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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yet another shitty unfunny Ben Jennings editorial cartoon belittling sex workers while also diminishing the threat of the far right.

A cartoon of a car parked in the dark by a road sign with directions to RAF Fairfield. The driver has a speech bubble that says "Hello police, there are suspicious men in balaclavas near my farm. I fear they could be terrorists, far right thugs or staging a Bonnie Blue event!"

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON edited by the Practicing Refusal Collective including @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, now in stock @ibraaz.bsky.social, in anticipation of Gabrielle Goliath's ELEGY opening on 8 October ❤️‍🔥

A stack of copies of Thinking from Black: A Lexicon, a book with a bright red colour, on the mirrored steel front desk at Ibraaz.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three times in three weeks, the Guardian opinion column has decided that the funniest thing it can come up with is depicting a fascist cis male leader (Farage x 2, Trump x 1) in drag: as a sex worker in Farage's case; as a beauty pageant queen in Trump's. This is rank transmisogyny & whorephobia.

Cartoon by Ben Jennings depicting Nigel Farage, nude but for St George cross nipple tassels, popping out of a bin.

Cartoon by Nicola Jennings, depicting Nigel Farage nude but for a G-string stuffed with notes, poke dancing.

Cartoon by Ben Jennings depicting Donald Trump in a Stars and Stripes dress, wearing a crown and holding flowers wrapped in a Union Jack, and a sash that says Miss Information.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

CÉLINE SCIAMMA @ OUTBURST Fri 13– Sat 15 Nov, 2026 Belfast 13th: Salon des Refusées: Céline's lecture on feminist film 14th: Tomboy (director's cut) + Céline intro Portrait + Céline intro inc prev unseen footage 15th: 2 new shorts + in convo (w/ me 🤯) Booking opens Mon 21 Sept ⏰ outburstarts.com

Céline Sciamma films herself in a mirror, with a poster in Italian behind her, which reflects in reverse, for an event at an archive (the word Archivio is one of the only words fully visible).

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok hear me out, a Lord of the Rings remake but with these two taking the one ring to mordor

Héloïse and Marianne from Céline Sciamma's film Portrait of a Lady on Fire, embracing by the water under a blue sky, much like Sam and Frodo setting off for the eastern shore except much sexier.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lollllllll they really came at an actual curator who has published a book on film curating as an ETHICAL, RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICE OF CARE FOR MEMORY IN THE FACE OF TRAUMATIC GRIEF to say that using a bingo machine is like curation. Algorithm-pilled pick-me wannabe.

Quote post by The Data Therapist in the B!
@datatherapist.bsky.social
This topic
is more nuanced than "they
wrote their own story" vs "they pressed the record button". The act of using AINlike this is very similar to the act of curation. If you believe curating has a creative aspect, you have to cope with what aspects are creative in using Al like this. Responding to original post by
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.so... • 1d
To me it's like saying "some people recorded
a film off TV on a VHS = some people made
their own film." Sure, dear, you pressed a button, you're very special.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think I've seen this film* before and I didn't like the ending. *The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the moral of which is that power is always in the house's control & serving its ends, not yours, so don't be seduced by the promise of convenience.

Guardian headline: "Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users' control, research finds"

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some interior spreads for you...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's AUTUMN! Cooking season! Cool enough to turn on the oven / fire up the taboon! So I've made a gorgeous cookbook display @ibraaz.bsky.social accordingly. What good things will you add to your feast repertoire?

Display of faced out hardback cookbooks including Tanoreen, Eat With Afia, Bilhana, Sabzi, I Sleep in My Kitchen, Palestine on a Plate and Imad's Syrian Kitchen.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 21/08/2026

Love that my farewell to Edinburgh comes from Margaret Tait, with a little history of urban sound art, courtesy of the wonderful MT100 project.

Stone pillar by the entrance to North Bridge opposite the Market Street entrance to Edinburgh Waverley station. Level with the top of the arched entrance to the staircase, about 3 metres up, theres a blue plaque, part of the MT100 Margaret Tait trail.

Slightly blurry close up of the Margaret Tait plaque at the entrance to North Bridge. The text on the plaque reads: "Margaret Tair
1918-1999
FILMMAKER & POET
As with the work of many 16mm filmmakers, Margaret Tait's soundtracks were recorded separately. Tait made great efforts to capture the precise sounds needed for her inventive soundtracks and often kept detailed notes of the recordings made.
12 Jan, 4.30-5pm, 1963: record: startings under the North Bridge on a Sunday afternoon + a ittle traffic and not very much other nolse.
MARGARETTAIT100.COM"

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

No NYer subscription? Just check the guy's Wikipedia page to see his "dark legacy" is.... oh, tons of his peer scientists saying child rape is ok if you do science "good".

