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Kate Feld

@katefeld.bsky.social
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Poet and essayist. Journalism lecturer at the University of Salford. Vermonter in Manchester, UK. Debut chapbook DEERYARD out with Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. katefeld.com

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13h
Y'all denied her tenure
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Important if you've published anything (poetry or prose) in a U.K.-based print journal or mag with an ISSN in the past three years! The deadline to add it to your ALCS account is 31/10 this year. And if you haven't joined yet, do so for free. Get paid for your writing...! www.alcs.co.uk/join-alcs/
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Thinking of joining?
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile, Richard Siken 🖤
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I dont understand how people defend this.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This series is being reissued by Influx Press in the UK with stunning covers/design. Just bolted through the first two, the third is out in the spring.
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The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from @elfodongo.bsky.social @pcevans.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @katefeld.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @bentufnell.bsky.social & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...
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The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd
Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/05/2026
Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
My friend @namimun.bsky.social on her struggle to get her ovarian cancer diagnosis from her American healthcare providers, who too often ignored her symptoms, as she did the same: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
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The Warnings I Almost Didn’t Heed
For a lifetime, I dismissed my body’s complaints. Then came ovarian cancer.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/04/2026
Such a good @anildash.com clip here w/ @anamariecox.bsky.social talking about how Substack's problem isn't just nazis - it is being *trapped* alongside nazis in their closed ecosystem Watch the whole thing, it's so good youtu.be/IWdST5J2_p0
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Anil Dash: Get Off Substack Before Someone Buys You | Past Due Podcast
YouTube video by Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/04/2026
Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.
An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands
Deportation Fleet With High-End JetsMy headline from April 15 reading:
Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under MarkwayneThe hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS
Noem's luxury
'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg
Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.
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26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'll be hosting Natalie's event in Manchester with @mcrlitfest.bsky.social, very much looking forward to it
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dr clementine’s monster @clemmie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@manilazic.bsky.social wrote this 3 years ago about influencers taking over the critic space, and the same thing has happened with interviews www.theguardian.com/film/2023/au...
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Who needs film critics when studios can be sure influencers will praise their films?
A shift from knowledgable writers to those simply in search of free tickets devalues cinema – and audience experience
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
thanks Ruth, glad to hear of it :)
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We love Ibbotson, all her books! I think we still have those, somewhere, and they're definitely worth revisiting. They are so warm and wonderful. Between Two Fires sounds great too, glad it's back in print
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
These look fabulous too, especially the Attolia books. YA, not YA, we don't care. A great book is a great book at any age. Thank you, this has really helped me a lot :)
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I know none of these writers, how fabulous (for both of us, I'm gonna have to read all of them too.)
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@kellylink.bsky.social could you point me at books for my soon to be 18-yr-old daughter (her current obsession: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet; her perennial fave: Cynthia Voigt's A Solitary Blue). She loves good writing and is partial to a graphic novel too. I need some inspiration!
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This was a really good one, helped me understand why things are so hard. The social contract is broke and we are too.
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Erica Heilman @rumblestrip.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Here's a conversation with a listener in Scotland about why so many of us feel ashamed of our financial lives in todays economy. It is a reaction to recent class episodes from @vermontpublic.org, and I ask dumb questions for the sake of all people like me. www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/a-s...
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A springtime show about the economy that partly explains why we feel ashamed — Rumble Strip
This is a conversation with a money manager in Scotland who has given a great deal of thought to why many of us feel confused and ashamed about our financial lives.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 03/04/2026
What I love about the NYT is that to them, everything is possible. Maybe AI is alive. Maybe Republicans aren't racist. Maybe the new war in the middle east is good actually. Maybe a FEMA agent teleported (magically OR WITH SCIENCE, haters) to a waffle house. We don't know! Facts aren't real things!
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 23/03/2026
What a legend. Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
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Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker.
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is horrifying. As someone who lives in Greater Manchester, I'd love to know what school this was?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
One of the many ways in which AI, no matter how “good,” will always fall short of humans at being human. From Another Way Of Telling, by John Berger & Jean Mohr, 1982
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#HaveCourage @havecourage.film · 28/02/2026
‘We live in this paradox, and it has a deep contradiction. You’re creating big cities, creating great images for the young Arab people, creating an environment that they’d love to live in – but you don’t want to give them freedom.’ 
– #AhmedMansoor #UAE
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 23/02/2026
The whole "it's here, accept it, it's already in your life, you can't stop it, it's happening & actually you being unable to remove it (bc we designed it like that) is proof you want ir" techbro chat is pure & utter rape script. Nothing but.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I'm about to start reading this too! Just finished 'Hold Still'
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
my proportions Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
Virginia Woolf Diary

