Be careful on those roads #ICE

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
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Please sing tenor... let me finish... please sing ten or eleven miles away.

Or: "Love when you're at a training day for serial killers, and your amateurishness is exposed when they realise it's just a leaky fountain pen."

This: hyphenated.
But this: non-hyphenated.
Such strange irony.

#haiku #micropoetry

I hope AI didn't write that "could of".

Haydn's Farewell Symphony.

Everything else is mere imitation.

IBM's OS/360 release manager.

A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry 1. Impressionism Roses sway in softened reds, Violets swim in murky blues, Sugar sparkles in the light, Blurring into golden you. 2. Surrealism Roses are melting, Violets are too. Ceci n’est pas le sucre. Keith is a giant crab 3. Social Realism Roses are dead, Violence is rife. Don’t sugar coat This bitter life. 4. Abstract Expressionism Are and. Violets roses so. You sweet blue. Are are red is sugar 5. Pop Art Roses go BLAM! Violets go POW! Sugar is COOL! You are so WOW! 6. Conceptual Art Roses are red, Coated in blood: A deer’s severed head Drips from above

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

LIMERICK

It was the Medical Council’s belief,
That as a form of effective relief,
Paracetamol would
Be next to no good
From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

On my laptop (Windows 11) left-arrow and right-arrow seem to do five-second backward and forward jumps.

Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns asks for £147k to help answer emails Greater Lincolnshire council leaders urge government to cover £630k mayoral election overspend.

Meanwhile, here in Reform's flagship Lincolnshire, with DOGE and cost-cutting and efficiencies and...

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This may not quite fit the category.

And I have absolutely no formal qualifications in the field.

But...

I would love to see this little five-year project of mine head towards book publication. (Would definitely benefit from an enthusiastic editor!)

www.servicemusic.org.uk/scripture/la...

But she added: "I rejected God, not Christianity. So I would still define myself as a cultural Christian."

Curious. How does "I rejected God, not Christianity" work?

WATCH

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So... they would remove the person rather than the car?

For #TrinitySunday follow the cat.

Let go; let Macavity:

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Re-visiting Co. Durham for a few days.

Just over the road is this. I wonder whether Sky-High Skydiving has a business arrangement with the outfit in the southwest corner for when things don't quite go to plan.

When hardcore, cutting-edge 21st century software development meets 2,500 year old scripture...

I've just noticed that I've done my 1,000th git commit to my translation of #Lamentations.

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Oh dear. Streak broken.

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Reading for #Lent2025...

Cartoon of two people standing next to each other. One is shrugging and saying "Paradoxes. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em."

Paradoxes

Tagging @arnallouise.bsky.social

Sad to hear.

Let's hope December is more combobulating and gruntling.

(Both real words, overshadowed by their 'dis-' derivatives.)

Pedents   Foot soldiers in the War on Error, They’re here to save us from ourselves, With Fowler’s Modern English Usage (first edition, nineteen twelve).   They scrutinise each word we write For typos, gaffes, et cetera, Correcting all our dumb mistakes To make our grammar betterer.   They sigh and tut and tell us off For the rules we have forsaken And chart this nation’s steep decline By the care we should of taken.   Custodians of the King’s English, They merely serve to keep it pure And restrict, they hope, the ignorant To three mistakes or less.   In doing so, they hold no fear they will deprive a thing of life: for it’s not important what is said, what matters is that its right. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is dedicated to all those who have taken it upon themselves to correct the grammar or spelling in my poems over the last few weeks.

It’s called ‘Pedents’.

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Edward Elgar "Sospiro", Op.70.