It's 2003 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East It's 2026 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f... I have not read the review or the book but it touched my bitter, twisted heart to see an article by a guy called Rahul about another guy called Rahul

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

We're excited to offer a new webinar for our members - Beyond Pitching: Other Routes to Work! Join PELTA members @rahulbery.bsky.social, Sophie Lewis & Nina Perrotta to learn about reader reports, publishing in journals, translating samples & more - free to members! Joining info on our website!

Fash: bashed. But listening to r4, so many red flags: constantly framing reform as the party to beat when they didn't come close in G & D or Caerphilly; and how much Polanski will be monstered the more of a genuine threat he becomes. Hopefully the anti-semitism won't wash as much as it did with...

non-stop happenings today. My translation of another one of José Henrique Bortoluci's Generation Democracy pieces is up now on the amazing @equatormag.bsky.social . Essential reading on the fight to save the Amazon: www.equator.org/articles/des...

My conversation with the great @vicenteluismora.bsky.social is up on @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! We talk about the challenges of translating experimental literature, spanish golden age poetry and the difference between archaeological and historical novels; pghrev.com/a-writer-tal...

Pleased to have mine and Daniel Hahn's translation of Michel Nieva's incredible essay collection Technology and Barbarism in this month's @wwborders.bsky.social watchlist: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

A truly great composer and artist - one who redefined composition and left behind a body of work of extraordinary profundity and beauty. She changed how people listen and, I genuinely believe, people’s entire sensory relationship to life. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Slightly regretting impulse deleting my previous bluesky with like 200 followers. Got rid of Facebook instead!