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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 · 27d

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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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 28m

We're so excited that @amalelmohtar.com will be creating an exclusive serialised short story for our newsletter during Book Week Scotland from 17 to 23 Nov 📚

Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to receive each installment!

www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...

Book Week Scotland: Amal El-Mohtar in your inbox

www.scottishbooktrust.com

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 2m

Hahahaha area writer not even capable of such dreams. Just being able to answer a simple email on time would suffice.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2h

In politics it’s even worse.
The attempt to turn every structural problem, every fight over allocation of resources, every fundamental ideological division, every conflict over power into something that can be solved with the right jingle and messaging.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]

Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university

Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 2h

Gerald Kersh was a Jewish Londoner, by turns professional wrestler, journalist, bouncer, soldier, writer in any number of lengths and genres, alcoholic, and terminal bullshit artist, whose novels can be weird, baffling, hilarious, sick, or the bleakest thing you've ever read, often simultaneously.

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 2h

"Indians pour liquid gold into the mouth of a Spanish conquistador," detail from Theodor de Bry, c.1594.

Image of a group of men holding down a spanish conquistador while pouring a liquid into his mouth

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2h

i forgot that i saved this, but my book is currently in an exhibit about Indigenous picture books at the Carle Museum (which made me squeeeee) and they provide an amazing list of recommendations of Indigenous picture books by subject matter are

Entwined Memory: Indigenous Stories of Creation, Place, and Continuity

Booklist for Entwined Memory: Indigenous Stories of Creation, Place, and Continuity, on view in the Reading Library from August 6, 2025 -August 2, 2026.

carlemuseum.org

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 21h

I wish someone would do for picture books what Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics does for comics and graphic novels

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Cyndi Gradel @cyndigradel.bsky.social · 5h

It’s Kill Columbus Day!
@sgj.bsky.social

Earthdivers Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! If you want to get into the Halloween spirit and want to support Indigenous people, may I suggest you pick up Never Whistle At Night, edited by Shawn Hawk with an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 3h

Guys, Sam Altman owns OpenAI. He knows what a bullshit job is. He knows what bullshit work is. He is profits handsomely off of bullshit. What he's actually talking about is, (and this is almost always true of these billionaire freaks) is eugenics. He is talking about who is disposable.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 2h

Librarians with Greek or Latin, a modern European language (other than English) and a publication record focused on the period 1500-1750 preferred. Sounds like a fantastic post, tbh.

Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 4h

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 2h

Area writer bewildered to find that finishing their book has not, in fact, magically made them either an extrovert or neurotypical.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 2h

Who is reissuing it?? I think it's my fave. We handsell lots at Burley Fisher...

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 3h

KLARA (not)(MANN)!!!!!!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3h

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 9h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 3h

My pedagogy in action

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 3h

TAKE YOUR TIME…
I’M THE BOSS AROUND HERE

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3h

They did this to my father in 1970.
He wasn't even allowed to say goodbye to his mother. 55 years later, same abuse and injustice.

Massimo @massimovl.bsky.social · 3h

aje.io/o3rs1l

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

aje.io

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Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick @sarahinscience.bsky.social · 5h

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making

www.nature.com

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 3h

This is kind of the plot of THE FORTUNATE FALL, only with added whales & gender fuckery.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 3h

Zbigniew Herbert wrote a poem on chess, referencing Deep Blue...

so this is how
a kingly game
passes into the hands of automatons

we must break it out of
the prison camp at night

when mind drowses
machines are roused

the quest for the imagination
must be begun all over again

tr. Alissa Valles

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3h

it’s also a great day to buy my book from an Indigenous bookshop

This Land

This land is your land now, but who did it belong to before? This engaging primer about native lands invites kids to trace history and explore their communities. Before my family lived in this house, ...

birchbarkbooks.com

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 4h

I would like to be given eleventy million krona for stating that tech "innovation" destroys worlds & beings to extract profit.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

As Gloria Estefan embarks on a 50-year retrospective of her career, this Tiny Desk takes on the same tone, heart and air of reflection. n.pr/4n2ezR9

Gloria Estefan: Tiny Desk Concert

As Gloria Estefan embarks on a 50-year retrospective of her career, this Tiny Desk takes on the same tone, heart and air of reflection.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 4h

Exciting! Angels and saints play a big part in the blurring and softening of masculinity & proposition of a kind of fourfold (!) gender.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 4h

Wow yet more evidence that economics is not so much a science as the art of stating the obvious.

NPR @npr.org · 4h

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 4h

Today marks two years since 37 year old Lebanese video journalist Issam Abdallah was killed by Israeli tank-fire while filming across the southern border and wearing a press vest.

Holding Issam's loved ones in my heart today as they keep his memory alive and fight for accountability. 🤍

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