His text to me, on making it to Goole train station with 6 minutes to spare, was 'made it. mother of god'.

This boi

💚 heart co-editing intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social. We'll be at Conway Hall in the heart of Bloomsbury for this year's amazing @smallpublishers.bsky.social on the 24 & 25 October. Come say hello!

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I'm in there. Hey #META, where's my money?

When university administrators announce that they are excited about something, you know it's going to be super bad

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

#OtD 15 Aug 1970 Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton delivered a speech in NYC criticisng homophobia and sexism in revolutionary movements and arguing for "full participation of the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8650...

are these the Israelis the ADL wants me to support or…

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I use Duckduckgo already, and this is a fab addition.

Yes yes yes all of this. #AI #education

​An overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July. An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder...

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Come for the overpriced warm #Brewdog, stay for the 'indie'-washed genocide. #tramlines #sheffield is now in a different galaxy than its grass roots, collective, translocal origins, and any performer worth their salt should walk away from this abhorrence. Corporate festivals suck. #FreePalestine

Offer ends at midnight, kids

I’ve done basically nothing (for work/writing/grading/planning/emails) for most of July. I’ll be back from Hades in a bit. (I know I’m supposed to go in winter but here we are.)

Looking at the Quoasis line-up at Heaton Park and really glad I'm not being forced to go to this particular park-wrecking hell. It seems no nostalgia dad-rock fest is complete without a one-hit anti-vaxxer.

Thank you @thehalt.bsky.social and to everyone who contributed and enjoyed the glow of the Aperol spritz at the closing event.

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Thank you to all the readers for a great afternoon 💖

Checked Out - at the former Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield - continues until 18 July (Wed–Sat, 12–6pm). Join us for a reading at the exhibition/shop space at 2pm today with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social, @emmabolland.bsky.social, Conor Rogers, and me (reading from 'Local Distribution'). All welcome.

Tomorrow at 2pm! Always love being part of lineup that includes @rachelartsmith.bsky.social

This Saturday, 2pm. I'm reading alongside @thehalt.bsky.social @rachelartsmith.bsky.social and Conor Rodgers as part of the Checked Out exhibition events programme. #Sheffield #poetry #prose #performance.

Niche Shadenfreude for Observer readers 🩶

Niche Shadenfreude for Observer readers 🩶

Chuffed to have two installations in the exhibition Checked Out, curated by Thomas Griffiths in #Sheffield. I'm reading a related script in progress as part of the events programme on the 12th. Free, all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/checked-ou...

The evil that men do lives after them

they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power

Co-editor here. @rachelartsmith.bsky.social & I are really pleased to be working with Joe. Layout in progress!

Lightwell, West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire, 16 June 2025.

Finally, a Holy War I can join

'all the way to the end of the land' To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between @martinheslop.bsky.social & @helentookey.bsky.social, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Published today by Longbarrow Press. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Guess how much of that revenue went to authors.

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

For Jo Cox, 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016. Labour MP for Batley and Spen, murdered on the streets of her constituency by a fascist. #JoCox youtu.be/WVe-9VWIcCo?...

As a babe in arms, I was sick over Lance Percival's coat.

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Good.

Today!

The closing event 🥂 for my residency at Yorkshire Artspace Exchange Place studios in #Sheffield is tomorrow, Friday 23, 5 to 7 pm. All welcome.

The closing event 🥂 for my residency at Yorkshire Artspace Exchange Place studios in #Sheffield is tomorrow, Friday 23, 5 to 7 pm. All welcome.

Join @emmabolland.bsky.social and Yorkshire Artspace on Friday evening for a celebratory closing event to meet Emma and see an informal presentation of work developed during their Testing Ground residency. Friday 23 May, 5pm-8pm, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield, S2 5TR. Free, no booking required.

Word.

Get up and get on 'em.

Another two days for my Testing Ground residency, today & tomorrow 12 - 4 Exchange Place Studios, Yorkshire Artspace#Sheffield. Come see me! Oh, and come to the closing event 5 - 8 on 23 May.