So Mayer
@suchmayer.bsky.social
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
· Sep 16
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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...
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...
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"Vonnegut found hope in books and heaped praise on librarians...dedicated professionals amid anti-democratic bullying and censorship."
Take a moment today to read Kurt Vonnegut's admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.
Take a moment today to read Kurt Vonnegut's admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.
I Love You, Madame Librarian
Kurt Vonnegut expresses admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.
inthesetimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:15 PM
"Vonnegut found hope in books and heaped praise on librarians...dedicated professionals amid anti-democratic bullying and censorship."
Take a moment today to read Kurt Vonnegut's admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.
Take a moment today to read Kurt Vonnegut's admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.
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Love that the NHS just signed a giant contract with surveillance network that kills you instantly, my health data feels super secure :)
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Love that the NHS just signed a giant contract with surveillance network that kills you instantly, my health data feels super secure :)
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For the geeks, the gallery-lates folk, and the quantum-curious. I'm talking physics and pop culture at Science Gallery this Friday eve, in this very timeline, with King's Philosophy of Science senior lecturer Alex Franklin and SCI-FI London's Louis Savy london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...
Friday Late: Tales of Entanglement — Science Gallery London
Experience quantum after dark at Science Gallery London. Shake up your relationship with the universe through the power of quantum stories.
london.sciencegallery.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM
For the geeks, the gallery-lates folk, and the quantum-curious. I'm talking physics and pop culture at Science Gallery this Friday eve, in this very timeline, with King's Philosophy of Science senior lecturer Alex Franklin and SCI-FI London's Louis Savy london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...
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what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 AM
what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
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TikTok is tracking people’s IMMIGRATION STATUS?
Buddy shoutout to my 5th grade computer lab teacher who put the fear of GOD in all of us 20 fucking years ago about all this shit. MAN was she fucking right.
Buddy shoutout to my 5th grade computer lab teacher who put the fear of GOD in all of us 20 fucking years ago about all this shit. MAN was she fucking right.
January 27, 2026 at 4:21 PM
TikTok is tracking people’s IMMIGRATION STATUS?
Buddy shoutout to my 5th grade computer lab teacher who put the fear of GOD in all of us 20 fucking years ago about all this shit. MAN was she fucking right.
Buddy shoutout to my 5th grade computer lab teacher who put the fear of GOD in all of us 20 fucking years ago about all this shit. MAN was she fucking right.
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Hundreds of Moroccan conscripts defected to join the Viet Minh during the French Indochina War, later staying and building lives in Vietnam. Basma El Atti tells their story, in this essay that was recently nominated for a True Story Award.
Vietnam’s Village of Moroccan Defectors
Hundreds of conscripted North Africans were sent to fight France’s war in Indochina — instead they found a new life in Southeast Asia
shorturl.at
January 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Hundreds of Moroccan conscripts defected to join the Viet Minh during the French Indochina War, later staying and building lives in Vietnam. Basma El Atti tells their story, in this essay that was recently nominated for a True Story Award.
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This country has locked up so many children in one prison that the CHILDREN ARE LEADING PRISON UPRISINGS. As a country we are not furious enough yet.
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 AM
This country has locked up so many children in one prison that the CHILDREN ARE LEADING PRISON UPRISINGS. As a country we are not furious enough yet.
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I'm just going to have to keep tapping this sign eh
I know you all love The Fartlantic today because of that one article but please try to remember that they played an instrumental role in the rise of fascism in the US and you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I'm just going to have to keep tapping this sign eh
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Clocking in for a day on the weeping line.
January 27, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Clocking in for a day on the weeping line.
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So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
lithub.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
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NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Ulrike Ottinger: una cineasta radicalmente libre 🎥 Hablamos con Ulrike Ottinger sobre Freak Orlando y también sobre su nueva película, que se estrenará en 2026 🎬
➡️ Puedes leer la entrevista entera en https://filmtopia.net/es/entrevista-ulrike-ottinger/
#directoresdecinema #cineymujeres
➡️ Puedes leer la entrevista entera en https://filmtopia.net/es/entrevista-ulrike-ottinger/
#directoresdecinema #cineymujeres
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Ulrike Ottinger: una cineasta radicalmente libre 🎥 Hablamos con Ulrike Ottinger sobre Freak Orlando y también sobre su nueva película, que se estrenará en 2026 🎬
➡️ Puedes leer la entrevista entera en https://filmtopia.net/es/entrevista-ulrike-ottinger/
#directoresdecinema #cineymujeres
➡️ Puedes leer la entrevista entera en https://filmtopia.net/es/entrevista-ulrike-ottinger/
#directoresdecinema #cineymujeres
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REMINDER: If you shopped with a Minneapolis store to support them during their general strike, I swear to god, do not bug them if it takes awhile. Online orders are work, fighting an occupation is work. Don't make more work for them
January 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM
REMINDER: If you shopped with a Minneapolis store to support them during their general strike, I swear to god, do not bug them if it takes awhile. Online orders are work, fighting an occupation is work. Don't make more work for them
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“We’re in these walled-off secret societies. These are state institutions. But it’s one of the only state institutions that the public or the media has no access to. How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in the United States of America?” - Raoul Poole, prisoner
HBO's "The Alabama Solution" was nominated for an Academy Award. But the incarcerated men who produced the footage that made the film possible were just thrown into solitary confinement.
