Clare O'Brien
@clareobrien.bsky.social
Writer. Music fan. Will block A.I. slop & Reform/MAGA nuts.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scottish Highlands.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' out now.
Web: clarevobrien.weebly.com
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scottish Highlands.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' out now.
Web: clarevobrien.weebly.com
Trump isn't afraid of Russia. He's Russia's puppet. All he wants from Greenland are the minerals. His creature Andy Ogles was on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social last night insisting against all evidence to the contrary, that Greenlanders want to be American. A rapist's mentality: "she wanted it really".
January 21, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Trump isn't afraid of Russia. He's Russia's puppet. All he wants from Greenland are the minerals. His creature Andy Ogles was on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social last night insisting against all evidence to the contrary, that Greenlanders want to be American. A rapist's mentality: "she wanted it really".
But but but what I want to know is when is someone with access - anyone really, world leader, politician, reporter, interviewer - going to look into his eyes and tell him to his face that he's a mad cunt bent on destroying the world and every sane person fucking hates him and wishes he'd drop dead?
January 20, 2026 at 11:55 PM
But but but what I want to know is when is someone with access - anyone really, world leader, politician, reporter, interviewer - going to look into his eyes and tell him to his face that he's a mad cunt bent on destroying the world and every sane person fucking hates him and wishes he'd drop dead?
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Trump says he's soon going to "a very beautiful place in Switzerland"..... fingers crossed it's Dignitas.
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Trump says he's soon going to "a very beautiful place in Switzerland"..... fingers crossed it's Dignitas.
Good grief, that appalling American Andy Ogles on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just now. Arrogant, rude, bombastic, insensitive as repetitive as a record stuck in a groove, and an absolutely cynical liar and bully. I don't believe these gangsters really believe a word of the shite they come out with.
January 20, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Good grief, that appalling American Andy Ogles on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just now. Arrogant, rude, bombastic, insensitive as repetitive as a record stuck in a groove, and an absolutely cynical liar and bully. I don't believe these gangsters really believe a word of the shite they come out with.
"...an ideological view that access to culture is an indulgence – a “party” even – rather than a necessity and a right,,,Thatcherite values now dominate our thinking so much that artists themselves frequently speak up for what they do in terms of purely economic value." 🙄
Andrew Eaton-Lewis on the Arts Crisis in the Hebrides bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/01/20/a...
Arts Crisis in the Hebrides
An Lanntair, the largest arts centre in the Outer Hebrides, has warned of an “immediate and profound” impact if plans to axe its local authority funding are followed through. Many other projects wi…
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January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM
"...an ideological view that access to culture is an indulgence – a “party” even – rather than a necessity and a right,,,Thatcherite values now dominate our thinking so much that artists themselves frequently speak up for what they do in terms of purely economic value." 🙄
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January 20, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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20/31
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Oops!! Got a bit behind with this. Click, buzz, reconnect....
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18/31
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With all Trump's threatening to do to other sovereign countries right now? With everything he's already doing to his own, supposedly free citizens? Absolutely not. Can't believe it's even on the cards.
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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January 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
With all Trump's threatening to do to other sovereign countries right now? With everything he's already doing to his own, supposedly free citizens? Absolutely not. Can't believe it's even on the cards.
Exactly. Geolocation bans are easy for even the most vaguely tech-minded scumbag to circumnavigate.
Political journalists need to talk to their technology correspondents before reporting on Musk’s latest move
As you indicate, geolocation is not a real ban
Musk also refers to “real people”
Does that mean Grok will still undress AI generated images, and can Grok tell the difference?
As you indicate, geolocation is not a real ban
Musk also refers to “real people”
Does that mean Grok will still undress AI generated images, and can Grok tell the difference?
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Exactly. Geolocation bans are easy for even the most vaguely tech-minded scumbag to circumnavigate.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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This is absolutely not an accident. And it recalls the fascist slogans and imagery currently being used by the US government.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
This is absolutely not an accident. And it recalls the fascist slogans and imagery currently being used by the US government.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/31
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January 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Reposted by Clare O'Brien
Norwegian cartoonist called it 9 years ago...
