vol.2 of @plantperspectives.bsky.social. Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness. Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

nytimes.com

Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price

Brexit and Trump – stealing jobs from working class Brits

Brexit cost me my job. Now Trump’s tariffs could take the next — and once again, it’s working people who pay the price

northeastbylines.co.uk

Ted Lasso was great when the show’s thesis was that relentless positivity is a thin veneer over a desperate, near-nihilistic sadness, but that it may nonetheless still be the “best” available option in an otherwise heartless world.

Look at this big handsome bastard. I nickname him ‘Creeper’. NB: this windowsill is much shadier than the picture makes it look. Also, am almost as excited about this plant as I would be about a new kitten.

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?

Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries

theguardian.com

Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

1825: Saw a large bunch of blue violets in flower & a root of the Bedlam cowslip

I was planning my Arvon Masterclass on pacing this afternoon. Got quite excited, as it isn't something I've taught exactly like this before. Still places available for Friday. Why don't you join us? www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @arvonfoundation.bsky.social

Masterclass: Pacing Your Fiction | From breathless plotting to breathtaking details | Arvon

This Masterclass with Toby Litt, author of the daily Substack A Writer’s Diary, will be a practical, craft-based look at the best ways of keeping your reader alongside you – whether you intend to whir...

arvon.org

'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan

Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

theguardian.com

I’m fascinated by the ‘shrinking’ quality of the stanza used by Robert Burns in which longer lines give way to shorter ones in a kind of funnel for the celebration of smallness. A nice example here by Norfolk dialect poet John Kett, on looking at the stars someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/wee-sleeket

I was recently diagnosed with MS; a relapse has kept me from working. It’s made me ponder my profession’s overemphasis on ‘productivity’, & the lack of (self) compassion that attends it. Managed to read this morning for the first time in weeks- fitting that the book is about ‘generous relenting’.

collections often are criticised for “unevenness” but isn’t that also part of their charm? that the workings of a poet “becoming” are also on the page, next to poems that feel crystallised? don’t we love process and learning and error more than the language of product & perfection? or shouldn’t we?

I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...

What big publishers can do for small presses

How can major publishers create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat?

thebookseller.com

Massive away win for the little fella.

I heard there was a secret mash That turned into a graveyard smash But you don't really care for monsters, do you?

Saying ‘Happy National Poetry Day’ to strangers just to feel something

"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark

Quote post with a picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie.

Róisín O@roisino.bsky.social · 2y ago

Quote post with a picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie