"El cañu, l'agua, les muyeres llavando, los barracones de cinc, cartones, madera y basura. Ropa de les patrones blanquiando al sol. Trapos nuestros llavaos coles sobres del xabón". Fragmentu de 'Caleyos de la memoria' de Conceiçāo Evaristo. Traducción de @hefacuriella.bsky.social pa Ediciones Trabe.

a green wall, day two

And how exactly do you propose to “kill trans ideology“ without killing trans people

@beatgrrrl.bsky.social - Paul Bowles - on the anniversary of his birth today - and the appearance of two new films - Mohammed and Paul and Karim Debbagh's extraordinary, long-in-the-making, Five Eyes - allenginsberg.org/2025/12/m-d-...

Untitled from On a Clear Day http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63707

I always said that housework was just 'moving matter around'. 'Action.. is a permanent revolution.' Still enjoying Jean Paul Sartre's writing on Jean Genet, 'Saint Genet Actor and Martyr'.

Bit of a masterpiece today. Organic Lamb shepherd’s pie with potato and sweet potato mash, parsnips, spring onions and carrots. 🥕

Reading 'Saint Genet, Actor-and-Martyr' by jean paul Sartre. Feeling slightly cross that no-one in the world ever told me of the existence of this book. 😁

When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky. Why did you confirm my evil, he said… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Macbeth and the Witches” in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #Shakespeare www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...

Rockin the rocks. 😆 Author photo (by Dan Jones images) for my 8 min play 'Storm Complaint' to be published by Tir Canol in Spring 2026.

Here’s to 2026

Let the lopped branch of the Java plum caught in the peach stay where it is. The squirrel uses the shortcut, as if it had always been there, to reach the crepe myrtle. -Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, from ‘Small Holdings’

I can’t believe they failed to mention in the ‘Jaws at 50’, the making of the film, (watched as part of Christmas tv last night) that Quint is a reference to Ahab. The film included an aside about Hemingway’s ‘Old Man and the Sea’, but no Melville. 🎣🛥️🤨🐟

when theatre leaders speak about inclusion behind a paywall

An almost 6,000 years old wooden cup, found in the Late #Neolithic pile dwelling settlement of Hornstaad-Hörnle at the Lake Constance. The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

Year of the wood snake is slowly leaving us, thankfft.

“I can’t believe it’s finally happened and Alaa has made it to London. We thought it was impossible, but here he is. Hundreds of people around the world did so much to help bring this moment about. Alaa is free and we can finally begin to heal as a family.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

BEST NEWS EVER!! 🤍 After years of prison, probation, and travel ban, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was able to get on a plane today, travel to London, and reunite with his family!!!!

I leap with thee; I burn with thee

Lulu has rightly taken over my mum’s house. Pride of place. 🐕

Nadolig llawen Braving the home town ❄️🤍🌟

Happy Holiday http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-happy-holiday-ar00179

Excellent summary of the miserable mismanagement of the British Library: dosh for the execs, dregs for the workers. Oh, and a series of CEOs with no library background, and -- no chief librarian? Why yes! That sounds like a brilliant set of priorities. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Shhh! I’m watching the end of OG Get Carter 🔫

UNTITLED by Paul Boultbee New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/24/u...

MOTION PICTURE by Donna Enticknap @auuop.bsky.social New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/29/m...

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the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes

Last one 🌟then back to my desk ☺️

Just before I transformed into a golden eagle 😂

Alban Arthan dda, Happy Solstice /|\ 🤍

Be like water baby, don’t let things get in the way. 🤍❄️

Bore hyfryd ger bedd Taliesin.

Portal. Pass through. Lighten up.

For a day that needs some of that Rilkean hope. From his poetry written in French (What Survives) Who says that all must vanish? Who knows, perhaps the flight of the bird you wound remains

I guess the thing is that the closer we get to conclusive proof that Trump is complicit in Epstein's crimes, the higher chance we also have of him invading Venezuela to make everyone stop talking about it.

No one should ever work or buy anything from them again

BACK IN STOCK: 'Outernational Riddim' by Roots Radics Meet Mighty Revolutionaries Analogue dub session steeped in Jamaican soundsystem tradition. www.normanrecords.com/records/2121...

A moon poem from Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami I escorted the moon down to the heart of a dark cloud

We had been hoping to move ashore for winter, this year, but no joy. The last third of 2025 has been dispiriting and hard but we're working towards a change for the better in 2026. Thank you, everyone, who has supported us — with funds. reposts, and personal notes. It has all helped a lot.

A second application by life-imprisoned arts foundation head Osman Kavala of Turkey is before the Grand Chamber of the European Court. A ruling for his release on 10 Dec 2019 has been perpetually ignored by authoritarian, lawlessTC gov’t. FREE OSMAN KAVALA! I was at many hearings of this case.