Lucy Mercer

here for it 💯

Compulsive Reading — Parapraxis Our popular genres of escape Sarah Brouillette

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Sarah Brouillette has written an excellent article on escapist reading & romance narratives
which is more informed & nuanced than my take & maybe speaks to this also

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/com...

💖😂😊 I am glad of youuu!

reads 24/7 on their phones; basic literacy is not the same as reading literature, which needs differing levels of attention, just printing verbal slurry or AI slop w/o conceptual or linguistic complexity as books is the continuous refrain of: you are too stupid to read literature or abt ideas

also how are these recommended books not considered deeply boring

bleak from start to finish

Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read It’s easy to dismiss holiday novels as pulpy, but relaxing with a book you enjoy has huge health benefits. Here’s how to read yourself happy this summer

No

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Erik Satie - the Minimalist Muse Jude Rogers explores the unique legacy of composer Erik Satie, 100 years after his death.

A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

from Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe calling it like six years ago

@theguardian.com will you cover this story of national importance?

Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund - Craig Murray If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong t...

RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund.

How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity?

Finance sector benefiting from wars?

A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.

What thrills me the most about this win—I honestly can't stop reading up about it from across a continent and an ocean—is the prospect that leftist policies CAN find voters and the world CAN change

the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan

❤️❤️❤️ finally some good news

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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incredible

lol

from John Cage’s letters 🖤

was feeling like writing this book was killing me, but now thanks to the AI discourse I’m like actually I love being inside this long thought, nothing can replace it or do it except me, nothing can replace this process, its swerves & fruitful errata & and an internal music has settled inside me

there’s a man who plays his flute to his dog when he walks it at night in the park next to my house. Can hardly see him in the gloom & his flute sounds like Totoro’s flute. I am convinced he is the Totoro of Croydon

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

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I am not saying that we should not push back against these things: far from, we must advocate against, organise- on a huge scale. But to leave the confusion or outrage as to ‘why do they do X and Y’ behind & the false hope that they might change

Voting creates a sense of pledge on behalf of the voters that implies reciprocity from the voted-for (we are told it is reciprocal). This is not true and time is being wasted on lamenting the failure of this false bond

Their interests are not our interests

They do not represent us and will not represent us

[The interests of the ruling class in this country are not our interests]

[The ruling class in this country does not represent us and will not represent us]

Starmer backs Trump’s Iran bombing saying Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weapon Prime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities 'completely and totally obliterated’

It’s difficult to leave the cycles of outrage & disbelief about Starmer & Labour’s genocidaire neoliberalism & warmongering etc. But the thing is, they are serving their class interests.

Appeals to morality or sense won’t work. The work needs to start w this

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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OUTCAST WITH OLIVER BASCIANO Oliver Basciano discusses his new book Outcast, a revelatory history of leprosy, humanity and the modern world

Looking forward to this ~ going to be in conversation w @olibasciano.bsky.social about his new book Outcast @faberbooks.bsky.social at The Margate Bookshop on 3 July. Come along! Tickets free but need to book on eventbrite

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outcast-wi...