Peter Mitchell
@pdkmitchell.bsky.social
'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / more books just as soon as I'm let / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
keeping my neighbours on their toes by alternating a power saw with elementary banjo
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
keeping my neighbours on their toes by alternating a power saw with elementary banjo
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Here's a tip for English people campaigning in Wales...
Find out if any other parties on the left support rent controls (eg like Plaid Cymru does).
Find out if water in Wales is different to water in England (Welsh Water Dŵr Cymru has been not-for-profit since 2001).
Find out if any other parties on the left support rent controls (eg like Plaid Cymru does).
Find out if water in Wales is different to water in England (Welsh Water Dŵr Cymru has been not-for-profit since 2001).
Great progress in new poll for Wales.
Absolutely no complacency though. We're campaigning for every vote between now and May 7th.
Wales needs rent controls, nationalised water and funded public services. To do that, Wales needs to vote Green.
Absolutely no complacency though. We're campaigning for every vote between now and May 7th.
Wales needs rent controls, nationalised water and funded public services. To do that, Wales needs to vote Green.
January 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Here's a tip for English people campaigning in Wales...
Find out if any other parties on the left support rent controls (eg like Plaid Cymru does).
Find out if water in Wales is different to water in England (Welsh Water Dŵr Cymru has been not-for-profit since 2001).
Find out if any other parties on the left support rent controls (eg like Plaid Cymru does).
Find out if water in Wales is different to water in England (Welsh Water Dŵr Cymru has been not-for-profit since 2001).
I've made a terrible mistake
January 13, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I've made a terrible mistake
Very firmly believe that when a bunch of people have some loud musical instruments and amplifiers and whatnot this is exactly the sort of thing they should probably be doing youtu.be/K_hKjvX3xX0?...
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened - Pitchfork Music Festival 2011
YouTube video by Pitchfork
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January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Very firmly believe that when a bunch of people have some loud musical instruments and amplifiers and whatnot this is exactly the sort of thing they should probably be doing youtu.be/K_hKjvX3xX0?...
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I'm just a teenage Blackshirt, baby. From the Sunday Dispatch's popular Why I Like The Blackshirts column (five £1 prizes were on offer for the "most constructive" replies). May, 1934.
January 12, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I'm just a teenage Blackshirt, baby. From the Sunday Dispatch's popular Why I Like The Blackshirts column (five £1 prizes were on offer for the "most constructive" replies). May, 1934.
that's not a seagull, that's an extremely hench bear who's about to lay down a full-service beating
NGC2335, the Seagull nebula, another ongoing project I’ve been working on for about three weeks. In this case as well, this image was obtained by capturing the radiation emitted in the ionized hydrogen spectrum and partly in oxygen, with about 15 hours of integration time. >>>
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#Astrophotography
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January 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
that's not a seagull, that's an extremely hench bear who's about to lay down a full-service beating
If you work for the Mail in any capacity this is on you, tbh
The no-angeling is already in full swing.
January 9, 2026 at 4:51 AM
If you work for the Mail in any capacity this is on you, tbh
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Give us a film about Shakespeare writing Titus Andronicus you cowards
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Give us a film about Shakespeare writing Titus Andronicus you cowards
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After World War II, a number of propagandists were executed their part in stoking hatred and genocide
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 PM
After World War II, a number of propagandists were executed their part in stoking hatred and genocide
This means you can get 'Imperial Nostalgia', which I wrote, for less than a tenner! That works out at about 0.014p per word, which is the kind of bargain only a fool would miss: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146205/
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
This means you can get 'Imperial Nostalgia', which I wrote, for less than a tenner! That works out at about 0.014p per word, which is the kind of bargain only a fool would miss: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146205/
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Oh sorry, I haven’t been online that much tonight, I’ve been forced to help organize a safety patrol at my kid’s daycare, because ICE stopped by today.
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Oh sorry, I haven’t been online that much tonight, I’ve been forced to help organize a safety patrol at my kid’s daycare, because ICE stopped by today.
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may I make a suggestion
January 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
may I make a suggestion
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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Exciting residency opportunity: come and stay in my flat and feed my cat while I'm abroad for a week or two at the back end of February
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Exciting residency opportunity: come and stay in my flat and feed my cat while I'm abroad for a week or two at the back end of February
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What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.
I dunno about you motherfuckers but in 2k26 I wanna see more luminous reflections on families (unchosen and chosen), on the body, on water and healing, on vulnerability and care and vulnerability *as* care, and if I don't get them or they aren't luminous enough I will take two shits and die
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I dunno about you motherfuckers but in 2k26 I wanna see more luminous reflections on families (unchosen and chosen), on the body, on water and healing, on vulnerability and care and vulnerability *as* care, and if I don't get them or they aren't luminous enough I will take two shits and die
this is me and I am not ashamed
My friend keeps sending me highlights from Robert Macfarlane's Instagram. Great god almighty.
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
this is me and I am not ashamed
Nah, he's perfectly at home where he is, & there's no need to flatten the realities of 14thc Spain (an unfortunate choice, given Miller's Jewish) or early 20thc Britain (in a giant ongoing crisis of conscience & confidence about empire) to understand the historical continuities of what he's about
Miller’s statements on Greenland is part of the same worldview as his statements on immigration: he sees the world through the lens of a monarch whose priorities are expansion, conquest, and extraction. He’d be much more at home in 1500s Spain or early 1900s Britain.
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Nah, he's perfectly at home where he is, & there's no need to flatten the realities of 14thc Spain (an unfortunate choice, given Miller's Jewish) or early 20thc Britain (in a giant ongoing crisis of conscience & confidence about empire) to understand the historical continuities of what he's about
this is very funny and very good, god bless all at @bashback.bsky.social
The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
BASH BACK
www.transbashback.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
this is very funny and very good, god bless all at @bashback.bsky.social
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only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape
January 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape
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it's like the FIFA Peace Prize means nothing anymore
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
it's like the FIFA Peace Prize means nothing anymore
[Townes Van Zandt voice] the butter mines are closing and grandpaw's got nothin for his years of toil but popcorn lung and a foreclosure notice on his gingerbread shack
Here are some things I have learnt today:
Artificial butter flavouring is mostly a chemical compound called diacetyl which, inhaled in large amounts, causes a disease called "popcorn lung".
Artificial butter flavouring is mostly a chemical compound called diacetyl which, inhaled in large amounts, causes a disease called "popcorn lung".
January 3, 2026 at 12:24 AM
[Townes Van Zandt voice] the butter mines are closing and grandpaw's got nothin for his years of toil but popcorn lung and a foreclosure notice on his gingerbread shack
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On hoardings and roadsigns between Backworth and Killingworth, someone with a marker pen has written the ominous words BOVINE INDEPENDENCE.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
On hoardings and roadsigns between Backworth and Killingworth, someone with a marker pen has written the ominous words BOVINE INDEPENDENCE.
cool stuff that happened in 2k25: a book I wrote four years ago turned up on a BookTok(?) influencer(?)'s self-facilitated media node
January 1, 2026 at 4:26 PM
cool stuff that happened in 2k25: a book I wrote four years ago turned up on a BookTok(?) influencer(?)'s self-facilitated media node