Sorana Cirstea’s reaction after beating Aryna Sabalenka in Rome A 36 year old veteran who has spent 20 years of her life playing pro tennis To get her 1st win over a #1 in her final year on tour is so special Look at that smile… Just priceless 🇷🇴🥹

Marta Kostyuk celebrates winning her 1st WTA 1000 title in Madrid by doing a BACKFLIP on court AURA.

We haven´t received many submissions yet and would love to read more of your beautiful work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/... Two more weeks to go.

"There is no ‘equivalence of care’. Like so many things in the prison system, there is a massive disconnect between what is meant to happen, and what actually happens." Our Chief Executive discusses the lack of adequate healthcare in prisons in Inside Time: https://ow.ly/P6Re50YMHs2

After decades of intercultural theorisations on the relationship between the self and the other comes an urgent realisation for this time of "terrifying firsts" to borrow from Craig Mokhiber: there's no self and other anymore

Peach Blossoms and Forsythia, Alois Lunzer, L. Prang & Co, 1885.

Join us this evening for the online launch event for our March titles! With Lily Blacksell, Rita Ann Higgins & John McCullough. Streamed on YouTube Live at 7pm (and available to watch afterwards): youtube.com/live/p_0hOeo... @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social

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Happy home-office-assigned birthday to all refugees who were disbelieved about their date of birth and un-safeguarded as one of the many experiences of state-sponsored xenophobic cruelty that is the asylum system in the U.K. Let’s keep working for a just, restorative and eminently sensible system.

A really good piece on The Year of Mainstreaming Migration Nastiness - and saying here what those of us living with and resisting the calamitous consequences on the most marginalised have been seeing, experiencing and saying for years.

In light of recent protests trying to prevent local residents from attending ESOL classes in the Glasgow area, an open letter has been published in defence of ESOL. If you work in education and support ESOL provision for local residents, please sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ed...

Happy International Human Rights Day 2025 from the @uofgunescorila.bsky.social team @uofgnews.bsky.social where we are celebrating our book on sustainable peace and work for a world free of persecution @pinaraksu.bsky.social

My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Carlos Alcaraz finishes the year as World No. 1 🇪🇸

Book Cover of the Day:

Everlasting Peace

Two Years

Stopping the Flotilla, for now, does not stop the work of peace, the struggle for justice, the humanitarian surge which is coming from the people of the world. It does not stop the hope or the love for the life of the Palestinian People that can overcome the worst of human crimes. It does not stop.

Guilt

Happy x

A new word for The Wicked to deny.

#books are awesome.

My copies arrived plus additional purchases for those folk who supported me in leading underpinning the research with Esa Aldegheri & Dan Fisher @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social @scotnational.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Saraswati Nagpal open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

We believe #gazagenocide We are hell bent

#MythologyMonday In some areas of Japan it is said that if you are unable to sleep at night it is because you are awake and participating in someone else's dream ... 🎨Anonymous Artist - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

Victoria Mboko becomes the youngest Canadian woman in the Open Era to win the Canadian Open. Her moment. Her history. 🇨🇦❤️

I'm really pleased that my poem "What you should do is this" has found a home in Mugwort Magazine, along with an enticing host of other poems by other poets. Do have a look!

My poem "Hippy Market", about a visit to Es Cana in Ibiza, has found a lovely home in Mugwort Magazine today. Many thanks to @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social for choosing it.

I have a piece, ‘Snapshot’, in the magical Mugwort Magazine! My haibun is all about the lovely crows of Orkney 🖤 #Writing #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Orkney #LitMag

If you like your poetry a little weird, a little folk-lore based, or nature aware, you will like this magazine. `Thanks to @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social, I have a very mugwort poem in it! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s...

I've entered! 🎉 Polish your first 1500 words and submit before the end of the month!

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I'm very happy to have a poem in Mugwort Magazine. Thank you @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social Lots of great work in this beauty 💚

Enjoy Dane Ince's @1millioncabs.bsky.social amazing #videopoem 1st published at Ice Floe @icefloepress.bsky.social as part of an online series, Work & Anthropocene! We have a living archive of all published work, do check our online projects! #hybrid icefloepress.net/imagination-...

Genocide #gazagenocide #genocide

Saw this in real life today. Awesome x

Hate cut you off

An English teacher and a poet Parnis Abbasi 💜

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Complete black out in Gaza. No reaching out possible. No teaching or caring. I have no hope but I do not despair. I spent the evening with the wisest people I know. And listened. And heard.

Our next Spotlights event is a must-see. We have convened an expert working group to find ways to end the IPP scandal for good. Lord Thomas, a former Lord Chief Justice, will join us online. We hope you will, too: ow.ly/8l8Z50W8F1z

“All 12 people on board the Madleen have been banned from Israel for 100 years.” So Israel forced the 12 to enter Israel against their wills, after kidnapping them in international waters, only to then ban them from entry for 100 years. Go figure…. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Countdown: 13 days to go. Do you want to be a headliner? Have a whole day to your poetry and artwork? Contribute to this forthcoming The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast of Poetry and Artwork. Details below: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

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For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

This rose flowering always makes me think of @seagoatscreams.bsky.social Hello I hope you see this xxx

Look at Madleen and lean in- none of us is free until Palestine is free #KeepTellingofGaza #MadleenToGaza #GazaGenocide

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