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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

'Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.' Roy is a magician with words. This book really undid me.

Picture shows a book on a table. The book is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. The cover shows leaves floating on water.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

'Call me if you have any problems. I'm Scorpion. Nobody can defeat me, okay?' Finally watched Love Exposure (2008) and it's as good as everyone says it is. Looking forward to thinking about it for the rest of my life.

Image is a shot from the film 'Love Exposure' (2008) directed by Sion Sono. The image shows a desolate sandy landscape under a blue sky dotted with clouds. The centre of the frame is dominated by an enormous white stone cross which is being supported by four people; a boy in black, a girl in a school uniform, a man in black and a woman in a red dress. They are all struggling under the weight of the cross.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 05/05/2026

Graham Hughes is a Scottish filmmaker who made the microbudget found footage masterpieces Death of a Blogger and Hostile Dimension. He's crowdfunding his new film Manipulator, and isn't asking for much - please support this project, Graham is a real visionary! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/manipulator

Praise for Hostile Dimensions and Death of a Vlogger - shows series of press quotes and a glut of 4/5 star ratings

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My guy @factionman.bsky.social is working on a new film, and I'm helping! If you enjoy no budget found footage horror films that do amazing things with just some spit and elbow grease then check out Manipulator 😈 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/manipulator

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Manipulator | sci-fi/horror feature film

To complete funds for the second half of shooting our found footage sci-fi horror film MANIPULATOR.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

From the first moment of Happyend, I felt like I was in a safe pair of hands. Poetically shot, finely balanced, beautiful.

Picture shows the poster for the film 'Happyend', directed by Neo Sora, 2024. A group of highschoolers running in the night, each if them framed in an orange rectangle.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I came to Tehanu a bit late, but so did Le Guin, and I think I came to it precisely at the perfect time. Her writing always transfixes me, poetic, elegant, and simple, and Tehanu is such a lovely exploration of power and gender.

Image shows the book 'Tehanu' by Ursula Le Guin, The Last Book of Earthsea

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A reminder that eels are *the* most smuggled animal on earth, and that the global black market for eels is worth an estimated $4-5 billion. Interpol has called it “Europe’s ivory trade.”

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Just finished reading Vagabonds. It was fucking good. 'Freedom will have to be imagined by the shapeshifters, actors, invisibles, ghosts, magicians, vagabonds, outcasts, outsiders. Always the only hope.'

Image shows the book 'Vagabonds' by Eloghosa Osunde

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Graham Hughes @factionman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Anyone looking for an editor? I’ve been doing a lot of film teases and trailers lately but have experience in pretty much everything: shorts, features, music videos, corporate, promotional/online context, educational, showreels etc. Any shares greatly appreciated, trying to keep food on the table 🙏

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to reveal the cover for @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS - a queer apocalyptic specfic, out everywhere September 16th... Preorder links below ⬇️

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I don't post here much but I couldn't miss sharing the cover reveal of my brother's book 'This is How the World Ends', which is coming out September 16th. Look how GORGEOUS! And the words inside are just as good, preorder now! And follow @discobooks.bsky.social if you haven't already!

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy Non-Binary People’s Day! If you’re an author under the non-binary umbrella comment with a link to a book you wanna promote & I’ll repost! To get us started I highly recommend this emotional, conceptual sci fi by my awesome sibling @jomawest.bsky.social 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/twic...

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Twice Lived a book by Joma West.

Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life.There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you’re a shifte...

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy Non-Binary People’s Day to my non-binary pals! 5 BIPOC non-binary books: Face by @jomawest.bsky.social In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xirin Jay Zhao Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 #nonbinaryday

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Ana Chapman @anachapman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Very excited about the publication of this chapter! rdcu.be/euuAe in The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights.

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Outfacing the “In” Face: The Posthuman Wound and the Defacing of Relationality in Joma West’s Face

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Final Destination: Bloodlines is such a fun time, my heart really warmed seeing Tony Todd one more time.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I finished my first play through of Disco Elysium today. And then I watched Possession (1981) for the first time. And it felt like a perfect double bill.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Allow me to bitch about something no one but me & some people watching @netflix.com care about for a second. I loved THE DEVIL'S PLAN S1. Really difficult gameplay for really smart people & a dog fight of a triumphant finish. Season 2 is...not that. A fun, smart gameshow has been ruined. How? /1

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Creatives in the UK deserve strong trade unions that represent their interests and fight for a better creative ecology. We don't have that yet and I know a lot of people have felt let down by the society of authors, but we can change it for the better.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 16/04/2025

The SoA must do more for climate justice – but it won’t without you. Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6] Links for eligibility + help with fees: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 16/04/2025

Every climate justice writer belongs in their union. The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1]

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 22/04/2025

The SoA will only stand in solidarity with Palestine if you join and get active. Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6] Need support with joining fees? We can help: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 22/04/2025

Every writer against genocide belongs in their union. The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet. Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]

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Kaylee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🔜 BLFC @littlemacha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My pal Dr Christina Neuwirth has today released the results of 7 years of research into gender inequality in Scottish literature. I'm so, so proud of them. www.quinereport.com

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Any UK self published authors in my network? Which printers do you use and why do you like them? #booksky #ukbooksky

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow! I recommend adding Twice Lived to your TBR, by my brilliant non-binary sibling @jomawest.bsky.social A beautiful, emotional, short sci fi story about two mixed heritage girls sharing one body across parallel worlds 💜 📚💙 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🏳️‍🌈 bookshop.org/p/books/twic...

