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Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561 Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)

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Man Fell in Love with Google Gemini and It Told Him to Stage a 'Mass Casualty Attack' Before He Took His Own Life: Lawsuit Joel Gavalas, the father of the late 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas, is suing Google, alleging that his son killed himself following falling in love with an AI assistant.

Holy shit this is actually insane.

This needs to be shot down, like what the heck are we doing here

people.com/man-fell-in-...

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β€œThe great art institutional swindle is the tacit consensus that conformity is a necessity. Marc Garrett’s Feral Class... is a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of such staid professional orthodoxy.” - Morgan Quaintance in Art Monthly

More on the book: www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

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Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir…

Excellent round-up of small press leaders on the current crisis, interviewed by @lucymercer.bsky.social @twoseriousladies.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including my publisher @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

lithub.com/life-giving-...

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A silver book on a grey carpet, with black and purple drawings of tendrils and shapes, and black text saying β€˜TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE | EDITED BY FIELDNOTES COLLECTIVE’.

A silver book on a grey carpet, with black and purple drawings of tendrils and shapes, and black text saying β€˜TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE | EDITED BY FIELDNOTES COLLECTIVE’.

Joy in the book post. πŸ’š

I have a poem in TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE, edited by the brilliant Fieldnotes Collective (Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nina Mingya Powles). @silver-press.bsky.social

www.silverpress.org/products/ten...

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β€œMost people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh β€” Cristina Politano Joanna Walsh’s Amateurs!: How We Built the Internet and Why It Matters was recently published by Verso Books. In it, Walsh charts the ascendancy of a new kind of digital creative, one who mud…

β€œMost people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh β€” Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

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Who Can Afford to Fail? Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren and the Class Politics of Art School

love this, by Andrew Groves: fashion, feminism, finance, failure...

profandrewgroves.substack.com/p/who-can-af...

06.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

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β€œ.. Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran?” said Khalaf Al Habtoor, a Dubai billionaire .. β€œYou have placed the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council .. at the heart of a danger they did not choose.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Marc Garrett: Feral Class.

Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.

"a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist with a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."

@artmonthly.bsky.social
@minorcompositions.bsky.social

#books #art

06.03.2026 10:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Marc Garrett: Feral Class.

Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.

"Marc Garrett’s Feral Class is a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist [...] a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."

@ArtMonthly

@minorcomps

#books #art

05.03.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Marc Garrett: Feral Class.

Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.

"Marc Garrett’s Feral Class is a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist [...] a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."

@ArtMonthly

@minorcomps

#books #art

05.03.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sometimes You Bomb Iran
Sometimes You Bomb Iran YouTube video by Jesse Welles

The always perceptive troubadour Jesse Welles dropped a new tune yesterday. He cuts right to the chase. Thank you Jesse for being so quick and timely.

youtu.be/Vcc3kdxbLYI?...

04.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 176 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5

‼️The latest studies have found an increase in CO2 in human's blood‼️

This is extremely alarming and is a direct result of climate change.

Our physiology is actually changing!

Thank you to @climatenews.bsky.social for originally sharing this information.
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Body politique: a captive limb.

Paint, pencil and pen.

From Sketchbook, 1988. Marc Garrett.

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Brilliant.

β€œI didn’t know who he was,” is an insufficient response. β€œI am doing serious self-examination as to why he invited me” is better.

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The tech people in rich Western World gets to enjoy their Mechanical Turk, while the rest of us suffer.

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Wow! Just noticed this on the Blackwell's Books website :-)
tinyurl.com/yc4jm3dr

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Wow! Just noticed this on the Blackwell's Books website :-)
tinyurl.com/yc4jm3dr

23.02.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #30DaysBooksByWomen #ReadingWomen #Books πŸ’™πŸ“šπŸ©Έ

7/30 (catching up)

Ps. If you still don’t Meta & Zuck are pure evil, you need to read this!

21.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tomahawk "Predators and Scavengers" (Official Video)
Tomahawk "Predators and Scavengers" (Official Video) YouTube video by Ipecac Recordings

Enjoy :-)

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Feral Class book by Marc Garrett.

"Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist…

Buy at @minorcomps @BrownsBFS @BurleyFisher @Waterstones & more...

#books #stories #outsider #art #writerscommunity #blueskywriters

19.02.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Feral Class book by Marc Garrett.

"Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist…

Buy at @minorcomps @BrownsBFS @BurleyFisher @Waterstones & more...

#books #stories #outsider #art #writerscommunity #blueskywriters

19.02.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
circus performer Katherine Arnold in make up and costume as a freaky looking pre-plastic surgery person

circus performer Katherine Arnold in make up and costume as a freaky looking pre-plastic surgery person

New writing and photography just posted for free on my substack at matricardo.substack.com/p/west-end

(Also on my patreon if you dont like substack)

#photography #photographer #writer #blogger #london #westend #burlesque #cabaret

17.02.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Feral Class Valentine’s Day It was Valentine’s Day, and I was about fifteen. I fancied Lucy North, who was the same age as me at school. We got along quite well and had meaningful conversations. I was getting an urge to…

Valentine's Day. An extract from Marc Garrett's book, Feral Class.

"It was drawn and painted with deep passion, perhaps too much." shorturl.at/pxARn

#ValentinesDay #writerscommunity #blueskywriters

13.02.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Feral Class Valentine’s Day It was Valentine’s Day, and I was about fifteen. I fancied Lucy North, who was the same age as me at school. We got along quite well and had meaningful conversations. I was getting an urge to…

Valentine's Day. An extract from Marc Garrett's book, Feral Class.

"It was drawn and painted with deep passion, perhaps too much." shorturl.at/pxARn

#ValentinesDay #writerscommunity #blueskywriters

13.02.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ„ The Book Works Winter Sale is now on! πŸŽ„
πŸŽ„ 50% off a huge range of titles πŸŽ„
πŸŽ„ bookworks.org.uk/sale/ πŸŽ„

03.12.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Conversation : The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali w/ Kieran Morris Tuesday 9th December 6-9.30pm Join us to celebrate The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali. Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris. In a surreal and hilarious mix of fiction and autobiography, The Kingdo...

Come and join us to launch The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on 9th December!

Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there!

burleyfisherbooks.com/products/con...

19.11.2025 13:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Reliant Robin Adventure. By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.

Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.
marcgarrett.org/2026/02/07/a...

#readingcommunity #books #stories #WritingCommunity #extract #1970s

08.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Reliant Robin Adventure. By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.

Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.
marcgarrett.org/2026/02/07/a...

#readingcommunity #books #stories #WritingCommunity #extract #1970s

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