Workers’ Lit
@socialistshelf.bsky.social
A podcast about books and the news with Lenore, Aysha, Jen, and J
“Socialist Shelf” book episodes on Mondays
“Unfit to Print” news episodes on Wednesdays
Read good books, tell bad jokes, and fight for a better future!
“Socialist Shelf” book episodes on Mondays
“Unfit to Print” news episodes on Wednesdays
Read good books, tell bad jokes, and fight for a better future!
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Huge Announcement! Workers' Lit
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Big news…we’re rebranding! And welcoming @ayshaufarah.bsky.social and @bignasty.bsky.social as full time hosts!
Starting now, we’re renaming our feed “Workers’ Lit.” More episodes, more hosts, more politics, more dumb jokes.
Read on for the rundown
Starting now, we’re renaming our feed “Workers’ Lit.” More episodes, more hosts, more politics, more dumb jokes.
Read on for the rundown
Get Lula’d on
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Get Lula’d on
I love going to Scotland to build a woman
From our Frankenstein episode which you should for sure listen to YES YOU!!
From our Frankenstein episode which you should for sure listen to YES YOU!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I love going to Scotland to build a woman
From our Frankenstein episode which you should for sure listen to YES YOU!!
From our Frankenstein episode which you should for sure listen to YES YOU!!
It’s FrankenTIME!!
Workers’ Lit joins Victor Frankenstein, making up a guy to get mad at, getting depressed, and ranting about God and science or whatever.
Mary Shelley was ON FIRE with this one.
It’s 1818’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Workers’ Lit joins Victor Frankenstein, making up a guy to get mad at, getting depressed, and ranting about God and science or whatever.
Mary Shelley was ON FIRE with this one.
It’s 1818’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It’s FrankenTIME!!
Workers’ Lit joins Victor Frankenstein, making up a guy to get mad at, getting depressed, and ranting about God and science or whatever.
Mary Shelley was ON FIRE with this one.
It’s 1818’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Workers’ Lit joins Victor Frankenstein, making up a guy to get mad at, getting depressed, and ranting about God and science or whatever.
Mary Shelley was ON FIRE with this one.
It’s 1818’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
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I’ve not been online much today so no idea what’s up but
A) listen to me with @socialistshelf.bsky.social below
B) correct viewing order is release order, always
c) correct ranking of movies is 1977/ESB in the top 2 slots (any order), the rest doesn’t matter at all.
A) listen to me with @socialistshelf.bsky.social below
B) correct viewing order is release order, always
c) correct ranking of movies is 1977/ESB in the top 2 slots (any order), the rest doesn’t matter at all.
Star Wars and the order you should watch them in is trending on Bluesky. I don’t have an opinion on this matter, but you sure should listen to this episode we did a few months ago on a star wars novel with @manucleardevice.bsky.social
Saw Gerrera > Fail Organa: Star Wars, the Mask of Fear, ft. Manuclearbomb
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’ve not been online much today so no idea what’s up but
A) listen to me with @socialistshelf.bsky.social below
B) correct viewing order is release order, always
c) correct ranking of movies is 1977/ESB in the top 2 slots (any order), the rest doesn’t matter at all.
A) listen to me with @socialistshelf.bsky.social below
B) correct viewing order is release order, always
c) correct ranking of movies is 1977/ESB in the top 2 slots (any order), the rest doesn’t matter at all.
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I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
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Star Wars and the order you should watch them in is trending on Bluesky. I don’t have an opinion on this matter, but you sure should listen to this episode we did a few months ago on a star wars novel with @manucleardevice.bsky.social
Saw Gerrera > Fail Organa: Star Wars, the Mask of Fear, ft. Manuclearbomb
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November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Star Wars and the order you should watch them in is trending on Bluesky. I don’t have an opinion on this matter, but you sure should listen to this episode we did a few months ago on a star wars novel with @manucleardevice.bsky.social
Podcasts sure are neat
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Podcasts sure are neat
Excellent. Workers’ Lit will now be filing criminal charges against James Comey for his real crime: writing “Central Park West”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Excellent. Workers’ Lit will now be filing criminal charges against James Comey for his real crime: writing “Central Park West”
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I’m reading The Secret History or, as I like to call it “local twink experiences class anxiety while being psycho sexually menaced by five Draco Malfoys”
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I’m reading The Secret History or, as I like to call it “local twink experiences class anxiety while being psycho sexually menaced by five Draco Malfoys”
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This week, Omar El Akkad won a National Book Award for his best-seller, ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.’
