Will Stanier
flatstanley.bsky.social
Will Stanier
@flatstanley.bsky.social
Poet, printer, and librarian. Bookmaker and homemaker. Everything Happens Next (Blue Arrangements, 2021).
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3 of my poems, in the best of company, from issue 7 of mercury firs. www.mercuryfirs.org/issue-7
issue 7 — m er c ur y f i r s
www.mercuryfirs.org
Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan reading in Athens, Georgia this Thursday. Excited for it.

www.thegeorgiareview.com/event/readin...
Reading with Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan - The Georgia Review
JOIN US FOR A READING WITH BRENDA IIJIMA AND SARETTA MORGAN FEBRUARY 5 @4pm THE ATHENAEUM Q+A and book signing, reception to follow at The Special Collections Library This event is supported in part b...
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February 3, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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“I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” —Percival Everett
Percival Everett, The Art of Fiction No. 235
“What I want to do is write something that seems like it means something and doesn’t. I want to write a novel that even I don’t understand.”
buff.ly
February 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
With increased U.S. sanctions and tariffs against Cuba, it’s a good time to listen again to Blowback’s Season 2 podcast on the Cuban Revolution and the perpetual U.S. effort to manage Cuban sovereignty.

Link in the comments.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 PM
With Senator Thune refusing to allow a separate DHS funding vote, there’s another chance today to contact your senators and insist that they hold their positions on defunding ICE.

Easy calls, straightforward script.

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Defund ICE (UPDATED 1/28) - SENATE VOTE THURSDAY ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates January 28, 2026: House Republicans have combined their standalone DHS funding bill with five other government funding bills. The Senate must …
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January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾

Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚

➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The phone lines of both my Senators were busy, which is good reason to keep calling.

5calls.org has a helpful app for various topics and scripts.

5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
Defund ICE (UPDATED 1/22) - SENATE VOTE THIS WEEK ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates January 22, 2026: By a 220-207 vote, the House has passed H.R. 7147, the standalone DHS appropriations bill. Republican Rep. Massie (KY) voted …
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January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson

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Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?
Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…
lithub.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
The difference between the 1000 mg Vitamin C supplement and the 500 mg Vitamin C supplement is the recommended dose of 4 rather than 2 capsules. So yeah, they’re just fucking with us.
January 23, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Was recently reminded of Thomas William Smillie’s work at the Smithsonian in the early 1900s, especially as profiled by The Public Domain Review.

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The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
A survey of the Smithsonian by the first curator of photography in the United States.
publicdomainreview.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Kim Stanley Robinson novel where everyone at Davos is held hostage by activists.
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
House flippers on my street, but they forgot to replace the Dale Jr. decal mailbox.
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
3 of my poems, in the best of company, from issue 7 of mercury firs. www.mercuryfirs.org/issue-7
issue 7 — m er c ur y f i r s
www.mercuryfirs.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM