In the latest issue of "Iperstoria" I got the chance to review one of the most transformative works I read in my academic life. I cannot overstate how much I recommend Sarah Ensor's Queer Lasting. You can read my humble thoughts (and badly concealed fangirling) at iperstoria.it/article/view...

Very proud to share this brand new special issue on American Narratives and Video Games I co-edited with Francesca Razzi for American, British and Canadian Studies. You have 12 delightful open access contributions to enjoy 👾🎮 reference-global.com/issue/ABCSJ/...

American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 45 (2025): Issue 1 (December 2025)

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Deep in final exams and term papers, and while I may have criticized AI in the past for siphoning off whole water tables and sucking up every penny needed for the energy transition, I will admit they’ve done a great job at making it totally fucking impossible to evaluate students

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report #Climate

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken

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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

📢Registrations are open for our upcoming event at the Italian Institute of Culture [IN ITALIANO]! Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :) iicvalletta.esteri.it/it/gli_event...

Scrivere fantascienza mentre fuori il mondo è in fiamme

In occasione della pubblicazione del suo secondo romanzo What We Owe the Dead (Set Margins’, 2025), Stefano Gualeni (Università di Malta) dialogherà con Marco Caracciolo (Università di Ghent, Belgio) ...

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Had lots of fun last night at my book talk in Ghent #paardvantroje. Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00! >> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<

Scrivere fantascienza mentre il mondo è in fiamme

What We Owe the Dead, il secondo romanzo di Stefano Gualeni

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Revoking admissions for a group that makes up 30% of the student body. All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught. My God.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last yr.

WHEW, BUDDY.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon theonion.com/woman-r...

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon

LOWELL, MA—Doing her best to follow her therapist’s advice for dealing with stressful situations, area woman Holly Debling reportedly reminded herself Tuesday not to catastrophize after she spotted four skeletal horsemen on the horizon. “Okay, Holly, remember: Just because a great trumpet has sounded at the arrival of four unearthly riders, that doesn’t necessarily mean […]

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At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

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The Onion@theonion.com · last yr.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing

Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing

WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...

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Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

You don’t say ….

Look what I got in the mail! @gua-le-ni.com's latest book What We Owe the Dead - highly entertaining and equally thought-provoking! Stefano and I will be chatting about it in Milan at the end of May; in the meantime you can get your copy on @freeklomme.bsky.social's website!

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."

lmao this made me cry real tears because it is legitimately what every day feels like right now my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

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Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once

Had the pleasure to get an advance copy, and I very much recommend reading @gua-le-ni.com's dystopian detective novel What We Owe the Dead (rad title!) when it's available next month! Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...

What We Owe the Dead - Set Margins'

PRE-ORDER Expected March 2025. We post out orders including pre-orders once all titles are available. In a desperate attempt to lower the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, humanity has built cooling ...

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Stefano Gualeni@gua-le-ni.com · 2y ago

Yeah, well... WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD - my new sci-fi novel - will be out in March with Set Margins'. >> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... << The book is beautifully illustrated by @demigiant.bsky.social, and if you're into #philosophy and #games, you might enjoy this one :)

The CfP for the AISNA conference is out! Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West 11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy) Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28! www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...

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king's co-op bookstore@kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 2y ago

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L'università in agitazione - Jacobin Italia

Le prossime settimane saranno cruciali per dar vita a un movimento in cui far convergere tutti i settori universitari, per resistere alla riforma Bernini e imporre nel paese il tema del rifinanziament...

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i don't think there's any question that there are up and coming artists out there who can make shit as transgressive and unique and personal as lynch, my worry is if the increasingly claustrophobic way things are structured now will allow a wider audience to receive it