Tim Kiely
@timkiely1.bsky.social
💚 Irish; barrister; poet; Green Party member. Chat on all of the above - views my own.
📚 Buy my books at timkielybooks.bigcartel.com
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🏳️⚧️ Every #TransDayOfRemembrance seems to come around with a greater sense of pain and urgency for how much has been lost - but a renewed resolve to keep going.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🏳️⚧️ Every #TransDayOfRemembrance seems to come around with a greater sense of pain and urgency for how much has been lost - but a renewed resolve to keep going.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
🤷♂️ anyone else doing holiday shopping for young relatives?
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🤷♂️ anyone else doing holiday shopping for young relatives?
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
🥋 returning to where it all began for a one-day Shorinji Kempo seminar in Oxford. 9 years after first getting the t-shirt, and 16 years after starting my training, it feels GOOD to be one of those still keeping up the training.
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🥋 returning to where it all began for a one-day Shorinji Kempo seminar in Oxford. 9 years after first getting the t-shirt, and 16 years after starting my training, it feels GOOD to be one of those still keeping up the training.
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
😌 okay, so…
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
😌 okay, so…
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
🪡’Unpick me old, spin me a yarn worthy of queer…’
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🪡’Unpick me old, spin me a yarn worthy of queer…’
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😊 well ain’t that a fun bit of news to wake up to…
Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
😊 well ain’t that a fun bit of news to wake up to…
🤔 strange to take a rest day that includes being haunted from two directions at once… but then I think it fits. As the Eve of All Hallows goes into All Saints Day, so Ella Hickson’s ‘Oedipus’ goes into Jay Bernard’s still-haunting ‘Surge’.
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🤔 strange to take a rest day that includes being haunted from two directions at once… but then I think it fits. As the Eve of All Hallows goes into All Saints Day, so Ella Hickson’s ‘Oedipus’ goes into Jay Bernard’s still-haunting ‘Surge’.
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🎃 there are definitely worse ways of dealing with that old end-of-October pumpkin surplus!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🎃 there are definitely worse ways of dealing with that old end-of-October pumpkin surplus!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
✊now *this* one is a beauty - quite proud that one of my poems found its way into this handsome pamphlet with some very venerable company!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✊now *this* one is a beauty - quite proud that one of my poems found its way into this handsome pamphlet with some very venerable company!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
💚’@greenparty.org.uk are a small environmentalist party transforming into a mass party of the left.’
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
💚’@greenparty.org.uk are a small environmentalist party transforming into a mass party of the left.’
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
🌕 so my wife has never seen ‘Wallace & Gromit’ before, and in the process of introducing her to this cherished national institution and pillar of my childhood, we just happen to have come to… well…
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🌕 so my wife has never seen ‘Wallace & Gromit’ before, and in the process of introducing her to this cherished national institution and pillar of my childhood, we just happen to have come to… well…
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
⚖️ rights are alarmingly fragile things, no less so for being absolutely essential.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⚖️ rights are alarmingly fragile things, no less so for being absolutely essential.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
🎭 night at the Wyndham for a date went rather well!
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🎭 night at the Wyndham for a date went rather well!
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😳 stunning dereliction of duty from Labour, over 300 MPs were absent for a vote to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
😳 stunning dereliction of duty from Labour, over 300 MPs were absent for a vote to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
🙌 the Green Surge continues!
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
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💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🙌 the Green Surge continues!
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
join.greenparty.org.uk
‘Arguments carry better when they shoot.’
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
‘Arguments carry better when they shoot.’
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
😏 treat the rise of fascism as the antics of a bunch of criminal chancers and their craven allies, first farcical and then blood-soaked, and the results are sometimes uneven, but still grimly compelling.
✊ a timely reminder that one must always resist.
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Something extraordinary is happening.
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Something extraordinary is happening.
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.
@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
‘And what right has any man to say there is sufficiency of dreaming?’
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
‘And what right has any man to say there is sufficiency of dreaming?’
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
📖 I first saw this play in 2012 with Oliver Ford Davies as Andrewes and Stephen Boxer as Tyndale. Witty, intense, even devastating… it may even be better than I remember it.
😊 and here was me thinking it would be the end of the year before we pulled this off…
💚 be part of a movement for real hope and real change.
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💚 be part of a movement for real hope and real change.
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"People are feeling hope."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social appears on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as the Green Party overtakes the Conservatives in terms of membership 📈
@zackpolanski.bsky.social appears on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as the Green Party overtakes the Conservatives in terms of membership 📈
October 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
😊 and here was me thinking it would be the end of the year before we pulled this off…
💚 be part of a movement for real hope and real change.
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 be part of a movement for real hope and real change.
join.greenparty.org.uk
🪓’It isn’t difficult to keep alive friends… just don’t make trouble - or if you must… make the sort of trouble that’s expected.’
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🪓’It isn’t difficult to keep alive friends… just don’t make trouble - or if you must… make the sort of trouble that’s expected.’
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
👏 I didn’t expect a play that debuted in 1960 to still be as witty, penetrating and politically razor-sharp as ‘A Man For All Seasons’ certainly is - a pleasant surprise!
🐍’When the krait strikes but does not loose / his venom: dry bite.’
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
October 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🐍’When the krait strikes but does not loose / his venom: dry bite.’
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
😊 there is a peculiarly American going-together of straightforwardness and strangeness which, even when I find it a bit folksy for my taste, makes Thomas Lux in particular such a charming poet to return to after many years.
👏 we did it gang - 100,000 members!
💚 it’s a giant milestone for @greenparty.org.uk - but it doesn’t stop here.
🗳️ for those who have joined, welcome - let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. Those yet to join… everyone’s doing it!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 it’s a giant milestone for @greenparty.org.uk - but it doesn’t stop here.
🗳️ for those who have joined, welcome - let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. Those yet to join… everyone’s doing it!
join.greenparty.org.uk
🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
October 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
👏 we did it gang - 100,000 members!
💚 it’s a giant milestone for @greenparty.org.uk - but it doesn’t stop here.
🗳️ for those who have joined, welcome - let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. Those yet to join… everyone’s doing it!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 it’s a giant milestone for @greenparty.org.uk - but it doesn’t stop here.
🗳️ for those who have joined, welcome - let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. Those yet to join… everyone’s doing it!
join.greenparty.org.uk
☀️ lovely day for a leaflet!
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
☀️ lovely day for a leaflet!
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 felt good to be back on the street today with @newhamgreens.bsky.social for some Old Fashioned Door-to-Door work, complete with an Old Fashioned Spatula for tricky letterbox insertion (and anti-dog protection!)
✊ we have the wind at our back!
join.greenparty.org.uk
🤯 ye giddy gods! We’re within 5k of breaking six figures!
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
We can't keep up...
Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.
Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.
Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
October 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🤯 ye giddy gods! We’re within 5k of breaking six figures!
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk