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Heard on the underground tannoy: “Please let passengers off first this is a BASIC requirement”

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Me informing Gallery Website Design: ‘Let’s make it complex, layered & experiential’. Also me: WHERE ARE THE OPENING TIMES?

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Please add your name if you agree. Please share :)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about the Educational bookshop, and why the ugly and ridiculous attack on its owners matters. I don't know Mahmoud Muna personally but I heard him a few times and he always struck me as one of Jerusalem's most inspiring intellectuals. artreview.com/mahmoud-muna...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

M(11) after eating a new stew 🥘 recipe I made: “That was…good. (PAUSE) Would you like some feedback?”

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Because 1m-2m people died?

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

Come to Liverpool Waterstones on 12 March, where I'll be in conversation with the great Lynsey Hanley about my new book! www.waterstones.com/events/sam-w...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Jade Cuttle's brilliant review of my new collection Measures of Weather is now available online: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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New film screening in the gallery! Inspired by an Arabic version of Sesame Street, 'Everybody was Invited to a Party' by Farah Al Qasimi builds a world of melancholy and humour, and uses handmade puppets, slippages in language, and miscommunication. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

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Out of curiosity, how many of you have used the terms ‘amok’ and/or ‘running amuck’ in yr work, and do you know their colonial histories? Summary in description, but the use of language to subvert rage—in this case, an Indonesian and Malay word for ‘rage’—seems perennial…

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

3 things I did this morning to try and help, in case they inspire you to do similar things in your area: 1. Set up a small monthly donation to Wikipedia and Internet Archive. As websites get doctored or scrubbed, keeping records becomes even more important. These are 2 places trying to do that.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Can you imagine wake up and find this done🥲✅ It’s more than 12 months when im trying to reach my goal and now we are so close it’s just 11% If 222 donated by 50£ we will do it please don’t ignore you can share or donate if you can gofund.me/a625d5ba

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Briefly seen before Zooms

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Writing Experimental Fiction 3, 10 & 17 March 2025 6.30-8.30 PM (UK) via Zoom Full details: jencalleja.com/workshops-me...

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‘“It was a comprehensive curriculum,” my father told me of the tent school my family set up. My aunt taught there too. There were drawing and painting classes as well as maths and science.’ Malaka Shwaikh on the preservation of education in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

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I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

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Hey folks, anything you can spare and especially a share, it will help so much to get this out of Linka's immediate social circles to people who are able to donate and would love to do so, they just need to see the fundraiser! Thank you so so much. Update in link: www.gofundme.com/f/help-linka...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Please share :)

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

'These are the type of politics you’d expect of the British empire in the 19th century,' says Eyal Weizman on Trump’s colonial plans for Gaza. 'To simply erase Gaza and turn it into a riviera is a way to continue the work of destruction by construction': www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Quick look at the morning’s papers

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments