Lucy Mercer
@lucymercer.bsky.social
writer, Emblem (Prototype) & Afterlife forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo;🕯️
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"The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
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Get your replacement ballot in the next half hour: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu....
And submit your ballot before the 26th. Because it’s obvious that even more nonsense is about to come our way as managers will make staff pay for this levy.
And submit your ballot before the 26th. Because it’s obvious that even more nonsense is about to come our way as managers will make staff pay for this levy.
We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
yoursay.ucu.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Get your replacement ballot in the next half hour: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu....
And submit your ballot before the 26th. Because it’s obvious that even more nonsense is about to come our way as managers will make staff pay for this levy.
And submit your ballot before the 26th. Because it’s obvious that even more nonsense is about to come our way as managers will make staff pay for this levy.
They should really say if they automated them or not 😂 how confusing
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
They should really say if they automated them or not 😂 how confusing
Will have new additional essays & reflections @twoseriousladies.bsky.social & me stoked about this, also ofc we will have a fun launch party
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Will have new additional essays & reflections @twoseriousladies.bsky.social & me stoked about this, also ofc we will have a fun launch party
Omg really 🫠 lol ~ how does that make any sense as a method
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Omg really 🫠 lol ~ how does that make any sense as a method
As we’ve been saying…
‘The way poetry defamiliarizes language and seeks unique phrasings seems to scramble this software’s ability to sort text. Anyone who has read something produced by a large language model knows that it favors a bland and expected style,’
‘The way poetry defamiliarizes language and seeks unique phrasings seems to scramble this software’s ability to sort text. Anyone who has read something produced by a large language model knows that it favors a bland and expected style,’
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
As we’ve been saying…
‘The way poetry defamiliarizes language and seeks unique phrasings seems to scramble this software’s ability to sort text. Anyone who has read something produced by a large language model knows that it favors a bland and expected style,’
‘The way poetry defamiliarizes language and seeks unique phrasings seems to scramble this software’s ability to sort text. Anyone who has read something produced by a large language model knows that it favors a bland and expected style,’
Ah, so so good. How lucky we are to have you, Nisha, Emily! &
all the many other lifegiving talented authors in our small press literary communities 💐✨
all the many other lifegiving talented authors in our small press literary communities 💐✨
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ah, so so good. How lucky we are to have you, Nisha, Emily! &
all the many other lifegiving talented authors in our small press literary communities 💐✨
all the many other lifegiving talented authors in our small press literary communities 💐✨
Alice! So nice to hear from you. I hope you’re well :)
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Alice! So nice to hear from you. I hope you’re well :)
Ah I’m glad has represented, thank you for all that you do!
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Ah I’m glad has represented, thank you for all that you do!
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"This could also include reforming distribution models that only serve large publishers"
YES FUCKING PLEASE
YES FUCKING PLEASE
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"This could also include reforming distribution models that only serve large publishers"
YES FUCKING PLEASE
YES FUCKING PLEASE
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Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social went with the sister analogy of the "undercanopy" here, to similar effect. We want to see more water, more life, more weird books
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
In praise of small presses: Ireland's indie publishers celebrated
Ahead of the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair this November, co-founders Tim Groenland and Éireann Lorsung salute a golden age for independent publishing in Ireland.
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social went with the sister analogy of the "undercanopy" here, to similar effect. We want to see more water, more life, more weird books
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Oh amazing thanks for this Tim!
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Oh amazing thanks for this Tim!
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I am extremely proud of & committed to being a small press author (& extremely thrilled that BAD LANGUAGE is in the pic alongside comrades like Nisha Ramayya). It's a community, an ethic & method -- it doesn't need to be more commercial, it needs more recognition & less going up against monopolies.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I am extremely proud of & committed to being a small press author (& extremely thrilled that BAD LANGUAGE is in the pic alongside comrades like Nisha Ramayya). It's a community, an ethic & method -- it doesn't need to be more commercial, it needs more recognition & less going up against monopolies.