Reposted by So MayerRowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026🪞 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 When we launched Issue 14, 𝑀𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠, in July, we said it would unfold as a rolling publication. Then our social channels went quiet. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁. Behind the silence, our editorial family kept reading, editing, translating and building. 221
Reposted by So MayerPEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#Mexico: We are concerned by a ruling in the restricting Karla de la Cuesta's book Todo a la luz, which documents survivors' testimonies of abuse. We call on authorities to guarantee editorial freedom and annul all sanctions. Full statement: www.pen-international.org/news/mexico-...pen-international.orgMexico: PEN International calls on Mexican authorities to guarantee editorial freedom and freedom of expression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide‘A name mentioned in an investigation in the public interest is not a trademark. The use of industrial property rules to prevent Karla de la Cuesta, a survivor of abuse, from documenting what she and ... 195
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 20hHahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahhahhahahhaah. I won't look back in anger (except at the toilets). 010
Reposted by So MayerThe Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 22hThe fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor. 392372907
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 21hBased on the absolute floodedness of the toilets on the train back from the Oasis show in Edinburgh last summer (I was not at the Oasis show), I'd say it was more like Relieve the Event. 140
Reposted by So MayerSabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 23hwrote about one of the craziest worms of all time defector.com/this-worm-ha...defector.comThis Worm Has No Ifs And Many Butts | DefectorIn the 1870s, as the research ship HMS Challenger passed through the Philippines during its circumnavigation of the Earth, it dredged up a sponge from the gray sludge 95 fathoms (nearly 600 feet) belo... 1115646
Reposted by So MayerHammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 23hA Gazan journalist documenting the Israeli genocide says every time a witness is killed, another is there to take up their work. hammerandhope.org/article/how-... 14015
Reposted by So MayerBertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our Christine Choy retrospective continues on 17 October with her newly restored 1984 film, Mississippi Triangle. An rare and intimate portrait of the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African American and white locals live in a complex world of cotton, labour and racial conflict. 012
Reposted by So MayerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"The reductive idea that R&B and hip-hop are the only genres legible to contemporary Black audiences is continuously perpetuated by the mainstream music industry." Kelela and Sesali Bowen on the music industry hammerandhope.org/article/kele...hammerandhope.orgKelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and RavesThe writer Sesali Bowen sits down with the artist to discuss sonic racism, “niggas who refuse to read,” and her latest album, “new avatar.” 24018
Reposted by So MayerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles: hammerandhope.orghammerandhope.orgHammer & HopeA magazine of Black politics and culture 313765
Reposted by So Mayerclaire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026new wire! i rly enjoyed talking to tiiva about imbuing sampled vocals with emotion, sound-making as stimming, and their excellent new album on @bluetapes.bsky.social! i also reviewed releases by julia holter, dina maccabee + sarah belle reid! buy a magazine! 1203
Reposted by So MayerMaggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hot off the press!! New open-access issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social w/ a special dossier celebrating the 60th anniversary of DAISIES! 🎊🎂 quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is... 2126
Reposted by So MayerYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026aha! acceleration arguments create an environment that makes it easier to ignore issues of consent. bsky.app/profile/such... 3299
Reposted by So MayerDJ, I presume? @computeloop.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026From Meshell Ndegeocello's new album "Synonym": Be Real Black for Me - Meshell Ndegeocello, Lizz Wright, Emily King What a cover 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmx9...youtube.comBe Real Black For MeYouTube video by Meshell Ndegeocello - Topic 132
Reposted by So MayerRachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So much great #SFinTranslation out this month! www.sfintranslation.com?p=17750 074
Reposted by So MayerChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026Really proud that my friend Naoko Kurahashi Neilson has played such a pivotal role in IceCube science, including leading the way on mapping the Milky Way through neutrino eyes! She's stellar! Leaders like Naoko helped make today's Nobel a possibility. 🧪⚛️🔭physics.aps.orgMilky Way Viewed through NeutrinosUsing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers have generated the first neutrino image of the Milky Way. 217637
Reposted by So MayerDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...jewishcurrents.orgWhat PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in PublishingMisleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression… 822184
Reposted by So MayerInstitute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Join our online short course aimed at staff handling rights for literary agencies and publishing houses, covering the rationale for selling rights as well as the practicalities ⏰ 12-17 November 2026, 14:00-17:30 UK time 📍 Online (via Zoom) Registration closes on 3 November 2026 BOOK NOW 👇ies.sas.ac.ukSelling Rights Short Course 021
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026A good day to watch Anocha Suwichakornpong's second film BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK, which centres on an indie film crew making a film about the Thammasat massacre & goes hypnotically into the effects of trauma on memory and the present: player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...player.bfi.org.ukWatch By the Time It Gets Dark - BFI PlayerAnocha Suwichakornpong's mesmerising and innovative treatise on memory, politics and cinema. 03914
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026It's not about what we accept or don't accept, it's their framing, which is writing the historical narrative that we did indeed accept it & all sequelae are our fault, not theirs. 0100
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026My point is that they are deliberately using the language of violent domination, which works to attribute false agency ("you accepted it") to those it coerces, while also removing any real agency & laying blame for not resisting (enough bc no resistance is ever enough in their narrative). 190
Reposted by So MayerShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is why I love tchg in public libraries. Of course surveillance creeps in thru security apparatae + digital vendors’ user tracking, but the proprietors of these spaces are generally committed to autonomy + privacy. They’re places of non-compulsory, intergenerational, non-extractive learning. 04710
