Kim Whysall-Hammond
@kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
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Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
@morselya.bsky.social
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@morselya.bsky.social
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans.
#sciencefiction
#worldcon
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October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Let there be light
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Let there be light
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Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
Kim Whysall-Hammond – “School Reunion”
School Reunion The one who organises Poetry Festivals in Scotland and her no longer identical twin, the newspaper editor who found us all, tracked us down including the Sound Engineer who lives off grid on a canal boat avoiding The Man. The one who ran towards me declaring friendship, she bullied me in Second Form. The old friend who's also my husband’s third cousin…
blacknorereview.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review.
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
Kim Whysall-Hammond – “School Reunion”
School Reunion The one who organises Poetry Festivals in Scotland and her no longer identical twin, the newspaper editor who found us all, tracked us down including the Sound Engineer who lives off…
blacknorereview.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review.
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...
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Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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If only….
“I see just a massive opportunity on the horizon, and not just in Europe but all over the world, to start building a new, good internet outside the U.S. One that’s multilateral, one that’s pluralistic, one that is enshittification-resistant from the start. It’s going to be accelerated by Trump.”
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If only….
Outrageous
A reminder that no-one needs and (almost) no-one wants AI
“I was just talking to someone who’s in the CIO’s office at a Fortune 25 company, and Microsoft has just given them a rate card for the coming year for their Office 365 license, and it costs extra if they don’t want the AI. That’s not a company that thinks you want AI.”
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Outrageous
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October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Check out the latest Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social!
Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now:
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now:
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Check out the latest Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social!
Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now:
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now:
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
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If you play Flight Of The Bumblebee on it, time stands still.
Einstein's violin sells for £860,000 at auction
Einstein's violin sells for £860,000 at auction
Auctioneers think it might be the highest price ever paid for a violin not previously owned by a concert violinist.
www.bbc.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you play Flight Of The Bumblebee on it, time stands still.
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Strapping workmanship!
This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.
October 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Strapping workmanship!
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How great it is when at least one of your childhood heroes doesn't disappoint you. :-)
"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."
@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc
@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc
October 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
How great it is when at least one of your childhood heroes doesn't disappoint you. :-)
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Yesterday I posted on art & peace. Walking tonight I tried RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem. Grim need. Sorrow at war. Yet also a violence not to be fled but transcendent. Musical escape. Around me leaves bloodied. Sky cracked open. Voices soared. Would we leave life in storm like Romulus, in fire like Elijah?
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem
YouTube video by olla-vogala
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October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yesterday I posted on art & peace. Walking tonight I tried RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem. Grim need. Sorrow at war. Yet also a violence not to be fled but transcendent. Musical escape. Around me leaves bloodied. Sky cracked open. Voices soared. Would we leave life in storm like Romulus, in fire like Elijah?
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October 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Time for a little #SciFiFri cat story : )
somewhere, in some mythically mutated future, a tragic feline Icarus is hoping for a soft landing
#SciFiCats #CatsNoirFriday #CatLovers #Cats
somewhere, in some mythically mutated future, a tragic feline Icarus is hoping for a soft landing
#SciFiCats #CatsNoirFriday #CatLovers #Cats
September 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Time for a little #SciFiFri cat story : )
somewhere, in some mythically mutated future, a tragic feline Icarus is hoping for a soft landing
#SciFiCats #CatsNoirFriday #CatLovers #Cats
somewhere, in some mythically mutated future, a tragic feline Icarus is hoping for a soft landing
#SciFiCats #CatsNoirFriday #CatLovers #Cats
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Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
So sad the Rugby World Cup is over- but DELIGHTED that England won!!!!
September 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
So sad the Rugby World Cup is over- but DELIGHTED that England won!!!!
So I now need to verify that I am an adult in order to use BlueSky. It’s a new UK law. So BlueSky want my credit card or a scan of my face. I really don’t too give either to any American company!!!
September 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So I now need to verify that I am an adult in order to use BlueSky. It’s a new UK law. So BlueSky want my credit card or a scan of my face. I really don’t too give either to any American company!!!
This is marvellous- strong, haunting, full of the power of life.
Hello, Poets. It’s good to join you on an important theme: #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain. Many thanks to @hool415.bsky.social for the invitation, and to @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for hosting.
September 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is marvellous- strong, haunting, full of the power of life.
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Flying is trans human
You were not born with wings
You were not born with wings
September 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Flying is trans human
You were not born with wings
You were not born with wings
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Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
September 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years
There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years