They Collaborated on an Oscar-Nominated Film — Then Got Thrown Into Solitary
The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.
theappeal.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
“We’re in these walled-off secret societies. These are state institutions. But it’s one of the only state institutions that the public or the media has no access to. How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in the United States of America?” - Raoul Poole, prisoner
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You must read this story about the hero that risked his life to reveal an unprecedented amount of information on the internal workings of ‘pig butchering’ scams
An incredible story of how one man, tricked into working in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, leaked all of their secrets to @agreenberg.bsky.social before trying to escape.
www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
You must read this story about the hero that risked his life to reveal an unprecedented amount of information on the internal workings of ‘pig butchering’ scams
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an analogue to the joys and fulfilments of solidarity currently being proved in MN exists in our classrooms. we know that serious study, serious thought, serious play feels good. why not find, invent ways of doing that goodness together rather than focusing so intently on circumventing cheating
January 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM
an analogue to the joys and fulfilments of solidarity currently being proved in MN exists in our classrooms. we know that serious study, serious thought, serious play feels good. why not find, invent ways of doing that goodness together rather than focusing so intently on circumventing cheating
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Palestine Action-linked prisoner Umer Khalid, 22, ended his protest after becoming severely unwell.
Gravely ill pro-Palestine activist ends hunger, thirst strike in UK prison
The months-long rolling protest joined by eight Palestine Action-linked activists concludes as Umer Khalid ends strike.
www.aljazeera.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Palestine Action-linked prisoner Umer Khalid, 22, ended his protest after becoming severely unwell.
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Thank you for sharing, @christl.bsky.social. The story isn’t just about Greg, but all of you who have reached out to him and DreamHaven Books. If you’ve been trying to order books from them, or you did order this weekend — watch this and feel good. ✊🏽
January 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Thank you for sharing, @christl.bsky.social. The story isn’t just about Greg, but all of you who have reached out to him and DreamHaven Books. If you’ve been trying to order books from them, or you did order this weekend — watch this and feel good. ✊🏽
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Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
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You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 AM
You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
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people constantly hound rape victims for not prosecuting their rapists, saying they’re somehow responsible if the person rapes someone else. meanwhile if you try to prosecute, and you have actual audio evidence that you’ve been assaulted, it could still be used to put YOU through a trial
The police are failing women and protecting abusers. Seeking justice should never put women on trial.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl0r0052po
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl0r0052po
I accused a police officer of rape, but I ended up on trial
How a secret audio recording played in court helped clear a woman accused of making a false rape allegation.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:43 PM
people constantly hound rape victims for not prosecuting their rapists, saying they’re somehow responsible if the person rapes someone else. meanwhile if you try to prosecute, and you have actual audio evidence that you’ve been assaulted, it could still be used to put YOU through a trial
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I note that “enshrined legal protections for wingnuts and cranks to behave as badly as they want, without negative consequences” is pretty compelling evidence that Britain has been deeply and maliciously Trumpified for quite some time.
January 27, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I note that “enshrined legal protections for wingnuts and cranks to behave as badly as they want, without negative consequences” is pretty compelling evidence that Britain has been deeply and maliciously Trumpified for quite some time.
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i fear that a not insignificant number of people would, given the opportunity, pre-order a matrix egg for large sums of money
"it's sustainable! You're actually *contributing* energy"
"it's sustainable! You're actually *contributing* energy"
the thing about technofascists like thiel, musk, marc "da egghead" andreesen is that they would absolutely hook you up to be used as a battery, matrix-style, no hesitation. what makes The Matrix fiction is that these assholes wouldn't bother to create a fantasy world to keep your mind occupied
January 27, 2026 at 5:45 AM
i fear that a not insignificant number of people would, given the opportunity, pre-order a matrix egg for large sums of money
"it's sustainable! You're actually *contributing* energy"
"it's sustainable! You're actually *contributing* energy"
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the Greens are the clear favourite with all bookies to win Gorton and Denton, but the story everywhere is Labour "gifting" the seat to Reform by blocking Burnham - apparently it doesn't matter that this is not a reflection of reality, since it better fits the established media line
January 27, 2026 at 12:35 PM
the Greens are the clear favourite with all bookies to win Gorton and Denton, but the story everywhere is Labour "gifting" the seat to Reform by blocking Burnham - apparently it doesn't matter that this is not a reflection of reality, since it better fits the established media line