Anne Sikking

First Nations Scot.TESS Poet Laureate 2021/22.Co-founder Glasgow’s @City_of_Poets.Sometimes blood has nothing to do with love at all. #asditties #anneditties

[Ulises Diaz @amoeba_wrangler]

This was also imaged using the #AIRR Single Objective Light Sheet with a 40x 0.95 NA objective. This sample was microinjected with Lifeact-GFP2 protein along with 1 micron YG microspheres which were useful for calibrating the initial acquisition.

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

Tell me. Pie in the sky?
All this chat of AI?
What do we fear to lose?
Our autonomy
that we all abuse?
Our superior reason
that takes us to war?
Our generosity
that starves those next door?
Such hubris,
to think we know best.
Come on AI,
be my guest.

#anneditties #ai #future

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

Who’s this person?
(SEVENTEEN at the start!)
Who’d worsen
@BBCWorld ‘s part.
Takes cash for years
& (richer) now appears
quoting fears.
All crocodile tears?

Really? @BBCNews BUCK UP!
Daft storm in a woke tea-cup?

@piersmorgan @PiersUncensored
#anneditties

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

We seem to lack
imagination
as a once
creative nation.

@Refugees
come to shore
yet we can’t think
of something more?

Intensive English
to be taught?
Internships
to be sought?

Less cost, more integration,
incomers reduce #inflation
This potential
is all evidential.

#asditties

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

Gosh. Really?
@SuellaBraverman knows
nothing of humankind?

We like strangers only
when they’re few,
cute, refined…

Put @Refugees
in anyplace we like,
but remember
we put them to the knife.

If we can’t see what others do,
does it make what’s done untrue?

#asditty

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@Bell45 @NicolaSturgeon @NicolaSturgeon shows how it’s done.

Confront what’s hard.
Speak straight.
Power up a social engine.
Reduce hate.
Keep faith with belief.
Retain a human face.
Know you are unique.
Bow out with grace.
Affirm others as special.
Pass on the flame.
Trust their level
To do the same.

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@amsikking Great article. Comprehensible even to the uninitiated! Bravo!

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@RosaZambonini Gran was 1/2 Cherokee,
Gramps same % Cheyenne.
What I learned at each knee
Is unite as 1 to fight the Man.

No better way to keep us tied,
Ensure that we are never free,
Than us to squabble far & wide -
AS, Alba, NS, Green & SNP.

Be wise.
All eyes
On the prize.
Later, criticise.

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@mrjamesob I read the news
The many views
How thru & thru
Tories skew
Every act to their cash gain.

I ask myself
Would I use stealth?
Increase my wealth,
join the filth?
Lie aloud to explain?

Lucky those who are sure
No temptation could endure
To divert them from the truth.

#anneditties

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

I read the news
The many views
How thru & thru
Tories skew
Every act to their cash gain.

I ask myself
Would I use stealth?
Increase my wealth,
join the filth?
Lie aloud to explain?

Lucky those who are sure
No temptation could endure
To divert them from the truth.

#anneditties

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@KnightAngel45 A millionaire
seems to see
“Work ‘til Death”
is how to be
& suggests
it’s for our good
old folks graft
in the neighborhood.

Pension delay
is instead about
his mates getting richer,
while we get nowt.

@IanDuncanHMG #anneditties #indyref2

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

Let’s generalise…
…about how immigrants energise
a nation’s wealth.
Give more than they take,
pay toward health.
Turn up, graft, make
the less enthused
remember the day
when once they
were less bemused…

Let’s face it.
Each of us comes from other places.

#Immigration

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@helenheller was a sweet Geordie pearl,
Who moved right across the whole world.
She learned to eat up
all sorts of new stuff
but you can’t take Greggs out of the girl.

@GreggsOfficial #anneditties @City_of_Poets

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

#Costs increase,
No release
from money woes.
Every day in the throes
of uncertainty,
we complain.

Yet let me say,
there is no price
I would not pay
to keep my loves
From the #Ukraine.

All those who fight
that awful war,
so we can remain
safe from it all,
Thank you.

[Edwin Morgan Trust @EdMorganTrust]

The featured poet at this month's Rock the Boat is the fabulous #EMPA2022 winner Michael Mullen☀️ 7pm on Thursday at Summerhall – entry is free!

[Sunny G Radio @SunnyGRadio]

We're hosting Winter Warmers in Nov & Dec so you have a place you can get a wee heat & enjoy cinema and games nights suitable for all ages.

7/11 retro video games
21/11 movie night
5/12 board games
19/12 holiday movie night

6 - 8 PM

Free! Just stop by!

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@Bell45 @KwasiKwarteng @NHS @BBCNews @BBCScotlandNews @theSNP @alisonthewliss 🤣

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

Oh, oh, oh... Crystal clear(?)
How they'll pay it all I fear
Is with @KwasiKwarteng in DC
To sell @NHS maybe...?

#liztrussout @BBCNews
#indyref2 @BBCScotlandNews @theSNP @alisonthewliss #minibudget2022 @Bell45

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@PictonGarden How beautiful!
An eyefull!

[Anne Sikking @AnneSikking]

@AaronL_SNP I love @NicolaSturgeon

A fearless unforked tongue
Speaks a land anew.
& if she gets it wrong,
She tells me & you.
The drummer of her song,
Is our same rhythm too.
Unrepenting, headstrong,
A Scot thru & thru.
Yet vision that belongs
To the wider sense of true.

Statesmanship.