Joanna Hastings

Introduce yourself and your WIP with emojis.

Me: 💚🐈‍⬛☕✍️🎭🐾🌄📚🌖
WIP: ⛈️👧👥⛰️👵🚣‍♀️⚰️😭🎣🐚🦌🔥🐎🦭🌊

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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#blurrybirding

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I'm in! Yet another blurry-vision birder, and I don't know where I put my binoculars. But buzzards circle close so regularly, I don't think I'd easily mistake them now.

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

Buzzard?

The windows of John Lewis, Barker’s Pool, Sheffield, 12 April 2021. The closure of the store was announced on 24 March 2021; it did not reopen. Photograph: Brian Lewis.

When I lost interest in narrative, I lost the stories of my own life, I couldn’t fill the holes in the plot. I started to tell the stories again, piecing them together from what others had told me, their remembering was my remembering. The telling is all.
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/heart-of-t...

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

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Did I tell you, I'm writing the worst novel ever? Today, anyway. Several friends are also regularly writing the worst novel in the world.

Relax. Don't push. Tomorrow your poems will beat your door down, possibilities bursting out of them. So good you'll barely believe you wrote them.

If I didn't already own this, I'd buy it. I may buy it anyway. At that price, you could have one in every room - Pete Green's wintry, magical words under your hand at any given moment, waiting for a voice.

The age of bullshit is ending... Love that.

Answering bad faith questions honestly and intelligently is Zack's superpower. The sneering audacity of these two, and then Zack's absolute trouncing of them, is amazing to watch. Loved seeing them fumbling for words after the "media should take responsibility" line. Yes, Sky News. You.

Salt, meet wound. 😂

It doesn't seem like too much to ask. They've got a dodo, for crying out loud.

If you haven't listened yet, listen

If you haven't canvased for the Green Party yet, get involved

If you live in Gorton and Denton, vote Green 💚 tomorrow!

Amazing! Never been on a starter kit before. 😅❤️

It's pure malice. On the other hand, I'm not on it! And I'm kind of pissed. If you lot are all there, it feels like a badge of honour. (Don't really want to be blocked by people thinking I'm a fascist, but honestly, they've chosen all my top people.)

This list is a Who's Who of brilliant folklorish, wyrd, arty, inclusive, lovely people. @mariastrutz.bsky.social, @godysseypodcast.com, @hookland.bsky.social, @racheldeering.bsky.social and so many more really wonderful accounts. Someone is trying to make mischief.

I'm...speechless

Seriously can't wait for #swifts.
There should be a swift emoji. It's a travesty. We need one NOW.
Swifts! Swift boxes! Baby swifts!
Scree! Scree! Screee! 🖤🖤🖤

Tomorrow is polling day in Gordon and Denton!

Some volunteering is just reminding people to vote! You’d be amazed how many people just forget!!

Sign up to get out there if you can:
gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk?link_id=7&ca...

Your ever-important reminder that Wes Streeting is a certifiable utter monster, and getting more and more monstrous every day.

No to Palantir. Get that shit out of the UK.

This article is - breathtaking. As in, libellous. How dare she say such things?

Incoherent with terror.

Stunning.

From Trump’s Maga to Farage’s Reform, they’re all following Putin’s nationalism playbook | Rafael Behr Reform is promising a ‘patriotic school curriculum’ – but what does that mean? In the end it comes down to submission to the leader, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

From Trump’s Maga to Farage’s Reform, they’re all following Putin’s nationalism playbook | Rafael Behr

Nazi supporting paper says "Don't support fairness and equality, climate justice and taxing the super-rich! Support greed and corruption like we do!"

Superb image. 🖤