ICYMI: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewed the author earlier this year to discuss his book on the Gaza genocide.
Watch the conversation: zeteo.com/p/one-day-ev...
ICYMI: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewed the author earlier this year to discuss his book on the Gaza genocide.
Watch the conversation: zeteo.com/p/one-day-ev...
‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
Mehdi talks to award-winning novelist Omar El Akkad on his new book about Gaza - and how so many have shamelessly looked away.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This week, Omar El Akkad won a National Book Award for his best-seller, ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.’
ICYMI: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewed the author earlier this year to discuss his book on the Gaza genocide.
Watch the conversation: zeteo.com/p/one-day-ev...
ICYMI: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interviewed the author earlier this year to discuss his book on the Gaza genocide.
Watch the conversation: zeteo.com/p/one-day-ev...
Our episode on “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” coming Monday!
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Our episode on “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” coming Monday!
We just moved a lot closer to this timeline
The Gavin Newsom/Marjorie Taylor Greene unity ticket in 2028 is about to go crazy
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We just moved a lot closer to this timeline
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this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
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Me and the homies
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Me and the homies
Oh wow. Pack it up, folks. I guess our days are done.
BREAKING: The House passes a resolution condemning socialism, per FOX
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Oh wow. Pack it up, folks. I guess our days are done.
The only upside to this is you know these things jam like crazy and rust quicker than they shoot
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The only upside to this is you know these things jam like crazy and rust quicker than they shoot
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I just got laid off from my IT support job of almost five years. Idk what comes next but if you want to support my creative endeavors and my family now that I am without a job I will love you forever.
www.patreon.com/culturedumps...
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Culture Dumpster | Patreon
Writing stories and hanging out on the internet
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November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I just got laid off from my IT support job of almost five years. Idk what comes next but if you want to support my creative endeavors and my family now that I am without a job I will love you forever.
www.patreon.com/culturedumps...
www.patreon.com/culturedumps...
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Also, I happened to listen to this episode of Rev Left today which discusses utopias and speculative fiction more broadly. Great convo bsky.app/profile/soci...
Jacob went on Rev Left Radio to talk about his new book, revolutionary culture, and art’s relationship to the scope of political imagination!
They Called Her Rebel: Speculative Fiction, Revolutionary Art, and the Politics of Imagination
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November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Also, I happened to listen to this episode of Rev Left today which discusses utopias and speculative fiction more broadly. Great convo bsky.app/profile/soci...
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I had the spirit of @edzitron.com possess me during the genAI segment of this episode I was invited on to talk about, but if I’d known that the next day I’d be laid off from my IT job at one of the big tech companies I would have gone full Smiling Man instead of being so politely restrained.
We are joined by @doctorvenkman.com of the @culturedumpster.com podcast to talk about the week's news, especially the AI bubble...which is looking REAL poppable folks.
Workers' Lit News: Sorry to Burst Your Bubble, ft. Johnny Amizich
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November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I had the spirit of @edzitron.com possess me during the genAI segment of this episode I was invited on to talk about, but if I’d known that the next day I’d be laid off from my IT job at one of the big tech companies I would have gone full Smiling Man instead of being so politely restrained.
Ben…welcome to the #resistance 😎
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ben…welcome to the #resistance 😎
Okay so y’all know how Edith Wilson was the de facto President for almost a year after Woodrow’s stroke in 1919?
Hear me out: what if we’re rapidly approaching the era of the Melania Shadow Government
Hear me out: what if we’re rapidly approaching the era of the Melania Shadow Government
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Okay so y’all know how Edith Wilson was the de facto President for almost a year after Woodrow’s stroke in 1919?
Hear me out: what if we’re rapidly approaching the era of the Melania Shadow Government
Hear me out: what if we’re rapidly approaching the era of the Melania Shadow Government
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'Tis the season for eligibility posts!
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
'Tis the season for eligibility posts!
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
Israel just committed its largest violation of the “ceasefire” deal yet
🚨 BREAKING: Families woke up Thu. to find themselves suddenly on the wrong side of Gaza’s “yellow line” as Israel pushed the boundary about 300m further west during a tank incursion in eastern Gaza City. The physical blocks were shifted in Tuffah and Shujaiya, Abd Sabbah (X: @AbdSabbah91) reports...
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Israel just committed its largest violation of the “ceasefire” deal yet