Things that have actually happened like that champagne supernova i guess

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Today on a whimsical impulse i went to a cat cafe. There were no other customers. I tried to go to the loo. Behind the only door: two sleeping cats and their barista-carers, who angrily told me to leave. I returned to the empty main room and sat. Then one of the cats vomited.

Faust, or Kemi.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

“Every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

rip jilly cooper but i'm not going to 'forget' the bronte sisters because she has died, nor because of her books Can we stop getting stupider!? And more oddly misogynistic Please

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. In it, she discusses blasting Trump and Musk deep into space and shares the message, "Don't lose hope" #positivity #JaneGoodall #hope

What is it about being a billionaire which makes them so hypersensitive, unforgiving and petty?

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

No. We can't let a rightwing govt use Jewish suffering to justify racist policies against Muslims. It's happened in America and it's a road to hell. Protesting against genocide in Gaza is not anti-semitic, because the genocide belongs to a state, not an ethnicity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

took a break from blocking people on social media to write a post about some places in Jewish London that I love: open.substack.com/pub/naomiald... just because you know. it is nice to think about some lovely parts of my culture and heritage.

More Rilke for National Poetry Day. From Rilke's French poems, this is Departure My friend, I have to go Do you want to see the place on the map?

Im sorry i just can't get past a footballer being called a 'tight end'

Grateful for these responses collated by Sunder.

Antisemitism never dies. It also accompanies every political crisis in Europe and the English speaking world. Thinking of Manchester today.

James Merrill, a great queer poet, though not the one the straight boys decided they liked. So not as widely read here as O'Hara. But a genius all the same. Happy national poetry day.

If i am ever your neighbour, please resist the gentle knock on the door. I would rather frantically jab, alone, at my panic button. Thank you.

I may be missing something here, but “Peace or else, but we’ll kill you anyway, monetise your extinction, and Tony Blair will oversee the logistics,” doesn’t sound like much of an offer to me.

#Poetry -- Ma Noo Book! is working away behind these scenes, toward potential availability. #ContentWarning: It will included a noticeable amount of non-standard style and colloquial speech patterns. Be Alerted! 😎

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I think about this all the time. The transition from hunter gathering to farming is my roman empire. I wrote this poem about it. brazen-head.org/2024/03/29/i...

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A Christmas poem, first published by @alanhumm.bsky.social at One Hand Clapping. Its amphibians are people. Its speaker is part of the Christmas story. #PoetryTheme #AMPHIBIAN @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social

'He is doing rage-filled fascism the right way'

Guy with a swastika tattoo on his forehead: “Debate me BRO!!!” Ezra Klein: “he says he wants to debate and I have to take him at his word”

I am terribly sorry but i have watched this and he is just regurgitates a lot of theory in a sophomoric way. There is something chin scratchingly 90s about it

'Emma hamilton had bones and a face. These might have been them, and that. Or not.'

Spending some time this evening with history's campest painting, Francesco Hayez's 'Vengeance Is Sworn.' That silk....

Anyone know how i would fix a scratch like this on an oak laminate work surface? Varnish?

OK. The #Klein + #Remnick lovefest in @newyorker.com is a bridge too far. If I could ask Klein a few questions. Dear Ezra, you suggest that you are still "community" with the far-right, even as many see that as impossible at the moment. 1/

The leader of the far-right GB in Wales pleads guilty of having received RU cash to speak well of Russia in the European Parliament Imagine how many of them are actually there.

Ed. by Jacqueline Onassis!?

Morning walk

So many of america's woes are legacies of that man being president on 9/11. History hung by a chad.

Here is another #PoemsAbout that must speak for itself. Suffice to say it is #raw #NeverAgain @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thanks for #Likes #Reposts #Responses #PoetsSupportPoets #StayCreative #PoetsOfBlueSky

War criminals are proposing a war criminal as head of.... Gaza. It would be precious comedy if it were not so tragic www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I can sort of get past the financial insanity of funding the monarchy - it's the bowing that's the sticking point. Bowing to sarah ferguson. Its ridiculous

A moment of light political relief today when I remembered what my grandmother's friend said the day Hitler rolled into the Sudetenland: 'That Hitler! He's a regular fidget.'

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Politics in this country is like watching someone feed themselves to a shark Lowering themselves slowly into its jaws while patronisingly lecturing weeping onlookers about why the shark will now go away

i got raptured but when the archangel gabriel unhooked me from the string of divine grace he frowned and said "ugh, tagged for research?" and he threw me back down to earth real aggressive-like

Modern crime is weirder. Last month i googled the help number for my phone company and the number that came up was a fake. It took me ages to realise.

A spot of light is that this lovely poet is poet laureate of the United states

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

All these unforced errors, like lionizing Kirk in congress, this is just emphasizing how utterly useless these folks are as leaders. They lack actual values. They are willing to do whatever the fascists want, ultimately. And that's why they're actually dangerous to us, these useless Dems.

A lot of u are this guy rn

Quite. We have spent too long rolling our eyes at nazi comparisons. They weren't an unrepeatable singularity - they were a relatively recent expression of ideological forces presently on the rise!

It can apparently happen in broad daylight anyway

In less jest - yes, it's good if universities can help students develop skills for the labour market. However, the pointless venom of the current government about one of the few world class sectors in the British economy is tiring, enervating and just plain sad. Get a grip lads.