Thank you, Canadian booksellers! PERSONA, Aoife Josie Clements' electric, grimy, nightmarish new novel (available from @littlepuss.net on Feb 6 in Canada) has been selected for the Winter 2026 Bookseller’s List!

One of the most useful things a community organizer ever told me was "if someone wants to play tug of war with you, let go of the rope." The power in any conflict lies not w/ the person who initiates, but w/the person who responds. "Thanks for sharing your perspective, you may be right." And move on

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

Would totally watch this sequel to Heated Rivalry.

Legendary bookstore dropping an incredibly brave statement for any retail establishment 😂

January is upon us and we hope you are safe and cosy. We have quite a few in-person events coming up in the next weeks, to help you find community, ideas, connection and momentum in these dark days. (99% of our events are live-streamed, so if you can't get to the bookshop you can still join us)

This Saturday, 1/10, join lead curator Theo Downes-Le Guin for an exhibition walkthough of A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin at Oregon Contemporary. The walkthough will be followed by a Q&A and community reading featuring selections from Changing Planes. www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-rea...

Looking for an escape from the news today? Read a book with your child (or on your own) and then create a zine inspired by the book!

Whales & dolphins will see their migration paths protected as nations approve plan for vast Atlantic sanctuary. The move marks over four decades of advocacy and scientific work, and will safeguard key routes from shipping, industrial fishing and deep-sea mining. buff.ly/dl2mh5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

it would probably also implode UK journalism this is also a positive

Teach about ways that enslaved people constantly, creatively, strategically, & bravely resisted & challenged the brutal institution of slavery & white supremacy. Free lesson ⬇️for gr 7+ from @rethinkingschools.bsky.social teaching guide to #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/po...

This looks so damn good!

LEEDS! I am coming at you. #BookSky Talking BAD LANGUAGE in conversation with Jake Hall & answering all ur questions about queer resistance, difficult conversations & dragons @thebookishtype.bsky.social Weds 14th Jan, 7pm Book now! thebookishtype.co.uk/products/bad...

Love this from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and can't wait for the book thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...

Coming up on a year of these shirts on Bonfire. We don't make anything on them (we sell them at BKMN for that) and happy to say we've sold 135 and raised $1,490 for CCATE.

"What are we looking to, when we ask about a film's heart? The intentions that fuelled its imaginary; the people who lent it their breath?" — Elhum Shakerifar on cinemas of Palestine, and what solidarity & safety look like in filmmaking & curation brixtoncommunitycinema.com/Commissioned...

do the work not because you have to but because that's a life well-lived. live the fuck outta your life. the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't. make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.

I am very entangled with Google, but in the last few months have begun the switch to Proton. Easier to block out AI, much better privacy protections, European, not involved in genocide. If you use this link to try it out, I get... I'm not sure what I get to be honest. Respect, maybe.

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

A new series of Instrumental continues on BBC Radio 3 tonight… Radio-maker (and trumpet player) Alan Hall talks with Siobhan Edwards the principal tenor horn at the Black Dyke Band, one of the best brass bands in the world. Listen at 9.45pm or catch up on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"During those nights of bombardment, I understood translation as something more than literary craft: it was an act of resistance, of staying put, of holding on." – Amir Mehdi Haghighat

More Venezuelan coverage from Venezuelans: the @globalvoices.org team has been putting this together in between venturing out to the streets to stock up on supplies and check the mood in the capital. There has already been a fresh round of journalist detentions so this is under the team byline.

The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx… 1/…

As we're now in 2026, the year of our closure, we're beginning to mark some books as out of print via our distributor, meaning it's your last chance to get your hands on some 404 Ink history before they're gone! Books now marked as out of print with last copies available via us directly...

It's horrifying but grimly believable that the British government, including 'prison reformer' Lord Timpson, is willing to allow young people (who have not been convicted of an offence) to die of starvation rather than talk to them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great winners from a great shortlist! Get your copies now (maybe pop by the Maktaba at Ibraaz?)

Oh. My. Gods. I'm right back in junior high, hanging in my best friend's den with her & her older brother, watching the launch of this brand-new, life-changing channel. Rest in peace, classic MTV. You were loved & are deeply missed.

You’ve all read this, yes? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Congratulations to Marilyn Booth for winning the 2025 Banipal prize for her translation of Honey Hunger by Zahran Alqasmi. I reviewed Honey Hunger in @irishtimes.com last February.

It’s not too late to book for this online short course later this month 👇 #medievalSky @warburginstitute.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Peru 🇵🇪 has given legal rights to 175 native bee 🐝 species: "...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..." 🪲🪳🌎 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...

I just chaired a discussion for BBC radio on The Last of the Mohicans, Indigenous futurities, and US settler colonialism with some awesome people, including academics and Indigenous authors, that should drop soon. Stay tuned! Related to this adaptation, which I advised in its early development.

"But her body of work—spanning fiction, drama, poetry, and more—was, until recently, mostly out of print in Spanish and untranslated into English." Great piece on the publication of THE QUEEN OF SWORDS and THE WEEK OF COLORS in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ⚔️🌈 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

THIS THIS THIS all of this especially this:

Digital Manager Sophia Marisa Lucas wants to read CONVERSATION IN THE MOUNTAINS by Paul Celan (tr. Rosmarie Waldrop) from @ndbooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/conv...

One of the coolest things a student ever wrote after taking my Indigenous Studies intro course was, "if settler colonization is a structure, not an event, then reconciliation needs to be a structure." And she was absolutely correct.

I took a few mini breaks in December which was good news for standout books -Bad Language by @suchmayer.bsky.social pulls a language thread through a labyrinth of queer memoir, Torah, Ursula LeGuin, and power -The Week of Colors is, outrageously, the first Elena Garro I’ve read (cont’d)

had some books from @suchmayer.bsky.social and rainer diana hamilton waiting for me

Bluesky break accountability post ;) Head melted from the excellent intensity of this autumn. I'll be back with news of more BAD LANGUAGE events in the new year... if u miss me, u could always read it? AND win a £100 gift card from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...

A lot think this album came out in 2024 not 2025 being a 2 part consecutive season album. Seems to have been its downfall that it had never been done before. For me personally it’s the most original album I’ve ever been part of. It’s for long dark winter nights. Try it. You might get addicted x

A podcast that is only, or primarily, on YouTube isn’t a podcast if you can’t watch that video without being on YouTube. The word “podcast” specifically *means* not being beholden to any tech giants like YouTube/Google/Alphabet. anildash.com/2024/02/05/w...

being able to love someone for 20 years is a real gift

“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die

Excited that this came!!! www.instagram.com/p/DSxyNpJEUDV/

In this recent interview with Global Voices (@globalvoices.org), Ege Dündar (@ege-dundar.bsky.social) reflects on the work of the Young Writers Committee (@youngwriterspen.bsky.social) and the increasing importance of supporting emerging voices. Read more ⬇️ globalvoices.org/2025/12/26/t...

At the midway point, out 5th most popular paper this year is from #RSOS, investigating bottlenose #dolphins who use marine sponges as tools to protect their snouts while hunting on the seafloor - a skill spread through family lines: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Get Inside, the Cops are Coming: Roma Families in Greece are Under Threat In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong. unicornriot.ninja/2025/get-ins...

I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."