“We wanted to think instead about what we could do that was more action oriented. We wanted to locate where we have agency and not just give in to sorrow.” ❤️

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

Of course John Wilson instigated the restoration of Wm Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, showing at Anthology later this month! (Fwiw, I wrote about the history of the sidewalk: wordsinspace.net/2022/05/11/4...)

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

“Hatoum shares Giacometti’s grief, terror and compassion even though their attitude to media is very different.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“The Nobel Peace Center commissioned Antoine d’Agata to help document the hibakusha and their stories. In November 2024, D’Agata traveled to Hiroshima and Tokyo to photograph Nihon Hidankyo.” www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

also if you're getting an alert for the watch on the US west coast—the tsunami won't arrive here for another ~6 hours and likely won't be very high this far away from the source, but you still don't want to be on a boat in harbor or wandering the beach when it shows up

While reading a physical book in public, a stranger asked me what i was reading because they’re looking for their next book. / as much as i support reading digital to limit object acquisition, i may only read physical books from now on. (cc @kiostark.bsky.social )

“These ships carry specific burdens, but they also transport the burden of the industrial age’s consumption and production and its impacts. They carry a burden, a cargo, of meanings.” - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social aperture.org/editorial/ri...

The Maintainers have released their “Maintainers Study Guide: A Guide to Ground Your Practice in Principles of Maintenance, Repair + Care” — a resource that “reflects nearly a decade of work” across The Maintainers’ conferences, fellowships, research networks, etc themaintainers.org/study-guide/

So happy to have _finally_ sourced a copy of this! It’s a fantastic synthesis of 400k words of oral histories conducted over the pandemic and captures a huge slice of sector knowledge, 50 years of practice, and method that museums have often forgotten

This is bad

📌 Preorder our forthcoming issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb," which mobilizes Indigenous perspectives on interconnectedness between distant lands and peoples 80 years after US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Cover artwork: Roger Peet thefunambulist.net/shop/60-colo...

brilliant @wesleygoatley.bsky.social is speaking / showing work as a part of this free (in london and streaming online) july 2-4 festival on critical art and research, including a focus on Artificial Futures (july 4) www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

for those in (or who will be in) the PNW, the wonderful @tenderheartpress.bsky.social is holding a letterpress workshop in olympia, washington, on 6/23 www.community-print.org/classes/prin...

Former creative writing professors, I'm putting together an #awp26 panel about those who decided to leave academia. Get in touch if you're interested or know someone who is!

Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.

“The event wasn’t just about fixing broken objects; it was about reclaiming them — finding new meaning in what was salvaged, and weaving those pieces into a continuing story of resilience and renewal.” hyperallergic.com/1019983/free...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

The online #prelinger collection just reached 10,000 items. Over 1200 high-quality scans reflect our film scanning collaboration with #ffdweb.org, and many more are coming soon. Please watch, teach and make new work with these films. archive.org/details/prel...

merlin sheldrake on mushrooms (and their entangled lives), wednesday may 21, 730pm PT, in person and streaming (cc @kissane.bsky.social @fjord.style) lectures.org/event/merlin...

I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...

In loving memory of Moshu 🍎

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

“Holmes' support for her partner's foray into biotech is striking, given she is serving a federal prison sentence for fraud in that same field.” www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...

something to think about

A great panel calling out Duke for unadvisedly deciding to deaccession its magnificent herbarium — and the local interdisciplinary connections and international networks that emerged to save it

we're doing the thing unbreaking.org

“In this ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawing—deftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts this vexed source text.” ayinpress.org/surviva-a-fu...

Lazarus, the new anime series by the director of Cowboy Bebop, led to 3 soundtrack albums / including one by Kamasi Washington

“I feel very strongly that it shouldn’t be entertaining,” he said. “To use something as important as nuclear war as a vehicle for entertainment is quite, quite wrong.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Authoritarianism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Join us to hear voices from the future, discussing their experiences in Hong Kong, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Ukraine, live on Wednesday or watch the recording any time~

I’m really pleased to announce a book to accompany the upcoming Design and Disability show - a series of great conversations, with a few essays, around disabled cultural production, experience and expertise with design uk.bookshop.org/p/books/desi...

The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt, originally inspired by the project started by Cleve Jones in the U.S., “will make its first appearance at a major UK cultural institution when it is hung at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this summer, from 12-16 June.”

The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a pollution problem for an entire region, shares Searchlight New Mexico.

I hope that people are revisiting L.A.'s excellent book Direct Action: www.versobooks.com/products/206...

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.

“How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered the trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve their history.” www.hcn.org/issues/57-4/...

Oh, just remembered, there's an e-promo of All Systems Red, it should be 1.99 on most US retailers, today (March 30) only. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

California, Washington, and the European Union are the three locations with regulations that legally mandate that you should be able to delete your data from 23andMe’s databases.

I’ve had a several dozen requests to write or be interviewed about the 5th anniversary of Covid and said no to all of them… except this one with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. Here’s our chat on the things we’ve memory-holed, and where we go from here. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

“Never Forget Where We Come From,” a wonderful conversation about stories and histories with @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, @charliejane.bsky.social, and Nicola Griffith

if you’re anywhere near Ann Arbor, Michigan, this week, this talk by @sebchan.bsky.social on wednesday will be great umma.umich.edu/events/lectu...

cannot emphasize enough how stupid and dangerous it is to cut funding and staffing of dam safety & maintenance

“The Warriors operates in a dystopian, slightly futuristic, fantasy dream world. The studio never understood that but audiences got it instantly.” www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Bandcamp Friday is back for 2025. On March 7, we’ll once again waive our revenue share, ensuring more money goes directly to artists. Last year, fans spent $3.1 million in a single day—the biggest since 2022. Let’s keep that momentum going. Mark your calendars and get your wishlist ready.

“Getting rid of the measure, called the ‘social cost of carbon,’ would upend energy and environmental regulations meant to address climate change and could have the long-term effect of shifting costs from polluting industries directly onto Americans as the expenses of climate change rise.”

“Absurdly, and poignantly, here is a missile experiencing imposter syndrome.” hyperallergic.com/992482/tuan-...