Jackie Kirkham
@jackiekirkham.bsky.social
Author (The Calm Place, The Wizard of Flanders Moss), research nurse, nerd, Scotland. Into books and nature. Lefty. Appreciates a good rant. https://books2read.com/thecalmplace
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Jackie Kirkham
@jackiekirkham.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Very grateful to all new followers - hello! A brief intro: I'm a research nurse in Scotland, mainly here because I also love #naturewriting, and self/indie-published The Calm Place (garden memoir) and The Wizard of Flanders Moss (nature poetry chapbook). Happy to connect and discover new ppl/books!
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world.
orionmagazine.org/article/hear...
orionmagazine.org/article/hear...
Heart’s Home - Orion Magazine
A conversation about borders, belonging, and keeping the Kushners out
orionmagazine.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world.
orionmagazine.org/article/hear...
orionmagazine.org/article/hear...
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This might be of interest to a few people
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This might be of interest to a few people
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc
Apply by 30 November
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
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This was so witty and human. What an absolute hero. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
A week before my wedding, I woke up with facial paralysis
‘Apart from having to drink my pints through a straw, occasionally needing to wear an eyepatch and the classical guitarist nobody could hear, I wouldn’t have changed a thing about the big day.’ - Nial...
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This was so witty and human. What an absolute hero. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
Going through dog's breakfast of homework instructions with 11yo. We're both close to meltdown. There will be Feedback. (I don't want to be that parent, but I am that parent)
October 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Going through dog's breakfast of homework instructions with 11yo. We're both close to meltdown. There will be Feedback. (I don't want to be that parent, but I am that parent)
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Glasgow nursery: pls can you pick up 1yo, she's not well.
Me: no, I'm at work in Edinburgh.
Them: oh.
Me: try phoning her dad, who brings her in and picks her up every day because he works in the office next door to you.
True story (2014).
Me: no, I'm at work in Edinburgh.
Them: oh.
Me: try phoning her dad, who brings her in and picks her up every day because he works in the office next door to you.
True story (2014).
"Hi! Your kid’s school here again. Just confirming the snack choice for the Halloween party to check that it meets our guidelines. Oh, your husband is the volunteer? I do see that on the form, but thought that must be an error or a joke. I can just write your name in."
This Is Your Kid’s School and Even Though the Emergency Contact Form Lists Your Husband, We Need You, the Mom
Hello, this is your kid’s school calling. So, your kid said her daddy dropped her off today. I could still see him if I stepped outside, but I know...
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Glasgow nursery: pls can you pick up 1yo, she's not well.
Me: no, I'm at work in Edinburgh.
Them: oh.
Me: try phoning her dad, who brings her in and picks her up every day because he works in the office next door to you.
True story (2014).
Me: no, I'm at work in Edinburgh.
Them: oh.
Me: try phoning her dad, who brings her in and picks her up every day because he works in the office next door to you.
True story (2014).
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Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.
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Today is the official pub day for VOICES OF RESISTANCE, a collection of diaries from four Gazans, offering a rare, deeply personal window into daily life under genocide. It's an essential record of lives lived amidst terror—and their resilience in the face of it.
www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...
www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today is the official pub day for VOICES OF RESISTANCE, a collection of diaries from four Gazans, offering a rare, deeply personal window into daily life under genocide. It's an essential record of lives lived amidst terror—and their resilience in the face of it.
www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...
www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...
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Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
I'm so rubbish at promoting my books. But today is National Poetry Day, so:
Buy my book, she says,
You'll build treasures in heaven,
and help me feel loved.
wyndingway.etsy.com/listing/1776... (Etsy for 🏴🏴🏴 only, sorry. But the ebook is available on most online stores. Thanks for looking! 🙂)
Buy my book, she says,
You'll build treasures in heaven,
and help me feel loved.
wyndingway.etsy.com/listing/1776... (Etsy for 🏴🏴🏴 only, sorry. But the ebook is available on most online stores. Thanks for looking! 🙂)
wyndingway.etsy.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm so rubbish at promoting my books. But today is National Poetry Day, so:
Buy my book, she says,
You'll build treasures in heaven,
and help me feel loved.
