I had to review a piece of work for plagiarism and it was given a crazy high score by the tech we are forced to use. When I looked it was all direct quotes with appropriate citations. Like, yes, this passage has appeared before, it is a quote from a canonical literary text. What a waste of time.

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Huh. Well how about that.

Thank you, @louisepoetical.bsky.social! It was such a nourishing and gorgeous evening of poetry.

Hello again, poetry world! Pleased to be reading a few poems and this lovely event. Thank you so much to @louisepoetical.bsky.social for the invitation! Come along and share in some healing words. ❤️‍🩹🌍🌌

I won this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for my poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’! Thank you Deryn one of the judges & for these pics of the prize ceremony

The Love of Writing Online Writing workshop Join us for and afternoon of enjoyable writing activities to spark ideas, thought, and inspiration. Creativity is the greatest gifts of being human! Sunday 10 May, 2-4pm (UK time). Only £25. Booking details: www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk/therapy-and-...

Sheffield, this evening (you can also be among the first to pick up advance copies of Fay Musselwhite's new collection, which will be on early sale at the event)

📢TONIGHT: Triple Online Launch with #poetry from these glorious new books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social & @kymdeyn.bsky.social Tue 21 April, 7pm BST - pay what you can 📹Receive a recording in case you can't join us live Sign up by 6pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

Hello again, poetry world! Pleased to be reading a few poems and this lovely event. Thank you so much to @louisepoetical.bsky.social for the invitation! Come along and share in some healing words. ❤️‍🩹🌍🌌

We've had 225 bookings (!!) in just days of announcing Natalie Diaz's Annual Reading -- make sure reserve your place now and join us on 17 February!

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Patriarchy perpetuates it to maintain its power and women's powerlessness, but as bell hooks points out (from my book The Mother of All Questions) men pay a price too: 3/3

But the statistics demonstrate this is the most pervasive violence on earth, that it has an economic impact (hospitalization and missed work costs alone!), and that it has racial dimensions, including with the MMIW (missing and murdered Indigenous women) pandemic. 2/3

"In the US, there’s a rape every 68 seconds, a woman is beaten by an intimate partner every nine seconds.... Globally a woman or girl is murdered by her partner or family member every 10 minutes."

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Incredibly generous to have free access to poetry. Thank you for sharing!

If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

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'This anthology gives us the world' Thanks to @amandaearl.bsky.social for this wonderful in-depth review of @rachaelboast.bsky.social's new anthology Versus Versus. Distributed in North America via @consortiumbooks.bsky.social from 22 July. amandaearl.substack.com/p/versus-ver...

Join us at MacDowell NYC for a conversation with four remarkable Native artists, directors and curators. Wednesday, July 16 • 6:30PM www.macdowell.org/events/2025-...

Poison specialist here! Vegetable oils are not poisonous. The Health Secretary - who has no background in health or science - is either lying, or stupid, or both. You can take this as seriously as you would your creepy uncle who talks about chemtrails.

Just saw this call for a remote science illustration intern by the Xerces Society. Maybe of interest of someone? Applications due July 14. #SciArt recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

They are eugenicists who believe if you get sick it’s your fault, and wearables will provide them with “data” for the conclusion they’ve already reached. That’s it.

A LOT of people don't actually know what the Constitution says. So I'm proud to support @weholdtruths.bsky.social's campaign to educate Americans about our principles and rights in easy-to-understand language. Read, sign, and share to help spread these truths. www.weholdtruths.com #weholdtruths

It was my honor to work with distinguished lawyer colleagues on this statement of commitment to the principles that must undergird American democracy. It appears today as full page ad in the @nytimes.com & in papers around the country. Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social

I look at this photo of Jupiter and think, yes, beauty still exists.

Literally cannot count how many times we have said this. We even had a whole war over it! Look at the Civil Rights Movement! I wrote about white backlash politics at 16 because it was that obvious. It’s willful denial of white supremacy that allows white folks to think that this came from nowhere.

We'd love to read your experimental poetry and lyrical essays which engage with our BIOPHILIA theme. You have till 2nd July to send us your very best work! Each contributor to the magazine receives 20 euros. Read about the theme and guidelines here: www.wingedmoon.com/submit #writingcommunity

Sorry. Your feelings can be wrong. If you feel that Iranian-Americans are out to get you or trying to establish a caliphate, your feelings are racist junk mail. And taking those feelings as facts is how we got neocons and MAGA.

The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

"Leo" shared this video of the upcoming watermelon harvest. He shared these melons were planted in March and should be ready to pick in time for us to enjoy on #July4 BBQs. He earns minimum wage for his work. #WeFeedYou

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

today is Octavia Butler's birthday! You could celebrate by donating to the Pasadena Public Library (pasadena-library.net/from-the-arc..., by reading some of her works, or even finding a little bit of space to write and sit with the work and let yourself be more imaginative, a little more empathetic

Here is a strawberry growing on my deck a few days ago. (Update: it was delicious.)

"She wanted us to know that excellence in science comes from a diversity of thought and experience, not despite it." #WomanAstro #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

It’s so hard for folks to understand that if you change the words, you change the text. There is no word for another word. Synonyms are a tender lie.

ZERO cervical cancer cases have been detected in fully vaccinated girls and women since HPV immunisation at age 12-13 started in Scotland in 2008. That's 17 years of proven success. RFK Jr is about to scrap that in the US. 🤦‍♂️😬

On Wednesday 25th June at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Passion by David Morley. The event will be hosted by Sinéad Morrissey and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/passi...

“Metaphor and lichen are about two or more wholes sharing the same space.” J. Shea-Carter provides a guide to Calre Goulet’s Graphis scripta / writing lichen, finding similarities between poetic devices and lichen. Explore how nature and language connect to create meaning: buff.ly/sFSPLP8

This is so sad. Such a loss.

Astronomers in Chile on Wednesday released a detailed image of a spiral galaxy located 11 million light years away.

#booksky #writingcommunity

I saved a friend from drowning (we were c10 yrs old) in a v crowded swimming pool. Watching from the shallow end, I could see her behaviour in the deep end was suddenly odd - bobbing upright, no waving, no noise. The life guard didn’t notice her. I swam over & dragged her to the side. Pl read this⬇️

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.