Joanna Hastings
@joannahastings.bsky.social
Writer, editor, lover of dreams and folktales. BLM. Trans Rights. Women's Rights. Refugee Rights. Human Rights. Green Party member. We're all just walking each other home.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
I've been thinking about how people promote their work here –what resonates and what doesn't. I understand and respect the need to share what you've done in hope that others respond/buy/read/review your brilliance. I also really enjoy buying art, books, etc from people I feel connected with. 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I've been thinking about how people promote their work here –what resonates and what doesn't. I understand and respect the need to share what you've done in hope that others respond/buy/read/review your brilliance. I also really enjoy buying art, books, etc from people I feel connected with. 🧵
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'obviously sad'
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
'obviously sad'
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My party.
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My party.
This. Labour are slashing and burning for no good reason, to enable their vile greedy lobbyists and corrupt vested interests. Horrifying stuff. This is our land, our country, they are supposed to protect it. The wildlife and green spaces are irreplaceable and valuable beyond anything money can buy.
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This. Labour are slashing and burning for no good reason, to enable their vile greedy lobbyists and corrupt vested interests. Horrifying stuff. This is our land, our country, they are supposed to protect it. The wildlife and green spaces are irreplaceable and valuable beyond anything money can buy.
I absolutely love this poet and this book in particular is exquisite. And she's from #Sheffield - it's amazing to me how many brilliant poets (and authors) live in this city. If you have poetry lovers on your Christmas/birthday present/any other kind of gift list, you can't do better.
To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden.
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I absolutely love this poet and this book in particular is exquisite. And she's from #Sheffield - it's amazing to me how many brilliant poets (and authors) live in this city. If you have poetry lovers on your Christmas/birthday present/any other kind of gift list, you can't do better.
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My granddad was a miner in the General Strike. He voted Labour his whole life. I joined the Party as a working-class kid at 16. I held office as a Labour councillor. But I haven’t been a member for years. And this policy makes me ashamed that I was ever associated with the party. Iniquitous. Stupid
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My granddad was a miner in the General Strike. He voted Labour his whole life. I joined the Party as a working-class kid at 16. I held office as a Labour councillor. But I haven’t been a member for years. And this policy makes me ashamed that I was ever associated with the party. Iniquitous. Stupid
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Anyone in the #peakdistrict today see what looked like four Ospreys heading towards Sheffield near Curbar Edge? Was it?
#birds #birding
#birds #birding
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Anyone in the #peakdistrict today see what looked like four Ospreys heading towards Sheffield near Curbar Edge? Was it?
#birds #birding
#birds #birding
This 'support our Reform-esque fascist policies or end up with Reform' argument is madness. Support this abomination to avoid the same abomination? Why?
How about human rights? Social and environmental justice? A country that thrives together? There is a way. join.greenparty.org.uk
How about human rights? Social and environmental justice? A country that thrives together? There is a way. join.greenparty.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This 'support our Reform-esque fascist policies or end up with Reform' argument is madness. Support this abomination to avoid the same abomination? Why?
How about human rights? Social and environmental justice? A country that thrives together? There is a way. join.greenparty.org.uk
How about human rights? Social and environmental justice? A country that thrives together? There is a way. join.greenparty.org.uk
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For a party that has always, and always will, stand up for refugee rights - join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
For a party that has always, and always will, stand up for refugee rights - join.greenparty.org.uk
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Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
FAQ: Underage Women
“Many of the headlines have read that [Jeffrey Epstein] is accused of ‘sex with underage women.’ Really? Why are we whitewashing? Why are we not ca...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
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The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to do its job right.
Hold the BBC to account 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials
Hold the BBC to account 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to do its job right.
Hold the BBC to account 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials
Hold the BBC to account 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials
I have this, I love it. A slender, beautiful volume holding a stunning poetic journey. I keep going back and back to it. Local #Sheffield poet @petegreensolo.com whose writing flows with truth (and deserves to be known everywhere). Wonderful.
But then all the Longbarrow books are gorgeous...
But then all the Longbarrow books are gorgeous...
Nothing is quite absolute and whether
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I have this, I love it. A slender, beautiful volume holding a stunning poetic journey. I keep going back and back to it. Local #Sheffield poet @petegreensolo.com whose writing flows with truth (and deserves to be known everywhere). Wonderful.
But then all the Longbarrow books are gorgeous...
But then all the Longbarrow books are gorgeous...
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An autumnal fox wandering through a rosehip thicket.
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
An autumnal fox wandering through a rosehip thicket.
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
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In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
This.
Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
'Policies that favour the interests of the working class are routinely dismissed as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich come to be seen as a realistic status quo.'
@theguardian.com having a 💡 moment. Zack Polanski has hit a switch.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@theguardian.com having a 💡 moment. Zack Polanski has hit a switch.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
'Policies that favour the interests of the working class are routinely dismissed as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich come to be seen as a realistic status quo.'
@theguardian.com having a 💡 moment. Zack Polanski has hit a switch.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@theguardian.com having a 💡 moment. Zack Polanski has hit a switch.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Exactly this. It takes time to get to know your people. The more you trust them the more they'll trust you, and the more confidently they'll reveal themselves.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 111:
Treat the process of creating a character like that of getting to know a friend. Let them talk. See what you find out. Don't expect to know them fully the first time you meet them on the page. Tease out their past, their secrets. Allow them to surprise you.
Treat the process of creating a character like that of getting to know a friend. Let them talk. See what you find out. Don't expect to know them fully the first time you meet them on the page. Tease out their past, their secrets. Allow them to surprise you.
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Exactly this. It takes time to get to know your people. The more you trust them the more they'll trust you, and the more confidently they'll reveal themselves.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️BOOK GIVEAWAY⭐️⭐️⭐️
To celebrate the return of #Shetland detective series I am giving away 2 signed copies of Ponies at the Edge of the World with 2 wish bottles with Shetland shells or seaglass. To enter just like, share and comment on this post
To celebrate the return of #Shetland detective series I am giving away 2 signed copies of Ponies at the Edge of the World with 2 wish bottles with Shetland shells or seaglass. To enter just like, share and comment on this post
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️BOOK GIVEAWAY⭐️⭐️⭐️
To celebrate the return of #Shetland detective series I am giving away 2 signed copies of Ponies at the Edge of the World with 2 wish bottles with Shetland shells or seaglass. To enter just like, share and comment on this post
To celebrate the return of #Shetland detective series I am giving away 2 signed copies of Ponies at the Edge of the World with 2 wish bottles with Shetland shells or seaglass. To enter just like, share and comment on this post
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My mum rang me to tell me that water coming into the house. When we got into the house the next day, I found her body floating in the water; the #flood had come in a torrent in less than 2 minutes from ankle to waist height www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateEmergency #flooding #COP30
‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown
His mother had lived in the same house for 83 years. When the floods came, no one was ready. This is Paul Gilbert’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My mum rang me to tell me that water coming into the house. When we got into the house the next day, I found her body floating in the water; the #flood had come in a torrent in less than 2 minutes from ankle to waist height www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateEmergency #flooding #COP30
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
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Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
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Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