Reposted by Matthew Cheney🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 8hOh neat, so the U.S. copyright office is feeding submitted books to the slop machine to test their authenticity, and as always it decides "yes, this is my slop" even when it isn't, because the slop machine is an incestuous ouroboros with itself. Glad it was resolved in this case but fuckin yikes 29827
Reposted by Matthew CheneyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10hThe approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here] 417474
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 9hIt's Clive Barker's birthday! Here's something I wrote this summer about his early stories (and those of the great Joel Lane): reactormag.com/poetry-from-...reactormag.comPoetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane - ReactorAt the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions... 054
Reposted by Matthew CheneyDan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 14hAnd while we’re on the literary tip, here’s the great Paul Kincaid on the Goldsmiths-nominated Dooneen by Keith Ridgway: “This is a novel that undermines expectations. But what are those expectations that are being demolished and reconstructed as we go along?” Splendid piece from Paul, as ever.strangehorizons.comDooneen by Keith RidgwayYou can never go home again. 153
Reposted by Matthew CheneyNicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 15h👀 AMMONITE on sale for $1.99, all platforms! 24014
Reposted by Matthew CheneyGavin Miller @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social · 17hJapanese director Seijun Suzuki making art house classics just to spite his dickhead bosses: 2358
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 17hThis Halloween season, treat your trick to truly unexpected (even under-the-radar) horrors with my 2023 story collection The Last Vanishing Man (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) or 2024 novella Changes in the Land (@lethepress.bsky.social). Queer and loathing for all! 132
Reposted by Matthew CheneyPaul Witcover @paulwitcover.bsky.social · 17hLittle known fact: William Golding was a hobbit. 011
Reposted by Matthew CheneyChica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 19hAnglophone literary commentariat continually rehashes a narrow, commercial notion of autofiction which mostly reveals their narrow interests and bourgeois tastes. 092
Reposted by Matthew CheneyAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"A national election, that of Brazil, which will affect the 8.3 billion people who inhabit this world. The Amazon, according to scientific evidence, is close to reaching a point of no return. Returning to the deforestation levels of 2022 (Bolsonaro) would be the final blow" x.com/ActisAndres/... 211857
Reposted by Matthew CheneyBlake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 20hI wrote about the new Jon Hassell record "Music Is Invisible" for The Tonearm, which is gradually becoming an essential site for contemporary music writing. No advertising, no algorithms, just in-depth coverage of music. They are building something good at The Tonearm. Have a look.thetonearm.comLife and Death in Jon Hassell’s Fourth WorldA longtime devotee goes back through more than four decades of Hassell’s music and talks with co-producer Jeff Rona about the ‘City’ sessions, the self-sampling, and the posthumous ‘Music Is Invisible... 13218
Reposted by Matthew CheneyMatthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Happy October! Back in 2023, I made this playlist of 13 horror movies for @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social. Still more or less the list I would make today... thirdmanrecords.com/pages/13-hor...thirdmanrecords.com13 Horror Movies: A Playlist for Halloweenby Matthew Cheney October is my favorite month: it is the month I was born, it is LGBTQ+ History Month, and it is the month of Halloween, which means lots of people will be thinking about ghosts, ... 142
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Happy October! Back in 2023, I made this playlist of 13 horror movies for @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social. Still more or less the list I would make today... thirdmanrecords.com/pages/13-hor...thirdmanrecords.com13 Horror Movies: A Playlist for Halloweenby Matthew Cheney October is my favorite month: it is the month I was born, it is LGBTQ+ History Month, and it is the month of Halloween, which means lots of people will be thinking about ghosts, ... 142
Reposted by Matthew CheneyCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The easiest, least risky path to friendship is “oh you liked that, so did I!” Make that impossible, and few will be able to form enough non-familial connections to rise up against so much as our own ennui, let alone The Regime. 09727
Reposted by Matthew CheneyKier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today on my radio show PHONOGRAPHY, the 1st in a 2-part special devoted to NZ record label Flying Nun feat. an interview w/ Matthew Goody author of NEEDLES & PLASTIC: FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981-1988. Tune into penderradio.ca from 3-4pm pacific. Replays Tuesday same time! Sponsored by Timpson Films! 093
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Whoever left this on my front door has definitely never met me. Socialism is just the beginning of a good time in this house! 000
Reposted by Matthew CheneyElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The people talking about the dignity of being, say, a welder, have never welded anything. And as far as “the pay is actually good” arguments go, the starting pay is good. The pay a few years in is good. But there’s a ceiling and it hits at about the same time the physical toll of the job does 1675376
Reposted by Matthew CheneyPaul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Paul Bowles wrote music that encompassed a broad variety of genres, including scores for theater, opera, ballet, and chamber music; soundtracks for art films; piano compositions and experimental sound recordings. Find a broad selection of his works on paulbowles.org 022
Reposted by Matthew CheneySarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 03/10/2026My latest Crime & Mystery column reviews new books by Emiko Jean, Alan Parks, and Vikki Van Sickle, as well as a posthumous novel by the great James Sallis, who died earlier this year.nytimes.comNew Mystery Books for Fall (Gift Article)Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels. 1234
