cicadacreativemag.com/issue-9/afte... After Neil Tennant, published at Cicada.

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

Essential reading. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

Don't be distracted by the chaos. Trump’s 2nd term agenda will be more calculated than his 1st. He's following the playbook of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to crush democracy, silence dissent & entrench his own power. Those who lived it say there’s a window to act now. Here’s how we fight back. ⬇️

Reading about this luxury apartment building that's falling apart after only ten years because the developer wanted a pure white building, a color only achieved by weakening the concrete. LOL what a fucking living metaphor.

Wrote a bit about how finishing a book is simultaneously like staring at the ceiling and taking a leap into a future you don't quite believe in, via astral projection, Virginia Woolf & Helen Chadwick. Also a solution to the subject/object problem! Read "project" here 👇 www.somayer.net?na=view&id=5

New visual poem in the newest issue of @perversemag.bsky.social . Many thanks to @chrissywilliams.bsky.social for taking this on!

So.much.looking.forward.to.this! Look at that cover!

1993 not 1992 for me but yeah.

Um...what?

Some exciting news! Alloy, my full length poetry collection, will be published in the US by @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social! Warm thanks to @annpedone.bsky.social for taking on this weird little book! Can't wait to share it with the world!

Danish public broadcaster DR broke the news that several associates of Donald Trump had been flagged by the Danish Police Intelligence Service for running a shoddy espionage campaign in Greenland. defector.com/danish-intel...

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well

Fyi.

In a late 19th-century anarchist newspaper, John Tresch uncovers an unusual piece, purported to be from the pen of Louise Michel, telling of a cross-dressing revolutionary unhinged at the helm of some kind of sociopolitical astrolabe: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

Spirit of the Renegade Monk, a woodblock print by Katsukawa Shunsho, 1783. Buy as a print here on our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/spirit-of-the-renegade-monk

your body may deteriorate as you get older but at least you also slowly lose all your friends

“Age-estimation technology, according to internet civil rights group Center for Democracy & Technology, may deprive some users from technology they should be able to access.”

I'd like to direct another music video some day. This was fun. youtu.be/B9BLMNn0PrQ?...

Wtf. Please RT. This is unacceptable.

MAGA ftw.

So #thepowerfantasy issue 11 denouement effectively places two key players (Dev + Etienne) in (narrative) positions which poetically mirror each other. Very clever @kierongillen.bsky.social! And the artwork by Caspar Wijngaard is perfectly matched to the script! That countdown effect was golden.

Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

the holocaust was a PROCESS enabled precisely by people who wanted to delude themselves about what was clearly happening

David Pogue: “I’m wondering what your thought is on the ban on foreign students, the proposal. I mean, you were one of those kids, right?” Elon Musk: “Yeah. I mean, I think we wanna stick to, you know, the subject of the day, which is, like, spaceships, as opposed to, you know, presidential policy"

The Knight and the Page (Le Chevalier et la Page) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/71233

youtu.be/79fmJaPbucc?... Weird listening to this while having a root canal.

So does the hand which picks up the Toymaker's gold tooth at the end of the Giggle belong to the Rani? #doctorwho

I am honestly in awe of people who teach at colleges and universities. I would not have the stomach, the heart, the patience, or the temper to face what is described here. nymag.com/intelligence...

Israel didn’t make the desert bloom; all it did was make a semi-arid Mediterranean region flammable.

Could Mrs Flood be related to River Song? Riverrun to Flood and all that. #doctorwho

Missy Elliott's set at #coachella is pure unadulterated joy.

💜 "By understanding and learning to embrace our transness as an early step, it ended up opening the floodgates for learning more about ourselves" https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-understanding-our-asexuality-helped-save-our-relationship/

Things are going to get worse.

indwelling // handcut paper collage on paper, april 2025 #collageart #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Yes.

Marine Le Pen’s first conviction rules out future presidential candidacies. Donald Trump’s various convictions, 881,776 Covid deaths, armed insurrection & theft of classified documents made him president. That’s why we can’t have nice things.

This list is so much fun -- give yourself the gift of gifting someone a book you love!!

“…The viral outrage disseminated on social media actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”

There are a lot of things I like and perhaps more things I dislike about Oxford but the Oxford comma is definitely one of the things I really like as well.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.