Reposted by So MayerMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026all infrastructure erodes consent, sometimes it bypasses it completely this is uncomfortable (& often problematic), but it should not be controversial to point out this fact 513039
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026As I've said, the language/framing of commercial LLM techbros is the same as that of colonial occupation & of rape culture: "accept this is happening (against ur will bc we don't give a fuck about consent), accept bad things (happening to you not us), & be grateful for the supposed positives." 13212
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/10/2026I think this is context-specific: in a chain bookstore, most books on genre shelf will be from commercial publishers only, with a heavy focus on canon & immediate frontlist. In an indie bookstore, there's more interfusion between genre and fiction shelves & more indies/cult/curated titles on both. 140
Reposted by So MayerJuliJess @julianajess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Book Launch for "Thinking from Black: A Lexicon" hosted by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. Opening remarks from Kaiama Glover and readings from several contributors. Truly a revolutionary work of art. "Poetry sustains people and place." I'm very grateful to have been here tonite. 0114
Reposted by So MayerLakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Omair Danish spoke with Ali Baluch, a Baloch lens-based artist from Malir, Karachi. They talked about the impact of the Malir Expressway on the Malir River, sandmining, and how development projects have affected the lives of people and animals in the area. lakeermag.com/death-and-fl... 011
Reposted by So MayerAnnick Ecuyer @annickecuyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I love how the answer in the article is to give your employees access to AI tools, because then they won't use the more insecure ones. How about a clear policy to not use AI and sanctions if you do? And it's easy to block the main AI websites. 161
Reposted by So MayerDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Romani language radio goes online and gets archived globalvoices.org/2026/10/05/w...globalvoices.orgWhen radio finds a new digital voice: Bringing Romani language and culture online in KosovoDigital transformation does not always require expensive infrastructure or complex solutions. For community media, it can begin by taking valuable content that already exists and giving it a longer li... 1141
Reposted by So MayerWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world! 71298265
Reposted by So MayerWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Next up in our 2026 series of National Book Awards interviews, @vicenteluismora.bsky.social and @rahulbery.bsky.social on CENTROEUROPA, a “brilliant and unsettling” story set in 1820s rural Prussia. Read their interview on the longlisted novel here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... 043
Reposted by So MayerLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSAtheguardian.comAccept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam AltmanBoss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver 282072809
Reposted by So Mayernicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026whats the point of building a life if these extractivist far right motherfuckers can just set up a social media account, get millions of views in months, and then get elected into office and given permission to destroy everything? what is the point? 2112
Reposted by So MayerRuthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was reminded by an AI scam that my last Seeds of Story post was about exactly the tech dynamics that lead to AI scams: reactormag.com/artisanal-te...reactormag.comArtisanal Technology and Mechanical Brides: Ursula M. Franklin’s The Real World of Technology - ReactorExploring how tech and engineering interact with power, belief, and structures of freedom and control. 122
Reposted by So MayerAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges. 12971385
Reposted by So Mayertuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc. 111399
Reposted by So MayerBertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026On 21 Oct, as part of #BloomsburyFestival, we’re hosting the World Premiere of What We Were and What We Are, a programme of docs made by first-time directors from the Sahrawi Refugee camps. Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and members of IRSAAn, a health-based Sahrawi charity. 011
Reposted by So MayerMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Those who build walls are their own prisoners." --Ursula le Guin 231359
Reposted by So MayerChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality. 4838781215
Reposted by So MayerJosh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One of the things I loved about @dannycaine.com How to Defend Books and Why is how broadly he understands the freedom of expression, spending time on right to read in prison & the impact on the genocide in Palestine on books, things often sidelined during #BannedBooksWeekportersquarebooks.comHow to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight ThemA small group of well-funded, well-organized extremists are trying to decide what you read, but we won't let them. Caine's latest is a clear-eyed exploration of book banning, sets todays censors in historic & political context, while laying out strategies for fighting back. 075
Reposted by So MayerPalestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One night only: Noura Erakat and John Reynolds launch "Confronting Zionism" in London, in conversation with Rafeef Ziadah. Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m., Friends House.palfest.orgNoura Erakat: Confronting Zionism - UK Book Launch — The Palestine Festival of LiteratureJoin us for Noura Erakat’s only UK event for 2026. She will present her new book, Confronting Zionism, alongside the book's co-author John Reynolds, followed by a conversation with Rafeef Ziadah. 0115
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 05/10/2026Not wanting to be all Bluesky on Bluesky but as a survivor I'm being triggered enough by global rape culture and genocide w/o "share your kiddie nightmare fuel." I don't think you guys wanna hear about my kiddie nightmares lol. 080
Reposted by So MayerÉibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.] 7526338
Reposted by So Mayernico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe 1034591132
Reposted by So Mayersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition. 14674101
Reposted by So MayerPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5328001078
Reposted by So Mayer(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric. 226866
Reposted by So MayerRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“slop assumes a different kind of relationship between general and particular than is assumed in most of the political philosophy grounding US law” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/10/slop...its-her-factory.comSlop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide 198
Reposted by So Mayerisabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Kornélie by Beata Balogová. All the world is crammed into a small village in southern Slovakia. Autofiction meets magic realism in one of the most beautiful books I have ever read... ...and I delivered the translation to the publisher an hour ago. Out next year from @jantarbooks.bsky.social 🌐 💙📚🇸🇰 282