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This essay is overwhelmingly moving. I hope a publisher is working to bring Loren Rex Cameron's art and story back into print. We need it. 0134
Reposted by Matthew CheneyThe Séance @theseanceradio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Starts off great. Ends up magisterial. 193
Reposted by Matthew CheneyAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf. 1152067127
Reposted by Matthew Cheneyjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1086343956
Reposted by Matthew CheneyProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/20264 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators. 9564246
Reposted by Matthew CheneyICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026cw rape I think it really gives the game away that rapists are the only people there's ever any real talk about rehabilitative justice for and I say this as someone who genuinely does believe in rehabilitative justice it's fucking frustrating as hell that it's Moreover, ICE must be destroyed 245357
Reposted by Matthew CheneyPrism @prismreports.org · 03/10/2026Eclectic, human-created radio programming is made possible not just because of student devotion, but also because many campus stations house irreplaceable collections of physical media. @brittashoot.com details the free speech fight playing out on campuses where student radio is disappearing.prismreports.orgCollege radio stations are disappearingCleveland State University's recent transfer of its radio station's broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media 13413
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This article is by Annie Lowry, who attended Harvard and is married to Ezra Klein, whose father was a professor of math at UC Irvine, and he himself attended UC Santa Cruz & UCLA (but said he wasn't much of a student. Should've gone to trade school, become a bricklayer, made something of himself). 0101
Reposted by Matthew Cheney祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We lifelong book hoarders are now vindicated: we inhabit precious stores of non-AI-infested work 1378
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good cover image for any book about higher ed these days. 072
Reposted by Matthew CheneyDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy" 827676
Reposted by Matthew Cheneyhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For I am a salt-hag. I know gull gossip. I know the calling and quelling of storms. My hair is wind-braided. My lips wear rough salt kisses. I stand on the cliffs and read omens pulled by the tide. Be well and avoid my anger. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky 11852108
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"We'll all go together when we go... All suffused with an incandescent glow..." 000
Reposted by Matthew CheneyGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 294112624092
Reposted by Matthew CheneyMike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s October 1st 844221530
Reposted by Matthew CheneyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest. 24138601001
Reposted by Matthew CheneyChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/10/2026This article is so well written. 0296
Reposted by Matthew CheneyLisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is very wonky and utterly infuriating. Logging companies (w/help from IKEA!) say *literally cutting down trees* should count as carbon negative and be credited as good for the planet. And they might get away with it. newrepublic.com/article/2157...newrepublic.comDid the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting. 15222
Reposted by Matthew Cheney𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026~ G. Gulyaev (2003) 0235
Reposted by Matthew CheneyChica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Translation: the United States lost yet another war which killed millions and cost billions. 1257
Reposted by Matthew CheneyJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is so brilliant. Uncommon. 727573
Reposted by Matthew CheneyKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The same type of process that decides potatoes and water coolers are the optimal package deal for consumers also decides whose job application gets considered and whose does not, or whose mortgage gets approved and at what interest rate. 14111
Reposted by Matthew CheneyLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"'From Life' stands as a testament to Berger’s faith in the storyteller’s role in sustaining our companionship with those who are no longer alive." Zach Gibson reviews Tom Overton’s biography of John Berger: lareviewofbooks.org/article/john-be… 073
Reposted by Matthew CheneyAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030861087
Reposted by Matthew CheneyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026“Three people dying in one day is an amplification of what we’ve already seen,” said Andrew Free, a former immigration attorney and investigative journalist who has for years extensively worked on ICE-related death cases.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comThree deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surgeThese men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign 14029
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A very rich issue of the #OpenAccess journal James Baldwin Review — including interviews with David Leeming and David Moses, numerous book reviews (2 of Nicholas Boggs's blockbuster bio), the text of a lecture by Hortense Spillers, and plenty more. Great stuff! 173
Reposted by Matthew CheneyIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's Caravaggio's birthday again, good excuse to get people to watch Derek Jarman's extravagantly marvellous CARAVAGGIO (1986) (and look at some Caravaggio paintings). 4299
Reposted by Matthew CheneyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing 24595155
Reposted by Matthew CheneyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026The entire motto of this administration towards LGBTQ youth is "fuck them kids." thehill.com/homenews/edu...thehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 28940307
Reposted by Matthew CheneyNosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for 3443531223