Screenshot from a Wikipedia page. Text reads:

In 1996, Gajdusek was charged with child molestation, and spent 12 months in prison after being convicted. He subsequently entered a self-imposed exile in Europe, where he died a decade later. Despite Gajdusek openly admitting to molesting boys and his approval of incest, he still received support from many peers advocating for clemency who felt his crimes were lessened by his scientific contributions.
His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland and at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 12/08/2026

Seated for Mavis Staples!!! Talk about a once in a lifetime event!

Stage and stained glass window above it at Union Chapel, bathed in pink light.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy #WITMonth. Look at our whole shelf of women's books in translation! @ibraaz.bsky.social

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 05/08/2026

How was your day at work, So? Well, on the way home through Oxford Circus, Athena (outside Nike, insert goddess pun here) took a good long look at me so I'm either about to be eaten or I'm blessed.

A guy in a white t-shirt standing outside Nike with a foot-high tawny owl jessed to his shoulder. The owl is looking at the viewer with big yellow eyes.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 05/08/2026

OK Odyssey stans, Monique Wittig has entered the discourse (disc-horse)? From THE LITERARY WORKSHOP, trans. Ann Jefferson @versobooks.bsky.social

held chapter on the gnomon.
In The Literary Workshop, Monique Wittig presents the "Trojan Horse' as 'a machine made of words that is doubtless sufficiently unique in history (literary history) for it to be permissible to use it here as an analogy within the space occupied by writing. And she goes on to add:
Or for it to be like the gnomon, a measuring instrument, which is said to have been the first fashioner of concepts. But a gnomon that is neither square nor any other shape, because its properties are abstract before being concrete. At any rate, I am placing this machine here on the page in order to point to its maker in the first instance, because this is how I see writers, as makers of Trojan horses.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 04/08/2026

No cheating post your lock screen.

Graffiti from a street in Lisbon: ARTEMIS sprayed in wiggly black single line lettering above a bright red fire hydrant.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 30/07/2026

On the Northern Line from ctl London while both Piccadilly & Central lines are down & could not support this more.

Adbusting poster in TfL font and design, posted on a Tube carriage, that reads: Feeling the Heat? Carry a bottle of water / Wear loose clothing / Blame Shell for this heatwave. Travel Hell for London / Every Passenger Suffers.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 27/07/2026

While we're doing film criticism discourse, here's a brand new piece for @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social by the excellent Hyun Jin Cho on the 15th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), finding intimacy, translation, exchange & making. Read: clubdesfemmes.com/culture-club...

Fan, the filmmaker of Xixi, self-shooting in a bathroom mirror. She is holding the camera at shoulder height and there are white tiles visible behind her.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

10% off books for marchers tmrw only Single stall toilets & quiet space always available Trans Pride @ibraaz.bsky.social

Trans flag sign in the window of the Maktaba at Ibraaz with the info on discount and toilets.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 12/07/2026

Con- template the majesty of this tatiana nascimento, trans. Natália Affonso

translation

cunt-
act is body language
and skin's tongue has the best dyketion -
(tit)led f(r)iction

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's over, pals. I've found the greatest poetry of all time. What a stunner from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

Poetry pamphlet by tatiana nascimento, Lunduzinho, translated by Natália Affonso, published by Ugly Duckling Presse. The cover is a yellow on white window frame, with the name and title letterpressed in blue.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ok skymind, help needed! When I was in Seoul, I bought a longline (knee length, no tucks) collared, button-through shirt in very lightweight cotton. It's not a tunic or a dress. I'd like to find more! Any UK ONLY leads appreciated! Hung next to regular shirt (men's large) to show length.

Blue stripy longline shirt hanging next to a floral regular length shirt: there's a 3-4 inch difference between the hem length.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Woohoooooo! Congratulations to Discover Children's Story Centre, Stratford, on their tentacular re-opening!!! A summer of stories beckons!

The rainbow redecorated building of Discover with a three-eyed tentacle smiling creature on the roof!

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 27/05/2026

That's me in the spotlight Reading a poem about meetings

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 21/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

It's We Are Lady Parts! An all female Muslim punk band. They are all wearing formal black outfits, over white shirts, and dark sunglasses, referencing a shot from Reservoir Dogs. One of them does not have her head covered and is smoking a cigarette, one of them is carrying a drum case. Their white floral boutonnières indicate they are heading to play at a formal function.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is unbelievable! Also interesting to note that the three egregious examples chosen are all fabricated or misattributed quotes from women. And handing the final word to the author found guilty of wrongdoing takes the cake. The book shd be pulped, not promoted.

In his statement, Mr. Rosenbaum said that if the episode "serves as a warning about the risks of A.I.-assisted research and verification, that is why I wrote the book."
"These A.I. errors do not, in fact, diminish the larger questions that the book raises about truth, trust and A.I. and its impact on society, democracy and editorial, he added.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 18/05/2026

New essay on what I think about most: the meaning of mean & how I want it & me to be full of possibility, not statistics & what can be set against that: jasmine, courage, possibility, James Baldwin's poems, & that meaning's root is in both changing & sharing. Read 👉 www.somayer.net?na=view&id=8

A cascade of white jasmine in bloom, over a wooden fence.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 18/05/2026

It's not even fun spotting howlers in the Graun anymore because they're 90% certain to be AI. This one is a clear sign of a lack of semantic capacity in genAI, I'd surmise altering "before they become" [referring to schedules, the nearest plural noun] to the 'more efficient' nonsensical "becoming".

Screenshot from a Guardian news article: The affected trains will be removed from the schedules before becoming available for advance ticket purchases online.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 12/05/2026

on scaling up no dragon has ever convened a meeting to ratify by ayes a constitution dragons would never consent to their own subordination for any organisation they just fly

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 12/05/2026

Leave the meeting, meet the sunset.

Whooshy clouds streaked peach and pink in a pale blue sky above trees and houses, extremely soothing.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 11/05/2026

Repeatedly looking at the pictures of this fox kit the size of a leaf that my mum snapped in her garden! It's fine!

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 11/05/2026

Squeaking in on a deadline for a thrilling piece I've been delaying on b/c the research has been so emotional & the writing overwhelming. I cd have carried on writing this one forever – let me have 30,000 words, not a measly 1300, you cruels! Pls send snacks, my life is empty & I have feels.

Very adorable fox kit looking downwards and like they're a little sad and overwhelmed.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 11/05/2026

How am I supposed to work when my mum is texting me pictures of the newest life in her garden??????

FOX CUB!!! Sitting among leaves that are almost as big as it.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 09/05/2026

With #AltText for everyone, because everyone needs to know.

Bulletin style poster with an illustration of a circus clown in the bottom right corner. The headlines read:

LATEST
A Reform UK candidate who said the racially aggravated rape of a Sikh woman was "good" has now been ELECTED as a councillor in Essex
LATEST
Reform UK candidate who said Nigerians should be melted down to fill pot holes has won a seat in the local elections
LATEST
Reform UK candidate who said
"shot the p*kis on the spot" has won a seat in the local elections
LATEST
Reform UK candidate who claimed the Holocaust was a hoax has won a seat in the local elections

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 09/05/2026

Keep reading this as " 'historic shit' in politics" & thinking: accurate for both senses.

Guardian online headline that reads: May 2026 elections
Nigel Farage hails 'historic shift in politics' after Reform UK election gains

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 05/05/2026

Ashurbanipal's library contains a useful tablet for the social media & deepfake era: "May the fire-god nullify the magic, spells and charms of those who have made figures of my image."

An incised clay tablet with cuneiform on the top half and a grid of holes punched into the bottom. Translation panel beneath it reads: "May the fire-god nullify the magic, spells and charms of those who have made figures of my image." Magic against witches.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/04/2026

Sally and I on stage at the glorious @riocinema.bsky.social Amazing multigenerational audience 💞 📷 Helen de Witt

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 19/04/2026

Booksellers are the absolute best. The jam, the bees, the world. Thank you Mick at Skylight Books LA for reading & seeing BAD LANGUAGE (& putting it there above Martin Amis hahaha). Can't believe how far a book can travel!!

Bad Language faced out on a shelf at Skylight Books in LA. The shelf talker card by Mick reads "A fascinating manifesto/memoir about the ways in which violence weaves into language. How do the things we say, and how we say it. transform into violence, and how can we reduce that harm? So Mayer Icans heavily on Ursula Le Guin for answers, which is the correct approach."

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 02/04/2026

My answer to the q what's the scariest film you've seen is always JESUS CAMP (Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing, 2006), a doc about homeschooled evangelicals. This girl of 8 has had her mouth taped shut for an anti-abortion protest. The preacher says "Isn't that the most beautiful thing you've seen"?

Composite of images from the film JESUS CAMP showing a mega church on the left background, and in the right foreground a white prepubescent girl with red tape over her mouth that says, in marker pen, LIFE.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/03/2026

ahhhh yea my semi annual trip on the train full of loudly rich people filming themselves going shopping, or (new this year) loudly sniggering as they zoom in on grokked porn. Coinciding with peak PMDD & teaching Mulvey you say?

Black and white image of a middle aged sigmund Freud, in his clipped beard and cigar era, with the text Freud Intensifies in a gothic font. Red lasers are shooting out of his eyes.

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