Gemma Bristow
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Gemma Bristow
@konallis.bsky.social
UK. Technical writer with a background in humanities. Posts about the Imagist poets, children's books, history, and green politics. All comments personal, all errors my own.
- from rage to meditation, from contemporary to classical, from the personal to the universal. The whole book exists so that poem can be written.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
'For people who vote this way, this is the way they vote'
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
There needs to be a get-out card that reads, 'Please excuse me, I'm an introvert and I've reached my limit for the day.'
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Ah, I haven't seen Traitors.
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Yes. It helped that the characters weren't killers to begin with, although some of them did have dubious pasts. Even when they started to turn on each other, they didn't completely lose rationality and altruism.
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I don't know why this is the latest go-to phrase among headline writers, but 'breaking silence' does not mean talking about something that happened a few days earlier.
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The hare took an absolute pounding.
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What a great story. I guess she had to pretend to be male to serve in the 19th-century navy...
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Having Andrew live at the bottom of the garden at Sandringham is maybe better than having him invade Scotland, I dunno.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Whoa. For the royal family, that's a huge statement. And significant that he's going to live at Sandringham, on the king's private estate, rather than in a Crown property.
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Grammatically, they seem to have announced that only non-citizens will be eligible to receive benefits.
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Hope you have fun!
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 AM