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Tori
@torijo.bsky.social
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Here for a good time and a long time.

journalism / medieval lit / fountain pens / cat images
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Let's learn about the Seriemas, family Cariamidae.

This red-legged Seriema named Kevin is demonstrating how he prevents his food from wriggling as he swallows it, as captured by @witmerlab.bsky.social during a visit to the Columbus Zoo in 2019.

Native to South America, they have famous cousins...
March 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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annaleen.bsky.social
Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...
DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
www.advocate.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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mmfa.bsky.social
We're tracking Trump’s Project 2025 allies who have joined his administration: www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
The Trump administration personnel with ties to Project 2025
Though President-elect Donald Trump tried throughout the 2024 campaign to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation-led initiative Project 2025 -- a sprawling right-wing plan to remake the federal...
www.mediamatters.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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gillyarcht.bsky.social
Over half a century, one of my favorite albums and album covers. Happy birthday, Wendy Carlos
Costumed as Bach, man stands in front of a moog synthesizer, cover of Switched-On Bach
November 15, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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pkrugman.bsky.social
Gonna try another old-Twitter-style thread, since the last one got a lot of engagement. This time about a topic some people have raised, but needs more attention: the likelihood that Trump's tariffs will become an engine of immense corruption 1/
November 14, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
Far more important question than most art theorists are asking
Do Dogs Know What Art Is? - The Paris Review
Do dogs know what art is? Oscar is a big, “free-spirited” Lab mix. My husband and I adopted him when he was just a few months old. We’ve lived together as a little family for over a decade. When Oscar...
www.theparisreview.org
October 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM
torijo.bsky.social
drop a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek
The oil painting 'The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838' by J. M. W. Turner. A steam tugboat tows a larger sailing ship with sails furled, on a wide river at sunset. The painting's colors are soft and blended, but the ship and tugboat are clearly detailed.
March 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM
torijo.bsky.social
yes fountain pens! and yes poetry! after a long break from both.

As Kingfishers Catch Fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins
A detail picture of a notebook with blue cursive writing, open on a table. A translucent white fountain pen with a silver clip is lying on the notebook. A notebook page with cursive writing in medium blue ink. An iridescent white fountain pen with a silver clip lies on the edge of the notebook. Text is the poem As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Some words have accents or are written in print. Text reads: As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Gerard Manley Hopkins. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces. A detail shot of the poem's first stanza. A detail shot of the poem's second stanza. A person's finger is holding the page flat.
March 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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foxesandroses.bsky.social
As an English-as-second-language writer, I found this essay on the use of pseudotranslation in Fantasy worlds fascinating. I will be revisiting it, when I feel the urge to make up a language for my WIP

by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words - Uncanny Magazine
A little while ago I was working on the draft of a novel when I came up against a task I’ve never found especially interesting: making up a word to describe a fictional concept. I enjoy higher-level l...
www.uncannymagazine.com
March 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
torijo.bsky.social
reeling from the bravery of that triple-negative sentence
nowhere.bsky.social Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · Mar 8
No. This has to be satire. It HAS to be.
March 8, 2024 at 12:55 PM
torijo.bsky.social
I finished school before people caught on to the danger of a well stocked library. I'm so lucky.
wtalabi.bsky.social Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · Feb 10
"A Novel Is an Empathy Engine" by Cecilia Tan. A great article about what happens in our brains when we read fiction:

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-no...
February 10, 2024 at 4:20 PM
torijo.bsky.social
I'm the "satirical comments about the emperor" to "sent from the borderlands" cycle
yilinwriter.bsky.social Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · Feb 8
I made a Classical Chinese Poetry Bingo to help people recognize the common tropes/motifs. These show up frequently in the modern poetry I translate as well. Do you recognize anything from your readings or from pop culture? Tag yourself. I'm "feeling sad on a boat" lol

#poetry #translation #cdrama
Five by five bingo card. From left to right and top to bottom: drinking under the moon, bodies of water, standing at the top of a historical building I proclaim, food symbolism, emotional guqin performance, arguing with another poet, dramatic snowfall, sent from the borderlands, crying woman in the boudoir, missing one's ancestral hometown, awaking from a dream, feeling sad on a boat, male poets expressing deep affection for one another, fallen flower petals, lonely concubine in the palace, advice on how to be a hermit, farewell my friend, messages sent by wild geese, willow trees, carefree clouds, satirical comments about the emperor, ten references in the same poem, angsty birds, traveller on the road
February 8, 2024 at 5:22 PM