Will Stanier
@flatstanley.bsky.social
Poet, printer, and librarian. Bookmaker and homemaker. Everything Happens Next (Blue Arrangements, 2021).
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issue 7 — m er c ur y f i r s
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3 of my poems, in the best of company, from issue 7 of mercury firs. www.mercuryfirs.org/issue-7
Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan reading in Athens, Georgia this Thursday. Excited for it.
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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
Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan reading in Athens, Georgia this Thursday. Excited for it.
www.thegeorgiareview.com/event/readin...
www.thegeorgiareview.com/event/readin...
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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.”
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February 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
“I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” —Percival Everett
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.
Link in the comments.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 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.
Link in the comments.
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.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
Easy calls, straightforward script.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
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 …
5calls.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 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.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
Easy calls, straightforward script.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
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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
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 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
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
If you wanted a reason to shut down your neighborhood’s Capital One Café …
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Eject Elbit Is Pushing Capital One to Drop $90M Loan to Israel's Largest Weapons Manufacturer
Protesters across several cities are acting against the bank for funding Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, as company employees face censorship for talking about the genocide in Gaza.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
If you wanted a reason to shut down your neighborhood’s Capital One Café …
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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...
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 …
5calls.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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...
5calls.org has a helpful app for various topics and scripts.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
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"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson
lithub.com/letter-from-...
lithub.com/letter-from-...
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 desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson
lithub.com/letter-from-...
lithub.com/letter-from-...
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
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.
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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publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
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
Was recently reminded of Thomas William Smillie’s work at the Smithsonian in the early 1900s, especially as profiled by The Public Domain Review.
publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
Kim Stanley Robinson novel where everyone at Davos is held hostage by activists.
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Kim Stanley Robinson novel where everyone at Davos is held hostage by activists.
House flippers on my street, but they forgot to replace the Dale Jr. decal mailbox.
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
House flippers on my street, but they forgot to replace the Dale Jr. decal mailbox.
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
3 of my poems, in the best of company, from issue 7 of mercury firs. www.mercuryfirs.org/issue-7