I had a joy curating this selection of game-infused art, including Twine games, WebGL games, quite a few videos about CS mods, GTA machinima and more. Quite happy with it tbh. Essay included. All in English! artycok.tv/en/post/tran...
Sluice Magazine: The Death Issue — guest-edited by Dr Sarah Wishart.
Exploring grief, transformation + what remains.
Launch: Sat 1 Nov, 6–8pm
Aye-Aye Books @ Broadside, 123 Allison St
Glasgow, G42 8NE
@sluiceart.bsky.social #sluicemagazine #artistled #death #sluice2025 #death
directors charles burnett and boots riley seated on the cover of film / culture magazine “a rabbit’s foot”
CHARLES BURNETT x BOOTS RILEY
on the cover of A RABBIT’S FOOT.
cover story by me! on newsstands 3/14.
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
Marc Garrett: Feral Class.
Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.
"a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist with a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."
@artmonthly.bsky.social
@minorcompositions.bsky.social
#books #art
Edinburgh folk - I’ll be chatting with @carolinelucas.bsky.social in the Pleasance Theatre tonight - about Gorton and Denton, how to take on the far right, and how to reframe Englishness. And we’ll be in Glasgow tomorrow - join us: makehopepossible.org/tickets
Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...
Civilians in Tehran are reporting toxic oily rain following US and Israeli airstrikes on oil storage facilities. An estimated 10 million people face exposure to hazardous chemicals, with risks including skin burns and lung damage.
If we examine the origins of the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
Happy International women’s day to all of the fiery, fantastic, empowering women everywhere.
Here’s a little tidbit for you about today
Purple is the official color for International Women’s Day because it signifies justice, dignity, and loyalty to the cause of equality.
#SheShed
#OtD 8 Mar 1926 hundreds of striking textile workers clashed with police in Clifton, NJ, as they attempted to picket the Forstmann and Huffmann Mills. Police blocked the strikers and punched them, so they yelled "shame!" and "scab!" at working mills. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1083...
Holy shit this is actually insane.
This needs to be shot down, like what the heck are we doing here
people.com/man-fell-in-...
“The great art institutional swindle is the tacit consensus that conformity is a necessity. Marc Garrett’s Feral Class... is a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of such staid professional orthodoxy.” - Morgan Quaintance in Art Monthly
More on the book: www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561
Excellent round-up of small press leaders on the current crisis, interviewed by @lucymercer.bsky.social @twoseriousladies.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including my publisher @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social
lithub.com/life-giving-...
A silver book on a grey carpet, with black and purple drawings of tendrils and shapes, and black text saying ‘TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE | EDITED BY FIELDNOTES COLLECTIVE’.
Joy in the book post. 💚
I have a poem in TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE, edited by the brilliant Fieldnotes Collective (Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nina Mingya Powles). @silver-press.bsky.social
www.silverpress.org/products/ten...
“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...
love this, by Andrew Groves: fashion, feminism, finance, failure...
profandrewgroves.substack.com/p/who-can-af...
A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
“.. Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran?” said Khalaf Al Habtoor, a Dubai billionaire .. “You have placed the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council .. at the heart of a danger they did not choose.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Marc Garrett: Feral Class.
Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.
"a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist with a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."
@artmonthly.bsky.social
@minorcompositions.bsky.social
#books #art
Marc Garrett: Feral Class.
Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.
"Marc Garrett’s Feral Class is a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist [...] a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."
@ArtMonthly
@minorcomps
#books #art
Marc Garrett: Feral Class.
Review by Morgan Quaintance. Art Monthly. March 2026.
"Marc Garrett’s Feral Class is a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist [...] a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of staid professional orthodoxy."
@ArtMonthly
@minorcomps
#books #art
The always perceptive troubadour Jesse Welles dropped a new tune yesterday. He cuts right to the chase. Thank you Jesse for being so quick and timely.
youtu.be/Vcc3kdxbLYI?...
‼️The latest studies have found an increase in CO2 in human's blood‼️
This is extremely alarming and is a direct result of climate change.
Our physiology is actually changing!
Thank you to @climatenews.bsky.social for originally sharing this information.
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Body politique: a captive limb.
Paint, pencil and pen.
From Sketchbook, 1988. Marc Garrett.
Brilliant.
“I didn’t know who he was,” is an insufficient response. “I am doing serious self-examination as to why he invited me” is better.
The tech people in rich Western World gets to enjoy their Mechanical Turk, while the rest of us suffer.
