We're in the final stretch now - one week to go and it just feels like everything is hanging by a thread. Help us get Cat (and the cats) out of Trump's America and back to safety and healthcare here in the UK x
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Oh, I have a feeling Stephen Miller can read.
In other news, we had this poem, Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Invisible Iceberg', yesterday in my Poem Talk session - and it's really staying with me.
Haha!
Thanks Carrie! xx
Oh I loved LOLcats - it was like everything that was best about the internet for a while there
Hahaha
It's good to finally see Keith Porter included in one of these graphics.
So much dignity here x
I love how she rolls her eyes at the end!
Surely 'rationalist' is just a dogwhistle for permission to throw all human empathy overboard
If you can, please help a vulnerable #trans #autistic person get out of #TrumpsUSA and back home to England, friends and family, and the NHS. And if you can't contribute, a share would be much appreciated.
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It was a fun day and a great reading!
Oooh, just come back here for the first time in MONTHS and see THIS! Thank you, @timkiely1.bsky.social - & it's awful, when I wrote those poems I thought they would become dated, but in fact it's the opposite.
Commenting before reading what it's actually about, & just reacting to clickbait? Less cool less cool.
Just try reading even the comment above yours!
"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences." Gore Vidal, 1981, quoted by Naomi Klein in her book Doppelganger
July 2025 So they’re arresting grannies now; they passed a law. It told them how just sitting there is now a crime: you hold a sign, you say, ‘No. I’m against this thing you’re doing now’. If not like this, then tell us how to say our piece, to speak of peace. They’ll say that you’re a terroriste. The word’s the crime. The word is No. The word is Stop. The words we know: starvation, kill, bombs, genocide. Humanity’s the thing that died. Meanwhile, in prison, or on bail, the grannies knit, the priests say ‘Hail Mary, for she is full of grace’. The government says, ‘Shut your face’. The war is mightier than the word. the law of might, the case unheard; the rain falls down. The rain is hard. The children die. Apartments fall. The word is Woe. Forgive us all. © Katy Evans-Bush katyevansbush.com
"I had this dream years ago: there was you
and silence. I don’t recall much else, but I
do remember my brother’s interpretation,
which was correct; in my unconscious, I see you
as the devil. And it’s true I have loved many
a demon, but none with eyes like yours..."
Awww... Poignant. And the joie de vivre of the man! Go well Ozzy
Get the signs out people! Do it for Janey.
Actually a gazillion people standing there silent could be surprisingly effective...
Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September.
💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!
Let's make it absolutely massive.
stoptrump.org.uk
Have a look at THIS! I mean the cover picture is pretty dispiriting but you've gotta hand it to them. America's just been left in the shade. Or in the blazing heat.
Great piece by Golnoosh Nour:
I was born right after a war & grew up under the threat of yet another war. I don’t recall exactly when this fear emerged in my psyche... But I’m so sick of saying that the Iranian regime is also nasty. So what? That doesn’t give other countries the right to bomb Iran.
Meanwhile, of course, horror abounds in every direction. Gentripede must be what cost me my flat in 2018...
