Michael Munnik

It's Rocktober, & I've got a new three-song EP with overdriven power chords, a heavy beat, & vocals straining at the top of my range. It's a month before the mid-terms, & I've got songs of protest. Please give a listen to Anti-Capitalist Dream on Bandcamp. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/anti-c...

Oh, Toronto, don't try to make me like you.

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

"Poetry is words in their least lucrative order." (Recalled by Earle Birney)

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

I readan interview with Eddie Vedder where he said the Clash was the first band to scare him. I got what he meant and felt that this song did the same thing for me. Got to see them play it live in Ottawa in '05. They set it up with a preamble about Haliburton and the clean-up contracts for Katrina.

Inspiring thread. Read to the end!

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Dedicated today to the spirit of the student protesters in Serbia. "All those people look like they're on a mission and I'm wishing I could get a piece"

Great news to wake up to.

Oh my god, it's live! Alanis Morissette has released her new version of 'Rest' with Trans Voices as a single! Performing this with her was surreal and beautiful, and I can't wait to share more when her new album drops in November: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaiC...

Last month, she shared her story with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism after filing a formal complaint. The case has now been reopened. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

As a bouzouki player in an Irish-inspired band for several years, I am a wee tiny skelf of Donal Lunny's legacy. Rest in peace.

This could be literally any of you! michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/anti-c...

They hounded him to death, and now they pursue him beyond the grave Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

It is incredible to me that we're having this debate in the Senedd at all, but I appreciate the clarity and solidarity shown in this clip.

This is woman MP has now lost both her legs because a man was mad about her politics

Spider-Man: Sometimes I regret being bitten by a radioactive spider and being given all these amazing powers. It's so much responsibility. Dung Beetle-Man (doing a handstand and rolling a giant ball of turds with his feet): Shut the fuck up, Spider-Man.

Ar 21 Hydref 1966, collodd 144 o bobl eu bywydau, gan gynnwys 116 o blant, pan lithrodd tomen lo i bentref Aberfan. Am 9:15yb heddiw, byddwn yn ymuno mewn munud o dawelwch i gofio'r rhai a fu farw, a'r teuluoedd a'r gymuned y newidiwyd eu bywydau am byth. #Aberfan60

On 21 October 1966, 144 people lost their lives, including 116 children, when a heap of coal slid into the village of Aberfan. At 9:15am today, we will join in a minute's silence to remember those who died, and the families and community whose lives were changed forever. #Aberfan60

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

#CBC has a huge panel of people on for the referendum-and not one is #Indigenous. Last time I checked, the entire Province of #Alberta is all #TreatyLands. Seriously!!🪶😡🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Okay, so that was clear. I've been through worse. But what a noxious thing to happen altogether. #Alberta

I can't quite believe I have to say this, but as a kid born and for 11 years raised in Calgary and as someone who lives through the '95 Quebec referendum (as well as Scotland '14 and that bloody Brexit one), please don't do anything stupid, Alberta. Don't be complacent: vote. And vote intelligently.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

The bridge on the title track is good clever: I don't wanna leave the world to its resources 'Cause there'd be nothing left of it at all If these businessmen would only hold their horses While we sew another suture And think about our future #HomeMadeMusic michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/anti-c...

Sang this as promised at the reading last night. National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa was in attendance - lovely to see. Lots of discussion about the way the Senedd rejected her poem for the opening. Details on that story here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We're now at the point where one the biggest environmental prizes on the planet features language created and promoted by Donald Trump: comfortably the single most environmentally destructive individual we'll see in our lifetimes Feels like maybe there needs to be some reflection on this fact

Politics global and local are on the minds in Cardiff today, so I'm singing this at a poetry open mic tonight. (A capella: bottled it on bringing an instrument down, as it's not typically That Kind of Open Mic.) michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/track/america

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.

EXC: Edinburgh University managers have been warned that the closure of 90 programmes will cause serious reputational damage. A motion submitted ahead of next week’s Senate meeting calls on leadership to "reconsider" the decision @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2663661...

Soft autumn colours steal across the slopes of the Lawley, near Church Stretton, at sunset. I was standing on the summit for this shot, looking northeast towards Frodesley and Acton Burnell. I like the way the late sunshine picks out the footpath that #Shropshire