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Yigru Zeltil

@yigruzeltil.bsky.social

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From Romania; am on both autistic and LGBT spectrums. Reading/writing/translating poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world. (see: https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/princeps-poesis) IT, Linux, Esperanto etc

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Apr 1

I don't have any new poems in English ready for publication yet, but my old chapbook from 2018 is still online:
https://khoraimpex.wordpress.com/2019/03/18/scrappybook-yigru-zeltil/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 1d

The fire in Rahova, #Bucharest is yet another tragic example of how neoliberal privatization and descentralization affects the services which most need utmost responsibility and planning.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 10d

Obvious nonsense.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 10d

Always a great infodumping opportunity

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 11d

The newest #Nobel Award in Literature went to a male author who has nothing but male authors in his personal canon... No surprises there.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 14d

...But also there are books that are not meant to be mere containers of interchangeable texts - see Ulises Carrión's ambitions in The New Art of Making Books, which I found brilliant.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 14d

Not reading the entirety of a book can be perilous, and I say this even if I like books that can be read from anywhere...

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 29d

Doesn't matter if the likes of Zuckerberg are autistic or not, conservatives hate public education and research "for research's sake".

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · 29d

Affectionate for this piece of writing (that Shakespeare analysis brings back fond uni memories), but it misses how we're in this dark place because of ableist capitalism...

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · Sep 15

Jeremy Noel-Tod on the importance of ‘unfunded’ or ‘hobbyist’ research in academica.

open.substack.com/pub/someflow...

Unfunded Hobbit Research

In defence of academic inspiration

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Sep 18

Kind reminder that switching now to #Linux or #FreeBSD is the best thing to do at a time when #Microsoft decided to make millions of computers too obsolete for Windows 11.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Sep 18

Good thing we can move soon from Bsky to @transrights.northsky.social, too bad the alternatives to Substack are so-and-so. People here in my part of the world are sadly way too dependant on Whatsapp.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Sep 18

One of the reasons I have been less active on Bsky is precisely that I disagree with their biased moderation.
So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.

mcc @dryad.technology · Sep 14

If anyone's migrating off bsky.app to alternate appviews like blacksky.community (or "northsky"?) here's a tip. Install the "redirector" addon:

addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo...

And config as below (see alt text)

Now URLs you type or paste, or links to bluesky on the web, go to blacksky instead.

(Screenshot of Redirector addon)

Redirect: https://bsky.app/*
To: https://blacksky.community/$1

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Sep 15

Dreamed of an architect who coined a certain philosophy of architectural sustainability, named something like 1:24/48, and also became insanely good at photography because the veŕy first photographer they hired was like "f@#% your ugly buildings, can't find any good angle for them"...

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 21

If my Bsky account gets shutdown, you can always find me on either Mastodon, Hubzilla (my favorite fediverse software tbh), Friendica, Lemmy, Piefed or Pixelfed, soon Akkoma too.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 21

Except human rights were never a real priority for the powers that be.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 19

A protocol for decentralized Internets? Sounds incredible, but good to be aware of.
reticulum.network

Reticulum Network

reticulum.network

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 19

Dreamed about Yoko Ono this morning. A bit later, reminded of how seemingly few read not just Ono's Grapefruit, but also the other Fluxus writings and Duchamp's earlier non-poems, which aged like aluminium cans in the desert...

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 16

"..But now Gaza’s sky is no longer a canvas for myths or dreams. It is weaponized, heavy with drones and death. Carson asks what it meant to write on the sky; in my context, the question becomes, What does it mean to live beneath a sky turned into a weapon?"

www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...

Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision | Mona Baker

By Alaa Alqaisi Arab Lit & Arab Lit Quarterly February 10, 2025 It began with an email from Dr.

www.monabaker.org

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Aug 12

Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books.

These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.

Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned

A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...

www.assignedmedia.org

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Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Been deactivated for a few days so not sure if this is doing the rounds but is worth sharing and filling out. We need basic income in the arts. It has to be made permanent.

Please share if you agree. And even if you don't, just be sound for once.

ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 12

File compression forced back into fashion... #cyberpunk2025

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Aug 12

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 1

The Wikipedia page on hermeticism in poetry - nothing about its anticipations in Baroque poetry, by the way - is just one example of how not unified is our knowledge of world literature.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 1

As for queer hermeticism (in poetry, but we can think also of Ellsworth Kelly and other kinds of artists), it would be a still quite speculative research topic, but well worth attention.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 1

For instance, Romanian hermetic poet Ion Barbu is taught in schools as this mathematician who likened poetry to math - nothing about how some of his strange images are actually plain descriptions of drug effects.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 1

I brought up hermeticism because I was thinking of the psychedelic and queer erotic aspects of some hermetic poetry that have eluded critics.

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hermeticism is one of the big tendencies in modern poetry, yet its Wikipedia page is focused on merely the Italian movement, with a mention of Mallarmé, Rimbaud and Verlaine as mere decadentists...