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Here for a good time and a long time.

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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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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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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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Over half a century, one of my favorite albums and album covers. Happy birthday, Wendy Carlos
November 15, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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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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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
drop a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek
March 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM
yes fountain pens! and yes poetry! after a long break from both.

As Kingfishers Catch Fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins
March 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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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
reeling from the bravery of that triple-negative sentence
No. This has to be satire. It HAS to be.
March 8, 2024 at 12:55 PM
I finished school before people caught on to the danger of a well stocked library. I'm so lucky.
"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
I'm the "satirical comments about the emperor" to "sent from the borderlands" cycle
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
February 8, 2024 at 5:22 PM