January 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Norwegian cartoonist called it 9 years ago...
Who do you think is underrated as an author?
Mat Osman is author of two novels 'The Ruins' & 'The Ghost Theatre', & co-author of the wonderful 'England on Fire' with Stephen Ellcock. Best known as the bassist with the band Suede, imho he's a far superior writer to his brother Richard.
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Mat Osman is author of two novels 'The Ruins' & 'The Ghost Theatre', & co-author of the wonderful 'England on Fire' with Stephen Ellcock. Best known as the bassist with the band Suede, imho he's a far superior writer to his brother Richard.
💙📚 #Booksky
January 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Who do you think is underrated as an author?
Mat Osman is author of two novels 'The Ruins' & 'The Ghost Theatre', & co-author of the wonderful 'England on Fire' with Stephen Ellcock. Best known as the bassist with the band Suede, imho he's a far superior writer to his brother Richard.
💙📚 #Booksky
Mat Osman is author of two novels 'The Ruins' & 'The Ghost Theatre', & co-author of the wonderful 'England on Fire' with Stephen Ellcock. Best known as the bassist with the band Suede, imho he's a far superior writer to his brother Richard.
💙📚 #Booksky
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
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I love this.
"Ask the void. Ask the angels.
Ask the seed waiting for spring.
Ask beyond the question
until answers are no longer the point."
"Ask the void. Ask the angels.
Ask the seed waiting for spring.
Ask beyond the question
until answers are no longer the point."
In her @newversenews.bsky.social #poem Laura Grace Weldon suggests where to go “Instead of Clicking in ChatGPT.” newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/01/inst...
@writingcommunity.bsky.social
@literarycommunity.bsky.social
@rodmannix.bsky.social
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@literarycommunity.bsky.social
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INSTEAD OF CLICKING IN CHATGPT
The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
I love this.
"Ask the void. Ask the angels.
Ask the seed waiting for spring.
Ask beyond the question
until answers are no longer the point."
"Ask the void. Ask the angels.
Ask the seed waiting for spring.
Ask beyond the question
until answers are no longer the point."
Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/31
#15booksin2025challenge
💙📚 #Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/31
#15booksin2025challenge
💙📚 #Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge
January 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
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A decade ago today we lost the greatest creative I've encountered in my lifetime, and nothing in the world has been the same since. Here's the poem I wrote about his final album in my 2022 #poetry pamphlet 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?'
#davidbowie #bowie #bowieforever #poetrycommunity
#davidbowie #bowie #bowieforever #poetrycommunity
January 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
A decade ago today we lost the greatest creative I've encountered in my lifetime, and nothing in the world has been the same since. Here's the poem I wrote about his final album in my 2022 #poetry pamphlet 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?'
#davidbowie #bowie #bowieforever #poetrycommunity
#davidbowie #bowie #bowieforever #poetrycommunity
'Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans” after Donald Trump warned the US would “do something whether they like it or not”.'
Ask yourself who the terrorists are in the world right now.
Ask yourself who the terrorists are in the world right now.
Greenlanders ‘don’t want to be Americans’, say political leaders amid Trump threats
Five parties issue joint statement after US president warns he would acquire the island ‘the nice way or the more difficult way’
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
'Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans” after Donald Trump warned the US would “do something whether they like it or not”.'
Ask yourself who the terrorists are in the world right now.
Ask yourself who the terrorists are in the world right now.
Reposted by Clare O'Brien
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/31
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#readingchallenge
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/31
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💙📚 #Booksky #bookchallenge
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January 10, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
8/31
#15booksin2025challenge
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#readingchallenge
X is undoubtedly the worst mainstream social platform - deleted my account early last year, but Meta is almost as bad. The content is literally incredible, in the sense that most posts can neither be verified or believed. I still have FB/Insta accounts but I'm seriously considering junking them too.
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
January 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
X is undoubtedly the worst mainstream social platform - deleted my account early last year, but Meta is almost as bad. The content is literally incredible, in the sense that most posts can neither be verified or believed. I still have FB/Insta accounts but I'm seriously considering junking them too.
Reposted by Clare O'Brien
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.
January 10, 2026 at 10:17 AM
"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.