i spent the last week in the beckett archive at reading university as this year's samuel beckett creative fellow. it was intense, confusing, sometimes disturbing, sometimes boring, strangely exhausting, none of which are bad things. i couldn't photograph beckett's handwriting/manuscripts so here's:

last week @ minor lits ... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m... — new fiction in French* from @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/12/l... *with a translation by Jordan Barger

"The demand for verified profiles…dismantles a valuable feature of the early web: the ability to step outside the boundaries of offline gender, class, racial categories and appear as pure language ..." @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM

IMPORTANT pls RT My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct) If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

I've been invited by 3 UK universities to speak about Amateurs! and they've all had to withdraw their invites as departmental cuts mean they can't even pay expenses.

« At its best it was around 20 years of people making works that altered the way art was made, who had access to make it, and the way it circulated and was received; works that changed the ways we see the world » THIS 👆 Insightful interview with @badaude.bsky.social by @monalisavitti.bsky.social 😍

i'm disgusted that funding for artists will continue to be limited to 2k recipients & awarded by lottery. Award on the basis of need, award on the basis of track record but not this tombola that will leave so many struggling for 3 years b/c of a short straw drawn www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

going to be in London for a couple of days in mid-Feb - what art should I go see?

a lot of my work over the last 6 years has been 'building AI skills' but the more i know the more i distrust & the less i am 'willing to provide date': what have i been doing wrong?

v happy to be doing this for @desperatelit.bsky.social - enter here desperateliterature.com/prize/

It's my dream for this book to be on a syllabus. Not too subtly, if you'd like to put it on yours I'd be eternally grateful (& also more than happy to student questions...)

Off Meath Street, a new hotel is under construction – and locals are photographing every stage. "We're kind of slagging ourselves, calling ourselves The Watchers."

wow - honoured to be here

Caiwei Chen at MIT @technologyreview.com recommends Amateurs!

I'm in today's @irishtimes.com in a piece about Irish artists in Marseille & in great company!

v nice piece - thank you!

does anyone have access to Valerie Solanas' “A Young Girl’s Primer, or How to Attain the Leisure Class” published in Cavalier Magazine in 1966?

I have a reason be in Cambridge in 26/27 and quite fancy applying to this: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW923/c.... I need a letter of support from someone who works at Cambs. If you know anyone who might like to support my work in lit/arts/digital humanities I'd be very grateful for ideas...

i had a commission with a deadline of 'end of the year'. they paid me in advance so... i just couldn't get down to it. working on it today tho... think i have a good chance of finishing it by the end of 2025...

#NowReading2025 GIRL ONLINE: A USER MANUAL by Joanna Walsh via @versobooks.bsky.social imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Ueno #上野 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky

lovely visit, sharing fitabillies bun :)

love this take on Amateurs! at @publicseminar.bsky.social by Eva Szilardi-Tierney publicseminar.org/2025/12/joan...

the only academic whose lectures i enjoyed as an undergraduate - critical writing as performance - a lifelong inspiration

ok, it's 'outsource my xmas present to my nephew' time again. rules. -it's a book. -the author's alive-i like to give living ppl money -it's almost certainly indie-published -you're unlikely to see it in a mainstream bookshop -nevertheless it's suitable for a smart 13/14 y.o.-it can stretch him too

oh wow no one told me just *how* racy Diane di Prima's memoir is

Two sections from my fifth book IT REEKS OF RADIO along with their translations into Greek by Despina Pirketti are featured in the latest issue of @mptmagazine.bsky.social edited by Jessica Sequeira. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/mode...

would you like some Amateur! online art theory for the holidays? @theglobeandmail.com thinks you would... www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Please sign & share my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie

'Who can afford to work at scale?' I ask at @artreview.bsky.social. Featuring @minxmarple.bsky.social artreview.com/the-inequali...

@badaude.bsky.social new one is an excellent companion piece in showing how we got here; also published by @versobooks.bsky.social, who are brilliant for this kind of analysis. Two of the year's best for me 🙏 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Bonus extra event in Paris. Thursday 20th (the day before my own Paris launch, also at @after8books.bsky.social) I'm launching Jaqueline Feldman's brilliant Precarious Lease (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) the story of Le Bloc and other Paris squats. Please come! Info: after8books.com/precarious-l...

saying you're 'delighted' might be an online cliché but I really was delighted to be invited to talk to artist and Girl Online Molly Soda about Amateurs! mollysoda.substack.com/p/interview-...

thanks for the interview - really lovely evening!

Please help a TCD posgrad couple looking for a LGBTQ+friendly apartment or apartmentshare/houseshare in/near Dublin. They've stayed at my place and I can vouch for them 100% Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch. (image just so you'll notice this post, right?)

Tonight! If you're in Lisbon, please come!

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

i love this!

tonight!

Benjamin Noys (expertly) jumping up and down on 'the corpse of accelerationism' repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/the-corpse...

James Gleick at @nybooks.com calls Amateurs! an 'insightful... philosophical investigation'! Anyone who reads my book will find that that the people I write about are far from all the 'same age & class' but the book is reviewed alongside Cory Doctorow & Tim Berners-Lee & I'll take that).

another @minorincident.bsky.social mention, this time from @badaude.bsky.social 's AMATEURS! ( @versobooks.bsky.social )

A+ book delivery ft many of my favorite things (and authors): Amateurs! Tacos! Reasons! Feelings! And PAYBACK. Bwahahaha. (Also ordered the new [!] V. Woolf but it’s back ordered womp womp.)

El Putnam talks to Joanna Walsh about her book Amateurs: How We Built lnternet Culture and Why It Matters as part of a seminar on Digital Intersections: Exploring Art, Language and Resistance @maynoothuniversity.ie

Coming up, 19h on Thursday 13th at Well Read Bookshop, Calçada de Sant'Ana 92/94, 1150-305, Lisbon!

reading tonight at @desperatelit.bsky.social Madrid! Details here: desperateliterature.com/events/

12th November - Amateurs! (@versobooks.bsky.social) at Livraria Trama Porto, Portugal!

@artreview_magazine double whammy: online I ask, "when, (if ever) should we work for free?"; and, in the mag, "who can afford to work at scale (and how)?" (featuring @minxmarple.bsky.social) artreview.com/is-it-ever-o...

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tonight!