wyndingway.etsy.com/listing/1776... (Etsy for 🏴🏴🏴 only, sorry. But the ebook is available on most online stores. Thanks for looking! 🙂)
Buy my book, she says,
You'll build treasures in heaven,
and help me feel loved.
wyndingway.etsy.com/listing/1776... (Etsy for 🏴🏴🏴 only, sorry. But the ebook is available on most online stores. Thanks for looking! 🙂)
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Reposting this, no reason
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposting this, no reason
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"War-ravaged" Portland today... #WarRavagedPortland
September 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"War-ravaged" Portland today... #WarRavagedPortland
This year, frontline healthcare workers in Scotland are only being offered the flu jag, not covid as well. V cheesed off about this - we'll just get all the exposure, and drop like flies. Struggling to understand the logic behind this decision.
September 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This year, frontline healthcare workers in Scotland are only being offered the flu jag, not covid as well. V cheesed off about this - we'll just get all the exposure, and drop like flies. Struggling to understand the logic behind this decision.
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wrote a little essay about prose, 90s historical romances, and why fascists love AI so much 💕
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September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
wrote a little essay about prose, 90s historical romances, and why fascists love AI so much 💕
subscribe to my newsletter to enter a giveaway for a physical arc of the everlasting!
buttondown.com/alixeharrow#...
subscribe to my newsletter to enter a giveaway for a physical arc of the everlasting!
buttondown.com/alixeharrow#...
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of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
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SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.
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Since my book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal came out - not a day has gone by without me receiving a message from someone who found themselves , a parent , a partner or child in the pages - I am so happy to see them and it makes my heart sing
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity
My Adventures in Neurodiversity
uk.bookshop.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Since my book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal came out - not a day has gone by without me receiving a message from someone who found themselves , a parent , a partner or child in the pages - I am so happy to see them and it makes my heart sing
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
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A long, chewy Sunday read.
Reviews are powerful. This essay looks at literary criticism: what it elevates, what it dismisses, and how those choices quietly shape which voices and stories are valued in our culture.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/literary-c...
#Reading #Writing #Books #Scotland #UK
Reviews are powerful. This essay looks at literary criticism: what it elevates, what it dismisses, and how those choices quietly shape which voices and stories are valued in our culture.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/literary-c...
#Reading #Writing #Books #Scotland #UK
Literary Criticism Under Review
Authors aren’t supposed to do this.
kristiedegaris.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Our regular reminder that the main cause of lovely autistic children is lovely autistic parents having a baby.
And our reminder that e.g. autistic people have more pain conditions, so may be more likely to take paracetamol during pregnancy.
Such pills are not the 'cause' of the autistic baby, USA.
And our reminder that e.g. autistic people have more pain conditions, so may be more likely to take paracetamol during pregnancy.
Such pills are not the 'cause' of the autistic baby, USA.
September 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Our regular reminder that the main cause of lovely autistic children is lovely autistic parents having a baby.
And our reminder that e.g. autistic people have more pain conditions, so may be more likely to take paracetamol during pregnancy.
Such pills are not the 'cause' of the autistic baby, USA.
And our reminder that e.g. autistic people have more pain conditions, so may be more likely to take paracetamol during pregnancy.
Such pills are not the 'cause' of the autistic baby, USA.
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Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
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If you're a Kindle or Kobo reader, you can buy my nature memoir now for only 99p! 🤩
Land Beneath the Waves is not a #naturecure book. It's about how meaningful relationships with the natural world can enrich our lives.
#nature, #place, #landscape, #wildlifegardening #chronicillness #booksky
Land Beneath the Waves is not a #naturecure book. It's about how meaningful relationships with the natural world can enrich our lives.
#nature, #place, #landscape, #wildlifegardening #chronicillness #booksky
September 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you're a Kindle or Kobo reader, you can buy my nature memoir now for only 99p! 🤩
Land Beneath the Waves is not a #naturecure book. It's about how meaningful relationships with the natural world can enrich our lives.
#nature, #place, #landscape, #wildlifegardening #chronicillness #booksky
Land Beneath the Waves is not a #naturecure book. It's about how meaningful relationships with the natural world can enrich our lives.
#nature, #place, #landscape, #wildlifegardening #chronicillness #booksky