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Canaan Morse 莫楷

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · Mar 19

Current: The Invisibility Cloak (novel by Ge Fei 格非, NYRB Classics)
Peach Blossom Paradise (ditto)

Upcoming: The Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was (ditto)
Guide to Recollecting the Future (poems by Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨, Zephyr Press)

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 15h

Oh Maine, my home, why are you so so beautiful

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

I can no longer vote in Maine, but if I could I’d be voting Graham Platner in the Democratic primary

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins, AP sources say.

Maine Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

I see Janet Mills has joined the Maine Senate race. God forbid a working-class candidate actually gets to run as a Democratic candidate

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry - fucking what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 2d

BOTD: Lin Yutang 林語堂 (1895–1976), educator, linguist, translator, and inventor of the Ming Kwai Typewriter for #Chinese. #ChineseTypewriter

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

The man needs to get the Taiwan flag off his Twitter byline.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, exactly. I realize I am splitting hairs, but in this case, it feels like those hairs need to be split, since they weren’t late but detained by the cancellation

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

I’m telling you that the insinuation that they were late for the flight, as if the responsibility for missing it lay with them, is utterly unsupported by the reportage. They were there on time and the reservation was cancelled.

And if you don’t like being checked, go the hell elsewhere

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

The drama was the cancellation on f the reservation even after they checked in and made it through security, so they weren’t late to the flight, they just couldn’t get on it

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

This is the article in its present form. Where does it report that they were late for the flight?

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LissaLou @lissalou28.bsky.social · 3d

This article states that he was able to get rebooked on a different flight

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 3d

Pearmain (apple) cawdle from the 'Compleat English and French Cook' (1690 edition) Recipe in comments. Best remedy for a ‘down’ day 😜😋 Welcome to the Stuarts’ kitchen!

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Hello Maine, home of homes ❤️ I wish you had a job for me

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 2d

Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang.

chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Love how six months of royalties on two books just went to fund lunch and a bus ticket

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

You know what’ll happen - he’ll give it some kind of half-assed try, pump out garbage that no one wants, then shrug and go back to buying cryptocurrency because translation/literature/publishing etc “is dead.”

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Lazslo Krasnahorkai likes Ge Fei, just saying

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Boston. I missed you.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone - literally EVERYONE - needs an editor. Nabokov and Can Xue never let themselves be edited, and you can absolutely tell.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 3d

All Americans bear the burden for this.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 3d

“the Amnesty Law signed by Pinochet in 1978 precluded almost all prosecutions and trials for the crimes committed by the government he headed over seventeen years.”

Can’t stress enough how common it is that oppressed people only get their country back by allowing the oppressors to die unpunished.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d

@philippesands.bsky.social examines Pinochet’s Chile, the Nazis, and how democracy erodes into fascism.

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

It was October 17, 1998, a Saturday afternoon, when I heard the news on the radio, waiting for the football results. It was my thirty-eighth birthday. The former Chilean dictator, General Augusto P…

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 4d

窃书不算偷！

SarahAndCo @sarahandco.bsky.social · 4d

It's not hoarding if it's books.

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 4d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot tell you how lovely it is to see this, after watching him rise like a tide of plague during my time in Stillwater

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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