it's been brought to my attention that i havent promoted my books in a minute, so here's a thread of links for my books (tho, to my knowledge To Emit Teal is out of print) 1st up, 2025's The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife from University Press of Kentucky www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky

The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...

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upfromsumdirt@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

for my follow-newbies: im upfromsumdirt, a poet, visual artist, & graphic designer residing in lexington, ky. i don't submit often but my poems have appeared in a variety of anthologies & journals. my art is mostly limited to bookcover design, but ive shown in galleries & exhibitions. my chirrens:

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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New free podcast: About a street dog named Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”), who consistently joined demonstrators in confronting police in a nationwide uprising in Chile in 2019. Listen today, wherever you get your podcasts, or go to our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e125...

New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.

They will also use this for anti abortion laws if women and girls cross state lines i bet

404 Media@404media.co · 14h ago

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

The technological solution to racist policing being abused by the police until it becomes publicly untenable is a particular type of dark irony.

404 Media@404media.co · 14h ago

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

Problem with ai is all it takes is one ai bro in the office to try and create ways to make your entire department redundant.

this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

The strongest available evidence supports a zoonotic origin for COVID-19. - The virus is genetically diverse in ways typical of natural viruses and atypical of gain-of-function (GoF) viruses. 🧵

Cis woman on now speaking about how much she has been challenged, had security called on her because she has PCOS. Says she's never had a problem with trans women but multiple problems with GC women. She's on the verge of tears.

This is Stock's "collateral damage" in action

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 18h ago

Cis woman on now speaking about how much she has been challenged, had security called on her because she has PCOS. Says she's never had a problem with trans women but multiple problems with GC women. She's on the verge of tears.

This is an ongoing reminder that several feminist organisations oppose the UK’s attempt to segregate trans people in public life and challenge “gender critical” politics because it is antithetical to women’s rights.

Vagina Museum@vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 18h ago

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

I’m glad that the @goodlawproject.org is launching a legal challenge against the EHRC’s new Code of Practice, which is dangerous, unworkable and has been opposed by a quarter of all MPs. The Code will discriminate against trans people and subject many others to gender policing based on stereotypes.

Pro-trans groups challenge EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces as rules come into force

Good Law Project’s trans rights lead, Jess O’Thomson, criticised the government’s approach, calling the code of practice “transphobic”.

attitude.co.uk

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

We have an upcoming disability rights in the UK zine, should anything else be on the reading list?

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

bizarre to me how many "journalists" just uncritically repeat anything a tech CEO says. if the CEO of McDonald's claimed their burgers cured cancer nobody would report it with a straight face, but "we will build a Dyson sphere to power our chatbot" is somehow considered news

I'm fascinated by this new form of PR that's emerged with LLM companies where they leak stories like 'our product spontaneously assembled an army of domestic appliances & announced it would exterminate the lowly hairless apes - we barely managed to pull the plug' to imply it's really powerful

If there are three things that trans people need to remember if they’re using toilets in pubs, restaurants etc., it is these:

Space exploration and satellites need heavy regulations. Space debris and corporate space programs just doing whatever they like is becoming reckless and going to cause damage to how we study universe.

Huh, that's weird, the neo-Nazi claimed in a Times of Israel interview to have abandoned his neo-Nazi ideology 'in my second year of prison... the point of where I changed was reading the bible in prison. And I started learning about the history of Jewish people from the Bible'. So which was it?

Rev Peter W Nimmo@peternimmo.bsky.social · 22h ago

The Board of Deputies of British Jews says his selection "beggars belief" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

honestly can't stress enough, as a former family law attorney, how depressingly common Max Miller's behavior and words are, right down to the petty fixation on custody procedure and rules when faced with allegations of shocking violence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."

Meet Timothy Derrickson. This gentleman was at city council last night with a bunch of trades people endorsing the data center project. This guy got called out for the ss bolts on his leg and in turn assaulted someone for it.

More than 50,000 people protested the far-right AfD party in Erfurt, Germany last month. We take a look inside the anti-AfD blockades. Full story and video at our website - link in bio.

Merseyside Reform candidate said 'Bill Gates wants to make us all vegan' www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Merseyside Reform candidate said 'Bill Gates wants to make us all vegan'

Karen Hatch is aiming to be the latest Reform councillor in St Helens, but concerns have been raised about comments linked to her social media account

liverpoolecho.co.uk

I would easily be able to get through a workday without any of those tools because my workday has never included them and there is no obvious niche where they could slot in.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive

They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive

I was the top student in my university class but when the Taliban took Afghanistan again I was forced to marry and my dreams of being a pilot ended

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Non football fans don’t get the joy of creating football chants for your pets based on your favs

To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.