@betweenstation1

Poet, and pedestrian

 Sheffield, England
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Joined October 2013
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During Covid lockdowns my partner and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning – from 6am to 8.30am. On our walks, we paid attention to life around us – to small creatures, insects and birds. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com…

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Also empathy, emotional intelligence, articulacy
Emily@emilycremiOct 22
Teaching requires a lot of energy. It’s like putting on a performance every day all day long.
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'All I know is that we are here, and that we are aware of the fact, and that it behooves us to be aware — to pay heed. For we are not objects. That is essential…' ~Ursula Le Guin themarginalian.org/2026/06/0…

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…

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William Blake: A Golden String. A short film with Mark Vernon 'The world of the algorithm was being prepared in Blake's time.' I love the energy of this! youtube.com/watch?v=PNVvhX2H…

William Blake: A Golden String. A short film with Mark Vernon

William Blake was born when England was at war. Conflict and the th...

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Higher education in this country is at risk on a scale we have never experienced before. The future of our young people is being put at risk and the potential of our economy is being jeopardised. It’s time to speak up and demand the investment needed in this jewel in the crown of our society. @ucu
UCU
@ucuOct 22
Education. It's ours.
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries...These things are your becoming. —CHERYL STRAYED—
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This suffering world - a long-uprooted tree must relinquish its bark. The bank is heavy - I’m looking up into roots holding like a scrum. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/…

Have You Always Been Here?

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the publication of Have You Always Been Here?, a series of pamphlets by Matthew Clegg. “…

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The first draft is pure torture for me. I hate every second of it. I have a messy mind and my writing is a process of cleaning up the mess. And then, slowly, making a story. —Judy Blume—
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"Terrorists are people that bomb people & blow people up, they're not people that break into missile manufacturers to stop people bombing & blowing people up" @IrvineWelsh on why he signed the letter in support of Sally Rooney & against the proscription of Palestine Action 🎯
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These poets offer deep interiority, existential questioning, spiritual focus. In an automated age driven by speed, efficiency & data-ism, Donne challenges us with turbulent self-scrutiny; Herbert offers a quiet grammar of grace, attention, and human scale.
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The lightbulb shattered across the pavement has been trodden to stardust. Now the gates are locked, molehills on the playground grass aren’t kicked or trampled. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/…

Have You Always Been Here?

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the publication of Have You Always Been Here?, a series of pamphlets by Matthew Clegg. “…

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This new article on why business schools should be shut down shows how this is also related to today’s “corporatization of the university itself,” how strictly financial values defeat the purpose of college itself. Personally I see this theme all the time: nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
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Nearly every home in America had a complete works of Shakespeare, as discussed in this book which everyone should read
Becoming becoming@MBlakeAuthorOct 22
Replying to @SketchesbyBoze
What percentage of people in the 1800s do you think could have properly read Shakespeare?
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These poets offer deep interiority, existential questioning, spiritual focus. In an automated age driven by speed, efficiency & data-ism, Donne challenges us with turbulent self-scrutiny; Herbert offers a quiet grammar of grace, attention, and human scale.
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Writer @NaomiAKlein says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."
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Though remembered as tech-hating cranks, history reveals 'Luddites' were skilled artisans who actually opposed the exploitation of labour rather than machinery itself. They understood that tech is not an autonomous, unstoppable force of nature, but a series of human choices.
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whenever someone brings up using AI for creative work, I think about this what we create also creates us
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The risk of gen AI is not that machines will make individual bad art, but that markets organised around speed, scale & frictionless consumption weaken human ecosystems that makes both serious artists & audiences possible. What happens to makers? Appreciators? Institutions?
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Medals of sun-glare highlight the cladding of the distant high-rise. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/…

Have You Always Been Here?

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the publication of Have You Always Been Here?, a series of pamphlets by Matthew Clegg. “…

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"1. Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom." 10 rules of writing (which apply to all creative work) from one of the finest writers of our time themarginalian.org/2018/09/0…

Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing

“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”

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This is a great cover (one or two surprising names!) and the sort of thing likely to impact an utterly absurd government stance
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@NewStatesmanOct 21
OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
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