What distinguishes the UK from the US and many similar countries is that our entire media-political class were educated in the same institutions, live in the same city, and are increasingly inter-related. It is the civic equivalent of incest, and has similar results on institutional heredity.

Thank you to everyone who wrote to their MP. If your MP has already signed, please consider thanking them. If they haven’t, you can still email them now and tell your friends: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Five favourite books of all time in no particular order: The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood This list is not fixed and subject to novel experiences

A powerful statement of solidarity from Disability Rights UK; and in light of the subsequent EHRC statement on disabled people, minoritised groups sticking together is as important as it ever has been. ✊

Bouchra (2025) directed, written by, and starring Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki. An animated lesbian drama film exploring what happens years after you've come out, it is funny and charming, set in both New York and Morocco. Highly recommend! youtu.be/-m302Kq_FG4?...

Ignoring the rest of my life to post my eldritch Garfield poem, specifically its Garfield-as-Eldritch-Sea-God-of-Late-Capitalism with all of us unknowingly partaking of his microplastic communion. Originally published in Broken Sleep Book's 'Footprints: An Anthology of New Ecopoetry' 2022

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Submissions are open! We're looking for short stories from writers living in the North of England for our second anthology, on the theme of sorcery. Find out more and submit: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Not just a showcase this year, but an opportunity to engage in fascinating workshops coordinated by the cohort, to see installations and projects developed over the year and of course to hear some stunning poetry! 20/06/26, tickets are £6 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

I can absolutely guarantee that he’s talking bollocks. Not only have i switched off every bit of AI that Windows and Google try to force on me, but I’ve gone back to writing with a pen, in a notebook, and actually I’m getting way more words down than at a computer:

new kith releases Another double text K Angel Grief Is Not Shelf Stable Jamez Terry The Death of The Cult Classic K. Blair ( @kblair.bsky.social ) kithbooks.com

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and Prof. Eyal Weizman have withdrawn from the Hay Festival in protest of its partnership with Airbnb, citing the company’s profit-making from illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land

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My partner is working today so I came to their work to annoy them but mostly I am sat on a chair behind them eating a sandwich messy style

Sometimes I think "erasure" is far too euphemistic a term for policies that are in reality about expulsion, violence, the removal of access to public society and human dignity, and/or acts of functional segregation.

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

“Those that wish to exclude” — nobody who collaborates in this horrific shit should be allowed to forget it for the rest of their lives

Come along on Monday 1st June for another wonderful night of poetry. Tickets are here: tinyurl.com/4f5r5wzr #everything #poetrynight #spokenwordevent #greenwich #selondon

Live from the woods I've retreated to due to a sleep deprivation induced menty b, this fuck off huge mushroom

Sadiq Khan shows Palantir the door 🚪 This decision recognises that Big Tech has been grifting the UK for years, by locking us into their exclusive products, jacking up the fees and exporting profits. The future is open source, NOT shady US spyware companies. It's time for Digital Sovereignty 🌱

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For the thousandth-but-certainly-not-last fucking time: "AI" does not know any answers. IT DOES NOT *KNOW* ANYTHING. It gives you back combinations of words in answers that others have given, and is often very wrong in obvious — or, perhaps worse, subtle — ways.

fuck AI make zines ✏️✂️ #diyzines

it is within us all to leave each spring (trans)formed kithbooks.com

This has actually been quite a complex thing to reconcile within myself while trying to promote my own work. The arbitrary nature of taste and how to convince someone to take a chance in the hope it resonates, while being a select and internal reviewer.

I find the sliding scale of reviews interesting as someone who engages with books in the following way: I enjoyed it, here are my critiques I didn't enjoy it, here are my critiques I don't view my taste as wholly unique or important, just that I have an internal standard to which I hold writing

"why is British media like that" because the bigots are all mates. they all know each other. they all go to the same dinners and fancy parties. and they're all happy to chip in to financially support their bigotry. It really is that simple.

Accessibility update! The Seven Dials Playhouse has both a ramp and a lift to the lower ground floors where the even will take place. The access bathroom is also on this floor. www.outsavvy.com/event/35868/...

Literally it's like everyone collectively forgot what life was like before genAI. "But we NEED to use it" U GUYS WERE FINE WITHOUT IT BEFORE

Me entering Offprint today: it's a free event, you don't have to spend money, it's good to see what indie publishers are out there Reader, I spent money

Happy Pub Day! Thank you to @kithbooks.bsky.social for helping a dream become a reality, to @theoldkyokodied.bsky.social for the amazing cover art and to everyone who has ordered a copy, it means so much to have your support 🎥

it's CULT CLASSIC day!!! "easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash" ‍ ‍ - K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic

the new song is here & on all the streamings btw! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWf...

The Death of the Cult Classic is out this Thursday! Pre-orders are already arriving, you don't want to miss out right? www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultc...

Labour's Immigration Bill is the most immoral and repugnant thing this Government has done. It would mean a care worker who came to this country looking after our elderly, working night shifts on low pay, would wait 10 years to apply for citizenship But an investment banker could apply in 3 years

Finding the narrative pushing of 'here's why Reform aren't doing as well as you think' to be useful in terms of providing facts/knowledge but not really addressing the ways in which people have been betrayed and made fearful by their neighbours

Renting in Britain is broken. While the Labour government tears itself apart I have written to Steve Reed, alongside our two new Green Mayors @zoegarbett.bsky.social & @liamshrivastava.bsky.social , to ask him to listen to those who voted for change last week and to introduce rent controls now.

And it's expensive, stressful, increasingly difficult (you have to PAY THE GOVT WITH A CHEQUE & send hard copies to many orgs e.g. banks), and "payment systems" often "default" back to your deadname "due to programming," causing mayhem & pain.

The Death of the Cult Classic is out this Thursday! Pre-orders are already arriving, you don't want to miss out right? www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultc...

The amount of fantastic food and drink places around Newcastle and Gateshead which have been pushed out because, despite being popular and excellent, they can't afford the rent is obscene.

new from kith! The Death of The Cult Classic @kblair.bsky.social Grief Is Not Shelf Stable Jamez Terry kithbooks.com

Palantir latest. Yes, their staff will have unrestricted access to raw patient data in England.

Towards our closure in a couple of months (😭), we've just marked ALL of our ebooks down 50%, so you can grab some of them for as little as £2.25 until they all disappear on Wednesday 27th May. www.404ink.com/store/ebook

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory! Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team. Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried. And we're making hope normal again.

As is now painfully obvious, political centrism (government by neoliberal technocrats) is in its final death throes. The only beneficiary of their demise is the racist, nativist, xenophobic, idiot-right. The only viable alternative to the catastrophe of their rise is an avowedly antifascist left.

Well, we can’t have that either: as I said the day after the 2024 election, this horrible beige cruelty is the best and most liberal government we will ever be permitted to have and if there’s any threat of anything better, the entire political/media class will unite to destroy it again.