Simon Barraclough
@simonbarraclough.bsky.social
Poet, writer, tutor, editor. Fourth collection Divine Hours out now from Broken Sleep Books. Reader for The Literary Consultancy & others. Co-editor of Project Abeona (Humanity in Deep Space). Member of CIEP. Open to collabs. www.simonbarraclough.com
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Another of @azjackson.bsky.social’s tentacular online projects, this one a collaboration with @simonbarraclough.bsky.social, which features a future self, Oor Wullie Nemo XVII/17.
#NewBootsAndPantisocracies & #ProjectAbeona - together we’re space bootsier (and snudge)!
#NewBootsAndPantisocracies & #ProjectAbeona - together we’re space bootsier (and snudge)!
Someday, there may be poems written about Humanity as a long-dead civilisation. Here, @billherbert.bsky.social Herbert writes about the Etruscans from a cold and distant future as part of #ProjectAbeona:
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Transmission #27 - Ice Station Zog
Transmission from: William Nemo 17/XVII, Assistant Librarian, Missing Literatures (Etruscan Division), Listening Post Zog, Gaian Library
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Another of @azjackson.bsky.social’s tentacular online projects, this one a collaboration with @simonbarraclough.bsky.social, which features a future self, Oor Wullie Nemo XVII/17.
#NewBootsAndPantisocracies & #ProjectAbeona - together we’re space bootsier (and snudge)!
#NewBootsAndPantisocracies & #ProjectAbeona - together we’re space bootsier (and snudge)!
Good to see Ade Edmondson in ALIEN: Bottom.
August 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Good to see Ade Edmondson in ALIEN: Bottom.
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Hope you guys aren’t tired of this face yet cos tomorrow morning I’ll be joining ITV @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social at 7.15 tomorrow morning to “bang on ideologically about safe routes” all over again 😊
July 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hope you guys aren’t tired of this face yet cos tomorrow morning I’ll be joining ITV @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social at 7.15 tomorrow morning to “bang on ideologically about safe routes” all over again 😊
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It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’
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July 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...
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Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:
New entry for the OED (Orwellian English Dictionary) — Humanitarian City.
July 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New entry for the OED (Orwellian English Dictionary) — Humanitarian City.
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1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.
Meanwhile
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
July 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.
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Writers of colour. Queer writers. Working-class, neurodivergent, disabled, uninvited. I’m not checking boxes. I’m building fires. Submit Aug 1–31.
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👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social
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👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social
The Broken Spine Summer Competition 2025: Submit Bold Poetry and Fearless Prose for Publication - The Broken Spine
This August, The Broken Spine opens submissions for our 2025 Summer Competition. We’re seeking poetry and prose that refuses to flinch, writing that risks,
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July 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Writers of colour. Queer writers. Working-class, neurodivergent, disabled, uninvited. I’m not checking boxes. I’m building fires. Submit Aug 1–31.
👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI
👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social
👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI
👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social
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Who writes this stuff?
July 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Who writes this stuff?
Remember the Pocket Shepherd from The Day Today? 🐑 🐕 🚁
Streeting sets out digital overhaul of NHS centred on ‘doctor in your pocket’ app
Streeting sets out digital overhaul of NHS centred on ‘doctor in your pocket’ app
Health secretary banks on resulting efficiencies to reduce number of frontline workers in 10-year health plan
Wes Streeting has staked the future of the NHS on a digital overhaul in which a beefed-up NHS app and new hospital league tables are promised to give patients unprecedented control over their care.
A dramatic expansion of the role of the NHS app will result in fewer staff than expected by 2035, with Streeting banking on digital efficiencies to reduce the number of frontline workers, a move described as a “large bet” by industry experts. Continue reading...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
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This woman absolutely nails the Glastonbury controversy - and isn't interrupted, either.
But a commercial news media that needs to monetize outrage cannot afford such sense.
#r4today
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But a commercial news media that needs to monetize outrage cannot afford such sense.
#r4today
youtube.com/shorts/Qo81s...
'What disturbs me? Bob Vylan got more attention than Gaza.'
YouTube video by LBC
youtube.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
This woman absolutely nails the Glastonbury controversy - and isn't interrupted, either.
But a commercial news media that needs to monetize outrage cannot afford such sense.
#r4today
youtube.com/shorts/Qo81s...
But a commercial news media that needs to monetize outrage cannot afford such sense.
#r4today
youtube.com/shorts/Qo81s...
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Enjoy this wood duck for your #DuckOfTheDay.
June 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Enjoy this wood duck for your #DuckOfTheDay.
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I don’t think the BBC should have to apologise for Neil Young playing songs from Greendale. #r4today #glastonbury PS: I love Neil Young.
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I don’t think the BBC should have to apologise for Neil Young playing songs from Greendale. #r4today #glastonbury PS: I love Neil Young.
‘Back to bombs, back to diplomacy, back to the here and now …’ #soullessIIsoulless #r4today
June 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
‘Back to bombs, back to diplomacy, back to the here and now …’ #soullessIIsoulless #r4today
See #OCEAN at the cinema if you can. Uplifting, heartbreaking, mind-resetting. Plus you get to spend 90 minutes with one of the great humans. #davidattenborough
May 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
See #OCEAN at the cinema if you can. Uplifting, heartbreaking, mind-resetting. Plus you get to spend 90 minutes with one of the great humans. #davidattenborough
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If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
May 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
I don’t know why but lately I feel a tremendous lack of, and need for, lionsmane 🦁 🍄🟫
April 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I don’t know why but lately I feel a tremendous lack of, and need for, lionsmane 🦁 🍄🟫
Can’t wait for Vanishing World English edition. nhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/19/marriage-feels-like-a-hostage-situation-and-motherhood-a-curse-japanese-author-sayaka-murata
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata
The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Can’t wait for Vanishing World English edition. nhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/19/marriage-feels-like-a-hostage-situation-and-motherhood-a-curse-japanese-author-sayaka-murata