The USA is doing sportswashing all wrong. The idea is you do a Russia or a Qatar and welcome everyone in, trying to appear super-cute so that people stop thinking about your appalling human rights violations and corruption. You're not meant to shine a light on it. Stupid country.
who woulda thunk it
Stay safe. Keep breathing. We are with you.
The circumstances around the success of @mhut25.bsky.social debut novel The Mercy Step are of interest to scholars interested in Black British & Caribbean writing. The book is shortlisted for UK’s Woman’s Prize, fka the Orange Prize, putting her in the company of Zadie & Chimamanda 1/
UK doesn’t deserve you!
In English, my new project is entitled Inside-Out Earth.
1ère traduction du titre: La terre à l’envers. Mais je viens d’en trouver une meilleure : La terre éviscérée
Should I go back and change the title in English to Eviscerated Earth?
A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in:
"SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Maybe you can shed light on the persistent use of the word “disorder” to describe the situation… Besides the obvious understatement, is there some kind of historical reference this invokes in Belfast and/or UK ?
Hey, US: don’t dismiss this as “well it’s Belfast, what do you expect.”
No.
Remember that fachos in the US are way more heavily armed than these guys. It 💯 could happen in the US. It’s actually begun already—there’s just a tiny step from ICE violence to this.
I'm highlighting this case because we are seeing an unprecedented attack on Black life-which includes literary culture-on both sides of the pond. One solution is to entrust your work to Black people like @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app capable of understanding and promoting it! 4/4