‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

I’m a volunteer guide at a medieval Scottish ruin and I often add details of the grand old trees on the site into my tours. My absolute favourite study resource is this one from @wtscotsocial.bsky.social I love that they include mythology and folklore. www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction

Last week burned bright. This week: #Desire — ache, hunger, want, undoing. What pulls you toward the flame? New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found. For Saturday prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1967176915...

Just accidentally butt-dialled a fancy hotel that I’m visiting soon and left a 17min message that must have included a conversation about how much I need a poop. So… how’s your Sunday going.

November’s #BlueSkyPoetry Prompts Title: “November Hearthlight” We’ve changed our format for our prompts. We hope you like this new touch. Use the exact hashtag #BSPP47 to share each of your creations for any of the days of November that you choose to write. #amwriting #poetry #poetryCommunity

A #sundaypoem This one is a #haibun #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #poemsabout #poetsofbluesky #poets #poemsaboutlife #autumn #poemalttext #usealttext #AltTextPoetry #AltText

Good morning, Bluesky. I can’t see out of my windows currently, as the mist has condensed on the outside, but there’s a peek of blue. Yesterday the weather was glorious. I’m sharing the serene calm of our beach last night for today’s #photooftheday. Happy Saturday. #Scotland #sunset #beach

So much 'gender critical' nonsense boils down to "im normal, so i deserve to be prioritised" which is manifestly an overwhelmingly abnormal thing to say.

Really wowed over to see #CharlieAndTheChristmasFactory trending at #1 for Short Stories for Young Readers on Amazon! Such a fun book to illustrate; all the Authors involved wrote such fun text to work with :) Shop local, too if you can🙏 @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart

A #FridayPoem for the #poemsabout prompt of #lockeddoors This time a #villanelle I really enjoy working in this form. @thebrokenspine.co.uk Hope you like it. #poetry #poetsofbluesky #PoemAltText #AltText #poems

Hello #poetrycommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk This is my slim offering for todays #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors thanks as always to reader and sharers I’ll be popping in and out as time allows. Looking forward to your contributions. #poetry #poems

This week’s prompt wants your ghosts, your don’t ask me about thats, your barricaded memories. Post from today through Thursday. Tag it. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3. Repost. Reply. Don’t be a ghost. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

For this week's #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. Not what I thought I'd write...

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reel in the comments, or I won’t.

My #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors was a bit of a hurried affair - which is ironic considering the subject matter! And yes I know she’s a hermaphrodite -maybe that’s my picturebook-writing coming through or maybe it’s significant - you decide! 😊Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🥰 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them. Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯

Big thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors A Bad Night The now-ghoul glint of lost eyes summons up Blind janus In the odd motel Of my head shade slaver, Unresting fatal spring, A choke of snowdrops Under a winding sheet of winter.

When I saw the theme for this week I thought all my poems are about locked doors! The #poemsabout #lockeddoors gives me the perfect opportunity to reshare my poem "Host", which was published by @viridinelit.bsky.social in its summer issue on Identity @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now. I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such. #Introduction #PinnedPost

I am delighted that my #poem Devon Gothic is longlisted for the @walklistencreate.org WRITE ABOUT WALKING IN THE DARK competition. My huge thanks go to WLC & competition judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West. You can read the poem in the link below 👇 #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity

While light blinds, darkness Hides, and what is hidden is What we really fear. #WildWalkPrompt #darkness #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social

Things I would abolish if I ruled the world #1 That bit on Pointless where they ask the contestants to tell us something about themselves. No one cares, Alexander. Get on with the game.

the forest’s heartbeat in the beak of a woodpecker tok tok tok #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

Oh my giddy aunt to my shame I I didn’t know this true story. The grapefruit ladies protest lasted for three years, from 1984 to 1987. I love the way David Nihill tells it. Enjoy! youtu.be/SPa7lRWY01w

Support an indie author and add my poetry to your paperback collection! I'd appreciate it 💛💛💛 www.lulu.com/spotlight/an...

It warms the cockles of my heart to see Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social Travelling the globe. Like a real time game of RISK without too much risk. Brilliant.

the wind in my hair becomes your warm breath only in dreams #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

Wonderful wonderful tv. This is how fresh and great tv can be when they adapt from a superb book instead of rehashing the same tired old things. Thank you Rónán Hession for writing this book and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social for making that leap of faith to bring Leonard and Hungry Paul into the world

Here's a thread with all my starter packs. First, here's a FULL starter pack full of great writers looking for an agent. Please follow them and repost the pack if you can #booksky #writingcommunity

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Blood, I'm thinking about the blood list. Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers. #poetry #poem #writing #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

You know the door. It doesn’t creak—it clenches. It holds what shouldn’t be let out. Or in. This week: write the barricades. The silences. The don’t-go-there moments. Prompt opens Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors. Use Alt Text. Inbox prompts? Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Write something. Write it today. Write your heart out. Write something weird that only you would think of. Your enemies will not topple to your silence. Write your future and live it.

#Emoetry #flattered #poetry Syllables, words, stanzas.. Meaning?

little kites caught in the wind red cardinals #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

Mixing in dark magic as if alchemy was as casual as eating hors d'oeuvres— a little nibble here & there. They fed the dark— not a care for souls caught in the crosshairs downing gin like love potion mixed with parties & mayhem younger days when 'they' was 'us' but I no longer recognise them.

My name is Ozymandias. I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes I think you've seen my trunk legs before.

Tonight at midnight the window shuts. No extensions. No excuses. Submit your Gothic poems before the dark takes them. #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Well worth a retweet* *pun intended.

"No more frogs legs for you!" #HappyHalloween #Halloween #kidlitart

Slightly cheating today as this has been published before but there's a poem for #blood and @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk I'll pop back in later for sharing and reading.

Time for another #Fridaypoem #poemsabout #poetry #poemsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetrysociety #poemsaboutlife #funeralpoetry #poemsaboutgrief #PoemAltText #AltText

Eyup. Found and fettled this old thing. #PoemsAbout #Blood with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetry

A #Fridaypoem for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout prompt #blood Thank you #poetrycommunity as always. #poems #poetry #PoemAltText #AltText #poemsaboutlife

This is one of my first poems on Threads posted in June2024 and spl coz it survived as poem#100 when I took to writing again. For #PoemsAbout #Blood and Thanks to hosts @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

A poem about family and the people who give me strength. And a second submission for #poemsabout #blood Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poetsofbluesky #diadelosmuertos #mexican

#PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.