Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

‘Multiple fatalities’ in shooting at ICE office in Dallas on.ft.com/3IAzqN9

Beyond excited to see this fresh from the printers. It looks beautiful. The essay I co-wrote with Sally Huband about the impact of wind turbines on human and nonhuman health is one of the outcomes of the last year I'm most proud of. So thrilling to be published alongside such brilliant writers.

I'm curating a show about the Two Roberts for Charleston in Lewes. Currently unwrapping artworks being loaned to us by incredibly generous individuals and institutions - it's like Christmas! 'Artists, Lovers, Outsiders' opens Oct 15: www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Emily Oster and the rest of the Urgency of Normal people (who convinced everyone that taking risks with other people’s children was perfectly acceptable so she and they could get their childcare centers back) should rot in hell, but instead here we are

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Hope Not Hate: "On 18-19 October, thousands will take to the streets with a simple message: our communities are stronger together" "Hate is on the rise. From Tommy Robinson’s march to racist graffiti on local businesses, these actions were designed to spread fear. We’re answering with HOPE instead"

A younger, thinner version of me (see photo) is giving an online keynote tomorrow on 'The Humanities in (A) Crisis'. It won't be as gloomy as the title suggests. You probably have better things to do at 7am UK time, but if not... #envhum

My lake-side reading the last couple of afternoons. Sorry/Not Sorry that I'm going to keep shouting about this amazing collection by @leilachatti.bsky.social. 'Blame the lake. Landscape/so flat I could look into the future'. #BookSky #PoemSky #PoetrySky #WildnessBeforeSomethingSublime

I think that is this? www.thefenlandblackoakproject.co.uk/our-story

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

Screenwriting, especially rewriting is not always a good time. You have to change your (completely perfect) story to meet the needs of some other people that you don't really understand. But today I got to write in a document. 'GHOST RULES' and then set the rules for ghosts, and my brain is calm.

This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."

Update: Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked starting around midnight as it sailed south of Crete early Wednesday morning, with initial reports of 15 drones above Alma. At least 8 attacks and 6 explosions have been reported. An unidentified chemical device was poured onto Yulara via a capsule that...

Equinox lakelight. Half all gold light, half all reflective shadow.

(Mikle doesn’t get a vote because they don't allow cats, even very writerly cats with great publication records, to be members of the SoA, but if he did he’d be voting for me, Mohamed Tonsy, Jen Calleja and Matt Abbott and he does have very good taste)

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And this is mine in two parts -

If you’re an SoA member you should have had all the candidate statements and voting information in the post already, but you can also download all the candidate statements on the SoA website here - societyofauthors.org/download/soa...

Have you voted yet in the @societyofauthors.bsky.social management committee elections? Mikle the cat is keen to know!

If you’re a @societyofauthors.bsky.social member you might have seen I’m standing for election to the management committee. Here’s my first very professional campaign video.

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So lovely to see Into Being out in the world

Incidentally, what's the biosecurity protocol for swimruns like gritty rascals one today that take participants from known unclean water with invasive species (like Windermere) through other lakes like Rydal and Grasmere which *should* have a completely different profile? #FreshwaterBiosecurity

So thrilled yesterday to open a package and find a copy of @lilydunn.bsky.social's forthcoming book 'Into Being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform'. This is going to be such a useful book for anyone thinking about their own or other people's life-writing. #Memoir #BookSky

“50% of people in #poverty are #disabled, or they live with someone who is disabled..Nobody should have to choose between eating or #heating, and yet we are going to see that more and more": buff.ly/CDDdurS by @beverleybutterfly.bsky.social #ColdWeather #disability

Updated readers list! Now over 40 poets reading their poems of place in this unique showcase event - don’t forget to book your free ticket: www.tickettailor.com/events/candl...

Tomorrow at the National Gallery @robsaintjohn.bsky.social is performing field recordings, drones, spoken word by the good people of Lancashire & live viola d’amore played by Scott King. Landscape w people. I'll be interviewing Rob, free in, come along: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...

Thankyou so much for your RTs of my workshop. I've only sold one space which is scary. I haven't been well enough to teach for months& I'm now recovering but maybe people don't want to learn/buy things from someone who's had serious mental illness? Maybe that's not the reason,I honestly don't know.

“amongst some of the planet’s largest river restoration projects and it serves as recognition of Cumbria’s environmental leadership on the world stage.” @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriatourism.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @campbellsavours.bsky.social

‘A celebration of the poetry of place’ (28 September) featuring the Lake District poetry collection chosen by @pollyrowena.bsky.social (which includes one of the poems we commissioned in 2022 by the wonderful Reshma Ruia). Hope many of our MA students past and present can join you 📚🍃

How to be an ally to disabled / #immunocompromised people: Wear a mask in public Don’t minimize the harms of COVID to chronically ill ppl Don’t minimize harms of COVID to yourself / family / friends Don’t refer to COVID in the past tense (e.g don’t say “during COVID” if u mean “during lockdown”)

Did anyone stop and think all this news piece is going to do in this climate of hate is encourage people to harass disabled people even more than they already are? 🙃

Why is BBC News encouraging people to harrass blue badge users now 🙃

Starmer x Trump just busy making sure the UK is as complicit with genocide as it can be.

Fun fact: Nvidia proudly supplied hardware for the building of Super Computers in Israel. Take that as you will.

Officials at the global high-tech giant Nvidia have expressed willingness to consider building the company's planned new campus in Israel near the northern border with Lebanon, sources ins the company confirmed on Monday

BAN AI.

The best thing the UK can hope for is that the AI bubble pops *before* any of the major construction work is underway, but considering we’re dealing with the master rake-stepper, I doubt we’ll be so lucky.

Ban AI.

Ban AI.

Ban AI.

That's an AI image of Paris, you ketamine-addled assclown.

Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies:

Our upcoming event with Rory Stewart and James Rebanks is on the front page of the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald! Pieces in Rory's new book #Middleland first featured in the pages of the Herald. Join us Tues 28th Oct at 7pm at Westmorland Hall, Kendal. betterboxoffice.co.uk/westmorland-...