@commonnotions.bsky.social presents: Raging Against the Machine: A Popular School Against AI! Thanks to @danmcquillan.bsky.social, @zeerak.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, @melhogan.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, and @notnaughtknot.bsky.social!

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Former Palestine Action prisoner Qesser Zuhrah was arrested today by counterterrorism officers, allegedly for social media posts supporting "direct action". Direct action means taking demands directly to the source of a problem, rather than asking others to intervene, and is entirely legitimate

Solar and wind being 'intermittent' resources is not a real problem.

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

Back to #Glass-tonbury, our project to recreate Roman window glass today. We emptied 4 buckets of hot embers from yesterday's firing (in which we baked a couple of potatoes for an excellent lunch). The furnace still had 200 degrees worth of residual heat when we re-lit it.

ive been pushing at this for awhile and it applies to political things too. those of us who are very online keep acting like "everybody knows this" AND THEY DON'T. they simply dont know stuff we've all absorbed for years.

This is... idk could this be the one time its really ok to use the phrase mise-en-abîme?

You'd think this would at least put paid to the "not apartheid" argument, but ...

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st. details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit

This seems like the point, not an accidental: if photographs can't take more photographs bc no memory cards & writers can't get a working laptop or phone bc no new SSD or RAM, then ... guess what's at the door offering slop in their place?

Fuck these people and their journal. 'Classics for all', my arse.

Have you blocked "Attie" yet? bsky.app/profile/atti...

The best thing about the IB longlisting has been seeing so many people discovering this novel for the first time and appreciating the complex personal stories of ordinary Iranians, in contrast to the statistics and snippets of current news coverage. www.anikopress.com/book-reviews...

Nick Cave and the Bad Takes

I’m biased, but one of the most singularly wonderful things about writing literary criticism is that one’s analysis unfurls from their singular experience of the text: their interiority, their history, their aesthetic priorities, joys, and distastes. Writing criticism is a uniquely human activity.

BIG news! We're delighted to announce the award-winning German-Georgian writer Nino Haratischwili as our 2026 Writer in Residence. Hosted by UCL European Institute with EUNIC London, Goethe Institute London & European Literature Network. www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

how cool would it be if we had different words for "incredibly computationally intense and kinda troubling but startlingly effective coding tools seeing massive uptake", "dumb UI shit nobody asked for polluting everything", "cheating helper", and "computer program for identifying bird calls or wev"

Wonderful demonstration that AI are -mostly- bullshit machines. And dangerous when misused. @carlbergstrom.com ➡️ to be added to your course thebullshitmachines.com

Labour are cooked.

UK pro-Palestine activist arrested weeks after being released on bail https://aje.news/ql9wie

ICYMI: The award winning Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is getting a sequel!

This is... idk could this be the one time its really ok to use the phrase mise-en-abîme?

Book #7: Everything For Everyone If you, like me, spend time imagining what a more just future might look like, this book is worth reading. It’s a look at our future that doesn’t shy away from the human cost of change but is still alive with the possibility of hope, love, and care for one another.

A friend sent me and @prisonculture.bsky.social a photo this morning of the Italian translation of Let This Radicalize You. Our friend has been traveling in Italy, and has talked to people there who have found the book meaningful. I am so honored that people so far away are finding our words useful.

On May 10, @marwinvos.bsky.social & I will lead a creative/collective translation workshop on the poetry of Kim Hyesoon. All languages welcome. The workshop is free. Send a short motivation statement (<100 words) to [email protected] by April 14 on how this workshop resonates with your practice. 💗

Due out in September, Moussa Konaté's PEN award-winning crime thriller Headless in Kita www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/bo..., in my English. @hararereview.com you showed an interest in this title, here's the link!

New poetry prize a/ not genocide-adjacent, and b/ not requiring a bullshit exclusionary entry fee/tax 👍👍📈

I'm not remotely connected to this job but I think it looks cracking and you should apply - "Are you a poet with a developing national and/or international profile for whom a poetry fellowship would make a significant artistic and professional difference?" jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Forthcoming titles on Egypt, Algeria, and Palestine with @versobooks.bsky.social that look tremendous.

Sex determination in humans is incredibly complex genetically and phenotypically we vary greatly in terms of gender presentation, even as skeletons. No, you can't tell, and no, XX doesn't equal woman and XY doesn't equal man.

We must remember the funniest variant of this, ex-pagan environmentalist turned christofash-ish Paul Kingsnorth, who moved to Ireland and got really into Saints' Wells, but converted to Orthodoxy not Catholicism so he could still be Different and Special

If you’re Belfast-based, there are paperback copies of my book already on sale in the brilliant indie shop No Alibis!

As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reports, “machine breaking” as a tactic of rebellion, is taking on a renewed vitality. inthesetimes.com/article/capi...

FUN FACT: Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire were BFFs who called their group the "Pussy Posse." They also collaborated on a movie that was so misogynistic they had to cancel its release because they realized after watching it that they would get cancelled. faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-bizarre-...

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I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's CERTAIN WOMEN for my Reader's choice series. I sometimes think this is her best movie. It certainly feels that way in the second and third sections. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

difficult research ask but i'm hoping to locate a rare 1967 Brazilian short film called "Lapa 67" directed by Renato Neumann. if anyone has any idea where to search or who to email, please reach out

Begging progressives to get their shit off Substack. I'm reluctant to share work published there. I will when I feel it's especially important, but I wince each time I do.

fossil fuel money has saturated Canadian politics and public opinion be aware of this network of profiteering ghouls this is their organizing your opinions aren't your own read this www.desmog.com/2026/03/27/h...

Being edited is the best thing that can happen to your writing

Almost there to help a girl start university!! Solaf had to abandon her dreams of medicine, but still clings to the hope of helping people. She has a place at a pharmacy program. Let’s do it. Last check, 658/900

Workers are capable of running workplaces without managers and we should restructure our economy around this concept

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One of the key revelations of the Epstein documents from the UK perspective is the strange plot to topple (and that's the word they use) the Tory government of Theresa May. Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson were at the core of it. Here's an excellent recap of the whole sordid scheme.

Outrageous.