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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸

@mkcurry.bsky.social

Agent @ DMLA. Clients incl Cassandra Khaw, Premee Mohamed, Darcie Little Badger, Nick Mamatas, Vajra Chandrasekera, Suzan Palumbo, Simon Jimenez, Thomas Ha, and Kuzhali Manickavel. He/him, anarchist & antifa http://maassagency.com/michael-curry

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல்@kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 19h ago

it's the day guys! my novel is finally out in the world whaaaat WHAAAAT- thank you to everyone who helped bring it to life. i will now celebrate with my favourite koothu song ever. then i will eat some cake. then i will watch a horror movie. it's a good day friends www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuA...

YouTube video by Ayngaran Music

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · yesterday

it's sad because it's an example of political illiteracy. Like yelling at people in NY for not voting for Harris... #smh

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 2d ago

The discourse around Tom Morello, a California voter, leaving President blank in 2024 is wild. There’s a massive freakout yesterday accusing him of supporting Trump, while at the exact same time he’s hosting an explicitly anti-Trump music fest with Jack Smith & the Bullwark lady in the crowd. Lol.

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · yesterday

"Those who build walls are their own prisoners." --Ursula le Guin

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d ago

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every year, I expect ALA to at least mention the critical importance of people in communities getting involved in library governance. Every year, it does not.

American Library Association@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: https://bit.ly/4yvixbB.

LET BOOKS BE. Various line drawings related to libraries and books, including a hand holding a sign made of an open book that reads "Freed for ALL to Read," a tote bag that reads "Totes Resist" carrying a book, a full book cart with the head and tale of a horse with text that reads "A Wild Ride," and a closeup of two feet standing on a stack of books that say "A Soap Box" on their spines. Text at bottom reads "Protect the freedom to read. Banned Books Week, October 4-10, 2026." American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d ago

robert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4d ago

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 4d ago

Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY today is a good day to buy WICKHILLS so you can enjoy it over the wick-end! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

us.macmillan.com

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's OK to reserve your empathy for those targeted by the fascists rather than the fascists. It's hard to believe that this needs to be said but given what I see online from some of the "post" left contingent, I think it does need to be said.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 5d ago

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 5d ago

Buying music on Bandcamp = supporting artists. Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday! From midnight to midnight Pacific Time, we’ll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels. What will you be adding to your collection? https://bit.ly/4AE4LVl

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 6d ago

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · last wk.

I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.

Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · last wk.

Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸@mkcurry.bsky.social · last wk.

This is so good!

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last wk.

you're welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...

Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

scrippsnews.com

The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) 🏴@transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 2w ago

lol lmao deadline.com/2026/09/para...

Paramount Merger Delayed As Judge OKs Motion To Block Antitrust Settlement

Just before a hearing expected to sign off on the Paramount-Warner Bros settlement, critics of the deal and the merger won a move to halt it, at least for now

deadline.com

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w ago

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

thehandbasket.co

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)@shaneburley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Unfortunately, that research is insufficient, misleading and dead wrong in many cases. Where 3.5% leads those changes they both don’t follow strict principles of non-violence and often come from more densely organized and unionized communities. We cannot expect mass participation to win on its own.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 2w ago

You've heard about Erica Chenoweth's groundbreaking research on nonviolent people's movements—how just 3.5% of the population engaging in sustained protest can topple an authoritarian regime. Join us at 3pm ET to talk with Erica about No Kings 10/17, and what we need to prepare for after that.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are def annoying which is why I always say that I love humanity and can't stand people, lol.

Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸@mkcurry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also, if you're looking for a knife that is fun to use, lightweight, and also enjoyable to just cut veg: 12" Thai chef knife, Kiwi, wood handle - ImportFood share.google/DO3CEGCpfPzv...

12" Thai chef knife, Kiwi, wood handle - ImportFood

Kiwi Thailand stainless steel chef's knife, wood handle.

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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸@mkcurry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reminded that this is one of the tracks that struck a chord with me before the 2024 election, and still hits (even moreso) today:

Residente - This is Not America (Official Video) ft. Ibeyi

YouTube video by ResidenteVEVO

youtu.be

Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 2w ago

Breaking news. I was at the powwow where they announced the legislation, along with a big gathering of community.

For generations, the Lipan Apache in Texas have fought for our rights and inherent sovereignty as Indigenous people.

Last week, a bill to federally recognize the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas was introduced in the House. This marks an important milestone in our journey.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is my weary song. lol. No one hears it.

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 3w ago

Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system. Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your elected officials.

Pie chart showing that less than 9% of confined people are held in private prisons: 13,000 held for local jail systems, 6,000 held for youth systems, 43,000 held of ICE & Office of Refugee Resettlement, 33,000 held for BoP & USMS, and 75,000 held for state prison systems.

Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 3w ago

Guidance from the Anthropic settlement administrator for non-US authors on what tax documentation to provide

Dear Claimant,

We are writing regarding your questions on the tax section of the allocation form. If you are a US resident, provide your Social Security Number on the submission page. We will then issue required tax documents. You may complete the allocation form without providing your Tax ID number, but your payment may be delayed.

If you are not a US resident, provide Form W-8BEN: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf This allows you to certify nonresident status. Upload your documentation in the update information portal. You will need your claim number and the email address used to submit your claim.

Regards,

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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸@mkcurry.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are only a couple more weeks to pre-order @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social's amazing new book. The one with the starred PW review. So you should probably get on that.

A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel: 9781915998866 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A boundary-pushing fantasy that blends magical realism with dark academia, perfect for fans of Bunny by Mona Awad and Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth. In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town...

penguinrandomhouse.com

Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸@mkcurry.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congratulations to @thomasha.bsky.social! Very glad to be working with him and @annvandermeer.bsky.social on this!

Thomas Ha@thomasha.bsky.social · 3w ago

some news!

Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report, Sons of Nod by Thomas Ha Imprint: Tordotcom, Imprint: Tordotcom. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Thomas Ha's SONS OF NOD, a novella about a group of boys laboring to build machinery for a reckless corporation on a strange and desolate island, to Avery Davis at Tordotcom, with Ann VanderMeer editing, for publication in fall 2027, by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy 1-year-old book birthday to this beast! Congratulations @thomasha.bsky.social on all your well-deserved accolades.

Book cover for UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES. Plus these accolades: LOCUS AWARD WINNER

NEBULA AWARD WINNER
(“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

PHILIP K. DICK AWARD
SPECIAL CITATION

BRAM STOKER AWARD® NOMINEE
(“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION
ASSOCIATION AWARD FINALIST

IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST
(“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
BEST NEW HORROR 2025

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3w ago

Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3w ago

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are showing how political figures who once wanted nothing to do with one another are joining forces in the face of AI proliferation, Toluse Olorunnipa reports:

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3w ago

THIS IS TODAY AHEM

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 3w ago

Also yes hello this is TOMORROW Sept 15 at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social ! 7 pm! Be there or be a rectangular thing and get a small amount of swag! :D (You will be expected to dress as a spy BUT you can be undercover if you like.)