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
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...
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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A lovely brief excerpt from @natanlast.bsky.social's new book about how crossword puzzles are responsible for "three of the most prominent houses in American letters" lithub.com/how-crosswor...
How Crossword Puzzles Underwrote Three of America’s Major Publishers
One winter evening in 1924 Mr. Richard L. Simon came home from dinner at his aunt Wixie’s house with an idea. He was a man of letters, now, and that’s why Wixie had invited him over. After Columbia…
lithub.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A lovely brief excerpt from @natanlast.bsky.social's new book about how crossword puzzles are responsible for "three of the most prominent houses in American letters" lithub.com/how-crosswor...
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Twelve hours to go until the submissions window closes on our disability issue, folks. Keep those poems rolling in.
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Twelve hours to go until the submissions window closes on our disability issue, folks. Keep those poems rolling in.
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Full call and instructions here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
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A thing I learned in my decade on the sales floor at Best Buy was that computers, tvs, the phones themselves have smallish profits on the hardware itself but made bank w licensing deals (pre-loaded apps) and selling user data (tvs/laptops require being online to set up).
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A thing I learned in my decade on the sales floor at Best Buy was that computers, tvs, the phones themselves have smallish profits on the hardware itself but made bank w licensing deals (pre-loaded apps) and selling user data (tvs/laptops require being online to set up).
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wherever you work, kick the consulting firms out of your workplace
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
wherever you work, kick the consulting firms out of your workplace
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“Still punk AF," I whisper as I put my many medications into my weekly pill sorter.
"Still punk AF," I whisper as I sort batteries, lightbulbs, blister packs, cables & ink cartridges to take to the council recycling bins.
“Still punk AF,” I whisper as I microwave leftover pot roast
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Still punk AF," I whisper as I put my many medications into my weekly pill sorter.
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Suppose we'd better all donate more period products to the foodbank now that a charity that donated them to those who couldn't afford it has closed - an event *checks notes* celebrated by the lobby groups that every aspect of the UK press wants you to know is better at feminism than the rest of us
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Suppose we'd better all donate more period products to the foodbank now that a charity that donated them to those who couldn't afford it has closed - an event *checks notes* celebrated by the lobby groups that every aspect of the UK press wants you to know is better at feminism than the rest of us
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Please help me get this story out to a wider audience.
Please share everywhere.
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Please share everywhere.
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Is NHSE forcing young people to detransition?
The minutes of a meeting, leaked to NWBylines, strongly indicate NHSE does not want the prescribing of puberty blockers at WellBN to continue
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Please help me get this story out to a wider audience.
Please share everywhere.
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Please share everywhere.
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
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Finally streaming Kenny Leon's 2023 Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Hamlet,' set in modern-day Atlanta. Great cast with Ato Blankson-Wood as an unreadable, unsettling prince, John Douglas Thompson uncommonly sympathetic as Claudius. Streaming free through 12/31. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/h...
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Finally streaming Kenny Leon's 2023 Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Hamlet,' set in modern-day Atlanta. Great cast with Ato Blankson-Wood as an unreadable, unsettling prince, John Douglas Thompson uncommonly sympathetic as Claudius. Streaming free through 12/31. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/h...
Me: wow why am I so tired 🫠
Also me: yes it was a great idea to do 10 live events in 3 cities in 16 days woohoo
Every single one was incredible AND please can I lie down in a darkened room for like 48 hours now?
Also me: yes it was a great idea to do 10 live events in 3 cities in 16 days woohoo
Every single one was incredible AND please can I lie down in a darkened room for like 48 hours now?
November 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Me: wow why am I so tired 🫠
Also me: yes it was a great idea to do 10 live events in 3 cities in 16 days woohoo
Every single one was incredible AND please can I lie down in a darkened room for like 48 hours now?
Also me: yes it was a great idea to do 10 live events in 3 cities in 16 days woohoo
Every single one was incredible AND please can I lie down in a darkened room for like 48 hours now?
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BREAKING: An attack by Israeli settlers on a water well east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has cut off the water supply to several Palestinian towns, according to the Jerusalem Water Authority.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: An attack by Israeli settlers on a water well east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has cut off the water supply to several Palestinian towns, according to the Jerusalem Water Authority.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.
Mon 08 December, 8 p.m.
