Marc Garrett
@mgarrett.bsky.social
Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561
Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
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Marc Garrett
@mgarrett.bsky.social
· Jun 26
OK. The 'Feral Class' book is out! By Marc Garrett.
Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission.
Available direct from Minor Compositions (in the UK) for the special price of £13.
www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561
Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission.
Available direct from Minor Compositions (in the UK) for the special price of £13.
www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561
Commemorative Fan Art Plate Of The Day 💚
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Commemorative Fan Art Plate Of The Day 💚
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Massive colony of 111,000 spiders from different species found deep inside a sulfur cave #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Massive colony of 111,000 spiders from different species found deep inside a sulfur cave
Deep beneath the Balkans, a massive sulfur-fed cave hosts 111,000 spiders in one shared web, defying typical spider behavior.
www.earth.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Massive colony of 111,000 spiders from different species found deep inside a sulfur cave #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
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Yep, THELIBRARIANS is one of the year’s best docs! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
The Best Documentaries of 2025 | Roger Ebert
www.rogerebert.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Yep, THELIBRARIANS is one of the year’s best docs! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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The Anishinabek Nation, a political organization that represents 39 First Nations in Ontario has renewed their state of emergency declaration.
They say this is in response to an escalation in their public safety across all 39 nations.
They say this is in response to an escalation in their public safety across all 39 nations.
Organization representing 39 First Nations in Ontario renewed their state of emergency | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Anishinabek Nation, a political organization that represents 39 First Nations in Ontario has renewed their state of emergency declaration.
They say this is in response to an escalation in their public safety across all 39 nations.
They say this is in response to an escalation in their public safety across all 39 nations.
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As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
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Wrote this about the manufactured & hypocritical outrage concerning the pro Palestine hip hop outfit Kneecap www.counterfire.org/article/knee...
Kneecap: pilloried for supporting Palestinians
The controversy over the band Kneecap is a blatant example of double standards when it comes to free speech and Palestine, explains Des Freedman
The Irish hip-hop band Kneecap are facing calls to b...
www.counterfire.org
May 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Wrote this about the manufactured & hypocritical outrage concerning the pro Palestine hip hop outfit Kneecap www.counterfire.org/article/knee...
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The UK media have suddenly woken up to the fact that Israel is not a paragon of virtue. My thoughts for @declassifieduk.org www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-media...
The UK media discover Israel is off the leash
Britain’s national press finally realise that Israel might be a problem but still fail to recognise their own role in legitimising atrocities in Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org
May 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The UK media have suddenly woken up to the fact that Israel is not a paragon of virtue. My thoughts for @declassifieduk.org www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-media...
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This really isn't the first dodgy @BBC edit but it's certainly the one that counts because delegitimising striking miners in 1984 or undermining Corbyn in 2019 apparently don't matter. Some thoughts for @LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman | Whose BBC?
From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years its...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This really isn't the first dodgy @BBC edit but it's certainly the one that counts because delegitimising striking miners in 1984 or undermining Corbyn in 2019 apparently don't matter. Some thoughts for @LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Fun fact I learned from Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague": Dengue fever gets its name from the Swahili phrase ki denga pepo (“a sudden overtaking by a spirit”)—which tells you something about how painful it is. It's also called "breakbone fever." @insideclimatenews.org
A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive - Inside Climate News
The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Western Colorado.
insideclimatenews.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fun fact I learned from Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague": Dengue fever gets its name from the Swahili phrase ki denga pepo (“a sudden overtaking by a spirit”)—which tells you something about how painful it is. It's also called "breakbone fever." @insideclimatenews.org
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Think the best music is all in the past? This playlist is here to change your mind. tinyurl.com/7vy6hcbu
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
Albertine Sarges - Free Today
Albertine Sarges' new single - Free Today - taken from her debut album The Sticky Fingers, out on Moshi Moshi Records on 29th January: http://moshimoshi.plctrmm.to/Albertine Described by Albertine Sarges as a “one-take-recording in every sense” Free Today is liberated mu-sic for liberated souls. The opening track of her forthcoming debut album, it opens with a paragraph from feminist thinker Sara Ahmed and progresses to freeform danceable pop, alive with improvisa-tion and invention. In the music video for Free Today the band gathers in an East German village in Brandenburg. Themes of theory and literature, societal norms and the bathing of the body get dis-played during this weird corona affected empty summer of 2020. The video was commissioned by Down By The River Festival. Directed and edited by Lo Selbo Cinematography: Max Hilsamer Costumes and styling: Roman Ole Set assistance: Jacques Sarges & Amande Dagod Colors: Nicolas Giraldon (Mind and Image) Cast: Lisa Baeyens, Shanice Ruby Bennett, Robert Kretzschmar and Albertine Sarges Thanks to our host Christian Thomas Eine Produktion im Rahmen von: Down by the River Festival #11 - Everybody knows this is Online Gefördert von Musicboard Berlin Präsentiert von Arts of the Working Class, Digital in Berlin, Jungle World, Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop, Reboot.fm und taz - die Tageszeitung
tinyurl.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Think the best music is all in the past? This playlist is here to change your mind. tinyurl.com/7vy6hcbu
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
Think the best music is all in the past? This playlist is here to change your mind. tinyurl.com/7vy6hcbu
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
Albertine Sarges - Free Today
Albertine Sarges' new single - Free Today - taken from her debut album The Sticky Fingers, out on Moshi Moshi Records on 29th January: http://moshimoshi.plctrmm.to/Albertine Described by Albertine Sarges as a “one-take-recording in every sense” Free Today is liberated mu-sic for liberated souls. The opening track of her forthcoming debut album, it opens with a paragraph from feminist thinker Sara Ahmed and progresses to freeform danceable pop, alive with improvisa-tion and invention. In the music video for Free Today the band gathers in an East German village in Brandenburg. Themes of theory and literature, societal norms and the bathing of the body get dis-played during this weird corona affected empty summer of 2020. The video was commissioned by Down By The River Festival. Directed and edited by Lo Selbo Cinematography: Max Hilsamer Costumes and styling: Roman Ole Set assistance: Jacques Sarges & Amande Dagod Colors: Nicolas Giraldon (Mind and Image) Cast: Lisa Baeyens, Shanice Ruby Bennett, Robert Kretzschmar and Albertine Sarges Thanks to our host Christian Thomas Eine Produktion im Rahmen von: Down by the River Festival #11 - Everybody knows this is Online Gefördert von Musicboard Berlin Präsentiert von Arts of the Working Class, Digital in Berlin, Jungle World, Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop, Reboot.fm und taz - die Tageszeitung
tinyurl.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Think the best music is all in the past? This playlist is here to change your mind. tinyurl.com/7vy6hcbu
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
It's full of the grassroots, emerging music I love, proving that great new music is absolutely still being made—it's often just a matter of finding it.
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
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"China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
🤦Meanwhile, "US urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables" today.westlaw.com/Document/I49...
🤦Meanwhile, "US urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables" today.westlaw.com/Document/I49...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
🤦Meanwhile, "US urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables" today.westlaw.com/Document/I49...
🤦Meanwhile, "US urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables" today.westlaw.com/Document/I49...
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One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
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We’ve become accustomed to believing that there is no other way except through violence. But that is patently false.
Militarism's Violence Poisons Everyone--Even Soldiers
The systematic violence of American militarism has shaped all our lives, including the soldiers who have come to realize that they were used to perpetrate it.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We’ve become accustomed to believing that there is no other way except through violence. But that is patently false.
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Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right
YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
You can't solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it
Billionaires and corporations are driving climate breakdown. It’s time to tax their wealth and build a fairer future.
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
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In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.
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If Capital Strikes Against Mamdani, Organized Worker Power Can Strike Back truthout.org/articles/if-...
If Capital Strikes Against Mamdani, Organized Worker Power Can Strike Back
Let’s study how Wall Street sank Mamdani-style municipal plans back in 1975 — and get prepared for a similar fight.
truthout.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If Capital Strikes Against Mamdani, Organized Worker Power Can Strike Back truthout.org/articles/if-...
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In potentially one of the greatest ironies of modern times, thanks to lighting contractors not being covered for taking down flags it may be the case that Kent's festive bulbs won't go up this year. Meaning Christmas might be inadvertently cancelled. By "patriots".
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
In potentially one of the greatest ironies of modern times, thanks to lighting contractors not being covered for taking down flags it may be the case that Kent's festive bulbs won't go up this year. Meaning Christmas might be inadvertently cancelled. By "patriots".
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The BBC—despite its best efforts—simply couldn’t give the technofascists enough of what they wanted. Too much fascism in institutions will never be enough for those they are trying to appease.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
BBC's "War on Woke" was never enough for the right - Freedom News
Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed ~ punkac…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The BBC—despite its best efforts—simply couldn’t give the technofascists enough of what they wanted. Too much fascism in institutions will never be enough for those they are trying to appease.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
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Come on @theguardian.com : the BBC never lost the trust of the public! It just wasn't submissive enough to the powerful far right, oligarch clique that has seized control of US politics and wants to do the same here. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Will Tim Davie’s resignation be enough to restore public trust in the BBC?
Senior insiders admit concern about big editorial errors and fear attacks are part of ongoing campaign to undermine the broadcaster
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Come on @theguardian.com : the BBC never lost the trust of the public! It just wasn't submissive enough to the powerful far right, oligarch clique that has seized control of US politics and wants to do the same here. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Lucid dreamers tend to have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex—an area in the brain that enables self-reflection or metacognition. Hence, these individuals are more likely to self-reflect and have a considerable degree of personal awareness when they are awake.
Link Between Lucid Dreaming and Metacognition — Konsyse
Researchers discovered lucid dreaming relates to larger anterior prefrontal cortex—a brain area associated with metacognition.
www.konsyse.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Lucid dreamers tend to have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex—an area in the brain that enables self-reflection or metacognition. Hence, these individuals are more likely to self-reflect and have a considerable degree of personal awareness when they are awake.