Diva Harris
@divaeh.bsky.social
Editor of @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social by day, where I also write a column about walking the seasons with my dog.
Writer/editor/proofreader-for-hire & haphazard DJ by moonlight; co-host of the monthly Token Girl DJs show on Soho Radio.
Writer/editor/proofreader-for-hire & haphazard DJ by moonlight; co-host of the monthly Token Girl DJs show on Soho Radio.
Reposted by Diva Harris
Reading doesn’t make you a better person: Tallulah Brennan speaks to @noreenmasud.bsky.social about the mystery of flat landscapes, the current state of nature writing, & the book industry’s reticence to support Palestinian liberation & fossil fuel divestment www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/read...
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reading doesn’t make you a better person: Tallulah Brennan speaks to @noreenmasud.bsky.social about the mystery of flat landscapes, the current state of nature writing, & the book industry’s reticence to support Palestinian liberation & fossil fuel divestment www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/read...
Reposted by Diva Harris
Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:
August 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:
My latest column is about tiny owls
🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉
🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉
'Our moony pupils meet for a few delicious seconds, before I realise what is happening and startle the bird with a sharp intake of breath.'
Dog Walk Report: @divaeh.bsky.social reflects on a summer of big, ancient oaks and Little Owls 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/dog-...
Dog Walk Report: @divaeh.bsky.social reflects on a summer of big, ancient oaks and Little Owls 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/dog-...
August 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My latest column is about tiny owls
🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉
🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉
Reposted by Diva Harris
Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act
August 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*
Reposted by Diva Harris
‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.'
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
August 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.'
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
Reposted by Diva Harris
'There’s a joy that comes after submitting to what’s bigger than you. It took me a while to find it.'
@jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...
@jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...
August 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
'There’s a joy that comes after submitting to what’s bigger than you. It took me a while to find it.'
@jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...
@jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...
Reposted by Diva Harris
We've decided it's high time we demystified the process of submitting to the site 🖋️ 🐙 Find all the info about how and what to submit here! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/subm...
Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We've decided it's high time we demystified the process of submitting to the site 🖋️ 🐙 Find all the info about how and what to submit here! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/subm...
Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Final call for the @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Weekend, where I will be chatting to Rowe Irvin tomorrow about her hauntingly beautiful debut novel Life Cycle of a Moth 🐛
Join us and authors @joedunthorne.bsky.social, @drtombolton.bsky.social & Rowe Irvin at the third annual @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Real Magic Weekend in Wendover at the end of the month. More info/tickets: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/real...
May 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Final call for the @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Weekend, where I will be chatting to Rowe Irvin tomorrow about her hauntingly beautiful debut novel Life Cycle of a Moth 🐛
found this incredibly moving
In light of the eponymous film about the Irish-language rappers Kneecap, @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social, Ladino scholar Devin Naar, and Yiddish culture workers Isabel Frey and Ira Temple discuss the relationship between language, music, nationalism, and resistance.
jewishcurrents.org/kneecap-and-...
jewishcurrents.org/kneecap-and-...
Kneecap and the Politics of Language Reclamation
In light of the eponymous film about the Irish-language rappers, Yiddish and Ladino specialists discuss the relationship between language, music,…
jewishcurrents.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
found this incredibly moving
Latest Dog Walk Report is about land, language, liberty, and how the fight for land access rights should be international and universal
‘A fox screams. People being thrown around the fairground rides scream. Parents scream for their children.’
Dog Walk Report: Theft of land on @divaeh.bsky.social’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/broc...
Dog Walk Report: Theft of land on @divaeh.bsky.social’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/broc...
May 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Latest Dog Walk Report is about land, language, liberty, and how the fight for land access rights should be international and universal
shared some excerpts from my 2024 diary, incl inside ivy, friend’s fox-stolen trousers, and hunting the aurora borealis with a pilled-up stranger, on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
'We discover ivy growing inside the window sash, neatly framing the balmy glass. We know we should remove it, but don’t.'
Caught by the River editor @divaeh.bsky.social closes the door on Shadows & Reflections season, sharing excerpts from her 2024 diary https://buff.ly/40ksuZA
Caught by the River editor @divaeh.bsky.social closes the door on Shadows & Reflections season, sharing excerpts from her 2024 diary https://buff.ly/40ksuZA
January 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
shared some excerpts from my 2024 diary, incl inside ivy, friend’s fox-stolen trousers, and hunting the aurora borealis with a pilled-up stranger, on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
Reposted by Diva Harris
Shadows & Reflections: Benjamin Myers pays tribute to Cliff — the ultimate writer’s dog — 'though I have often wondered if perhaps I am, in fact, merely the dog’s writer.' caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
December 17, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Shadows & Reflections: Benjamin Myers pays tribute to Cliff — the ultimate writer’s dog — 'though I have often wondered if perhaps I am, in fact, merely the dog’s writer.' caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
Reposted by Diva Harris
Rosehips, haws and crab apple jam: site editor @divaeh.bsky.social and her long, thin dog walk (and eat) through the blazes of late autumn www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/dog-...
December 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Rosehips, haws and crab apple jam: site editor @divaeh.bsky.social and her long, thin dog walk (and eat) through the blazes of late autumn www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/dog-...