Ben Robertson
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Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
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Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, you also miss 100% of the shots you take, for this reason you are off the team.
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, you also miss 100% of the shots you take, for this reason you are off the team.
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AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Congratulations to @noctambulate.bsky.social and huge thanks for shepherding Mass Markets into the world.
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Congratulations to @noctambulate.bsky.social and huge thanks for shepherding Mass Markets into the world.
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very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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If this goes where most marginalized folks think its gonna go & youre on here telling us that we **HAVE** to vote for him to get things back to “normalcy” when elections roll around I will block you like lightning b/c nothing will ever get me to support this heifer & screw you for thinking we should
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If this goes where most marginalized folks think its gonna go & youre on here telling us that we **HAVE** to vote for him to get things back to “normalcy” when elections roll around I will block you like lightning b/c nothing will ever get me to support this heifer & screw you for thinking we should
Narrator: she was, in fact, done
“I am not done,” the former vice president said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones,” she added.
https://cnn.it/4hs4aNi
https://cnn.it/4hs4aNi
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Narrator: she was, in fact, done
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The @jbhe.com has a great list of new books of interest to African American Scholars, including MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE, by Laura Winkiel. tinyurl.com/y57zad8p @columbiaup.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The @jbhe.com has a great list of new books of interest to African American Scholars, including MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE, by Laura Winkiel. tinyurl.com/y57zad8p @columbiaup.bsky.social
Finally finishing up that show about children being blackmailed. Too many damn aliens though.
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Finally finishing up that show about children being blackmailed. Too many damn aliens though.
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Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Dems like Schumer believe this to the core of their being
The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Dems like Schumer believe this to the core of their being
Gonna tell my kids this was Gravity's Rainbow
October 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was Gravity's Rainbow
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the US government has arrived on bluesky
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
the US government has arrived on bluesky
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The very notion of making a Tron movie like just another CGI blockbuster without conceiving or attempting anything as formally innovative or just plain weird as the original's backlit neon on black-and-white footage is just plain weirdly utterly pointless. And they've done it twice!
If someone gave me like $50 million to make a Tron movie I would hire a ton of professional dancers and put them in the classic Tron leotards and just stage incredible dance sequences in the Grid.
No CG required.
No CG required.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The very notion of making a Tron movie like just another CGI blockbuster without conceiving or attempting anything as formally innovative or just plain weird as the original's backlit neon on black-and-white footage is just plain weirdly utterly pointless. And they've done it twice!
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My new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD is now available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social!! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792108...
Fast and Furious Franchising
What the popularity of the Fast and Furious film franchise says about Hollywood blockbusters and media productionFast and Furious Franchising charts the tran...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD is now available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social!! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792108...
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Oh shit!
Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Oh shit!
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An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's maps go on display at the Architectural Association
An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
