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They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 25d

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

Cover of Bad Language by So Mayer: hand-drawn illustration of an illuminated capital B, which is a grey dragon wrapped around a blue tree. The dragon has a red eye and smoke rising from its nostrils. The author's name and book title are written in a simple, non-joined-up cursive, as if on a chalkboard.

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dltx31.bsky.social @dltx31.bsky.social · 20h

Purchase these signs from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for the next No Kings March. Stop buying your protest supplies from Amazon who takes that money & feeds it to tRump. Support small / independent businesses / artists. www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/icepr...

25-pack of Risographed Fuck ICE posters — Molly Crabapple

Express your feelings towards our American Gestapo with these striking posters, risographed by Molly Crabapple at her beloved Robert Blackburn Studios. These posters are NOT archival. They are printe...

www.mollycrabapple.com

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 3h

From the archive, 2022: fiction by Ben Pester.

‘We have this space and we have permission to summon each other into it. Sibspace.’

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The Durhams | Ben Pester | Granta

‘We have this space and we have permission to summon each other into it. Sibspace.’ Fiction by Ben Pester.

granta.com

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 1h

trans theory peeps help

does anyone know the scholar who turned the general vibe in the field from the halberstamian:"social transitioning is great but medical transitioning? boo" to "actually medical transitioning should be centred in political horizons"

what was the turning point paper?

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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 1h

Service Post:
If you are looking for a queer (sehr) friendly bookstore with books in German but also French and Spanish, I had a wonderful time here with a friend today, discussing queer books with the adorable owners. The Saint-Sebastian Cheesecake and Gâteau Basque were also out of this world. 👇

Google Maps screenshot of Metis Books and Café in Prenzlauer Berg

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1h

Was lovely to see you there!! The maps are pretty special...

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Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social · 1h

I played the Telephone game, where artists of all types pass work onto each other and create new work based on the work received. My poem(s) responded to paintings by Jessica Snow. It was a cool process. You can view the whole project in an interactive journal/anthology, here telephonegame.art

Homepage of the telephone art project featuring an eye surrounded by a circle with seven moon like objects

Looking Up Into The Winter Stars At The Edge of the Atlantic There You Are

What stars weave their light with darkness? A circle of trust
Between absence Between emptiness
A weather of static— How small must one’s heart become
To survive what passes? To slip between infinity’s trap
I love you I love you not Winking in darkness

What noise reaches us from afar? You are loved — you are loved
You are loved for what you are Between absence and emptiness
To survive? A weather of trust
A circle of dust A heart between light and dark
As if all that came before was wind A voice from another room cries out

In the dark In the emptiness
A warm longing A light Long passed from age
–As if emptiness were so easy to dismiss How we touched without touching? Voices
From afar arriving home through our voice –Together—we opened a door
You are loved you are loved You are loved for what you are

1 Can be read as two poems or as one poem, a contrapuntal

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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 1h

Highly recommend. Thanks @suchmayer.bsky.social and team for a brilliant launch last night of this gorgeous book. Love everything about it. Especially the maps.

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 16h

We're bringing the book of the exhibition to Glasgow! 4 Nov, Waterstones

www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.

www.waterstones.com

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1h

Would love to!! Very up for any invites @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @ravenbooks.bsky.social ...

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 2h

Honoured to be featured on one of my favourite podcasts, The Diverse Bookshelf. We covered a lot: books, writing, history, politics and more. It was intense but also nourishing and fun. Give it a listen: thediversebookshelf.buzzsprout.com/2021069/epis...
#Refuge: Stories of War (and Love)

Sunny Singh on war, love and stories that refuse silence - The Diverse Bookshelf

This week, I'm thrilled to be in conversation with Professor Sunny Singh.Sunny Singh was born in India and over the years her life has spanned continents and languages.  She earned a BA in Englis...

thediversebookshelf.buzzsprout.com

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The Antifa Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 3h

Why are we stealing these artifacts of vulture heritage

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 4h

“Thanks to the solidity of bearded vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean… they have acted as [ #archivists], conserving historical material in good condition."

