Yeah, because ‘Britian’s’ need to take ‘are’ country back.

For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor from a ‘heroic’ crown of sonnets..about 👽..in this case the Ariel School incident. Look it up..😳

Take heart. Dip out of the din for a moment. youtu.be/6mA8UHWFg-M?...

Where the f is Tadhg Hickey?

[If you see this, post a random picture from your device without explaining it]

Ting for the poetry mandem/gyal dem. MLE, isolated biophonies, the beat of walking and a sprinkle of the devil’s lettuce. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

Seeing as I’m feeling all opinionated this morning; I frequently come across bits, mostly on Substack about emerging ‘older’ writers, which I suppose means me, (I’m 57). I always greet these things with a shrug. I mean, who gives a shit? 1/

Pure shlock, a product of a product, an algorithmically tuned confection, titrated to hit all the right emotional states with a predictable rising and falling arc, the shift from major to m7 invoking doubt and uncertainty. Ad nauseum. The formula for ‘trending audio’. We’re fucked. Bring the flood.

That Taylor Swift album is wank.

Capitulating is the right word. Tech broligarchs wanging on about the supposed wonders of AI have yet to persuade a lot of us that ceding our agency to them is worth the price of becoming a zombie 🙅‍♀️

I read a poem so you don’t have to. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

Yeah sure,Word™️…my electing not to have automatic bullet points instead of the asterisk I chose..definitely means I want to randomly default to Times New Roman and also Spanish. Me cago en tus muertos.

'The truth is simple: Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality.'

My friend here, photo from 11 years ago now. We’ve had some fun.

Hey sonnet geeks, heads up. Excellent piece here by Paul Muldoon. thelondonmagazine.org/essay-scanty...

Es complicado, ser guiri con un cierto patriotismo por mi país adoptivo. Pero me ocurren varias cosas: Cuando Pedro Sánchez va a Londres o Washington, habla Inglés, en París: Francés. Aparte de ser alto y guapo, hoy en día, y más que nada por rectitud moral, cuando España habla, el mundo escucha. 1/

I can’t really capture the magic of these swallows, feasting joyfully over my garden. So much of what you get from wildlife here is the sudden explosion of a phenomenon; a bush covered with butterflies, or swallows so close you can feel their wingbeats. I like to think they came to say goodbye.

Irish friends, quick question: is it Connacht or Connaught?

Mine for #NationalPoetryDay and the theme of #play. Have a great day, poets.

Good grief....

My internal monologue might need some work. 😅 #writerslife #amdrafting #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky

Early train to Barcelona

So Hegseth pulled in the entire upper echelon of the US military, from all over the world, so he could call them fat? Is..was that the thing?

I think we might have to accept that the plural, certainly in British English, will eventually carry an apostrophe. The time’s they are a changing.

This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

‘If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.’ – Seamus Heaney writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry

18…convinced of the need for a new analysis of dialectical materialism, the urgency of a credible proletarian vanguardist party. Possibly. Also hashish.

Love my sweet ride, Hildegard. Lookin’ sexy, ready for adventure.

Sparrows settled down behind me in the jasmine, a big storm sizzling over the mountains. Kitten has the scampers, chickens tucked in.

Wrote a thing with every intention of making you cry. Not about Jägerstätter, or the film that appears here, but the Global Sumud Flotilla. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

They know they’ll get significant pushback..from ‘Antifa’…the Charlie Kirk circus didn’t seem to stick..They’re probing for a provocation/tragedy that will stoke their manufactured outrage and give them the courage to engineer a full Reichstag moment.

Whenever I hear of Ozempic, I think of that guy Lembit Opik.

I do like sitting with my little flock, listening to their chatter, making sure all well. I lucked out with these..couldn’t tell you which breed, great layers, great mums..The Cockerel is intensely violent, and enjoys spicing up my being outside with furious and persistent assaults.

Mother and baby unit.

Have a little autumn butterfly bonanza.

I read a Substack article yesterday and realised, though I never use AI for anything..( I have asked it a few dumb questions out of initial curiosity), AI-written long form content all has the same, recognizable, overly vanilla flatness of affect. Quite weird.

Can anyone tell me what this is? Thick as my thumb..

Goofing around with poetry film..next (5th) sonnet in a heroic crown..👽👽👽 open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

The weather is such that ideal upper garment would be a softly worn Cornish fisherman’s smock.

🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

"We can honestly say that we haven't experienced a single moment of discomfort—much less discrimination—as gay men living in the area. In fact, we've really never given much thought to being gay men in Valencia because it's such a non-issue."

Here's a little taster from New Arcana! Big thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for featuring a reading of my poem 'and the girl inside me' 🔮✨️

Wrote about hitchhiking.. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

A great pleasure to meet Michael and Tania Hanna on the tour. Tania's uncle Nuri Rufail was of two Iraq's to fight in the International Brigades, and among the ~800 Arabs to fight against Franco. Last week they put up a plaque to him at Hill 705 at the memorial to the Ebro battle

Me ha tocado lidiar…

On a brighter note, presumably all those proud ‘Christians’ dressed as Knights Templar or wrapped in the St. George’s flag will be raptured today. I hear heaven has Stella on tap. Bosh!

You know every fiber of Stephen Miller’s being is twitching to scream “Now volk stand up and storm break loose!”

Go Italy!

This weeks #lifttothesky is for @julianday.bsky.social Julian I follow a trail of kindness & support of #blueskypoets , checking in on people’s wellbeing as well as offering brilliant support, feedback & advice. You are an example of the best of this #poetrycommunity & a super talented poet 🙌