Mark Bolsover
@mdbolsover.bsky.social
#Writer. #amquerying my debut novel. IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments (Into the Void Press), *1st collection: contra FLUX—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from movement (Polyversity Press). #BookSky 📚
Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).
Goya's Diogenes. no lo encontraras (you won't find him)
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
The annual “Feste delle lanterne a Vipiteno”, Lantern Festival. IG: @ eryk_zwiedza_swiat Vipiteno, South Tyrol, Italia
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"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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Not only should you check out the amazing work in our newest issue, which debuted last week, you should polish up those prose, art, and poetry submissions---we open on August 1 for Issue 8!
© Cyril Cox. 'Late Afternoon Light.' Acrylic on canvas, 2022. 48 × 36 inches.
"TikTok is just AI slop, teenagers dancing, and political misinformation" SKILL ISSUE. MY TikTok feed is 100% the guy structuring an elephant puppet around a toddler carrier and using it to invade Italy via Hannibal Barca's 218BC route through the Alps. vm.tiktok.com/ZN8JcuTJd/
General submissions re-open August 1st. Fiction, CNF, and hybrids will go through Submittable and will be free until we hit our cap. Poetry and micro will go through email only. (Note: Micro is currently open and in fact never closed, thanks to Vic Nogay's tireless efforts.)
Submission Guidelines - Identity Theory
Literary journal submission guidelines for Identity Theory. Our online magazine publishes interviews, fiction, essays, poetry, and more.
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I'd been wandering all night, when suddenly it hit me...
🔊Calling #Edinburgh: 5th Aug, Dynamic Earth, @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social and I will be joining forces for a day of free activities to get you ready for the 90% partial solar eclipse 6pm-8pm 12th August! 👩🔬🔭🧪 Big thanks to @iop.org for funding the event 🥳 ℹ️: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/get-re...
Astronomical Society of Edinburgh@astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social · 2w agowww.astronomyedinburgh.org/event/partia... We'll be holding an event on Calton Hill to view the partial solar eclipse on 12th August. We'll have some solar telescopes with us and lots of eclipse glasses so that people can view the eclipse safely. Remember THE SUN IS DANGEROUS TO OBSERVE.
Power Lines Drawing #126 (Ferndale, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $250 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
‘If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the politician’s reserved and enigmatic demeanour.’ Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Starveling Rabblement: Joyce’s Politics
Joyce stands out among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress and the...
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Beds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM
The knife robot is actually an important accessibility tool for people who otherwise don't have anyone to stab them
Friz @ EdFringe@frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 2w agoMeta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
What do the new issue of Private Eye and Charli xcx's new album have in common? They're both on sale this week! IT'S PRIVATE EYE WEEK. New edition in shops and with 365 party girls from Wednesday.
Fragment, c. 2010s by Marco Mazzoni (Italy, b.1982). Colored pencil, white gel pen on toned kraft paper | 50 x 40 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
This afternoon I'm very much appreciating the tendrilous Art Nouveau decoration of Amercian architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924).
Salvador Dalí's Bond movie tarot deck never made it to film, but we really wish it had.
Fun fact: Salvador Dalí designed a tarot deck for the film Live and Let Die.
In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 n…
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"Dance", Oil on canvas, 54 x 37 inc, Ola Suvorova, Russian, born 1966 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
© Anne Misfeldt ⚪ Collage (2023) #collage #collageart #papercollage #cutandpaste #analogcollage #courtesyoftheartist
