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Lucy Mercer

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writer, Emblem (Prototype) & Afterlife forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo;🕯️

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 3

here for it 💯

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Sarah Brouillette has written an excellent article on escapist reading & romance narratives
which is more informed & nuanced than my take & maybe speaks to this also

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/com...

Compulsive Reading — Parapraxis

Our popular genres of escape Sarah Brouillette

www.parapraxismagazine.com

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 2

💖😂😊 I am glad of youuu!

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 2

reads 24/7 on their phones; basic literacy is not the same as reading literature, which needs differing levels of attention, just printing verbal slurry or AI slop w/o conceptual or linguistic complexity as books is the continuous refrain of: you are too stupid to read literature or abt ideas

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 2

also how are these recommended books not considered deeply boring

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 2

bleak from start to finish

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jul 2

No

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read

It’s easy to dismiss holiday novels as pulpy, but relaxing with a book you enjoy has huge health benefits. Here’s how to read yourself happy this summer

www.theguardian.com

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Jul 1

A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Erik Satie - the Minimalist Muse

Jude Rogers explores the unique legacy of composer Erik Satie, 100 years after his death.

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 29

from Necropolitics

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 29

Achille Mbembe calling it like six years ago

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 28

@theguardian.com will you cover this story of national importance?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Jun 26

RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund.

How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity?

Finance sector benefiting from wars?

A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.

Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund - Craig Murray

If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong t...

www.craigmurray.org.uk

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jun 26

What thrills me the most about this win—I honestly can't stop reading up about it from across a continent and an ocean—is the prospect that leftist policies CAN find voters and the world CAN change

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jun 25

“No one like Mamdani has ever won an election where as many as a million people voted. This is akin to a socialist winning a medium-size state.”

nymag.com/intelligence...

Zohran Mamdani Just Remade American Politics

There is no real precedent in U.S. history for his victory in New York mayoral race.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Jun 25

the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Jun 25

Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF

Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF

UNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom".

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 25

❤️❤️❤️ finally some good news

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 25

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jun 24

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Jun 24

💫 ANNOUNCING THE POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 💫

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/anno...

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 24

incredible

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 24

lol

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Jun 24

With personal development reviews taking place over the summer, this may be the moment to ask how lecturers are using #GenAI to support the efficiency of their scholarship, writes Steve Briggs: ow.ly/ZGSs50WfjRa #CPD #academiccareers #research #teaching #academicsky

Leading a personal development review? Think about GenAI for scholarship

With personal development reviews taking place over the summer, perhaps this is the moment to focus on how teaching and learning practitioners are using GenAI for efficiency in terms of scholarship

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 24

from John Cage’s letters 🖤

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 24

was feeling like writing this book was killing me, but now thanks to the AI discourse I’m like actually I love being inside this long thought, nothing can replace it or do it except me, nothing can replace this process, its swerves & fruitful errata & and an internal music has settled inside me

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 23

there’s a man who plays his flute to his dog when he walks it at night in the park next to my house. Can hardly see him in the gloom & his flute sounds like Totoro’s flute. I am convinced he is the Totoro of Croydon

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 23

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jun 22

I am not saying that we should not push back against these things: far from, we must advocate against, organise- on a huge scale. But to leave the confusion or outrage as to ‘why do they do X and Y’ behind & the false hope that they might change