Here's a conversation with a listener in Scotland about why so many of us feel ashamed of our financial lives in todays economy. It is a reaction to recent class episodes from @vermontpublic.org, and I ask dumb questions for the sake of all people like me. www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/a-s...

What I love about the NYT is that to them, everything is possible. Maybe AI is alive. Maybe Republicans aren't racist. Maybe the new war in the middle east is good actually. Maybe a FEMA agent teleported (magically OR WITH SCIENCE, haters) to a waffle house. We don't know! Facts aren't real things!

What a legend. Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

This is horrifying. As someone who lives in Greater Manchester, I'd love to know what school this was?

One of the many ways in which AI, no matter how “good,” will always fall short of humans at being human. From Another Way Of Telling, by John Berger & Jean Mohr, 1982

‘We live in this paradox, and it has a deep contradiction. You’re creating big cities, creating great images for the young Arab people, creating an environment that they’d love to live in – but you don’t want to give them freedom.’ 
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The whole "it's here, accept it, it's already in your life, you can't stop it, it's happening & actually you being unable to remove it (bc we designed it like that) is proof you want ir" techbro chat is pure & utter rape script. Nothing but.

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

my proportions Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930

Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Matt’s theme for the month will be/// __My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico Sendyourmagicxx burninghousepress.com/2025/12/01/d...

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...

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Do you read the New Yorker? (Sure, I even got the tote bag!) Ahhh, you might wanna check this out... bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Submissions are open for November’s theme and guest editor @ccohanlon.bsky.social awaits your contributions:: JOURNEYS_ horizontal vertical inside outside beyond begone __SENDx burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...

Writers! Me & @mconley.bsky.social are teaming up for a writing workshop on the theme of 'attention.' Join us Sat Nov 29 at Saan.1 Gallery in Mcr to discuss poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Phillips & Benjamin Zephaniah and then work on your own. Details here: katefeld.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...

A storm is raging outside and I have been painstakingly updating my website with news of events and new writing of mine out there in the world and stuff I've enjoyed reading. Which feels cosy. katefeld.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

Memorizing this

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

🎊CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY MAGIC - FULL #MLF25 PROGRAMME OUT NOW!📚 From internationally acclaimed authors and cultural icons to bold new voices, our 20th edition is set to inspire, challenge and delight anyone who celebrates with us. 🧵

New work on BHP! Thanks to editor @saint-remus.bsky.social (& @miggyangel.bsky.social for starting this fire in the first place) 🔥 Lots of great stuff to read and another call live now...

You should hate Nazis more than you love convenience. So many folks bemoaning how powerless they are re: the rise of fascism are actively funding it via their use of Substack and AI, by refusing to wear an n95, by ignoring transphobia, &c. You have power. You just prefer convenience and comfort.

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

Thank you to everyone who has sent work in for the Art & Annihilation edition - subs close the end of today July 25th still time to send if you haven’t yet! @saint-remus.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...

Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine reports that their bank account has been frozen by Virgin Money (now owned by Nationwide). Two weeks ago, we warned that the ban on Palestine Action would lead to banks becoming nervous about any mention of “Palestine” netpol.org/2025/07/04/p...

And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.

I've called and called but my falcon isn't responding.

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Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each others’ mouths

BURNING HOUSE PRESS are excited to welcome (back) JOHN TREFRY @incastellated - as the 1st BHP guest editor of our current special-edition series! JOHN’S theme for the month is —INANIMISM “Text is not active, it exists all at once, simultaneously.” sendsendx burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/j...

You don't have to "look into it". You have to admit that you thought it was a cool idea to get rid of actual humans because they cost money, and instead used a plagiarism shitshow that makes up absolute garbage, inflicting a huge environmental cost on the planet that doesn't touch your bottom line.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I understand the overworked prof better than most, but as institutions, schools are going to have to play a longer game—widespread adoption of these tools by profs is going to devalue what they are selling. Destabilizing education is part of their overall fascist project.

My interview with Anne Ursu is up on Lit Hub!

I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.” #politics ~Aldous Huxley

“A Brechtian maxim: do not build on the good old days, but on the bad new ones.” —Walter Benjamin [from Conversations with Brecht]

This was so great!

The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson 'Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.' www.silverpress.org/products/the...

These get confused with one another. Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news. The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences. The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out. The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

I've been enjoying this new close reading series so much, which makes it extra cool to have my own poem 'Back 40' benefit from Mike's alert and insightful attention. Check it out!

This is useful advice in every context.

Happy MLK Day.

Hi @nytimes.com can you guess the meaning of the hand gesture I am making right now

My lovely student, with one for the crate diggers