Marc Garrett

A Reliant Robin Adventure. By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.

Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.
marcgarrett.org/2026/02/07/a...

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A Reliant Robin Adventure to Cornwall At about fourteen years old, I began hanging around with a school friend, Derek Shroud. He was an odd character, which is probably why I liked him. He was obsessed with silent horror films made bef…

A Reliant Robin Adventure.

By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.

Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing

A big thanks :-)

A Reliant Robin Adventure to Cornwall At about fourteen years old, I began hanging around with a school friend, Derek Shroud. He was an odd character, which is probably why I liked him. He was obsessed with silent horror films made bef…

A Reliant Robin Adventure.

By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.

Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing

EXACTLY. This is the question that UK journalists *should* be asking.

Thank you :-)

Many who've bought Feral Class told me they found it inspiring for working-class people, especially outside academia. It's an emancipatory text. However, gatekeepers obviously do not agree, which, to me, means they're not serious about real change. It's just a job for them.

YouTube video by Grant Barrett Catherine O'Hara John Candy Eulogy (with cleaned up audio)

catherine o'hara eulogizes john candy

"I hope and pray to leave this world too someday and to have a place near God as near as any other soul with the exception of John Candy."

we always knew that Philip Glass was a comrade

Queer Data: Methods, approaches, and what is queer social research anyway? Dr Kevin Guyan, University of Edinburgh

📢 Are you a student or ECR at Oxford interested in queer data?

We're looking for speakers to share work as part of the workshop:

Queer data: Methods, approaches, and what is queer social research anyway? 📊

@sociologyoxford.bsky.social | 13 Feb | More info 👇
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/queer-...

Theorising Incels and Co.: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of the Manosphere This article will scope out the field of manosphere studies, providing a literature review of relevant and timely research into the manosphere, with a particular focus on Incels. The paper employs a ...

So happy to have published an article in Sociology Compass! I've been working on this literature review of the manosphere since 2023, and I'm so glad to see it out in the world now.

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

GOOD NEWS POST

#sharks #leopardshark #sharkconservation #Thailand 🦑🦈🌏

Editorial Expression of Concern for the Report “Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances” On 24 April 2020, Science published the Report “Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances” by R. van Klink et al. (1). The editors have been made awar...

⚠️ Editorial Expression of Concern for the Report : Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances 🪲 DOI:10.1126/science.aax9931

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌐🧪🌍🦤

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- MR. SPUTTER IS TALKING WITH NANCY MR.SPUTTER:: WHERE DID THAT LAMP COME FROM?.. I DON'T LIKE IT NANCY: WELL-- I LIKE IT— YOUR WIFE BOUGHT IT P2- MR. SPUTTER: IT'S TOO DULL LOOKING- - I LIKE A LAMP TO BE MORE CHEERFUL P3- NANCY LEAVES THE ROOM P4- MR. SPUTTER IS SURPRISED WHEN HE RETURNS AND SEES THE LAMP NANCY: I MADE IT MORE CHEERFUL LOOKING NANCY HAS TAKEN A PAIR OF SCISSORS AND CUT A SMILEY FACE IN THE LAMPSHADE

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
January 26,1946

Why was Burnham Blocked? (Emergency Pod January 2026) In this actual emergency podcast, Alan and Jem  give way to overwhelming public pressure to respond to a recent decision taken by Labour’s National Executive Committee. The NEC have voted to …

kay @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I have recorded a LESS THAN ONE HOUR long emergency podcast on what the blocking of Andy Burnham's route back to parliament means.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/w...
Hope it's useful!

The lines have been drawn Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on

With the execution of Alex Pretti, the lines have been clearly drawn. Defenders of the killing will be defenders of state terror, through and through. Benefactors and enablers of the state carrying out this killing—particularly those in Silicon Valley—must decide which side they are on

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

“Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing”

Well, there goes the metaverse! | TechCrunch The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ambitions.

RIP to the time I spent like 10 hours of my life in horizon worlds trying to talk to "community moderators" about their working conditions but the story never materialized because i was getting really bad migraines from it and also no one was on horizon worlds
techcrunch.com/2026/01/19/w...

25 days later, White Date is still down.

Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown  | TechCrunch From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

The Courage of Mothers Robin begins a journey to find out more about his late mother.

Here is my latest blog post

thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/the-courag...

College is 750% more expensive than it was 50 years ago.

Do graduates earn 750% more?

No.

Are we learning 750% more?

No.

Is education 750% better?

No.

Nothing in our economy has kept up with this level of inflation.

Yep, I know how you feel.

"the core challenge persists: inferring comprehensive 3D geometry from flat images"

*Cheesy fantasy-toys from computer-games are somehow the business-model here, but that's a fantastically powerful technology

"See that thing in the daguerreotype? Print me ten of those"

Talking to right-wing bigots and fascists, and their bot chums, is like expecting a constructive dialogue from a dead slug.

London Exhibition Forced to Close After Right-Wing Vandal Attacks An exhibition at London's Bomb Factory confronting some of U.K.'s most polarizing politics has been shut down after being vandalized

"London Exhibition Forced to Close After Right-Wing Vandal Attacks. The show at Bomb Factory explored themes from war to immigration."

EFF at DistrictCon EFF is excited to be participating in DistrictCon for the first time! Join EFF Staff Technologist Lena Cohen at the Policy Roundtable for a discussion on, "How a Handful of Location Data Brokers

Next week 🪩 Join EFF's Lena Cohen at DistrictCon for a discussion on "How a Handful of Location Data Brokers Actively Track Millions, and How to Stop Them." www.eff.org/event/eff-d...

How committed is Toby Young's union to free speech? The Tory peer’s group has been granted a High Court application to ban the naming of those who fund it

The Tory peer’s group has been granted a High Court application to ban the naming of those who fund it

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

No mercy next time

Holy shit.

It always goes back to the billionaires.