It would not have been the most lucrative career but I really really wish I'd become an English teacher.

#JustListened So the forest critters from @eveale.bsky.social have a new song out and it's pretty nice, being about a killer plant and stuff... But why do I have the date May 1st stuck in my head?!? May 1st, May 1st, damn hypnotic pollen!, May 1st, May 1st, May 1st, make it stop! , May 1st, May...

Part of the reason I write poetry is that it's a safe way to do something I don't fully understand.

cruelty isn’t special

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

*sees there's a new Young Sherlock show *sees it's from Guy Ritchie *quickly scrolls away

Going back to the vet again today, please share and throw me a few dollars if you can.

🧵 We have no idea the cultural wasteland we're creating.

the german word for this is lebensraum

My favourite Paul McCartney album. Handmade, home-built, eccentric and joyful. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Imagine if someone funny, like Eleanor Morton, got a Netflix special.

Sam Altman has such a punchable voice.

No one wants to use AI—we know that this is a technology in search of an actual use or a "killer app," as they used to say in Silicon Valley, that will attract users to their platform. AI finally found their user base: fascist governments. And this time, the killer app actually kills.

imagined in silver face of a catafalque sulphur & silkworm quickening toward leaving a trail that salts the earth sorts your worth from your warmth.

After the brilliance of the new Ruins Of Beverast album it's been hard to give the required attention to any other new black metal, but De Pinte by Misotheist has finally snared me. Mid-paced, monumental black metal that sounds like a dark exhortation.

Cwicseolfor is such a lovely way to spell quicksilver.

Got one of those scam emails from a 'European Book Club' offering to showcase 'the mythic resonance' of my last book...for a fee. Oh sweet spring children, you can't con a corpse.

Good piece in The Hindu today by a journalist who tracks West Asia very closely www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead...

This is now available on @bookshop.org (although they block my Indian IP, but I bet it should be available to others) bookshop.org/book/9798231... #BookSky #ReadSky #WriteSky #Anthology of #MicroFiction & #ShortStory

A good video essay on pj harvey youtu.be/XoRTdI1LOm4?...

A cat peed on my sneakers and then a dog did the same, in case you're wondering how my day is going.

The centrists on facebook are spiralling, I regret to inform you.

Some of yall are getting a little too comfortable with your antisemitism that yall are trying to cloak around being anti-impearlist.

PS and this just turned 39! The drummer on it is called Rat Skates! music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

even my enemies don't know I'm already ashes already dust that heat flare was my funeral my enemies don't know they're warming myself at the burning of all my cares, dearest dreams and fiercest fears

to me it is boring as fuck to cede your whole life to the lies of advertising. you have a wrinkle and your body needs more maintenance than it used to: inevitable! you stop being curious or interested in anything new: not fucking inevitable actually

I'm an artist, primarily a woodcut printmaker. My focus isn't exclusively horror, but I love a good monster and my interests tend towards the weird and macabre. My art appears in books including SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS, THE DAGON COLLECTION, and THE STARRY WISDOM LIBRARY. xylographilia.com

*Just in the LAST WEEK*: - Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them - Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license - Scouts agreed to ban trans kids - Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids - SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

Small, true 🧵

On Monday, March 16, activist Mike Africa Jr. and scholar Dr. Krystal Strong will join Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss the story of the MOVE organization, repairing histories of state violence, and the “On a MOVE” curriculum project in Philadelphia [.]

This album just turned forty years old! It's younger than me. And much, much heavier... music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Since I am pretty sure it is also @jolantru.bsky.social birth month sharing her interview again and am encouraging everyone to buy one of her amazing books as a birthday present!

Yes I know governments seem to keep doing whatever they want despite protests. And I know defeatism is seductive. I live in a country where dissent has become increasingly dangerous. And yet, people in Modi's India still find ways to show their solidarity with Gaza, with the people of Iran.

Many Happy Returns to Daniel Craig.

he was dying all summer it's always summer now don't you know? always the dry wind blowing thirst into his bones death into his eyes under the noonday sun. in these days the devil's hour is of blaze and light and the devil's laugh is the sound of a man coughing as his palms fill with hot blood.

"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are." Karl Kraus

Sometimes I feel like diaspora Indians of my age want me to be a sin eater for them. A safe space to complain about the west but also condemn the homeland without being accountable for anything.

There is no point trying to anticipate the immediate future. The thin illusion of there being sane players on any side is completely shattered.

I'll reduce everything to class the day the US intervenes in the leadership of a majority white nation. Kthxbye.

@sonnetsmith.bsky.social #WildWalkPrompt #Love

Omg I don’t know how I forgot that Elizabeth Gaskell went on a tear for 2years gathering evidence and trying to be a whistleblower about the abuse that the Brontës suffered, after Charlotte Brontë’s death such wild story and should be more known, esp. since she also suffered consequences

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran: it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law

I want to start reading Nalo Hopkinson. What's a good book to read first?

Wren of the Day: Munchique Wood Wren 📷 Fabrice Schmitt Vulnerable

just realized that if Bond were a girl-Bond, Otto Dix would be a great name for a Bond Boy

Sara Qaed, Bahraini cartoonist

If you want to read voices of young artists in Iran, please support the comics anthology "Young in Iran" published with @comicsworkshop.bsky.social It's 264 pages, 6x9 inches, and was censored by Kickstarter. Take a look: www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/saw-shop/p/y...

In general, I think Trump has demonstrated that public buy-in really isn't necessary for anything the US elite wants to do. I'm not sure it ever was, and I think Trump has just shown everyone the truth. Power doesn't need to follow polls or whatever, power can just do what it wants.