Things I'm Reading
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I read everything. DMs open for book, article recs. Will excerpt those sent.
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
[credit avatar image - I’m a Rainbow Too, by Jeffrey Gibson]
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
[credit avatar image - I’m a Rainbow Too, by Jeffrey Gibson]
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🌈 Not interested in compartmentalizing my interests 🔞but if you only follow me out of interest in one topic and are reallly *not* interested in others, you can mute the topics you are not interested in on your own profile settings. A suggestion 💫
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Maybe the hardest thing about writing is to get back to that place where you were feeling what you wanted to say, except you’re not feeling it anymore, and you might never feel it again. So maybe the hardest part about writing is to feel it anyway.
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Maybe the hardest thing about writing is to get back to that place where you were feeling what you wanted to say, except you’re not feeling it anymore, and you might never feel it again. So maybe the hardest part about writing is to feel it anyway.
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Cover of On Our Backs (Summer 1987). The LA&M is missing several issues of OOB including Summer 1984, Winter 1984, Spring 1985 and Winter 1985. Do you have them? 🎁
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cover of On Our Backs (Summer 1987). The LA&M is missing several issues of OOB including Summer 1984, Winter 1984, Spring 1985 and Winter 1985. Do you have them? 🎁
What do you miss most about life before the internet?
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
What do you miss most about life before the internet?
But the writer would never fully return her love because he was too lost in his own passivity to make the connection she needed from him, and so she had turned to me, but by then it was too late, and because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome
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December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
But the writer would never fully return her love because he was too lost in his own passivity to make the connection she needed from him, and so she had turned to me, but by then it was too late, and because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome
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Self-hate is an important part of any creative process, but it doesn't work if there's no self to hate!
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Self-hate is an important part of any creative process, but it doesn't work if there's no self to hate!
the greatest
Remembering the late 🇺🇸 American actor, film director and screenwriter #JohnCassavetes (9 December 1929 – 3 February 1989) born #OnThisDay in New York City
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
the greatest
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Quote from Sadomasochism by Bill Thompson (1994). Photo from Rough Trade Vol 1 No 1 (1970s).
![White man with arms in leather cuffs chained above his head, ankles cuffed to a steel pole above his head with a man standing on a platform above in leather boots. Text: [For, although psychiatrists have been churning out hundreds of papers about 'sadomasochism' for almost a century, it is highly debatable whether or not their theories and conclusions really concern sadomasochism, let alone SM devotees; and the damage we have allowed them to cause is incalculable.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreib5hilp4nw5n6j7kvsfztcxhuz7xqoi2o2iwgrvrnl7bjai7tvaxq@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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grassroots organizing from Qatar and Canada.
⭕️ “Anyone who is Palestinian and 37 years or younger has never had the chance to vote for a Palestinian president or official... Can we explore a third way beyond the PA and Hamas as representatives of the Palestinian people?”
— Safwan Masri (X: @smmasri), dean of Georgetown University in Qatar...
— Safwan Masri (X: @smmasri), dean of Georgetown University in Qatar...
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
grassroots organizing from Qatar and Canada.
In the diaries of Midwestern farmwomen from the 1880s through the 1930s, their loneliness is a topic they revert to constantly: their loneliness, and the fact their life on the farm was one of unremitting drudgery.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In the diaries of Midwestern farmwomen from the 1880s through the 1930s, their loneliness is a topic they revert to constantly: their loneliness, and the fact their life on the farm was one of unremitting drudgery.
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I started with The Big Sleep, the first Chandler novel, and read through The Long Goodbye, taking in his short stories along the way.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I started with The Big Sleep, the first Chandler novel, and read through The Long Goodbye, taking in his short stories along the way.
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You have to learn from experience what a character in a story by Edne O’Brien states: that the reason love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
From The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
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From The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
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December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
You have to learn from experience what a character in a story by Edne O’Brien states: that the reason love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
From The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
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From The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
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Ooh cannot wait to read these
The Rise of Indigenous Horror: How a Fiction Genre is Confronting a Monstrous Reality
www.cbc.ca/arts/the-ris...
#HorrorWriting #WritingCommunity #IndigenousCulture
www.cbc.ca/arts/the-ris...
#HorrorWriting #WritingCommunity #IndigenousCulture
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Ooh cannot wait to read these
The Palestinian-led ones are the only ones that lasted and Sameer Project operates with a high level of transparency and integrity.
I've been told Sameer Project is the "gold standard" for sending aid to Palestinians. Of many projects, this one is to keep Gazans warm this winter: shelter, warm clothing, blankets. Now they're in tattered tents w nothing, w/ Israel blocking aid entry despite ceasefire.
chuffed.org/project/1491...
chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The Palestinian-led ones are the only ones that lasted and Sameer Project operates with a high level of transparency and integrity.
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In this edition of LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT, DJ Ushka tells us where to find cutting-edge spaces and leftist magazine parties.
DJ Ushka Wants the Club to Be Your Temple
DJ and activist Thanushka Yakupitiyage recommends cutting-edge spaces and leftist magazine parties in the next few weeks.
hellgatenyc.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In this edition of LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT, DJ Ushka tells us where to find cutting-edge spaces and leftist magazine parties.
The problem with any first sentence, said Joan Didion, is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
Before beginning, too many options. Then, in the next breath, none.
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Before beginning, too many options. Then, in the next breath, none.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The problem with any first sentence, said Joan Didion, is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
Before beginning, too many options. Then, in the next breath, none.
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Before beginning, too many options. Then, in the next breath, none.
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Based on Board of Elections data and their own models, they estimated that from 2021 to 2025 South Asian turnout exploded from 15.3 percent to nearly 43 percent, while Muslim turnout went from barely 15 percent to over 34 percent.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Based on Board of Elections data and their own models, they estimated that from 2021 to 2025 South Asian turnout exploded from 15.3 percent to nearly 43 percent, while Muslim turnout went from barely 15 percent to over 34 percent.
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lol!
Asian-American Actresses Describe Struggle Of Constantly Being Typecast As Sherlock Holmes
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
lol!
Keep thinking about something a friend said recently: My wounds bear evidence for a trial that will never come.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Keep thinking about something a friend said recently: My wounds bear evidence for a trial that will never come.
Rest in Power to Refaat al Areer who was murdered in the zionist genocide on this day in 2023.
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#writing #booksky #writer #poet #poem #poetrysky #palestinian #refaatalareer #genocide #palestine
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#writing #booksky #writer #poet #poem #poetrysky #palestinian #refaatalareer #genocide #palestine
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"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Rest in Power to Refaat al Areer who was murdered in the zionist genocide on this day in 2023.
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#writing #booksky #writer #poet #poem #poetrysky #palestinian #refaatalareer #genocide #palestine
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#writing #booksky #writer #poet #poem #poetrysky #palestinian #refaatalareer #genocide #palestine
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Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.”
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December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.”
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Profile change overdue. Here is I am a Rainbow Too by Jeffrey Gibson. This whole series is incredible. Highly recommend checking out his work; it is fun to decipher the lyrics in his work.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Profile change overdue. Here is I am a Rainbow Too by Jeffrey Gibson. This whole series is incredible. Highly recommend checking out his work; it is fun to decipher the lyrics in his work.
stem needs humanities
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
stem needs humanities
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Jennifer Bartlett, "Ten P.M.", 1991-92, Oil on canvas, 84" x 84"
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Jennifer Bartlett, "Ten P.M.", 1991-92, Oil on canvas, 84" x 84"