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If benign & advanced aliens came to Earth, they would literally see capitalism as a death cult. Which is what it is. Look at prisons, healthcare, chattel slavery, wage slavery, billionaire-ism, genocide.... And now, more than ever, mass extinction and irreversible global heating

NEW STUDY: A M O C are the four most important letters in my life - in your life reading this - in everyone's living on this planet. Even if we truly understood even a little of what is at stake, we would be spending days unable to speak - traumatised by horror and terror. And

Bees are the most important species on Earth and highly intelligent creatures. They can count, solve puzzles and even use simple tools. One out of every three mouthfuls of food we eat is dependent on insect pollinators, such as bees Stop poisoning them sciencefocus.com/nature/bees

Gillian Bevan who plays Teacher Mrs Lintott #thehistoryboys Everyman Theatre 24-28th Sept guests Radio Winchcombe Sun 9am Show from 8am!

NYPD arrests scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 at Citibank: “I’m a biologist, I’ve been studying climate change since 1982 and no one is listening to the data. So today they’re going to have to listen to my body blocking the doors of the world’s largest funder of new fossil fuel

Ever feel that the climate climate conversation is moving way slower than climate is?

It's a joy and honour to hear this Margaret ... especially as it is such a beautiful and richly imagined collection !

We send kids off to school, tell them to work hard and respect the process of learning, respect the teachers, learn facts, respect education - but on this issue we then behave as if the science they learn is not true. It must be totally disorientating. Kids today are being gaslit

Half of Americans: Climate change isn't impacting me. The same Americans: It's so hot! Food prices are so high! They doubled my insurance bill! My kid is sick again! They cancelled school because of the heat?! Wait... the power is out?!? insideclimatenews.org/news/05092024/…

The campaign to #KeepHardwickGreen has also been reported by BBC Gloucestershire Hardwick Green bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Honored and tickled to be in such excellent company here in this 2024 Best American Poetry anthology edited by the wonderful Mary Jo Salter:

Another wonderful new, transcendent title from IDP ...

Some powerful poetic alchemy took place in my workshop last night as poem after poem emerged. It is such a joy to run these sessions and work with so gifted and receptive poets. My workshops seem to be a place of utter magic. 🌟💫

Rescue Lines Lesley Curwen is a thrilling, unsettling and transportative read - and as full of glinting, roaring life-force as the sea.. and as deep. 🌊🦭⛵️🐚

If you were following Atrium and missed that they lost their account, here's their new one. If you haven't ever followed, here's your chance to discover a wonderful magaine.. the poetry they publish is really good and the editors amazing.

'The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it' #DylanThomas 👇 Well, this may please him. ( for my next workshop visit ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoet… _

what a powerhouse of poetry last night's workshop was ! And I loved your intricate, moving, almost tactile poem Nicola!

as well as absolutely nonsensical, dishonest. rightwing reporting you can also rely on the torygraph for misogyny.

Absolutely sick individual, deliberately implying Germany is planning to implement the dumped UK Rwanda policy (it isn’t) and then saying if Starmer doesn’t reinstate it all deaths at sea are his fault. A truly repulsive, empty, craven charlatan. Be gone.