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Marta Moon ⟭⟬ ⟬⟭ ⁷ 💜 ⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK @martamoon.bsky.social · 12h

They always go for the comedians first, ALWAYS.

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 15h

Humor is a powerful political tool. Humor implies satire, and satire is about sending up the politically powerful to deflate their authority by showing people how absurd they are being. Funny art is political art.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 15h

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 15h

Humor is a powerful political tool. Humor implies satire, and satire is about sending up the politically powerful to deflate their authority by showing people how absurd they are being. Funny art is political art.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 15h

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

😂

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

Heh

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

I don't believe you. I bet you're ten centimeters tall

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

I managed to get everyone at Algonquin Books to refer to MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE as CURSED SHEEP. My next goal is to get everyone at Harper Voyager to refer to THE BIRD THAT DRINKS TEARS as BIRB

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

Did their parents not teach them that if you can't take care of a pet for life, you don't deserve to have it in the first place?

Shuttered Canadian Marine Park Warns It May Euthanize 30 Beluga Whales, Prompting a Global Outcry - Inside Climate News

The uncertain future of 30 beluga whales still living in tanks at Marineland—a shuttered aquarium and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario—has drawn global outcry from animal rights activists this...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

"Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool"

I glanced up at the profile name to see who would possibly say such a braindead sentiment out loud and was like, oh

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

But hey, they got free money without having to hire immigrants for the harvest or feel equal to Black people so they got exactly what they wanted

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

good point

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Dave -- Keeper of the Dream @smithx57.bsky.social · 1d

It is too late for this year anyway... But Henry Kissinger is surely the worst recipient

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

My controversial opinion is that if he ended the immediate genocide, give him that inane prize, who fcuking cares? They gave it to Obama the drone king ffs.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

My controversial opinion is that if he ended the immediate genocide, give him that inane prize, who fcuking cares? They gave it to Obama the drone king ffs.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

At least the Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion looked human

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

Thank you, Alex! I’m about to start work on A MAGICAL GIRL REHIRED (the sequel) as we speak!

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · Jun 4

English is way harsher on repetition than Japanese, so part of a light novel translator's job is tweaking the wording so it says the same shit, but without sounding redundant.
I thought I'd do a rundown of a few tricks that help with this.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

As a songwriter, Mariah Carey literally invented words

Acquiescent Nothingness Incessantly: A Glossary of Mariah Carey's 10-Cent Words

Yesterday, Mariah Carey released the first single from her as-yet-untitled 14th album, “Triumphant (Get ‘Em).” She’s an odd nonfactor in her own song, singing the chorus, a bridge and some backup whil...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

(Editor not publisher but with much BTS info on the publishing side!)

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

I *just* remembered that I read this book recently, it’s not a memoir though but a biography of Toni Morrison’s years as editor at Random House and I REALLY enjoyed reading it www.harpercollins.com/products/ton...

Toni at Random

NPR SPRING PICK An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon’s pr...

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

Well, with a healthier work-life balance for one

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

Loved STET

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

Maybe he’s just confused about why he’s being asked if he’s going to do something that he’s already doing

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

I translate books from Korean into English. I was shortlisted for and later judged the International Booker Prize. I have thirteen (?) books scheduled to be published over the next three years.

Next up is CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon, for which I am touring the UK later this month.

A stack of copies for Capitalists Must Starve at a bookstore

Catch
Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur on their North-South
UK tour!
A TATED ANS PRESE
Capitalists
Must
Starve
A NONEL.
Scolycon
18/10
→ Wimbledon Book
Festival, London

25/10
→ Mount Florida Books,
Glasgow
19/10
→ ESEA Lit Fest at Cheltenham
Literature Festival's
VOICEBOX

26/10
→ Breakfast meet-and-greet at Lighthouse, Edinburgh
→ with In Other Words

21/10 → Launch party
at Roundtable Books, London

27/10
at Tills Bookshop, Edinburgh
→ House of Books
22/10
→ Juno Bookshop, Sheffield

& Friends, Manchester
24/10
→ Topping & Company
Booksellers, Edinburgh

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d

What a disgusting sentence. Using genAI is already 'ceding' the creation of art ('content' if you're a dipshit) to technofascist corporations. I can't tell if Hollywood bigwigs are too rich & ignorant to understand this or just pretending so they get a share. Either way, they're being scammed.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

"If we in Hollywood stick our heads in the sand and don’t use it at all, we’re going to cede content creation to other people"

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

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