A shoe made from twigs and grass is 675 y.o. while a basket in the nest was woven about 150 years ago!!

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Jai (they/them) @illustratedjai.bsky.social · 2h

Just did a sloth sticker restock at @portalbookshop.bsky.social including refilling the flag sloths and adding the dnd sloths! Also available at my etsy in now much more limited numbers: illustratedjaishop.etsy.com

A photograph of six stacks of stickers laid out in two rows. Each sticker is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally with their hands on their hips and a pride flag waving behind them. The flags on the top row are bisexual, non-binary and lesbian; the flags on the bottom row are transgender, asexual and the progress pride flag. The background is a green and yellow craft cutting board.

A photograph of ten stickers laid out in two rows. Each of the stickers is a cartoon sloth standing bipedally, dressed as a dungeons and dragons class. On the top row there are: wizard, artificer, bard, paladin and cleric. On the bottom row are: druid, ranger, barbarian, monk and rogue. The background is brown craft paper.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2h

Labour in January: we will mainline AI into the veins of the British efonomy.

Bank of Eng now: “Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis”

Cool cool

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 2h

👍🏻

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 2h

💛 Happy Bookshop Day to all who celebrate 🥳
✨ As part of our celebrations, we've partnered with
@libro.fm and are giving customers the chance to win 12 months of audibooks for free!
🔎 Just find the hidden Golden Ticket in one of our books!
👨🏻‍🎨 Good luck Comrades (is that a clue?)

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All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 3h

Farah was in today. She is reading: Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri.

We need to find a way to do beauty differently. This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.

#book #n8 #haringeybookshop

Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri.

A pinkish cover with blue 'bodies' lettering.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 2h

Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
Free Dr Marwan Al-Hams

They are hostages, they are heroes, they are caged without cause and IsraHell refuses to release them.

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 3h

And @damianbarr.bsky.social has a Starter Pack for this very thing.

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 3h

It's #bookshopday and here is a list of LGBTQ+ bookshops to check out.

I've shopped at The Bookish Type, The Common Press, and Proud Geek online and their service is excellent.

@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · Jun 8

A list of UK LGBTQ+ bookshops:

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Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 4h

Queer books about coming out for #NationalComingOutDay

(A list of titles and authors can be found in the alt text).

Find these and more queer stories at proud-geek.co.uk

#queerbooks #booksky

A stack of 9 LGBTQ+ books

▪️ Friday I’m In Love by Camryn Garrett – sweet sixteens, black joy and queer pride
▪️ The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar - rom-coms, queer POC & coming out
▪️ The Secret Life Of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain – life, work and coming out in your 60s
▪️ Tart by Becki Jayne Crossley - crushes, comas and coming out.
▪️ Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love – families, coming out and men in their 70s
▪️ Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie - roses, highschool and queerness
▪️ Welcome To St. Hell by Lewis Hancox – homelife, highschool and trans teens
▪️ The Girl From The Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag – selkies, secrets and sapphic romance
▪️ When I Came Out by Anne Mette Kærulf Lorentzen – translated fiction about coming out in your 40s

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 7h

'In Fermanagh, the almost total disappearance of greys and re-emergence of red squirrels is being largely put down to pine martens.' This is a great story.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pine martens on the move in Northern Ireland

One of Northern Ireland's rarest native mammals have been turning up in some unusual places.

www.bbc.com

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 5h

"Asked what freedom felt like, [Alaa] said: “It is overwhelming. It is also comfortable and natural, and I am immediately fitting in with them, including witnessing three family fights in two days. The usual stuff."

Don't miss this Guardian interview: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 5h

'He masqueraded as an activist keen to protect the environment and to prevent the exploitation of animals, but, unknown to campaigners, he was at the same time secretly passing information to the police.'

Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 5h

I wanted to share this in the daytime and say to the informers and #spycops currently deployed in activist groups: this is your colleague. 👇🏿 This is the calibre of people that your bosses employ. Happy about your choices?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Israel bombed south Lebanon overnight

This is what Israel means by ceasefire

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h

Build Ramps Not Bombs, a disability activist badge, 1970s

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 5h

"Tacking a 'T'" feels like the title for... something.