Kate Feld

Writers! Me & @mconley.bsky.social are teaming up for a writing workshop on the theme of 'attention.' Join us Sat Nov 29 at Saan.1 Gallery in Mcr to discuss poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Phillips & Benjamin Zephaniah and then work on your own. Details here: katefeld.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...

Autumn 2025 Finally got my contributor’s copy of Magic Art Redux, which I mentioned last time – definitely one of the most beautiful books I’ve been published in. A few copies of the limited …

A storm is raging outside and I have been painstakingly updating my website with news of events and new writing of mine out there in the world and stuff I've enjoyed reading. Which feels cosy. katefeld.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

Memorizing this

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

🎊CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY MAGIC - FULL #MLF25 PROGRAMME OUT NOW!📚

From internationally acclaimed authors and cultural icons to bold new voices, our 20th edition is set to inspire, challenge and delight anyone who celebrates with us. 🧵

New work on BHP! Thanks to editor @saint-remus.bsky.social (& @miggyangel.bsky.social for starting this fire in the first place) 🔥 Lots of great stuff to read and another call live now...

You should hate Nazis more than you love convenience.

So many folks bemoaning how powerless they are re: the rise of fascism are actively funding it via their use of Substack and AI, by refusing to wear an n95, by ignoring transphobia, &c.

You have power. You just prefer convenience and comfort.

Media literacy - Committees - UK Parliament This inquiry will seek to establish a clear vision for what good media literacy would look like in the UK, and examine the barriers to achieving this vision. The committee will consider the roles and ...

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk.
committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

Push alert for a Nazi blog

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

JULY 2025 Guest Editor Is M. Forajter!!! THEME: ART & ANNIHILATION: contemporary gothic writing in the Anthropocene Burning House Press are excited to welcome M. FORAJTER as the second BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today M. will take over editorship of Burning House Press onlin…

Thank you to everyone who has sent work in for the Art & Annihilation edition - subs close the end of today July 25th still time to send if you haven’t yet! @saint-remus.bsky.social

burninghousepress.com/2025/07/01/j...

I can personally confirm this

Instagram post by Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine reporting that their bank account has been frozen by Virgin Money

Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine reports that their bank account has been frozen by Virgin Money (now owned by Nationwide). Two weeks ago, we warned that the ban on Palestine Action would lead to banks becoming nervous about any mention of “Palestine” netpol.org/2025/07/04/p...

Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if...

And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.

I've called and called but my falcon isn't responding.

Keely Smith!

Hi Bluesky! 🦋👋 We're Foglifter Press & Journal, a San Francisco based small press and literary journal by and for queer writers.

We accept #poetry, #nonfiction, #fiction, and hybrid works during our biannual submission periods starting in May and September—and visual #art & media all year round. 🌈

BBC news item illustrated with a female teacher working ar her desktop computer who looks like she’s staring into the abyss: Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says The government says Al should only be used for "low-stakes" marking Hazel Shearing > Education correspondent

Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each others’ mouths

JUNE 2025 Guest Editor Is JOHN TREFRY!!! THEME: INANIMISM Burning House Press are excited to welcome JOHN TREFRY as the first BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today JOHN will take over editorship of Burning House …

BURNING HOUSE PRESS are excited to welcome (back) JOHN TREFRY @incastellated - as the 1st BHP guest editor of our current special-edition series!

JOHN’S theme for the month is

—INANIMISM

“Text is not active, it exists all at once, simultaneously.”

sendsendx

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aww man, heal well Ros (and tell those 'jokers' to fuck right off)

You don't have to "look into it". You have to admit that you thought it was a cool idea to get rid of actual humans because they cost money, and instead used a plagiarism shitshow that makes up absolute garbage, inflicting a huge environmental cost on the planet that doesn't touch your bottom line.

Verily, this is awesome

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

I understand the overworked prof better than most, but as institutions, schools are going to have to play a longer game—widespread adoption of these tools by profs is going to devalue what they are selling. Destabilizing education is part of their overall fascist project.

My interview with Anne Ursu is up on Lit Hub!

too angry and sad to read this article on my break from trying to figure out how to deal thoughtfully with the likely robot-generated essays I must mark TODAY or else

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.” #politics

~Aldous Huxley

“A Brechtian maxim: do not build on the good old days, but on the bad new ones.”

—Walter Benjamin

[from Conversations with Brecht]

This was so great!