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden
Find out more: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
Mon 08 December, 8 p.m.
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden
Find out more: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.
Mon 08 December, 8 p.m.
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden
Find out more: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
Mon 08 December, 8 p.m.
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden
Find out more: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
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while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
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Sunday evening/Monday morning appropriate Jill McDonald Puffin Post illustration
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sunday evening/Monday morning appropriate Jill McDonald Puffin Post illustration
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A reminder this holiday season and always
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A reminder this holiday season and always
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This is so lovely and shows the value of #disabilityarts. #disability #writing #cripthelit. artsaccess.org.nz/Arts%20Blog/...
A love letter to Crip the Lit
It’s International Day of Disabled People on Wednesday 3 December. So to mark the occasion in true Crip the Lit fashion, a group of hilarious, talented and imaginative writers are getting together to ...
artsaccess.org.nz
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is so lovely and shows the value of #disabilityarts. #disability #writing #cripthelit. artsaccess.org.nz/Arts%20Blog/...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.
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This thread is simply amazing, please share
Thread. In March 2024 I devoured @mjohnharrison.bsky.social’s Wish I Was Here in one sitting. Unfortunately Gennaro devoured some, too. Today its carcass called to me from the bookcase while I was looking for materials to splice with some midcentury domestic paraphernalia. This is the epilogue. 1/
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This thread is simply amazing, please share
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Small Press Publishers are the *best* — but they need more support (and investment): www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
(Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )
(Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Small Press Publishers are the *best* — but they need more support (and investment): www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
(Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )
(Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )
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Thread. In March 2024 I devoured @mjohnharrison.bsky.social’s Wish I Was Here in one sitting. Unfortunately Gennaro devoured some, too. Today its carcass called to me from the bookcase while I was looking for materials to splice with some midcentury domestic paraphernalia. This is the epilogue. 1/
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thread. In March 2024 I devoured @mjohnharrison.bsky.social’s Wish I Was Here in one sitting. Unfortunately Gennaro devoured some, too. Today its carcass called to me from the bookcase while I was looking for materials to splice with some midcentury domestic paraphernalia. This is the epilogue. 1/
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I’ve been out shoveling in my Docs, so I guess it’s time to repost this.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I’ve been out shoveling in my Docs, so I guess it’s time to repost this.
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The far right loves to pretend it's an alternative, it speaks truth to power and cares about the "left behind"
It doesn't take much though to realise that their ideology is innately elitist and tied to wealth
Here exemplified by the French Rassemblement National:
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
It doesn't take much though to realise that their ideology is innately elitist and tied to wealth
Here exemplified by the French Rassemblement National:
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Le Rassemblement national poursuit sa mue libérale : « L’ultrariche, il faut être réaliste, vous ne l’attraperez jamais »
Si l’extrême droite a voté quelques hausses d’impôt à l’efficacité contestée, les débats budgétaires confirment le tournant favorable aux grandes entreprises pris par le parti de Marine Le Pen et Jord...
www.lemonde.fr
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The far right loves to pretend it's an alternative, it speaks truth to power and cares about the "left behind"
It doesn't take much though to realise that their ideology is innately elitist and tied to wealth
Here exemplified by the French Rassemblement National:
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
It doesn't take much though to realise that their ideology is innately elitist and tied to wealth
Here exemplified by the French Rassemblement National:
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Today I gave away my teenage and early twenties record collection, which was still in my parents' house. Memories, yes. But also the very clear sense of that guy having been a different person to this guy. There is no arc to life. No actual connection. Every day we're something different.
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Today I gave away my teenage and early twenties record collection, which was still in my parents' house. Memories, yes. But also the very clear sense of that guy having been a different person to this guy. There is no arc to life. No actual connection. Every day we're something different.
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Busy weekend in the bookshop! Lots of conversations and laughter, loud music and books everywhere. @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Busy weekend in the bookshop! Lots of conversations and laughter, loud music and books everywhere. @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social
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“Still Punk AF”, I whisper as I pass the NA beer options in Tescos.
"Still punk AF," I whisper as I sort batteries, lightbulbs, blister packs, cables & ink cartridges to take to the council recycling bins.
“Still punk AF,” I whisper as I microwave leftover pot roast
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Still Punk AF”, I whisper as I pass the NA beer options in Tescos.