Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library. 300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive. A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable. Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼

@morselya.bsky.social We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans. #sciencefiction #worldcon

The camera on my phone can't do justice to the magic in tonight's sky #Shetland #aurora

crisp autumn morning big ben strikes deep into the heart of time #Photograph mine

Let there be light

Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social

I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review. Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...

Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham – Tina Sederholm atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/21/a...

If only….

Outrageous

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Check out the latest Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social! Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

If you play Flight Of The Bumblebee on it, time stands still.

Strapping workmanship!

How great it is when at least one of your childhood heroes doesn't disappoint you. :-)

Yesterday I posted on art & peace. Walking tonight I tried RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem. Grim need. Sorrow at war. Yet also a violence not to be fled but transcendent. Musical escape. Around me leaves bloodied. Sky cracked open. Voices soared. Would we leave life in storm like Romulus, in fire like Elijah?

Hi @hool415.bsky.social Ju, here's my third response to your inspirational #promptcombo #Visitors:

Time for a little #SciFiFri cat story : ) somewhere, in some mythically mutated future, a tragic feline Icarus is hoping for a soft landing #SciFiCats #CatsNoirFriday #CatLovers #Cats

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So sad the Rugby World Cup is over- but DELIGHTED that England won!!!!

So I now need to verify that I am an adult in order to use BlueSky. It’s a new UK law. So BlueSky want my credit card or a scan of my face. I really don’t too give either to any American company!!!

This is marvellous- strong, haunting, full of the power of life.

Flying is trans human You were not born with wings

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Pierre Chappuis (tr. John Taylor)

My winning poem from @radonjournal.bsky.social is also available in my scifaiku collection The Future is Brief bookshop.org/a/197/979898...

I’m writing a Speculative verse novel. A year ago I submitted a sample of poems to a uk press and they asked me to turn it into a verse novel. I’m 80% there. But the press is probably folding and have told me to find another publisher. #WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout

Hildegard of Bingen's music, which Sequentia perform with especial brilliance, is well worth discovering. Here's Vis Aeternitatis, the partial inspiration for my poem above of the same name #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #HildegardofBingen @julianday.bsky.social

By Ian Duhig

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

Epidemic being fuelled by availability of ultra-processed foods and aggressive market.

Placed my tote bag with @Zaffarkunials poem on Gaza in the window of @Cornwallpoetrylibrary. Such horrors in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. What can we do?

My Craft Essay: "Creative Writing + Poetry & Publicity: Crafting News Pegs to Boost Marketing Momentum" ✍️ Pls leave a comment on Substack - thanks! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social ➡️ beyondcraft.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

Should we have diplomatic ties with the US? Yes. Should we roll out the red carpet for a racist, misogynist? No. Should we show up in huge numbers to say he represents everything we oppose? Absolutely. See you there.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

💃 🕺 🪩 #ThursdayThrowback 🎵 🎸 🎶 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen performed by 1,000 musicians at The Grand Jam in Frankfurt, Germany 💥 Feel the energy & the joy! 💯 @tomr-bsky.bsky.social @hdwp.com @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social youtu.be/oEHR7lv4XhQ?...

Don’t know where this is from, but it’s lovely.

The description of a misty landscape I will always go out of my way to avoid is “shrouded in mist”. I don’t care if a hill or tree gets up on its own secret legs, grabs an actual shroud made of mist out of a cupboard & gets inside it. That shroud has been mentioned enough in books. It can fuck off.

can't stress how important it is that you maintain at least one really wild insane left wing political stance to keep the hitlers off balance and the issues in perspective ie. feed landlords to snakes. trees get their own parliament. put solar panels on jeffrey bezos. send all mormons to the moon.

Lichen: the folk answer to tinsel.

Angela's tireless – and peerless – compiling continues ...

books ARE actually the fashionable thing all the young people are into. It's one of the main things driving the opening of new bookstores. Go into any Waterstones and they're full of YAs browsing the stacks and walking out with stacks

#PoetryCommunity 📢 CALL TO SUBMIT from Poetry Ireland Review 🌐 International subs welcome! ✒️ Poetry ⏰ Send after 9-1-2025 ⏰ 💲$50 - $100/piece @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social www.poetryireland.ie/writers/subm...

🐈 #WeeWondersWednesday 😼 Watch a tiny ginger kitten grow up to be a proper pussycat. ⏳ Time-lapse video. @trishcwilson.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @juleigh.bsky.social @amygrech.bsky.social @kumisori.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social

For anyone who missed the lecture @annadillon.bsky.social and I did the other day, the recording and slides are here.... youtu.be/Wo2UUOophK8?...

For #MosaicMonday we thought we resurrect this famous Jim Henson scene.

Check out this thread for a good dose of flight-free family holiday inspiration!