It’s great how this country is pushing to build more data centres when much of England looks like this right now
So Mayer
@suchmayer.bsky.social
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
"By "somewhere safe", Butterfly Wings hadn't meant the archives, but apparently if you caused an archivist too much panic they went for the nearest book-filled place." #wip #amwriting #xuya
I've read most of the books on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's proposed reading list and plan to read the rest. These are excellent recommendations. In fact, @gilduran.com (author of The Nerd Reich) will be a guest on Movement Memos soon.
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
nytimes.com
In March of 2011, Ursula wrote a colorfully titled blog post about colorful language: "I remember when swearing, though tame by modern standards, was quite varied and often highly characteristic." On this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, author @vajra.me reads "Would You Please Fucking Stop?"
In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: Vajra Chandrasekera reads "Would You Please F—ing Stop?"
Vajra Chandrasekera reads post 17, "Would You Please F—ing Stop?" You can read Ursula's original post, from March of 2011, here: Vajra's website is
inyoursparetime.libsyn.com
Remembered as a solitary genius by straight people whose entire experience of him is that awful biopic, maybe. Queer mathematicians I know think of him as a sociable role model who was charming at parties.
Proud Changemakers 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@proudchangemakers.bsky.social · yesterdayAlan Turing is often remembered as a solitary genius obsessed with numbers and logic but mew analysis of an unpublished short story written by him, Pryce's Buoy, paints a picture of a man who was comfortable exploring his homosexuality through fiction. Read more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan...
OK Odyssey stans, Monique Wittig has entered the discourse (disc-horse)? From THE LITERARY WORKSHOP, trans. Ann Jefferson @versobooks.bsky.social
THE PROBLEM ISN‘T THAT AI CAN GENERATE A-QUALITY WORK THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE BELIEVE IN “A-QUALITY WORK”
British media trying to pull a Charlie Kirk over a dead racist pedophile wife-beater is just more proof that ruthlessly and brutally denazifying British news media is going to be important.
A reminder that I have a little poetry zine and that we are accepting submissions for about another week! Here's the link to our submission form
docs.google.com
Author copies! Such beauties 🥰. I’m so thrilled ALSTON MOOR is alive! And I’m immensely thankful to everyone involved @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social Pre-orders are open at all excellent bookshops. 📚🥰📚 Coming 1 September 2026. @sarahsuch.bsky.social
I can't get through the work day rn with the amount of AI crap being shoehorned into once-usable software & platforms & systems. If it all disappeared this morning, I'd cry with relief at the world becoming navigable (ish) again.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender
Obligatory anonymised equal opportunities form for literary magazine. You'd think they care about words & meaning. Questions about sex/gender are poorly phrased and OH LOOK there's "androgyne," which – even if the form were writ by Shagsberd themselves – is outdated, offensive & frankly weird.
Whats Your Gender? EPIC No Gender Meme
Alt: Whats Your Gender? EPIC No Gender Meme
static.klipy.com
Fortunately there's been a lot of attention in the press recently on the importance of thorough academic peer review and examination standards, so I'm sure the same newspapers doing that reporting will be calling for more funding for it 🙃
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 23h agoAs thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.
The chart keeps rising: airline profits on one axis, human suffering on the other. @jensorensen.bsky.social illustrates the truth about modern-day air travel: for the executives flying private, everything is working exactly as intended. inthesetimes.com/article/airl...
I've never lost an opportunity because of my political ideals that I regretted. It just made me think less of those organizations or businesses for being unwilling to host a loud, leftist personality working for Better for others. Miss Rachel is the way forward.
It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
The problem being, of course, that cops are happy to throw Nazi salutes on their time off. They're pretty much never going to be out protesting the genocide.
Euan@euan.bsky.social · 23h agoI think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same
This beautiful tune just came up on NTS radio's Guide to: Golden Age Mali. youtu.be/6VNHXxXRBcc?...
Bimoko Magnin
YouTube video by Super Djata Band - Topic
youtu.be
This is some Theater Kid ass behavior (derogatory) meets The Producers.
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Wow have these people ever not found the writer corner of social media. Better headline would be "the mean kids from high school are now the mean kids in your phone; most of the rest of us struggle & fail, and share mutual aid, rage & grief like we always did."
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
Mai Taha and I wrote this article on sonic cartographies of internationalism, now up on @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It traces how radio broadcasting was central to liberation struggles around the world, asking how sound draws out different maps of solidarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's never occurred to me that the point of an allegory about cheaper goods being a worse long term investment was about poor people making bad choices. I recommend Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed for anyone confused about this or who hasn't had real, lived experience as someone with no good options.
The translator Lin King of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE, awarded with the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize and 2026 International Booker Prize, reflects on Taiwan’s history of colonialism, current geopolitical situation, and identity struggle in this interview for NPR.
'Taiwan Travelogue' rethinks history, colonialism, and identity
The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating…
npr.org
Takes me back to the early internet days when I said I'd start a site called "buyaclue.com" so that at least ppl wd pay me for constantly picking my brains...
soleil ho@soleilho.com · yesterdaytoday on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
today on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
coyotemedia.org
automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
