Chelsea and Enzo Maresca part ways with immediate effect The Italian had been on a five-year deal through to 2029.

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Enzo Maresca has departed as head coach of Chelsea, the team announced, five months after winning the Club World Cup.

it feels decadent to have so many accessible streaming services of entertainment

Happy New Year everyone ✨🎉

Think of Others Mahmoud Darwish Translated by Mohammed Shaheen As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon’s food). As you conduct your wars, think of others (do not forget those who seek peace). As you pay your water bill, think of others (those who are nursed by clouds). As you return home, to your home, think of others (do not forget the people of the camps). As you sleep and count the stars, think of others (those who have nowhere to sleep). As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others (those who have lost the right to speak). As you think of others far away, think of yourself (say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”).

A reminder, especially to my godforsaken government.

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

I actually DID get raptured, but I came back because I still have some more book events lined up this year. That's just the kinda guy I am.

Cover of DEED. beautiful edition with amazing 'fly pages' inside collage of textured black flowers.

An apostrophe denotes possession. Means to turn toward. Thin hook of ink that joins one body to another by its name.

In one pocket I carry a list of all the places I am prohibited -- bathrooms & airplanes, churches & young adult literature. In the other, a list of all the things I'd have to abandon to be called a woman. I fly 3,000 to a place where no one knows my face or name & joke that there is a boy I'm leaving behind

Day #3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social read the new torrin a. greathouse book DEED. Intensely propulsive inquiries into trans self/sex work, language, patriarchy, clients/police, sexuality & oppression; a writer w/chops & labyrinthine music - exquisite visions, sculpted lines & politics/poetic.

My copies arrived plus additional purchases for those folk who supported me in leading underpinning the research with Esa Aldegheri & Dan Fisher @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social @scotnational.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social

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This image depicts a scene from Arnold Lobel's beloved children's book series, Frog and Toad, specifically an illustration titled "Frog and Toad at Tea". The image features Frog and Toad, the two main characters of the series, inside what appears to be a cozy home. Frog is holding a tray with a teapot and a teacup, suggesting they are preparing for or enjoying tea.

🖼️ Arnold Lobel #FrogForFriday

Golly I’m on the Shortlist!

Less hate
More peace, love
and understanding
☮️🫶💜

Virginia Woolf ---

The longing is the embrace

Katia Chausheva, August absolut

To romanticize the world
is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world;
it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary,
the familiar as strange,
the mundane as sacred,
the finite as infinite.

- Novalis

How is this not a conflict of interest

She is supposed to be UNBIASED

Harry Sisson

“Gavin Newsom continues to bully Donald Trump publicly and I’m loving every moment of it!”

FAIRIES I HAVE MET Green and yellow cover, green title in a full moon over watery scene with reeds and fairies.

Book Cover of the Day:

🖤 Fela & Afrika 70 turning “chaos” into rhythm

My vagina

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of Saraswati Nagpal A Feast Of Words And Image

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Saraswati Nagpal
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as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me

All it takes to win hearts and minds of those with privilege is to tell them they deserve all the good things they've stolen from everyone else.

Pt. 2

Loving you through the pain - Tamia Williams
Some kind of black - Amber Moss
House of Filth - Kei Vough Korede
Intimacies in Borrowed Light - Darius Stewart

big ass monster

Keeping hope alive, as we both are right now, why do so many people not seem to get that it’s already the next level of all of this? I think a lot of this book honestly is me struggling with that question. Here's a guy that, he's got it all laid out in front of him pretty obviously. The people around him get it, from a couple different angles both in the city he's from and where he's living and doing this ethnographic study. As a trans man, as a queer man, he himself had to do something revolutionary, something liberatory, to get the body and the life he wants. And yet there's something standing in the way of looking honestly at the superstructure of the world he lives in. Comfort? Fear? If you admit that It's Happening, well, you kind of know what's next. And that's really terrifying.

Today I talked with @mattielubchansky.com about her delightful new satirical dystopian graphic novel Simplicity. Also about "how it is right now."

"If you admit that It's Happening, well, you kind of know what's next. And that's really terrifying."

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Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Steve Ely's 'Eely', Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour', and Rob Hindle's 'Sapo'. You can order them here:
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Look at Madleen and lean in-
none of us is free
until Palestine is free
#KeepTellingofGaza #MadleenToGaza #GazaGenocide

My poem "Hippy Market", about a visit to Es Cana in Ibiza, has found a lovely home in Mugwort Magazine today. Many thanks to @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social for choosing it.