Tuesday 30 December
What it wants is presumably unity; but it is I think rather good (I am talking to myself over the fire about The Waves). Suppose I could run all the scenes together more? - by rhythm, chiefly. So as to avoid those cuts; so as to make the blood run like a torrent from end to end - I dont want the waste that the breaks give; I want to avoid chapters; that indeed is my achievement, if any here: a saturated, unchopped, completeness; changes of scene, of mood, of person, done without spilling a drop. Now if it cd. be worked over with heat & currency thats all it wants. And I am getting my blood up. (temp. 99)
But all the same I went to Lewes, & the Keynes's came to tea; & having got astride my saddle the whole world falls into shape; it is this writing that gives me my proportions.
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Matt’s theme for the month will be/// __My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico Sendyourmagicxx burninghousepress.com/2025/12/01/d...
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DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided.
Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all.
The study warns that when writing is
delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Not only have I done it, I wrote an essay about doing it 💅https://burninghousepress.com/2018/04/07/peach-on-the-beach-by-kate-feld/
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Peach On The Beach by Kate Feld
Isn’t every fruit soft, if you wait? In small bodies the time is softly passing. Peach had a twilight air. It wore a yellow curling-up sticker that read ‘gog de magog’ in black print (something fro…
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Do you read the New Yorker? (Sure, I even got the tote bag!) Ahhh, you might wanna check this out... bidoun.org/articles/hou...
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House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Submissions are open for November’s theme and guest editor @ccohanlon.bsky.social awaits your contributions:: JOURNEYS_ horizontal vertical inside outside beyond begone __SENDx burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
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NOVEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is C.C. O’HANLON!!! THEME/S: JOURNEYS
Burning House Press are excited to welcome C.C. O’HANLON as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today C.C. will take over editorship of Burning House Pre…
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Writers! Me & @mconley.bsky.social are teaming up for a writing workshop on the theme of 'attention.' Join us Sat Nov 29 at Saan.1 Gallery in Mcr to discuss poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Phillips & Benjamin Zephaniah and then work on your own. Details here: katefeld.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A storm is raging outside and I have been painstakingly updating my website with news of events and new writing of mine out there in the world and stuff I've enjoyed reading. Which feels cosy. katefeld.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...
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Autumn 2025
Finally got my contributor’s copy of Magic Art Redux, which I mentioned last time – definitely one of the most beautiful books I’ve been published in. A few copies of the limited …
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Memorizing this
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🎊CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY MAGIC - FULL #MLF25 PROGRAMME OUT NOW!📚 From internationally acclaimed authors and cultural icons to bold new voices, our 20th edition is set to inspire, challenge and delight anyone who celebrates with us. 🧵
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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New work on BHP! Thanks to editor @saint-remus.bsky.social (& @miggyangel.bsky.social for starting this fire in the first place) 🔥 Lots of great stuff to read and another call live now...
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
You should hate Nazis more than you love convenience. So many folks bemoaning how powerless they are re: the rise of fascism are actively funding it via their use of Substack and AI, by refusing to wear an n95, by ignoring transphobia, &c. You have power. You just prefer convenience and comfort.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...
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Media literacy - Committees - UK Parliament
This inquiry will seek to establish a clear vision for what good media literacy would look like in the UK, and examine the barriers to achieving this vision. The committee will consider the roles and ...
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