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bareroot.bsky.social
Writer of odd books https://noshelterbooks.com/ Posting unpolished thoughts and brief book reviews as I research my current project.
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Taking a break from bluesky to focus on prep for Spring.

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📚💙 #Reading ‘You could call me a partisan.’ Ruslan Siddiqi recounts his anti-war actions. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y... 1/3

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

📚💙 #Reading Blood Money, by Margaret D. Sankey. This is a study and analysis of ways that those it refers to as VNSAs (Violent Non-State Actors) fund their existence. It's full of fascinating examples, a great writing resource. The actual analysis seems muddied by the 1/4

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 26 days ago • 124 comments

📚💙 #Reading Maus, by Art Spiegelman. I won't comment on the contents but on what is conspicuously missing from Maus and every other piece of media I've seen on concentration camps: Resistance. For whatever reason, in popular art on the subject, it's absent. This is not because it wasn't there. 1/3

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Riot Medicine by EMT Håkan Geijer is a free guide to street medicine that has been vetted by professionals. Not a substitute for professional care, in a pinch it may save a life. riotmedicine.net

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

📚💙 #Reading Fighters Against Fascism, by Max Arthur. Under the jingoistic presentation, this book is what Homage to Catalonia could have been. Sometimes rambling, these are what seem to be interview transcripts with ordinary men and women who left Britain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. 1/5

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Honoured to see an advert for my début novel 'null' in @2600.com's latest issue, page 62. null is a #cyberpunk inspired work of #literary #fiction, reviews can be seen at www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

I'd like to share my appreciation for the artist @nobonzo.bsky.social who does some wonderfully clean and detailed woodcut-looking illustrations. Everything they make is free to use (non-commercially?). I've had some of my favourites printed up and framed.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments