Rachel Plummer
@smaychel.bsky.social
Poet and children's author. My books include The Big Day, Wain and Once I Carried Three Crows.
Also a creative writing teacher, story teller, knitter, mum of two and a carer for my disabled son.
Proud to be represented by Children's Books North Agency.
Also a creative writing teacher, story teller, knitter, mum of two and a carer for my disabled son.
Proud to be represented by Children's Books North Agency.
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Wonderfully wet and wild.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wonderfully wet and wild.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash.
Rewilding is how we make that happen.
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If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. There’s a road called ‘The Woods’ there instead, containing a load of fucking ghastly overpriced executive houses with identical shiny light grey interiors and pointless giant clocks in their living rooms.
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. There’s a road called ‘The Woods’ there instead, containing a load of fucking ghastly overpriced executive houses with identical shiny light grey interiors and pointless giant clocks in their living rooms.
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Big run day IS TOMORROW!
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November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Big run day IS TOMORROW!
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Lord knows I could use the money, I live on carer's allowance, but it's NOT just a meaningless ticky box to me. I care about those kids. They matter.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Lord knows I could use the money, I live on carer's allowance, but it's NOT just a meaningless ticky box to me. I care about those kids. They matter.
Sometimes I feel like life itself is gaslighting me. Like wdym I have to fill out a risk assessment to use a library room to run a kids writing group, but we can just decide to throw tech that has *contributed to the death of multiple young people* at teenagers cos we think it'll probably be fine 🤞
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sometimes I feel like life itself is gaslighting me. Like wdym I have to fill out a risk assessment to use a library room to run a kids writing group, but we can just decide to throw tech that has *contributed to the death of multiple young people* at teenagers cos we think it'll probably be fine 🤞
Further, the fact that puberty blockers (which have been used safely for over thirty years) are banned due to a supposed lack of research into their long term effects, while AI is being pushed onto kids despite all evidence suggesting it poses a risk to their wellbeing and even lives, is outrageous.
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Further, the fact that puberty blockers (which have been used safely for over thirty years) are banned due to a supposed lack of research into their long term effects, while AI is being pushed onto kids despite all evidence suggesting it poses a risk to their wellbeing and even lives, is outrageous.
I recently turned down work for a poetry festival because it involved using generative ai in a workshop with teenagers.
This highly addictive technology is literally causing and contributing to the death by suicide of vulnerable youth.
I'm aghast that anyone is okay with pushing this on teens.
This highly addictive technology is literally causing and contributing to the death by suicide of vulnerable youth.
I'm aghast that anyone is okay with pushing this on teens.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I recently turned down work for a poetry festival because it involved using generative ai in a workshop with teenagers.
This highly addictive technology is literally causing and contributing to the death by suicide of vulnerable youth.
I'm aghast that anyone is okay with pushing this on teens.
This highly addictive technology is literally causing and contributing to the death by suicide of vulnerable youth.
I'm aghast that anyone is okay with pushing this on teens.
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
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Please sign. Shared care is often people's only route to ADHD treatment, but it leaves patients at risk of having their care pulled at a moment's notice by a GP who just doesn't feel "comfortable" with it. They don't have to give a reason for this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Urgently review NHS approach to shared care agreements for ADHD
Urgently review the current approach to shared care agreements (SCAs) in England. We think a review could help ensure all SCAs are reviewed individually and fairly and not refused. We want better inte...
petition.parliament.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Please sign. Shared care is often people's only route to ADHD treatment, but it leaves patients at risk of having their care pulled at a moment's notice by a GP who just doesn't feel "comfortable" with it. They don't have to give a reason for this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
Cork launch of Banshee issue 20 — Banshee Press
Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Cork launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at the Staff Common Room in the Quad, UCC , on Thursday 30 October at 6pm to raise a glass ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
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“It’s okay to be a billionaire”
Counterpoint: no the fuck it is not.
Counterpoint: no the fuck it is not.
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“It’s okay to be a billionaire”
Counterpoint: no the fuck it is not.
Counterpoint: no the fuck it is not.
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
Cinema selfie! We're watching Pets on a Train today 🥰
October 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Cinema selfie! We're watching Pets on a Train today 🥰
Crocheting some little pumpkins today with Audrey to make a new Halloween banner.
October 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Crocheting some little pumpkins today with Audrey to make a new Halloween banner.
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This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.
The headline news that won't be headline news.
'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse
Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study
www.businessgreen.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.
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Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
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October 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We need your help. 💙 Salt is fighting to keep indie publishing alive — discovering new writers, nurturing voices that matter. Every pound helps us publish more books. Please donate or share today. #SupportIndie #KeepBooksAlive #Books #Writers #IndiePress
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We got so many apples this year, both from our tree and from my mother in law and from our neighbour across the road, that I've been making a big apple pudding each week and we've been having it for our breakfasts.
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We got so many apples this year, both from our tree and from my mother in law and from our neighbour across the road, that I've been making a big apple pudding each week and we've been having it for our breakfasts.
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Take Luffy's name out of your mouth, Thiel, you absolute loser.
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Take Luffy's name out of your mouth, Thiel, you absolute loser.
Mushrooms I saw in Colinton Dell today.
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Mushrooms I saw in Colinton Dell today.
Bus knitting. Autumn leaves and acorns.
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Bus knitting. Autumn leaves and acorns.
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Clouded funnel (Clitocybe nebularis) today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #iPhone @scotwildlife.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Clouded funnel (Clitocybe nebularis) today in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon #iPhone @scotwildlife.bsky.social
"I'd rather put a gun in my mouth."
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"I'd rather put a gun in my mouth."
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“Maybe we don’t need to crush orphans” you FOOL. You absolute LUDDITE. Don’t you know the Orphan Crusher is here to stay?
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Maybe we don’t need to crush orphans” you FOOL. You absolute LUDDITE. Don’t you know the Orphan Crusher is here to stay?