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📜Think-tanker's lament: a poetic interlude... The pundit’s chest tightens as Europe far-Rightens and the Centre drifts further away What happens next is anyone’s guess as there’s not enough Left to say

Proof that both AI and LinkedIn must be stopped cc @StateOfLinkedIn

You've got to keep at it #writing

In a sort of Guardian latter-day version of Pale Fire, this poem is really good but the comments are where the real action is Poem of the week: The Bin-Men Go on Strike by Raymond Queneau theguardian.com/books/2023/apr…

The Brussels drizzle — down payment on flowers plus fluorescent forest

Getting to bike shop to pick up bike is a pain during public transit strike in driving wind sleet rain me no like

@CraigWinneker With each day that comes, daylight time is extended, soon the sun follows. That is my haiku of hope.

Monday's PM is weak and frit, Tuesday's PM is full of shit. Wednesday's PM is always wrong, Thursday's PM won't last long. Friday's PM is lying and lying, Saturday's PM parties hard while you're dying. And the PM on the Sabbath day Gets trolled on Kuenssberg, and then runs away.

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In Brussels you can park anywhere you like if it gets you there quicker Leave your car on the sidewalk or under a cherry-picker

The people we all know as Finns, Stay neutral when trouble begins, But now that a neighbour Turned angry invader, The Outs are now very much Ins.

@twitmericks An MP (whose name is unknown) Was caught watching porn on his phone. The House is offended: He may be suspended, And then must debate on his own.

It was bad enough that the novel is dead, now Bono has gone and murdered poetry.

The popular online game 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩, Must now leap a bit of a ⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩. If charging a fee After once being free Its success may rapidly ⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩.

~ A haiku, for Boris ~ Breaches of the law Are never black-and-white things So you must Sue Gray

@damonwake @herszenhorn From the @Instapoet archive: stakeholders! join our consultation, turn your white paper green or, even, non- . civil society’s best practices are being exchanged and your contribution is essential to our reflection. insta-poet.blogspot.com/2012/02/bluepr…

New Marvel™️ series: Earth’s Mightiest Multilateral Heroes Fighting tariffs and non-tariff barriers; sharing vaccines, defending data privacy… these masked superheroes use the force of all manner of bureaucracy to protect the planet

If your Monday mood’s all sulk and curse Let @Berlaymonster turn it from bad to verse berlaymonster.com/post/we-never-…

Is monetisation a curse, And will it make Twitterland worse? While Twitter's top scholars Want dollars for follers, To poets, the charge is perverse. theguardian.com/technology/202…

The EU, enraged and in fits, Is tearing a drug firm to bits, For jabs that it thought It had paid for and bought, Were actually sold to the Brits. @twitmericks

.@TheAmandaGorman poem is now a permanent part of the written record of the Biden #Inauguration ... Here's how it appears in the Congressional Record: