In times past, poets had a sixth finger on each hand to better endure the ache of writing. - Nasser Rabah, “Meditations”

DAY ONE ON TESTOSTERONE!!!!!

i will never forgive sam altman. robot fucking was in theory supposed to be cool, cyberpunk, subversive, a question of what it means to be human, young jude law as gigolo joe, and instead he's gone and made it the most ethically, intellectually, emotionally and aesthetically repulsive thing

if any member of the cast in one of these upcoming harry potter projects would truly like to apologise to trans people for their involvement they can start by paying me £300 to cover the cost of a private blood test that I can’t get at my gp now because they refuse shared care agreements now.

so the new archbishop seems broadly okay but her stance on queer marriage is not great she said that “marriage is between one man and one woman for life”. wild stance for anyone in THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND to have. we do not have a fucking leg to stand on.

my job will be disappearing out from under me in mid november (the post office is closing). if anyone would like to employ me that would be grand. i’m trying to relocate to york, but if anyone knows of any remote work i will gladly take that.

Gay men in the UK only have an equal age of consent because the gov was forced to by the European Court of Human Rights (implementing the European Convention on Human Rights). They say they want to remove protections from people they deem as “other” but they want to remove human rights from us all.

Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.

Queer writers are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their Trans+ family, friends, and colleagues - and against the creeping normalisation of transphobia. When figures like John Boyne use their platform to legitimise their transphobic rhetoric, they doesn’t just negatively impact Trans+ people

hello trans friends in the uk. i’m finally in a position to go private for a diagnosis and prescription. where did your or your loved ones go and were they able to get a shared care agreement from the nhs?

Pontefract belongs in Wales. Put it back!!!

what does the dead dad club do for father’s day? like it’s coming up next month and i don’t have a father or a grandfather to spend it with.

ahead of the weekend i need you to know that my gf judges each eurovision act very carefully… under the robot wars scoring criteria: -damage -aggression -control -style

someone who can make a physical book pls have me guest edit something (bonus points if it’s especially for trans poets) thanks

i have zero gigs on my calendar. book me pls.

The reality of the rhetoric around trans people on this country is that I went from using the gents toilets pretty much all the time in 2022 to never using them in public in 2024.

I would pay good money for a Mike Flanagan adaptation of Shadow Over Innsmouth.

I was not expecting the film that made me feel the most seen since Everything Everywhere to be Conclave but here we are

if everyone I love could stop dying for five minutes, please

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we POST? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's POST. *They do not POST*

once again reminding everyone that st valentine was put to death for performing marriage ceremonies for people who could not legally marry under roman statute at the time. the best way to honour him is by campaigning for and preserving the right to marry for any consenting adults who love each other

tragic: worst person you know has admin privileges

billionaires want to go to space so badly because guillotines need gravity to function

I'm gonna die mad at the fact that we call non-prescription medicine, the kind you can get anywhere in the store, "over the counter." But the medicine that the pharmacist literally has to hand me over a counter? That stuff is we classify as "not available over the counter." Fuck you!!

Competitive prices paid. Get your offer today.

visibly trans in the year of our lord 2025. what a time to be alive.

someone on Twitter said “in English we say ‘I love you,’ in poetry we say…?” and here is my reply

poets 🤝 werewolves

me explaining class in the uk to an american: so a billionaire is middle class no matter how much money he has because he doesn’t have a title, and i’m middle class because i’m broke but i like theatre and will eat an avocado.

LET THE BODIES KEEP THE SCORE. LET THE BODIES KEEP THE SCORE.

what is it with poets in the upper echelons and feeling the need to defend plagiarism? working transformatively and referencing are made separate from plagiarism by appropriate permission, attribution and compensation. to gloss over that is a disingenuous bullshit. lithub.com/in-defense-o...

look i made it the 1979 ibm warning

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear plenty of evils, even though you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me, but also I fear that it provokes the evils and they will use that as an excuse to attack

I'm always saying this

I have just been asked for third class stamps????

can we please stop calling people who are doing customer service things for you “good girl”. especially weird for me given that i am a man, but it was always weird and creepy to begin with.

MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘What the Deep Ocean Said to the Billionaire’ Darllenwch ‘Yr Hyn A Ddywedodd y Cefnfor Dwfn Wrth Y Biliwnydd’ by/gan Jonathan Kinsman Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

Hey, I have zero poetry gigs upcoming in my calendar. So, you know, book me?

Starting the new year as we mean to go on! I’m in Modron, with a poem about billionaires getting their comeuppance. It’s also the first time I’ve ever been translated - so for my Welsh speaking friends, please let me know if I’m any good in Welsh! modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...?

my polycule contains an asexual that isn’t dating anyone, we just like to include him.

thanks trainline for making me solve a jigsaw puzzle so that i can show the conductor my ticket

Were-artists are more common than you think. Every full moon I feel an overpowering desire to write groundbreaking Modernist novels as I turn into a werewoolf.

Claude Royet-Journoud, tr. Keith Waldrop

me, working in the post office: … customer: which one is the service where I send it and it will get there?

Oh my God, I just had the biggest ordeal trying to put an advert in the local paper. Let me start at the beginning. So my wife and I finally have a baby after years of trying (nothing wrong with our junk! Just took us a while). So, this kid is born and I have to go buy it some shoes (1/72)

Enduring customer service between Christmas and New Year and constantly being asked “did you have a good Christmas” and having to lie because no, worst Christmas of my life so far, probably the worst one I will ever have.

my favourite christmas tradition is everyone opening their jumpers from grandma and immediately exchanging around the room so we all have one that fits.

Had my first pornographic follower on here. The ecosystem is recovering.

The AI consultation stops just short of suggesting that creative people should, by law, pay tithes to GenAI companies whether they use our copyrighted material or not