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Twice Lived

Check out Twice Lived - Torn between two families and two lives, a troubled teen must come to terms with losing half their world. Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life. Ther...

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

'A mélange of accents and languages enables the simultaneity of worlds, offering a way to exist on cultural crossroads. Most of humanity moves along cultural crossroads.' www.guernicamag.com/joli-petit-a...

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“Growing up, moving between the United States and Palestine made me feel as if I shed one self and inhabited another, over and over again.”

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I love stories where each new perspective unpeels everything you thought you knew and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster does that masterfully. Such an achingly beautiful film that treats its characters with immense sensitivity.

A still from the film Monster (2023). Two boys are running through green foliage and sunflowers. They are wet and muddy and look happy.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Watched Nickel Boys at the weekend. It really took my breath away, this is the kind of art that sets me off, beautiful, moving, so damn smart, every second on screen has a thought behind it, nothing is extraneous it's just pure art on every level.

Still image from the film Nickel Boys (2024). The image show the two main characters - Elwood and Turner - standing next to each other and looking up at their reflections in a reflective ceiling. The camera stares down at them through the ceiling they are looking at. Elwood is facing on the viewers left and facing towards the viewer. Turner is on the right and his body faces away from the viewer. Elwood's expression is thoughtful and Turner's is more playful.

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Graham Hughes @factionman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

now making music (and more music videos) STANLEY TWOBRICKS - popular music

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop was a bittersweet joy to read. I felt like I could be reading about myself and my friends, the concerns haunting the characters were all too familiar. I wish I had this bookshop in my neighbourhood, seems like a rad place to hang out.

Book on a coffee table. The book is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum and translated into English by Shanna Tan.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This was very helpful on the other site, so it’ll be helpful here too.

A series of posts by Twitter person 5 Chinese Crackers. The key points are “The Culture War is a right wing project to attack freedom of speech by demonising and delegitimising left wing ideas disguised as a defence of it” and “For several decades now, this has relied on taking the most extreme thing some random has (or in most cases hasn't) said to paint the left as a bunch of weirdos that will get you arrested for asking for black coffee, instead of people who want to improve society somewhat”.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The UK AI and copyright consultation closes today. It is deliberately long and technical so many of us who will be impacted may feel it isn't for them. Respond anyway! Many groups have support materials to answer the questions you care about. Check them out>

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🚨 UK #booksky today is the last day to complete the government's AI consultation form. @fossilfreebooks.org has a handy guide on their IG if you're feeling daunted by the task: www.instagram.com/p/DGQktlEIxd...

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Long overdue, I saw Pather Panchali. What a film! Poetic and intimate. This is the start of Apu's story but it's a film about women. The old woman, the mother, the maid, their small joys are so sweet, but mostly they broke my heart. Such a sensitive portrait of having dreams that feel out of reach.

A still image from the film Pather Panchali (1955). In black and white, the image shows a little boy having his hair combed by his slightly older sister. Their mother sits beside them and smiles lovingly at them both. They are wearing rural Bengali dress from the time period.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I've seen it a few times now and every time Jigarthanda DoubleX just makes me happy. It's such a dense, dynamic, explosion of a film, heaving with villains and bad intentions. A wild ride. (Shout out to my lady Malaiarasi - she's a badass with not enough screen time.)

A still image from the film Jigarthanda DoubleX (2023). Two men sit across from each other in a courtyard. The man on the left wears dark clothes and sits on a simple wooden chair. The man on the right wears lighter clothes, he is smartly dressed, and he sits on a throne with two elephant tusks decorating the backrest.

A portrait photo of the actress Nimisha Sajayan. She is in costume for the film Jigarthanda DoubleX in which she plays the character Malaiarasi.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

UK Creatives! The government's consultation form for AI is long and confusing but the good news is you don't have to complete the whole thing. Here is a handy guide that breaks down which questions to answer.

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NO, we don’t want to give up copyright protection

Follow these tips and tricks to complete the AI consultation in no time at all (and sign our open letter!)

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you're a UK author, illustrator, creative, it's important to have your say by 25th February re. the government's stance on copyright protection and AI. @fossilfreebooks.org has a breakdown on their ig about what you can do. www.instagram.com/p/DGQktlEIxd...

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“The arts world has an extraordinary way of forgetting that which it finds uncomfortable, and the literary world is skilled at rewriting its history”

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Graham Hughes @factionman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Christopher Nolan apologising to all his women characters

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Finished The Three-Body Problem today and it was proper mind warping stuff that was so elegantly explained. Had a great time with it.

Book on a coffee table. The book is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated to English by Ken Liu. The book cover shows a stone pyramid under a vast sky with three suns. A silhouette of a person stands gazing upon the pyramid and sky in the foreground. The figure stands on icy ground.

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Joma West @jomawest.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Robot Dreams is really brutal for a film that's so romantic and life-affirming. Made me feel a lot of feelings.

A still image from the film Robot Dreams (2023). The image shows a robot jumping some turnstiles in a subway station in New York. The robot is smiling joyfully, while a dog stands behind the robot watching them in surprise.

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My great uncle in Ypsilanti used to tell us stories about how when workers would get restless with contract negotiations at the auto plant, management would start spreading false rumors among white workers that union negotiators were demanding special pay and work conditions for black workers.

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