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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 · 6h

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 · 7h

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 · 6h

All Americans bear the burden for this.

Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 11h

“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 · 12h

@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 · 1d

窃书不算偷！

SarahAndCo @sarahandco.bsky.social · 1d

It's not hoarding if it's books.

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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

I wasn’t disagreeing with you

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

He’s much more than that. He’s a competent sociopath who is committed to a fascist cause. Notice how he put himself at the center of government self-finance, and works while the other nimrods hog the spotlight. Vought is the actual spider at the center of the web.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Aerendril @aerendril.bsky.social · 1d

While we’re at it- bring back the extensive education in manners, music, poetry, dancing and dead languages too

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

My amazing wife, the painter Molly Kaderka, did a studio visit for I Like Your Work podcast!

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Molly Kaderka: Artist Studio Tour

YouTube video by I Like Your Work

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

Do you and your partner do stuff like the NYT word games together? I’m a words person and she’s an image person, but that’s never impeded us from having fun

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

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this guy in my D&D campaign, and possibly in my nightmares

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

Because it started at 12:30 am and never took a break 😔

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

Nope, I’ve never done that on a regular basis in my life 🤥

Nor am I ever, ever assaulted by embarrassing memories at utterly random times 🤥

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

猪头望明月
低头吃茴香

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

The first time you feel that sense of invincibility and safety fall apart, sit with that feeling for a long, long time.

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

I have never seen a full episode of The Simpsons.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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

I don’t know about you, but I recognize evil when I see it

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 7d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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

That comma is hurting my eyes

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

I’d take this further by suggesting that if you’re going to move to or be stationed in another country for any significant length of time, you should learn as much of the language as possible.

I’m thinking of all those well-paid laowais who spent years in BJ and felt no compulsion to learn Chinese

Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 4d

Something that increasingly sends me round the bend is people who buy a home in another country and then just complain about how bad the locals' English is. Such a skewed perspective. If you buy a house in Italy or France, you should probably do your homework and learn the local language. Full stop.

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

That actually looks pretty comfy

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

how it feels to wear a sport coat in modern society

A guy waiting for a train in Boston. He's dressed like a man would in the late 1700s.

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

I’m one of these recent diagnoses. I don’t think it has helped much, because somehow our capacity to treat has not evolved as quickly as our diagnostic capability.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 5d

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Canaan Morse 莫楷 @canaanmorse.bsky.social · 5d

North Carolina?