The official Alberta referendum question is out. It's not a yes/no but an Option A/Option B situation. This was an initial source of confusion as I think many people assumed referenda had to be binary questions, such as when Quebec and Scotland were both mulling independence.

All the Big Government Reforms the Media is Missing bylinetimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Hi @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk My #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight #poetry #writing:

Totally gorgeous poem

Beautiful son. 37 today ❤️

2013 Southern Alberta floods 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire 2024 Jasper wildfire When Alberta needed help, Canadian troops, pilots, doctors, nurses and crews came from across the country. Canadians helping Canadians. Vote Against Alberta Separation 📸 Department of Defence

Such a wonderful idea. Time outside and a little sight of nature should definitely be prescribed. BBC News - 'I forgot what it feels like to be outside' – First rooftop intensive care ward opens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

Morning @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk My #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight is for the fabulous Helen and all her team. #fostering Happy Friday! #poetry #writing

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IGNORES THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE MUST BE LOUDER. Come join Public Interest Alberta for an Alberta Wide Day of Protest tomorrow, Friday, May 29 www.pialberta.org

Leadership starts with the decisions you make every day. And we’re highlighting an important decision our colleagues – including @sana.msf.ca – take every day: hope over despair. She refuses to look away and chooses radical hope. Do you? Join our movement and add your name: www.hopeisradical.ca

🎉Happy Poetry Day Ireland 2026! 🎉✨ The theme for Poetry Day this year is Home. 🏠 This year there are over fifty events taking place around the country the full programme and details on events in your area are available on www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day-i.... #PoetryDayIRL

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

I really hope that some people will consider complaining to the BBC, this is a huge editorial failure. It is platforming paid-for corporate lobbyists in place of informed expert voices..in the week that the Pope joined the ranks of world’s most astute AI commentators.

Great evening listening to Lorraine Mariner talk about her work and read her brilliant poems.

It’s a nice day so let’s have a poem

I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales and military support to Israel. This is a crucial step towards accountability and justice. #StopArmingIsrael www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

Here we go

What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world. #ClimateBreakdown

Thank you, Fidel for hosting this week's #PromptCombo with #Pray. @dragonslayerma.bsky.social. I'm sneaking one in and will circle back to read tonight. Thank you for reading! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #PromptCombo #Pray Here’s my contribution

O! Happie, happie, happie me To be in swich goode companie! Come revel in grande poesie On th'eve of Creativitie! Join us for a stonking eve of #poetry for National Creativity Day! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur... Free, Zoom 7.00pm UK time.

"25°C, perhaps, an estimate. Heat mitigated by broken cloud cover and irregular corridors of hedges and trees. I should be another three miles east by now. I should have taken more water. The minutes lost to calculation, adjustment, resource management." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/slow-netwo...

Executions and resistance: 100,000 will gather in Paris Members of the Iranian diaspora and democracy supporters rally next month in Paris to protest the regime’s rising tally of executions By Dr Ela Zabihi

🥰 🤟🏼 😊 Empathy, kindness and love books for children aged 3-12+ 😊 🤟🏿 🫶 With books by Laura Dockrill, Kerry Drewery, Dan Smith, Jess McGeachin, Michael Rosen, Catherine Rayner & Benjamin Dean. Free resources & lesson plan links! schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/empat...

How nice to begin the day with a video call from my grandson ❤️

Curious how a Nursing Activity Manager spends her day? Fatima, working with us in #Lebanon invites you inside one of our mobile clinics in Barja:

Ok, Simon Armitage wins this particularly game. The last line…

Canadian son has taken a helicopter ride over the Rockies. No idea why but I am full of envy!!

Honoured to be graced with the talents of @suefinch.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @iantattum.bsky.social Sue Butler @hool415.bsky.social Barney Ashton-Bullock on #LastSaturday poetry online 30 May from 7.00pm. Gift an hour of your time to hear these magnificent poets tinyurl.com/y22u5fae

Moraine Lake is a stunning, glacially-fed lake in Banff National Park, Canada, 🇨🇦 famous for its vibrant turquoise water set against the dramatic Valley of the Ten Peaks.

Part of the ancient civilisation Trump speaks of annihilating.

Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #BearingWitness. Here's a revised version of a poem shared previously which recognises the witness borne against historical injustices. Looking forward to responding to other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness America has never been one entity except in myth, and democracy has always been the great experiment imperfectly tried, but these are my thoughts on my country. For now it's the only one I have. This was in the Poems for Protest anthology from Rough Diamond last winter.

Good morning #poetry people thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this Friday platform. Here’s my wee snippet for #PoemsAbout #BearingWitness I had a rather boring convoluted piece I ditched. Will enjoy reading the contributions. Have a great day.

One of my favourite poets on here, endlessly fecund and inventive, is also a simply tireless campaigner for the poetry of others. A #lifttothesky this week goes to that indispensable member of the #poetrycommunity @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #BearringWitness

In the USA of 2026, Jim Crow is coming back Republican states, aided by Donald Trump’s executive orders, are enacting regressive measures to suppress the black vote By J 'Masharubu' Strauss

So the walking ends and we turn in at our doors and switch on the light and there are all the books in rows trying to tell us what we could have done. From ‘Nine Poems’, in Peter Riley's 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' longbarrowpress.com/featured-poe...

Launching Hatchery in the lecture theatre next to delivery suite! Felt very fitting! ❤️ 👶 🪺 @vpresslit.bsky.social

@bethosmond.bsky.social’s Hatchery arrived. Highly recommended. Contributing to a rich tradition of physician creatives, apothecary Keats, doctors Bulgakov & Chekhov, the poetry’s controlled mix of historicism, professional observation & personal engagement reaches beyond memoir towards universality

Did u know? Over 300,000 miles of hedgerow have been destroyed in the UK in the last 80 years. Hedges sequester carbon;they create habitat/food/highways for small souls; they absorb pollution/noise/wind & they look gorgeous -a must for everyone. Why not try planting your own this summer? 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐦‍⬛🐸🦔🕷️🦊

Part of a poem on this blog post: "Did you know every time I take you outside to stand with me under that steadfast saucepan of seven stars, I am saying I love you?" I love "steadfast saucepan"

The decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives. And that’s especially important when voting rights and basic freedoms are being challenged. Today voters in Georgia can stand up for fairness and integrity by electing Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

really really deeply depressing that even in its dying days, this is the best the Starmer govt can come up with.

If you enjoyed #fragmentsfriday please support Black Bough by buying and showing off ‘Shored Fragments’, our latest anthology. Let’s call it a tip! 🪙 💵 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

78 years ago, Jewish militias attacked and destroyed towns across historic Palestine during the beginning of the Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic. In 1948, their actions forced nearly 75% of the Palestinian population to flee, tearing families apart and devastating entire communities.