I would like to now confirm that, despite any suggestions otherwise, my poetry pamphlet 'polblar Tmolkop' is about Robin Hood thebraag.co/product/polb...
polblar tmolkop by Andrew Blair – The Braag Presents
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Rachel Plummer
@smaychel.bsky.social
Poet and children's author. My books include The Big Day, Wain and Once I Carried Three Crows. Also a creative writing teacher, story teller, knitter, mum of two and a carer for my disabled son. Proud to be represented by Children's Books North Agency.
I'm sharing some poems tonight at the Boundary in Leith, along with lovely poets Kathryn Gray, Andrew Neilson, Amy Jo Philip and Ross Wilson. Do pop along and join us!
My teen creative writing group at the Central Library started up for the new term yesterday, and they're doing a group project - an audio drama. The idea they've come up with is SO GOOD, I can't wait to see how it comes together. I'm so lucky to get a front row seat to their creativity.
Lovely things: wet dandelions, brambles, the sound of rain on an umbrella, herons, empty jam jars, public fountains, tea spoons, kind people, the colour of three day old bruises, torn paper edges, shortbread, wrought iron, a new cardigan, thunderstorms.
We gotta push back on the idea that a gender identity is a thing some queers say they have, and that cis people don't have. We can't know ourselves worse because Hobbyless Janet doesn't like the idea of a trans woman sharing the same air she does.
This is shocking. An woman left a voicemail message with North Lanarkshire council, objecting to a data centre being built, and then she got a call from the organisation building the data centre? Wtf happened here?
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4w agoEXCLUSIVE: A Scottish council has been accused of acting as a 'receptionist' for a company developing an AI data centre that would displace plans for more than 1000 homes if built www.thenational.scot/news/2...
“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work
@smaychel.bsky.social Here, have some squirrels eating mushrooms!
lukelukeluke@lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 3y agoI want you to know that squirrels eat mushrooms
Robin would also like me to tell you all that snails are legal but slugs are illegal. So write that down.
Went to see Glob at the Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social today with Robin and it was outstanding. Without question the best Fringe show I've ever seen. I really think anyone of any age would love it.
Taking Robin to the cinema today, he is incredibly excited 😁
Sharing some poems with the lovely people at the Scottish Universities International Summer School @suiss-edi.bsky.social tonight ☺️
It's nonbinary awareness week! Here's a poem I wrote about the nonbinary Loch Ness Monster, who exists whether you believe or not 🥰
Blusky folks, please welcome writer, critic, general great person @davepoems.bsky.social to the platform!
Had the loveliest time at the Cookbook Shop tonight at their cake picnic Pride mixer. What a lovely idea for an event! So much cake, so many lovely people ☺️🍰
Pride was very lovely this year! Robin came along for the first time and enjoyed himself immensely. After listening to the wonderful speech at the start, he spent the rest of the parade happily muttering to himself "everyone loves me!" and waving at passers by.
This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...
Greta Thunberg warns 40°C heatwave about to hit UK 'is only the beginning'
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Liminal has been the darling of the poetry world for so long it's putting out collected works at this point. Up there with hiraeth and fudging two unrelated words together with a hyphen.
Ginger Nuts of Horror@gnofhorror.com · 2mo ago"Liminal" has escaped the seminar room and become the favourite adjective of a certain chin-stroking brigade, the ones who found the term about eighteen months ago and now deploy it over a flat white to mean "a photo of an empty swimming pool, I think is quite nice."
Was looking for a recipe for oat bars and found this gem.
So apparently it's going to be nearly 40° in London next week. If you're still using AI for anything at all, please have a word with yourself. We are cooking the planet, and our own brains. It must stop. It must.
Generative AI will be banned in Norwegian primary schools starting next year 🔥 The Labour government justified the decision by citing a steady decline in academic achievement and fears that AI will replace learning rather than support it.
Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 3mo agoLa IA generativa estará prohibida en los colegios de primaria de Noruega a partir del próximo curso 🔥 El ejecutivo laborista ha justificado la decisión en una caída sostenida de los resultados académicos y en el temor a que la IA termine reemplazando el aprendizaje en lugar de apoyarlo.
when they say: no way! we say: oh, very yes way, Norway! And also quickly put ourselves in pun-jail to await trial of course.
Exhululath@exhululath.bsky.social · 3mo agoGenerative AI will be banned in Norwegian primary schools starting next year 🔥 The Labour government justified the decision by citing a steady decline in academic achievement and fears that AI will replace learning rather than support it.
I will end the week with the good news that started it. www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/si...
Joyce Chng shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards
Singaporean author Joyce Chng has been shortlisted for the prestigious British Fantasy Awards for her collection 'Wolf\'s Path'. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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PSA if you’re in east Fife! Pod of orcas passed the Bass Rock earlier and were heading north!
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