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Too many books, not enough time! Reading and relaxing in Tokyo or Liverpool and elsewhere. Books, travel and more: http://10mh.net
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100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

I so enjoyed meeting Neil Kinnock for this special celebration episode of The Bunker. He’s absolutely lovely, witty and perceptive. I wish he’d been PM when I was a kid.

John Maguire reviews the unique autobiography from #davidlynch Room to Dream: “We are left with wondering will we ever know the real David Lynch? Do we ever comprehend another being? Or even ourselves?” 10mh.net/2025/02/21/r...

Great essay not just on #takedowntesla but how it's working and how it exemplifies direct action (Waging Nonviolence is always worth checking out):

An Introduction to Playwriting with Helen Jeffery (@helenjeffery.bsky.social)! This online course is perfect for anyone interested in learning the basics of writing for the stage! 📅Starting Wednesday 2nd April, 7pm for 6 weeks! 🎟️https://buff.ly/4bbekz5

My novel Push Process is based around a series of photographs of Venice. I'm going to do a thread here with sample images, accompanied by short passages of related text from the novel: www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

Are you looking for an Audible alternative but not fully convinced yet on moving away? What if we told you all of your purchases support indie bookshops? Or that we are employee-owned and community driven? Let us know what questions you have about Libro.fm—we'd love to help make the switch easy 💓

A small village in Spain's sparsely populated northeast, is experiencing a revival after a refugee centre opened there.

#OtD 20 Feb 1988 20k people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher's homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to "promote" homosexuality, including teaching its "acceptability" in school stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

@support.bsky.team is there any way to block all screenshots from the former bird site, I'm begging here 🙏🏼

New podcast episode! First of two parts, we speak to the organisers of the Working-Class Literature Festival in Florence, held at the former GKN factory, which workers took over after they were laid off in 2021. Support us, and listen here: patreon.com/posts/wcl10-...

Kinda reminiscent of when France and Britain handed over big chunks of Abyssinia to Italy without a single Abyssinian being in the room. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssin... The motivation then was to keep Mussolini onside against Hitler. Which worked out well.

Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel is heading up The Inquest Of Pilot Pirx - a new film adaptation of a #StanislawLem story. https://buff.ly/4aWxQPo

For no real reason this morning I am thinking of the town in New Hampshire that went fully libertarian and got overrun with bears newrepublic.com/article/1596...

HUGE congrats to everyone on the Walter Scott list this yr, esp my pal Angharrad Hampshire whose novel The Mare is out with @northodoxpress.bsky.social. Ridiculous field as usual here...... www.walterscottprize.co.uk/the-2025-wal...

Favorite paragraph from this:

When fans unite, they get results. This freeze shows our arguments – and those of fellow Supporters' Board members – were heard. Our work continues, as does the #StopExploitingLoyalty campaign with @thefsa.bsky.social Join SOS: spiritofshankly.com/membership/ Join The FSA: thefsa.org.uk/join/

Lovely waking up to loads of Wataru Endo appreciation posts. Told you he was good!

These people sit in their gated communities or their vast private estates and, for the sake of yet more money and a little excitement, burn down the world that they’ve shielded themselves from. It’s as simple as that.

This. We had the whole tradwife vibe here for ages, even putting ‘wayward’ women away. No contraception, no reproductive rights. Didn’t work. Was shit. Back away from me with that apron, bitches.

“Love is stronger than the police” Seen in The Plateau, Montreal, Canada

Yes.

"Capitalism hates love" Seen in Valparaiso, Chile

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

Great profile of Mary Midgley, the philosopher who spotted that most of the giants of her field were single men and that this could be a problem. aeon.co/essays/for-m...