Kate Spiliopoulos
@spillethover.bsky.social
Dilettante urbanist, writer and event organiser living in small town Greece. Ex-Londoner, Ex-New Yorker.
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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the majority of my day as a beekeeper is spent giving each of the individual bees a kiss
December 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the majority of my day as a beekeeper is spent giving each of the individual bees a kiss
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to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt
October 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt
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“Just because the world is beautiful” A poem by Rebecca Lindenberg.
July 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“Just because the world is beautiful” A poem by Rebecca Lindenberg.
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you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
repost to receive his blessing
July 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
repost to receive his blessing
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the authority suffering has over beauty is entirely made up
June 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
the authority suffering has over beauty is entirely made up
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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London is a city of Pride - but the story is also a bit more complicated than that: www.onlondon.co.uk/richard-brow... Top piece for OnLondon by @richardbrown.bsky.social. #london #pride
Richard Brown: Yes, London is a city of Pride - but it's complicated
Attitudes in the capital to LGBTQ communities can be disapproving as well as positive or accommodating
www.onlondon.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
London is a city of Pride - but the story is also a bit more complicated than that: www.onlondon.co.uk/richard-brow... Top piece for OnLondon by @richardbrown.bsky.social. #london #pride
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Painting by Sylvia Ken, artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt
June 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Painting by Sylvia Ken, artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt
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Agnes Kasparkova, 90-Year-Old Czech former agricultural worker
hand-painted traditional Moravian motifs on her local village houses in a solo art project that took over 12 years #womensart
hand-painted traditional Moravian motifs on her local village houses in a solo art project that took over 12 years #womensart
May 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Agnes Kasparkova, 90-Year-Old Czech former agricultural worker
hand-painted traditional Moravian motifs on her local village houses in a solo art project that took over 12 years #womensart
hand-painted traditional Moravian motifs on her local village houses in a solo art project that took over 12 years #womensart
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Poets on a Monday:
April 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Poets on a Monday:
Just did this! This is your sign to do the same, poets! (To anywhere you’ve been thinking about)
Got some poems you've been sending around? Or something you're not sure is ready yet? A piece that needs to get transferred out of your notes app still? Send your work our way :)
April 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just did this! This is your sign to do the same, poets! (To anywhere you’ve been thinking about)
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Henri Laurens, French (1885-1954), Head of a Young Girl, 1920, cast 1959, terracotta, 34.2 x 16.5 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
April 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Henri Laurens, French (1885-1954), Head of a Young Girl, 1920, cast 1959, terracotta, 34.2 x 16.5 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
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There’s a reason everyone’s talking about Glow. Find out why on 28 April.
#PoetryAnthology #Glow #CityAtNight
#PoetryAnthology #Glow #CityAtNight
April 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?
April 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?
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![Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.
BECKY [on phone]:
Yeah, hiya...
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BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.
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BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?
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[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility
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BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.
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VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?
BECKY:
Becky
PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -
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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -
TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…
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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?
TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiei7pigtocoghwiww3vhhm4lj2os2ifvc7yzggcj7jn6gresjpdkq@jpeg)
I’m going to be published in this one. The urban nocturnal is a favourite topic of mine. Looking forward to it!
Incoming: Glow – City at Night Poetry
“they bite at the sky / & their teeth catch on the dark” — @alanparry83.bsky.social
Searing, surreal, & unsparingly real.
28 April 2025. We stay up late.
#Glow #CityAtNight #Slimlimes #PoetryAnthology
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“they bite at the sky / & their teeth catch on the dark” — @alanparry83.bsky.social
Searing, surreal, & unsparingly real.
28 April 2025. We stay up late.
#Glow #CityAtNight #Slimlimes #PoetryAnthology
🔗 thebrokenspine.co.uk...
Nocturnal. Unfiltered. Unmissable - Glow: City at Night Poetry Lands 28 April 2025 - The Broken Spine
I’ve always believed the city speaks loudest when the world’s gone quiet. When the office lights blink out, the shutters roll down, and the streets start
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April 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’m going to be published in this one. The urban nocturnal is a favourite topic of mine. Looking forward to it!
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there should be a word specific to the hollow creative yearning rooted in knowing you'll never be accomplished at a specific art form in precisely the way you desire, and a second word for a pioneering piece of art deriving from a failed imitation, and a third word for an aardvark on sabbatical
And I have never been able to write like the people who inspired me--I am nothing like Tolkien, Adams, or King. But I am so grateful that they helped me become myself.
Sounds right. I thought, Maybe I can do that, and I started trying.
April 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
there should be a word specific to the hollow creative yearning rooted in knowing you'll never be accomplished at a specific art form in precisely the way you desire, and a second word for a pioneering piece of art deriving from a failed imitation, and a third word for an aardvark on sabbatical
Oh no….
I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?
March 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Oh no….
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March 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
March 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
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seemingly unpopular opinion given that it’s never been seriously addressed by a government in my lifetime: if you’re on the unpaid portion of maternity leave you should be able to claim universal credit
March 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
seemingly unpopular opinion given that it’s never been seriously addressed by a government in my lifetime: if you’re on the unpaid portion of maternity leave you should be able to claim universal credit