PREORDER (30.06.2025): Eva Aldea’s (@towritelikeadog.bsky.social) Forced Swimming Test is a fiercely intelligent, unflinchingly honest meditation on mental health, neurodivergence, and the uneasy interplay between personal distress and systemic forces. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

I’m finding it hard to go back to a mainly word-based feed here.

For the new bookstagrammers here

Hello everyone migrating from Insta! I need to figure out what we’re doing here. Anyone know?

I’m up to stuff on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/C2DBTwUI3d...

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You can put money on it that politicians will use yet another loss of life in the channel to push yet more of the same hostile rhetoric and harsher anti-asylum policies which force people into making ever more dangerous journeys to seek safety in the first place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6772...

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Dx: Diagnosis and Writing Podcast I talk to poet Stu McPherson about being diagnosed with ADHD, our writing practice, experiences with medication, and how we deal with emotions dysphoria, rejection and hyperfixation as neurodivergent writers. www.dxandwriting.com/in-conversat...

He does not like being tucked in.

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The rhetoric on what kind of migration - EU, non-EU, asylum seekers, “illegal migrants”- is out of control and needs to be cut often misrepresents the actual numbers involved. open.substack.com/pub/evaldea/...

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Did anyone else watch Saltburn expecting actual debauchery after all the hype and just go, huh, the kids have a pretty low threshold these days?

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Interview with yours truly:

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Excelleny essay www.ft.com/content/059b...

"But if you are able to say it, you can carry it in your pocket, like a secret, a passport, to show you master the language of magic." evaldea.substack.com/p/one-thousa...

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Art / Writing / Practice: Push Pull (Final Text) The final experimental text Push Pull by neurodivergent artist, writer and educator Jacqueline Taylor is now on Dx: Diagnosis and Writing, along with the four weekly dispatches from the process of creating it. www.dxandwriting.com/push-pull-fi...

“Accented literature, accented cinema, accentedness of any kind, reveal that culture never originates in purity but in cross-contamination and cross-pollination, that everything depends on its context, that the context is ever moving.” open.substack.com/pub/thelefto...

Pondering the Nordic Imaginary. Aptly at the Fotografiska museum in Stockholm.

Going right back to trace the connection between capitalism, colonialism and nationalism. This is the first in a series called A Nation is A Narrative. open.substack.com/pub/evaldea/...

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Today I saw a pigeon being pecked to death by crows. I think they were actually eating pieces of it alive. I scared the crows off, but as I started walking off I realised they would soon be back... (cont'd)

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Work. Work. No. Work. Not even a metaphor for a writer’s life.

So my Monday morning is a total shitshow. How is yours going?

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When did Germany invade Poland? •    1942 •    1941 •    1940 •    1939 (Life in the UK citizenship test question) open.substack.com/pub/evaldea/...

An excellent device made by Clod Magazine - I carry it in my bag for use in noisy pubs. www.instagram.com/reel/CzJrJrY...

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Yup I’m that person who uses words like “vociferously” when chatting to a stranger at a traffic light.

Morning. It’s really raining out there. Do we have to go out?

Happy Halloween! Been playing around with selfie-portraits and masks over on instagram.com/to_write_lik.... I do way more fun stuff there. Here’s a non-edited preview: